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How to Combine Openness and Protection? Citizenship, Migration, and Welfare Regimes

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  • Ewald Engelen

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The author offers a conceptual investigation of the tension between openness and protection in well-developed welfare states. Because of a combination of demographic tendencies and labor market shortages, a growing number of European welfare states is currently exploring market-led immigration policies. However, the level of protection these welfare states offer seems hard to reconcile with the low threshold markets that are needed to incorporate newcomers. The author argues that the “solution†lies not so much in a clear political choice for either but rather in the coordinated institutionalization of differentiated citizenship rights. The author illustrates this case with examples taken from the Dutch context, claiming further that the particular combination of corporatist welfare arrangements and the tradition of lenient enforcement in the Netherlands provides a “natural†habitat for the kind of regime pluralism that differentiated citizenship requires.

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  • Ewald Engelen, 2003. "How to Combine Openness and Protection? Citizenship, Migration, and Welfare Regimes," Politics & Society, , vol. 31(4), pages 503-536, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:31:y:2003:i:4:p:503-536
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329203256951
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    1. Ewald Engelen, 2003. "The Logic of Funding European Pension Restructuring and the Dangers of Financialisation," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 35(8), pages 1357-1372, August.

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