The book will be of interest not only to historians of welfare, migration, and citizenship, but also to social scientists as well as to graduate students in these fields.

Beate Althammer is a researcher at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, with main interests in the social history of modern Europe. Her publications include the monograph Vagabunden (2017) and the journal article "'Welfare Does Not Know Any Borders' - Negotiations on the Transnational Assistance of Migrants before the World Wars" (2020).

Introduction. Part 1 - Negotiating Citizenship, Belonging and Social Rights. 1. Negotiating the Right of Residence (Austria, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century) 2. Neither Citizen nor Foreigner: Gendered Negotiations and Hierarchies of Belonging in Alsace, 1918-1919 3. Foreign Workers in the French Labour Courts: a Battlefield for the Recognition of Social Rights Part 2 - Regulating Seasonal Migrations 4. Pious Guardians: the Swabian Children Association and Public Welfare in the Tyrolean Alps, 1891-1915 5. New Rights and Hierarchies: Regulating Seasonal Farm Labour (Austria, 1918-1938) Part 3 - Cities and the Integration of Migrants. 6. Migration and Municipal Socialism in Imperial German Strasbourg (1871-1914) 7. Who Cares for Foreigners? Dutch Migrants in Prussian Cities, 1870-1933 8. Social Rights at Work: Italian Migrants on the Turin and Munich Labour Markets, 1950-1975. Part 4 - Globalising Social Rights. 9. Guaranteeing the Social Rights of Migrant Workers - a Transnational History (1901-1939) 10. Argentina's Social Policy for Immigrants in the Interwar Period 11. Migrants, Refugees and the Right to Social Assistance in Post-war Italy and France (1945-1961)