Monika Baár is Professor by Special Appointment of Central European Studies at Leiden University. She is principal investigator of the ERC-funded research project Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective.Paul van Trigt is postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-project Rethinking Disability: the Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Global Perspective at the Institute of History, Leiden University.

• Introduction (Monika Baár and Paul van Trigt) Part One: Marginalized Groups and International Welfare Practices 1. Rescuing the European Welfare State: The Social Affairs Committee of the European Communities, 1953-1962 (Brian Shaev) 2. From Territorialized Rights to Personalized International Social Rights? The Making of the European Convention on the Social Security of Migrant Workers (1957) (Karim Fertikh) 3. The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the ‘Capitalist’ Economic Shift in the International Vocational Rehabilitation Policy of Disabled People after World War II. (Gildas Brégain) 4. Bordering (on) a Welfare State: Examining Refugee Assistance as ‘International Welfare’ (Evan Easton-Calabria) 5. Social Rights in Neoliberal Europe. The Disability Policy of the European Union and the End of the Cold War (Paul van Trigt) Part Two: Marginalized Groups, International Developments and National Welfare State Practices 6. The History of a Phantom Welfare State: the United States (Rose Ernst) 7. Managing the Transition from War to Peace: Post-war Reconstruction and Citizenship-based Welfare in Italy and France (Giacomo Canepa) 8. Poverty, (Un)employment, Marginalization: the Impact of the ‘Neoliberal Turn’ on Disabled Citizens in Britain (Monika Baár) 9. Welfare Defended, Questioned, Complemented? Belgian Welfare Arrangements in the 1970s-1980s from the Perspective of Disability Organizations (Anaïs Van Ertvelde) 10. From Liberal to Restrictive: the Danish Welfare and Immigration Policy, 1983-2006 (Heidi Vad Jønsson) Conclusion and Outlook 11. The Welfare State and Exclusion: Human Rights and the Basic Protection of Marginalized Groups (Veronika Flegar)