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Entitling Migrant Workers with Social Rights in 20th Century Europe
| In the end of the 19th century, as a reaction against the new institutional
xenophobia which developed in Europe against foreign migrants, transnational
networks of social reformers endeavoured to provide them with social rights.
Both humanitarian and political reasons were at stake: fighting against mass
expulsions or violence which had hit such countries as Germany or France,
but also using the specific case of international mobility to promote the
legal social protection not only of foreigners, but also of national
workers. This communication will present the motivations which guided these
reformers, and discuss to what extent their cause has exerted an impact of
migrant labour.
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