Recently, global and European migration in the post-Cold War world have received much attention. This edited collection is a comprehensive, up-to-date account of the social policies of European welfare states towards refugees and asylum seekers. It also examines the contested boundaries between refugees and asylum seekers and citizenship within European nation states and the European Union.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.Sch?w?lder 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 IndexCLAUDIO 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 SCH?W?LDER Daad Lecturer in Model³Á