a description of your research topic,

a preliminary reflection about your theoretical perspective.

a beginning on your reference list indicating which parts of the course literature that may be relevant for your topic and possible other articles.

All in all, this extended outline of your paper idea will be between one and two pages long. Please consider it a working document or plan that will change as you further develop your paper. This kind of plan will allow your advisor to give you more relevant comments.

You will then be divided into advising groups depending on your topic. together with details of which (Zoom) rooms you are to be in The advising for these papers is organized as group advising at one occasion, there is no opportunity to get individual advice after this group meeting. At the meeting we will ask you to discuss and comment on each others’ topics. Each of you is expected to comment on one other assigned proposal

.Reading list:

Sainsbury, Diane (2012): Welfare States and Immigrant Rights. The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191744747. 327 pages.

The whole book is assigned, but you can focus on:

– Chapter 1Actions . Welfare States and Immigrant Rights

– Chapter 2Actions . Introduction to Part I

– Chapter 7Actions . Introduction to Part II

– Chapter 11Actions . The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion Compared

– Chapter 12Actions . Conclusion: Immigrant Rights – a Challenge for Welfare StatesReading list:

BradyActions , D., & Bostic, A. (2015). Paradoxes of social policy: Welfare transfers, relative poverty, and redistribution preferences. American Sociological Review, 80(2), 268-298.

JacquesActions , O., & Noël, A. (2018). The case for welfare state universalism, or the lasting relevance of the paradox of redistribution. Journal of European Social Policy, 28(1), 70-85.Reading list:

ArtsActions , WiIl – Gelissen, John, 2002. Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or More? A state–of–the–art report. Journal of European Social Policy 12: 137- 158. (21 p)

KorpiActions , Walter – Palme, Joakim, 1998. The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries. American Sociological Review, Vol. 63, No. 5: 661-687. (26 p)

WoodActions , Geof – Gough, Ian, 2006. A Comparative Welfare Regime Approach to Global Social Policy in World Development Vol. 34, No. 10, pp. 1696–1712. (16 p)