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Fotaki, Marianna (2020) Refugee and forced migrants are not welcome in Europe’s diminished welfare states. Problemy Polityki Społecznej, 48 (1). pp. 53-72. doi:10.31971/16401808.48.1.2020.4 ISSN 1640-1808.
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Abstract
The recent arrivals of refugees from the Middle East fleeing war and persecution, and forced migrants escaping poverty, mostly from Asia and Africa, have fundamentally challenged European states’ commitment to solidarity with these vulnerable populations seeking protection. Researchers have identified a range of social and individual factors that may facilitate or impede societies’ willingness to receive refugees and migrants. However, less attention has been devoted to how their reception may be linked with diminished provision of public services for citizens and declining welfare states in many countries in Europe. This article considers how the ascendance of the neoliberal ideology and its’ key shifts in public policy contributed to a growing sense of insecurity and precarity in industrialized countries over recent decades and has affected people’s willingness to assist and accept them. It brings together insights from a variety of disciplines to better understand social policy developments and its relation to refugee and forced migration. It concludes that a feminist psychosocial conception of relationality provides a basis for rethinking our approaches to these important issues by politicizing the ethical obligation to protect the lives of unknown others.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Refugees, Welfare state, Emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Problemy Polityki Społecznej | ||||
Publisher: | Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw | ||||
ISSN: | 1640-1808 | ||||
Official Date: | 16 August 2020 | ||||
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Volume: | 48 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 53-72 | ||||
DOI: | 10.31971/16401808.48.1.2020.4 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Re-use Statement: | © Copyright by Social Policy Issues. Studies and Discussions, Warsaw, 2020. Fotaki, Marianna (2020) Refugee and forced migrants are not welcome in Europe’s diminished welfare states. Problemy Polityki Społecznej, 48 (1). pp. 53-72. https://doi.org/10.31971/16401808.48.1.2020.4 | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 July 2020 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 July 2020 |
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