Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia

Linda J. Cook is Professor Emerita of Political Science and Slavic Studies at Brown University and former Academic Supervisor of an International Laboratory at NRU/HSE, Moscow. She is the author of The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed (1993), Postcommunist Welfare States (2013) and is the recipient of a Fulbright award.

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Exclusionary and inclusionary migrations: concepts, cases, overview of the book's argument; Part II. Economic Drivers and Political Mobilizers of Welfare Nationalism and Exclusion in Russia and Europe: 2. Economic drivers of welfare nationalism: 'the toxic mix of immigration and austerity'; 3. Political mobilizers of welfare nationalism: the rise of populist and anti-immigrant politics in Europe and Russia; Part III. Exclusionary Migrations: 4. Central Asian labor migrants in Russia: authoritarian politics of exclusion; 5. Central and Eastern European labor migrants in the EU15: the broken promise of full inclusion; 6. Asylum seekers and labor migrants from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe: failed solidarity, successful securitization; Part IV. Inclusionary Migrations: 7. The inclusive face of welfare nationalism: Russia's compatriot resettlement program and Poland's Karta Polaka; 8. Ukrainian refugees to Europe in 2022: multiple sources of deservingness; Bibliography.

'Linda Cook's book is an insightful analysis of the combination of welfare nationalism, international migration, and who is included and excluded from the benefits of the European welfare states. The book is timely because flows of migrants to Europe, driven by different external events, shows no sign of subsiding anytime soon. The book's sad conclusion that the major criteria for including migrants into receiving states welfare provision is cultural proximity is saying the quiet part out loud.' Timothy Heleniak, Senior Research Fellow, Nordregio