Race, Ethnicity and Welfare States

Edited by Pauli Kettunen, Professor Emeritus of Political History, University of Helsinki, Finland, Sonya Michel, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, US and Klaus Petersen, Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark

• Contents:Introduction: An American Dilemma? Pauli Kettunen, Sonya Michel, and Klaus Petersen PART IMYRDAL IN HIS TIME1. Swedish Roots to Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944)Maribel Morey2. Gunnar Myrdal’s New Deal Alice O’ConnorPART IIDIVERSITY IN THE MAKING OF WELFARE STATES3. America’s Segregated State: How the Federal Government Shaped America’s Racial and Welfare OrdersDesmond King4. The US Welfare State’s Punishment of Black Women’s Childbearing and Care GivingDorothy Roberts5. Immigration and the Nordic Welfare State: A Tense CompanionshipGrete BrochmannPART IIIEUROPE’S CURRENT DILEMMA6. Collective Threats and Individual Rights: Political Debates on Marriage Migration to FinlandSaara Pellander7. An American Dilemma in Europe? Welfare Reform and ImmigrationRomana Careja, Patrick Emmenegger and Jon Kvist8. Ethnic Diversity and Popular Attitudes Towards the Nordic Welfare StateHelena Blomberg-Kroll9. Discourses on Muslims and Welfare Across the Atlantic.Abdulkader H. Sinno, Eren Tatari, Scott Williamson, Antje Schwennicke and Hicham Bou NassifPART IVTHE AMERICAN DILEMMA GOES GLOBAL10. Permanent and Transitional Guest Workers: Variations of Partial Citizenship among Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers in the DiasporaRhacel Salazar Parreñas11. The Transnational Social Question: Cross-Border Social Protection and Social InequalitiesThomas FaistIndex

'A hugely important contribution to one of the key questions of our time: how to combine, in a socially just way, the universalism embodied in national welfare states with the diversity and transnational mobility of populations. Using Myrdal’s 1944 analysis, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, as a launch, the chapters circumnavigate this question 360 degrees across twentieth century history, across the Atlantic, and across the contemporary world, tracking the arguments this way and that. A must read.'