Becoming Europe : immigration, integration, and the welfare state / Patrick Ireland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ireland, Patrick R. (Patrick Richard), 1961- author.

Series:

University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections

University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Europe.

Welfare state.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Europe.

Immigrants.

Ethnicity--Europe.

Ethnicity.

Turks--Europe.

Turks.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--Case studies.

Europe.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--Case studies.

Genre:

Études de cas.

Case studies.

Case studies

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation Patrick Ireland argues that it is incorrect blithely to anticipate unavoidable conflict between Muslim immigrants and European host societies. Noting similarities in the structure of the welfare states in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium -- as well as in their respective North African and Turkish immigrant communities -- he compares national- and city-level developments to show how approaches toward immigrant settlement have diverged widely and evolved over time.

Contents:

Europe's immigrant integration crisis

Germany

Social policy and the construction of ethnic identities

German cities and city-states

Facing diversity in diverse ways

The Netherlands

Pillars, pragmatism, and welfare state restructuring

Belgium

Between cultural pluralism and liberal neutrality

The defining role of policies and institutions.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-265) and index.

ISBN:

9780822972570

0822972573

OCLC:

772510467