ABSTRACT
Examining the ways in which societies treat their most vulnerable members has long been regarded as revealing of the bedrock beliefs and values that guide the social order. However, academic research about the post-war welfare state is often focused on mainstream arrangements or on one social group. With its focus on different marginalized groups: migrants and people with disabilities, this volume offers novel perspectives on the national and international dimensions of the post-war welfare state in Western Europe and North America.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|20 pages
Rescuing the European welfare state
The Social Affairs Committee of the early European Communities, 1953–1962
chapter 2|20 pages
From territorialized rights to personalized international social rights?
The making of the European Convention on the Social Security of Migrant Workers (1957)
chapter 4|12 pages
Farewell to social Europe?
An entangled perspective on European disability policies in the 1980s and 1990s
chapter 6|18 pages
Managing the transition from war to peace
Post-war citizenship-based welfare in Italy and France, 1944–1947
chapter 7|18 pages
Disabled citizens and the neoliberal turn in Britain
Whose rights and whose responsibilities?
chapter 8|18 pages
Welfare: defended, questioned, complemented?
Belgian welfare arrangements in the 1970s–1980s from the perspective of disability organizations
chapter 9|18 pages
A new inequality in the Danish welfare state
The development of immigration and integration policy in post-war Denmark
chapter |18 pages
Conclusion
Beyond citizenship and “responsibilization” in the exclusionary welfare state: realizing universal human rights through social resilience-building and interactional justice?
