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Sara Kalm

Sara Kalm

Director of Third Cycle Studies | Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer | Qualified Teaching Practitioner

Sara Kalm

Unions and the rights of migrants in the long run

Author

  • Sara Kalm
  • Johannes Lindvall
  • Frida Boräng

Summary, in English

We use historical data on union density and new historical data on policies toward migrants to study the long-run relationship between the strength of trade unions and the social and economic rights of migrants in the Global North. In countries with strong trade unions, there was, for a long time, a widening distance between the rights of migrants and the rights of citizens, probably because the rights of citizens expanded sooner and more quickly than the rights of migrants. Over time, however, the differences between countries with strong and weak unions have diminished, and in more recent years, the ‘rights gap’ between citizens and migrants has in fact been smaller in countries with strong unions than in countries with weak unions.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2020

Language

English

Pages

557-570

Publication/Series

Journal of European Social Policy

Volume

30

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • Discrimination
  • labour market
  • migrant rights
  • trade unions
  • welfare states

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0958-9287