Migrants in the Rise of Social Protection

This book aims at analysing the inclusion of foreigners in social policies by comparing France and Argentina during the interwar period, two among the most important countries of immigration at that time. These two contexts are analysed through the perspective of Italian immigrants, the main foreign community in both countries. When France and Argentina began to introduce social policies at the turn of the 20th century, they had to determine whether to include or exclude immigrants from the rights that were gradually being introduced. France and Argentina allegedly took opposite directions, following different political objectives in migration matters. The purpose is to understand what the effects of social policies on migration were and, in turn, how migration challenged social policies.