Refugees, Citizenship and Social Policy in Europe

CLAUDIO BOLZMAN Professor in the Centre for Social Research at the Institute of Social Studies, GenevaKAREN DUKE Research Fellow in the School of Social Science at the University of MiddlesexJEANNE GREGORY visiting Professor and Head of Gender Research at the University of MiddlesexPAUL E. MINDERHOUD Senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology of Law at the University of NijmegenROSEMARY SALES Principle Lecturer in the School of Social Science at the University of MiddlesexKAREN SCHÖWÄLDER Daad Lecturer in Modern German History at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at the University of LondonLIZA SCHUSTER research student in the Department of Politics at the University of SouthamptonHELENA SCOTT European Development Officer at Age Concern, ScotlandJOHN SOLOMOS Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of SouthamptonLOUISE WILLIAMSON research student at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

• Notes on Contributors List of Tables List of Figures Introduction; A.Bloch European Asylum and Refugee Policy After the Treaty of Amsterdam: the Birth of a New Regime?; C.Levy The Politics of Refugee and Asylum Policies in Britain: Historical Pattern and Contemporary Realities; L.Schuster and J.Solomos 'Persons Persecuted on Political Grounds Shall Enjoy the Right of Asylum - But Not in Our Country': Asylum Policy and Debates About Refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany; K.Schöwälder The Precarious Safety of the Refugee; P.Tuitt Refugee Resettlement in Europe; K.Duke, R.Sales and J.Gregory Asylum Seekers and the Access to Social Security: Recent Developments in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium; P.E.Minderhoud Unaccompanied Refugee Children: Legal Framework and Local Application in Britain; L.Williamson Age and Exile: Europe's Older Refugees and Exiles; H.Scott and C.Bolzman Refugees in the Job Market: A Case of Unused Skills in the British Economy, A.Bloch Asylum Seekers, Refugees and the Future of Citizenship in the European Union; C.Levy Index