Friday, September 2 / 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM   •   Room P 1

Session 62:
Migration, politics and welfare states

Chair: Gosta Esping-Andersen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  1. Differences in welfare take-up between immigrants and natives – a microsimulation study • Jürgen Wiemers, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) ; Kerstin Bruckmeier, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

  2. Welfare, migration and the life course: welfare regimes and migration patterns of EU-citizens in the Netherlands • Petra de Jong, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Helga A. G. de Valk, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel ; Christof Van Mol, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Universiteit Antwerpen

  3. Explaining the recent increase in asylum seekers from Africa to Europe • Hannes Weber, University of Tuebingen

  4. Political factors as drivers of international migration • Martin Guzi, Masaryk University ; Alicia Adsera, Princeton University ; Carles Boix, Princeton University ; Mariola Pytlikova, CERGE-EI Prague and VSB-Technical University of Ostrava

  5. Fear of small numbers? Immigrant population size and electoral support for the populist radical right in Switzerland • Effrosyni Charitopoulou, University of Oxford ; Javier Garcia-Manglano, University of Oxford

Other sessions on International Migration and Migrant Populations