Machine generated contents note: Outline of the Argument -- Contribution of the Book -- Structure of the Book -- An Approach to Explain Immigrants' Poverty -- Social Citizenship -- The Link between Welfare States and Immigration -- Social Rights in Comparative Welfare State Literature -- Social Rights in Citizenship and Migration Literature -- The Relation between Immigration, Immigrants' Social Rights and Welfare States -- Framework to Explain Immigrants' Poverty -- The Labour Market and Welfare State System -- Addressing Poverty through the Labour Market -- Addressing Poverty through the Welfare State -- Accounting for Immigrants' Social Rights and Their Access to Paid Employment and Social Programmes -- What the Framework Does Not Consider -- Dealing with Immigrants: Poverty -- The Importance of the Immigrant Background -- Poverty Rates Based on Market Income -- Poverty Rates Based on Disposable Income -- Poverty Reduction -- Alternative Measures of Poverty -- Income Gaps and Intensity -- ... in Combination with Socio-Demographic Factors -- Cross-National Patterns of Immigrants' Poverty -- Summary of Findings -- Dealing with Immigrants: Immigrants' Social Rights -- Advanced Industrialised Countries and Their Immigrant Population -- Immigrants' Work and Social Rights -- Access to Paid Employment -- Access to Social Programmes -- The Welfare Chauvinism Thesis Revisited: Internal Exclusion -- Summary of Findings -- Explaining Cross-National Variations in Immigrants' Poverty -- Do Immigrants' Social Rights of Citizenship Matter? -- The Labour Market and Immigrants' Poverty -- The Welfare System and Immigrants' Poverty -- Supplementary Analyses: How Robust Are These Results? -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- How Do Immigrants Fare? Comparing Poverty Patterns across Countries -- Immigrants' Social Rights -- Where Do Advanced Industrialised Countries Stand? -- Do Immigrants' Social Rights Make a Difference to Poverty Alleviation? -- As Time Goes By: Consequences of the Great Recession on Immigrants' Poverty -- Three Ways to Alleviate Immigrants' Poverty -- Methodological Appendix: Methodology, Operationalisation and Statistical Methods -- Methodological Approach -- Operationalisation -- The Dependent Variable -- Poverty Rates -- Independent Variables -- Control Variables -- Statistical Methods -- Analytical Approach -- Appendix -- Appendix Tables and Figure for Chapter 2 -- Appendix Tables for Chapter 4 -- Appendix Tables for Methodological Appendix.