Welfare State and Migration Contents

Welfare State and Migration Contents

SGIDL1090.2

Zisis, Christos (christos.zisis@haw-kiel.de)

In der Regel im Sommersemester

Englisch

The welfare state promises not only inclusion, but is also surrounded by various material and symbolic boundaries/borders that govern access to and entitlement to benefits. Transnational migration processes call into question the traditional, complex and in some cases discriminatory architecture of social systems and foster new challenges. Media reports on immigration into the social systems as well as populist mobilizations create a mood in which more and more borders are drawn. In order to shed light on these complexities and interrelated topics, this seminar will approach and analyze the epistemologies and genealogies of the institutional architecture of the welfare state as well as the foundations and instruments of migration policy, with a special focus on European asylum policies. Further questions to be taken into consideration: • Is the nationally constituted welfare state capable of responding adequately to transnational migrations as an element of globalization? • Which political and social integration conditions and strategies does an immigration society need? • Are successful integration concepts from other countries transferable? • Does sociopolitical confrontation with migration and the integration of ethnic minorities enable the further development of the national welfare state?