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Since ‘9/11’, immigration and security policy have increasingly intertwined. Political elites have taken the view that immigration policy can contribute to combating and preventing terrorism (Guild 2009; Huysmans 2006; Boswell 2007; ACVZ 2003), adding to the longer standing view that flows of unwanted migrants are a security threat to a welfare state if these groups obtain straightforward access to public provisions. In the more comprehensive welfare states there is a paradox of solidarity and exclusion (Freeman 1995). Maintenance of national, comprehensive forms of internal solidarity (in the fields of health care, social security, education, public housing) for the benefit of native citizens and legal foreign residents implies the exclusion of outsiders from the welfare state’s social entitlements. As Christian Joppke (1999: 6) concisely put it: “Because rights are costly, they cannot be for everybody”. Aside from this, irregular migrants are assumed to undermine the labour market position of citizens and established residents through job displacement and unfair wage competition. This argument recently gained more importance in the Mediterranean countries due to the 2009 economic crisis and increasing unemployment.
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Engbersen, G., Broeders, D. (2011). Fortress Europe and the Dutch Donjon: Securitization, Internal Migration Policy and Irregular Migrants’ Counter Moves. In: Truong, TD., Gasper, D. (eds) Transnational Migration and Human Security. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12757-1_6
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