Immigrants and poverty, and conditionality of immigrants' social rights

Eugster, Beatrice (2018). Immigrants and poverty, and conditionality of immigrants' social rights. Journal of European social policy, 28(5), pp. 452-470. Sage 10.1177/0958928717753580

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It is not only immigration and the incorporation of immigrants into the society that serve as challenges for post-industrialised countries, but also rising inequality and poverty. This article focuses on both issues and proposes a new theoretical perspective on the determinants of immigrant poverty. Building on comparative welfare state research and international migration literature, I argue that immigrants’ social rights – here understood as their access to paid employment and welfare benefits – condition the impact which both the labour market and welfare system have on immigrants’ poverty. The empirical analysis is based on a newly collected dataset on immigrants’ social rights in 19 advanced industrialised countries. The findings confirm the hypotheses: more regulated minimum wage setting institutions and generous traditional family programs reduce immigrants’ poverty more strongly in countries where they are granted easier access to paid employment and social benefits.

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