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Race, Ethnicity and Welfare States

An American Dilemma?

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvPauli Kettunen,Sonya Michel,Klaus Petersen

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In this interdisciplinary volume, leading and emerging scholars examine the relationship between homogeneity and welfare state development. They trace Gunnar Myrdal's influence on thinking about race in the US and explore current European states' approaches to the strangers in their midst, and what social citizenship looks like from a global perspective.Myrdal's An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy persuaded many scholars that the United States failed to develop a robust welfare state because of its ethnic and racial heterogeneity. Conversely, it argued that homogeneity was a precondition for the creation of strong welfare states in European, especially Nordic, countries. With increasing diversity now challenging these welfare states, the kind of 'dilemma' that Myrdal identified no longer appears to be solely an American one.Students and scholars of contemporary welfare states in the social sciences and policy studies will find this to be an insightful read, as the book challenges current perceptions. It will also be of interest to policy makers and practitioners looking to examine the historical context behind the politics of welfare states in the US and Scandinavia.Contributors: H. Blomberg-Kroll, G. Brochmann, R. Careja, P. Emmenegger, T. Faist, P. Kettunen, D. King, J. Kvist, S. Michel, M. Morey, H.B. Nassif, A. O'Connor, R.S. Parreñas, S. Pellander, K. Petersen, D. Roberts, A.V. Schwennicke, A.H. Sinno, E. Tatari, S. Williamson

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Utgivningsdatum2015-06-26
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobalization and Welfare series
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781784715366

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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.'