This 'state-of-the art'article on the role of deservingness in governing migrants' access to
social services situates our themed section's contribution to the literature at the intersection …

Providing—and also not providing—public services to unlawful residents implies a certain
cost for host societies, and both inclusion and exclusion involve localized renegotiations of …

International migration of all kinds has grown significantly since the mid-twentieth century. It
has become an important element of globalization, with political, economic and social …

This article argues that the politics and governance of migrants' rights needs to be reframed.
In particular, the terms “welfare chauvinism”, and deservingness should be replaced. Using …

This article explores the ways in which city policymakers in Europe frame the reasons for
provision of welfare services to migrants with irregular status. In the context of restrictive …

Migration raises the question of how street-level bureaucrats treat non-citizens when it
comes to the distribution of limited welfare resources. Based on a German case study, this …

Street-level bureaucrats working in the field of migration enforcement have the uneasy task
of finding irregularised migrants and processing their cases–often until deportation. As the …

This paper explores the welfare of forced migrants (ie refugees, asylum‐seekers, those with
humanitarian leave to remain, and “failed asylum‐seekers/overstayers”) at three linked …

During the last decade, new research approaches to global migration have highlighted the
multifaceted ways in which structural inequalities and subordination impinge upon the …

Migration-control policies have become a topic of considerable debate among political
actors in many European countries, increasingly, in the aftermath of 2015. Debates and …