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 …

This article explores the responses of European local authorities to the public service needs
of residents with irregular immigration status and the tensions with national governments to …

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 …

Both the USA and Europe limit access to care by undocumented immigrants ('irregular
migrants' or IMs). In the debate over what level of access to confer to IMs, there are various …

What happens in institutions like schools or hospitals when local service provision overlaps
with the control of national borders? Such overlap is unavoidable if unlawful residents are to …

Studies on migration and social protection have shown that a lack of access to formal
welfare in receiving countries leads migrants to rely on their informal social networks for …

Freely available healthcare, universally accessible to the population of citizens, is a key
ideal for European welfare systems. As labor migration of the twentieth century gave way to …

Why does undocumented immigrants' access to healthcare beyond urgent treatment differ
across the territory of the same state? Through a comparison of Italian regions and Spanish …

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 …

Across Europe, an increasing number of cities have developed strategies to support
migrants who are deemed ineligible for social benefits by national policies and thereby …