Migrants, Refugees, and Public Services

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Public services are increasingly at the center of the debate about immigration. Backlash to migration and refugee flows in advanced social welfare states is increasingly motivated by questions of public cost and deservedness for an otherized population. But causal effects are not unidirectional; services such as education have an impact on both public perception and public policy. And crisis issues of forced migration can bring into question the proper role of both the state and international organizations. The papers in this panel look at how state and international service policies – or lack thereof – can affect migrant and refugee populations in Central America, North America, and Japan.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Individual Presentations

• Effects of University Education on Foreigner Enfranchisement in Japan - Fan Lu, Queen's University; Gento Kato, Nazarbayev University

• The Public Services Threat Hypothesis and Opposition to Immigration in the EU - Yvonni Markaki, Diversity Talks

• Gate to the State: The New Politics of Local Refugee Policy - Shyam K. Sriram, Butler University; Isabel Williams, University of Arizona

Chair

• Jeremy Ferwerda Dartmouth College

Discussant

• Jeremy Ferwerda Dartmouth College