Cross Cluster The role of the welfare state
Within almost all the nine IMISCOE research clusters the welfare state plays a key role in the core of the research questions. However, there is not yet a clear analytical framework how to deal with the welfare state in various research areas related to immigration and the integration of immigrant groups. This initiative will address this lack of framework and tries to relate the concepts and perspectives used in welfare state studies to various themes, concepts and paradigms within migration and integration research, in order to come up with a better understanding of the accommodation of welfare regimes to immigration flows as well as the influence of the welfare state on immigration and integration processes.
