Presents volume four of a four-volume set of topic books that offer Spanish-speaking library patrons access to balanced information on key issues and examines topics such as the rise of terrorism, jobs and security, civil liberties, increasing access to gambling, and a focus away from traditional values.

Through eleven country studies, this book challenges the common view that social protection is exclusively a national concern with EU social policy fragmented and merely symbolic.

Whilst immigration policy is a highly controversial topic in the West, states continue to receive people who settle, whether as asylum-seekers or refugees, or as family members of existing migrants or labour migrants. Many who move violate the immigration rules either in entering a country or staying beyond the time allowed. The problems illegality entails for migrants shape much of the law and society scholarship in this area and this volume brings together the key articles which shape current thinking. The main topics covered include illegality, mercy and the language of deservingness; transnationality; family and identity; refugees and asylum-seekers.

Addressing aspects of women's experience such as the public spheres of elective politics, public policy-making & the labour market, this book offers an up-to-date critical assessment of gender in Spain.

Describes, analyses, and assesses the European social dialogue from a combined theoretical and normative perspective and applies theoretical strands stemming from industrial relations, EC law, and political theory to an understanding and assessment of the genesis, actors, processes, and outcomes of the European social dialogue through 2007