Welfare

In many high-income countries questions about the relationships between poverty, welfare states and migration are central to debate both within the academy and in wider public arenas. The arrival of newcomers in the context of scarce resources raises challenging questions on the boundaries of entitlement, and policy frameworks can leave some of those in need without access to basic services. Meanwhile migrants can be a vital part of a workforce providing welfare services. COMPAS has brought together sociologists, social anthropologists, demographers, lawyers and academics specialising in social policy to consider questions ranging from the consequences of ageing populations for the employment of social care workers to the implications of migration for health care, addressing homelessness, child welfare, and education.

Blog Posts

Don’t come close: The plight of street children during COVID-19’s ‘forced immobility’

Temilorun Olanipekun

Safety is a political issue: Migrant domestic workers in China after the lock down

Chaoguo Xing

‘Unprecedented’ pandemic and the crisis of mobility in India

Vyoma Dhar Sharma

Steppes and the city: rural to urban migration in Mongolia [MSc guest blog]

Faraz Shibli

Migration, Disability, and Plain Language [MSc guest blog]

Jonathan Paul Katz

The dispersal of unaccompanied asylum seeking children: in whose best interests?

Rachel Humphris & Nando Sigona

Reforming homelessness policies for migrants: 8 lessons from a working group of European cities

COMPAS Communications

Tackling homelessness and destitution amongst excluded migrants through knowledge exchange: reflections on a meeting of five European cities

COMPAS Communications

Action for Inclusion in Europe

COMPAS Communications

Immigration and Austerity: Only Connect

COMPAS Communications

Immigration Acts and health bills

COMPAS Communications

EU migration and welfare benefits: Is unrestricted labour immigration compatible with an inclusive welfare state?

Martin Ruhs

The conflicting policy agendas of immigration control and ending child poverty

Jonathan Price

The right to have rights: Safeguarding children from destitution

Ben Gidley

Norway’s not so cuddly welfare state

Sarah Spencer

City responses to irregular migrants

Sarah Spencer

Books

The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration

Martin Ruhs

Reports

Latin Americans in Southwark: Service access and provision

COMPAS Communications

Worker, helper, auntie, maid?

COMPAS Communications

Homelessness and Destitution amongst Excluded Migrants: Lessons Learned Report

COMPAS Communications

Resident involvement in the London Borough of Southwark

COMPAS Communications

City-Level Responses to Migrant Families with Restricted Access to Welfare Benefits. A European Pilot Study

Sarah Spencer

The COMPAS Approach

Rob McNeil and COMPAS Communications

Local Authority Responses to Migrant Families Who Have ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’. Background Paper

Sarah Spencer

Report on the Rights and Obligations of Citizens and Non-Citizens in Selected Countries. Principles of Eligibility Underpinning Access to State Territory, Citizenship and Welfare

Bridget Anderson, Isabel Shutes and Sarah Walker

IMPACIM: Analysis of Existing Quantitative Data on Family Migration: United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: Country Case Study on the Impacts of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants: Qualitative Findings United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: Mapping the Conditions of Stay and the Rationale for Entitlements and Restrictions for Family Migrants in the United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: The Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants. A Comparative Report

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: The Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants. Executive Summary

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: The Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants. National Report UK

COMPAS Communications

Towards a Post-2015 Development Agenda: What Role for Migrant Rights and International Labour Migration?

COMPAS Communications

Impact of Admission Criteria on the Integration of Migrants (IMPACIM). Background Paper and Project Outline

Sarah Spencer and COMPAS Communications

Migrant Rights, Immigration Policy and Human Development

COMPAS Communications

Diversity in the Labour Market: The Legal Framework and Support Services for Migrants entitled to work in the United Kingdom

Alison Hunter

Employment Support Services and Migrant Integration in the UK Labour Market

Richard Allen

Journal Articles

Municipal Activism on Irregular Migrants: The Framing of Inclusive Approaches at the Local Level

Sarah Spencer and Nicola Delvino

Fundamental Rights for Irregular Migrants: Legal Entitlements to Healthcare and School Education Across the EU28

Sarah Spencer

Bordering Practices in the UK Welfare System

Bastian Vollmer, Simon Güntner, Sue Lukes & Jo Wilding

Working Papers

Is unrestricted immigration compatible with inclusive welfare states? The (un)sustainability of EU exceptionalism

Martin Ruhs

The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times

Osea Giuntella, Catia Nicodemo & Carlos Vargas-Silva

Openness, Skills and Rights: An Empirical Analysis of Labour Immigration Programmes in 46 High- and Middle-income Countries

COMPAS Communications

Other Publications

Legal and policy briefing

Single adult migrants: Destitution, safeguarding and services under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014

COMPAS Communications

Legal and policy briefing

Access to Healthcare for Migrants in Wales

COMPAS Communications

Legal and policy briefing

Children and families: Destitution, safeguarding and services under the Children Act 1989 (up to April 2016) and Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (from April 2016)

COMPAS Communications

Projects

Action towards inclusion in Europe

Sarah Spencer and Nathan Grassi | December 2014 - June 2016

Balancing Citizenship of Insiders and Outsiders

COMPAS Communications | September 2013 – April 2017

Begging, Work and Citizenship

COMPAS Communications | May 2015 - April 2016

City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE)

Myriam Cherti, Sarah Spencer, Nicola Delvino, Marie Mallet-Garcia and Nathan Grassi | Phase I: 2017-19 | Phase II: 2020-22

Diversity, Integration and the Economy

Richard Allen | April 2005 – March 2008

Impact of Admission Criteria on the Integration of Migrants (IMPACIM)

Sarah Spencer | December 2011 – October 2012

Local Government Welfare Responses to Children and Families who Have ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’

Sarah Spencer | February 2013 – June 2015

Migration and Poverty in the UK

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Madeleine Sumption and COMPAS Communications | February – April 2015

Migration Services in Wales

Sarah Spencer, Carlos Vargas-Silva and COMPAS Communications | January 2015 – March 2017

Online Tool to Improve the Assessment of Destitute Families’ Eligibility for Support

Sarah Spencer and Jacqui Broadhead | May 2016 - May 2019

PEAK Urban

Michael Keith, Mikal Mast, Rosaleen Cunningham, Bhawani Buswala and ChengHe Guan | 1 October 2017 - 31 December 2021

Role of European Mobility and its Impacts in Narratives, Debates and EU Reforms (REMINDER)

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Madeleine Sumption, Rob McNeil and William Allen | January 2017 - December 2019

Servicing Super-Diversity: ESRC IAA Knowledge Exchange Fellowship

COMPAS Communications | October 2014 – March 2015

The Economics and Politics of Migrant Rights

COMPAS Communications | 2008 – 2014

The employment and working conditions of migrant domestic workers in South East Asia

COMPAS Communications | August 2015 - June 2016

Tracking Public Attitudes and Preferences for Post-COVID-19 Labour Migration Policies

Jacqui Broadhead, William Allen, Mariña Fernández-Reino, Denis Kierans and Madeleine Sumption | July 2020 - June 2021

Understanding Attitudes and Policy Preferences in Response to South-South Migration

Carlos Vargas-Silva and William Allen | May 2020 - November 2021

Understanding Migrant Destitution in the UK

Jacqui Broadhead, Lucy Leon and Mariña Fernández-Reino | March 2022 – February 2024

Welfare, neighbourhood and new geographies of diversity

COMPAS Communications | May 2013 – December 2014