Doctoral Dissertation Research: Migration and Universalism in Social Democracies

北方的社会民主主义国家的特点是普遍福利制度，它保证每个人的基本生活水平。虽然这些国家在历史上几乎没有什么多样性，但最近由于国际移徙，它们经历了重大的人口变化。不同移民群体融入北欧社会对普遍性原则提出了一些有趣的挑战。该项目培养研究生在国际移民和政治社会学领域进行严格的社会科学研究，分析创造了与过去截然不同的普遍主义社会民主的力量。此外，它调查是否增加移民破坏了universalism.The论文项目将调查在国际移民的国家到国家的趋势和这些趋势的一些后果分三个步骤。首先，该研究在代表所有福利国家类型的扩展样本上使用定量小组技术来测试移民是否遵循福利磁铁模式，即移民不成比例地被吸引到北欧社会民主国家的慷慨福利机构，正如一些研究人员所建议的那样。第二，该项目提供了一种当代的国际移徙方法，在全球联系日益紧密的背景下，追踪对移徙流动的体制和社会影响，超越了传统的宏观结构解释。研究报告特别考虑了目的地国与寻求援助难民的国际社会的关系和承诺。它还考虑了社会联系和交换因素，如汇款和在研究不足的情况下-移民原籍国-更多地使用通信技术。第三，研究转向对个人层面调查数据的多层次定量分析，以研究一个地区或国家移民水平和多样性的增加是否与个人社会信任和对国家福利计划支持的下降有关。

------------------------------ABSTRACT FOR 1519228The social democratic states of Northern Europe are characterized by a universalistic welfare system, which guarantees basic living standards for everyone. Although these countries have historically had little diversity, recently they have experienced significant demographic change through international migration. The incorporation of diverse immigrant groups into Nordic societies presents a number of interesting challenges for the principle of universalism. This project, which trains a graduate student to conduct rigorous social scientific research in the areas of international migration and political sociology, analyzes the forces that have created universalist social democracies that are strikingly different from those of the past. Moreover, it investigates whether increased migration has undermined universalism.The dissertation project will investigate country-to-country trends in international migration and some consequences of these trends in three steps. First, the research uses quantitative panel techniques on an extended sample representing all welfare state types to test whether migration follows a welfare magnet pattern, where migrants are disproportionately drawn to the generous welfare institutions of the Nordic social democracies, as some researchers have suggested. Second, the project offers a contemporary approach to international migration by tracing the institutional and social influences on migration flows within a context of increased global connectedness, going beyond conventional macro-structural explanations. In particular, the study considers destination countries' ties and commitment to an international society that seeks to aid refugees. It also considers social connectedness and exchange factors, like the sending of remittance monies and the increased use of communication technologies in an understudied context - migrants' origin countries. Third, the study turns to multilevel quantitative analyses of individual-level survey data to examine whether increasing migration levels and diversity in a region or country are associated with a decline in individual social trust and support for state welfare programs.