Friday, April 15, 2016: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
Aria A (DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia Center City)
In recent decades, international migration has come to the forefront of both political and economic debates. In most advanced industrialised democracies, this issue regularly polls amongst the most important topics of concern for citizens, and features at the centre of electoral campaigns in many countries. This high political salience is mirrored in the growing significance of immigration in modern economies: over the past ten years international migrants have contributed to 47% of the increase in the workforce in the United States, and 70% in Europe. Yet, international migration has not often been explicitly acknowledged as a structuring element of modern political economies. There is now a growing body of literature in political science, sociology and economics addressing how immigration may reshape the main institutions of capitalism in various domains (the welfare state, industrial relations and, to a lesser extent, skill production), but it rarely engages explicitly with frameworks mapping capitalist models. How do capitalist models (industrial relations or welfare states) shape migration flows and policies, and how are they in turn shaped by immigration? Papers in this panel seek to engage with these questions from a variety of perspectives, considering socio-economic institutions as factors both shaping and being shaped by immigration flows and policies.
Chair:
Alexandre Afonso
Discussant :
David Rueda
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