Welfare States and Immigrant Rights deals with the impact of welfare states on  immigrants’ social rights, economic well-being and social inclusion, and it offers the first systematic comparison of immigrants’ social rights across welfare states. To study immigrants’ social rights the author develops an analytical framework that focuses on the interplay between 1) the type of welfare state regime, 2) forms of entry, or entry categories, and 3) the incorporation regime regulating the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants. The book maps out the development of immigrants’ social rights from the early postwar period until around 2010 in six countries representing different welfare state regimes: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and Denmark, and it examines the politics of social rights extension and contraction and changes in the incorporation regime that impinge on immigrant rights.