Race, Ethnicity and Welfare States

'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 Myrdals 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.' -- Fiona Williams, University of Leeds, UK Each individual chapter of Race, Ethnicity and Welfare States is interesting and well argued. Taken together, they raise many fascinating and pressing questions. . .This book sets an excellent example illustrating why cross-national comparison is important. -- Czech Sociological Review Gathering excellent contributors, this book explores the contested relationship between social policy and ethnic-racial diversity. Adopting an historical perspective and starting from Gunnar Myrdals seminal book An America Dilemma, the volume compares the American experience with the European situation, where the implications of ethnic and racial diversity for social policy are now widely debated. Students of ethnic relations and of social policy from both sides of the Atlantic should read and engage with this unique and outstanding volume. -- Daniel Bland, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Has racial and ethnic fragmentation undermined American social solidarity and undercut the US welfare state? Even more pertinently, now that we are all multiculturalists and every nation is a melting pot, do the formerly so-homogenous Europeans face similar dilemmas? Are they joining in a race to the social policy bottom, or have they found ways to overcome these divisions? Such questions are pursued by these fascinating essays that have relevance for both sides of the Atlantic, and for scholars and policy makers alike. -- Peter Baldwin, Global Distinguished Professor, New York University, US

Edited by Pauli Kettunen, Professor Emeritus of Political History, University of Helsinki, Finland, Sonya Michel, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, US and Klaus Petersen, Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark

Contents: Introduction: An American Dilemma? Pauli Kettunen, Sonya Michel, and Klaus Petersen PART I MYRDAL IN HIS TIME 1. Swedish Roots to Gunnar Myrdals An American Dilemma (1944) Maribel Morey 2. Gunnar Myrdals New Deal Alice OConnor PART II DIVERSITY IN THE MAKING OF WELFARE STATES 3. Americas Segregated State: How the Federal Government Shaped Americas Racial and Welfare Orders Desmond King 4. The US Welfare States Punishment of Black Womens Childbearing and Care Giving Dorothy Roberts 5. Immigration and the Nordic Welfare State: A Tense Companionship Grete Brochmann PART III EUROPES CURRENT DILEMMA 6. Collective Threats and Individual Rights: Political Debates on Marriage Migration to Finland Saara Pellander 7. An American Dilemma in Europe? Welfare Reform and Immigration Romana Careja, Patrick Emmenegger and Jon Kvist 8. Ethnic Diversity and Popular Attitudes Towards the Nordic Welfare State Helena Blomberg-Kroll 9. Discourses on Muslims and Welfare Across the Atlantic. Abdulkader H. Sinno, Eren Tatari, Scott Williamson, Antje Schwennicke and Hicham Bou Nassif PART IV THE AMERICAN DILEMMA GOES GLOBAL 10. Permanent and Transitional Guest Workers: Variations of Partial Citizenship among Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers in the Diaspora Rhacel Salazar Parreas 11. The Transnational Social Question: Cross-Border Social Protection and Social Inequalities Thomas Faist Index