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 studyJürgen 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 NetherlandsPetra 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 EuropeHannes Weber, University of Tuebingen

  4. Political factors as drivers of international migrationMartin 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 SwitzerlandEffrosyni Charitopoulou, University of Oxford ; Javier Garcia-Manglano, University of Oxford

Other sessions on International Migration and Migrant Populations