Abstract
It is generally agreed that the regimes of Welfare States are in crisis. Indeed, several factors of our modern societies led the Welfare State regimes into a general crisis which is more or less accentuated by internal reasons within each State. The link between immigration and welfare state regimes has always been difficult to understand. Nevertheless, it is utterly interesting to apprehend how immigration is a phenomenon which reshapes the Welfare States regimes. This phenomenon of reshape did not exclude any type of Welfare regimes theorized by Esping-Anderson. Indeed, the three types of welfare regimes are currently facing significant reforms. The reshaping of these welfare regimes is interesting to understand because the reforms introduced by the governments of each country contributed to redefine the people who can or cannot receive the benefits of welfare states. Thus, this is a system which is totally redefined through its policies. We will see how immigration can reshape the welfare regimes of Western European countries in this document.
