Migration and welfare in the new EuropeSocial protection and the challenges of integration

Carmel, Emma; Cerami, Alfio; Papadopoulos, Theodoros

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“…Focusing on technical analysis of law, policy and implementation, social policy scholarship on EU citizenship in recent years, as we document, has largely concentrated on critiquing the unjust economic stratification of non‐discrimination rights, on their increasing conditionality and precarization, and on legal challenges and roll‐back (Pennings and Seeleib‐Kaiser, ; Bruzelius, ). At the same time, it has stressed divergence in application of welfare rights, generally upholding a view in which coordinated welfare state economies have offered better protection (Carmel et al, ; Römer, ). In this context, a strongly social democratic voice among some scholars has emerged in political economy – notably Wolfgang Streeck – arguing against the “neo‐liberal” consequences of open borders and for the maintenance of highly regulated national economies (Streeck, ).…”

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Commentary: A Citizenship without Social Rights? EU Freedom of Movement and Changing Access to Welfare Rights

Barbulescu

Favell

2020

International Migration

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Despite not being grounded in the classic nation-building dynamic of citizenship identified by T.H.Marshall, EU citizenship offers social rights and welfare protection to non-nationals on a principle of non-discrimination. We narrate a creeping process of retrenchment by which European member states have used policy strategies to undermine this principle, by transforming the unique idea of free movement of persons in the EU to just another form of "immigration" which can be subject to selectivity and exclusion. As Europe's multiple recent crises have unfolded, political resources were found to effect this transformation tangibly via reshaping access to welfare for EU citizens. Focusing on the cases of the UK and Germany, we discuss how, despite their distinctive welfare regimes and labour market systems, these two countries have led the way toward a dismantling of non-discrimination for EU citizens and effectively the end of the anomalous 'post-national' dimension of European citizenship.

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Commentary: A Citizenship without Social Rights? EU Freedom of Movement and Changing Access to Welfare Rights

Barbulescu

Favell

2020

International Migration

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“…Anderson 2010;Goldring and Landolt 2011;Walsh 2011;Robertson 2014), demonstrate how immigration controls stratify the labour markets and generate insecurity and conditionality for non-citizens. However, also the type of welfare regime affects economic and social well-being of non-citizens and their position in the society (Sainsbury 2012; see also Carmel, Cerami, and Papadopoulos 2011). The role of the conditionality of legal status in limiting non-citizens' access to social benefits has been addressed in the field of social policy (Corrigan 2014;Shutes 2016), although without examining the differences between legal statuses in detail.…”

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Differential inclusion of non-citizens in a universalistic welfare state

Könönen

2017

Citizenship Studies

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The regulation of legal statuses and differentiation of non-citizens' rights within the states has become a significant site in the management of migration, yet the actual operations of differential inclusion remain an underexamined issue in the migration research. This article provides an empirically grounded analysis of the differential inclusion of non-citizens and demonstrates the legal hierarchies between non-citizens' entitlements using Finland as a case study. I argue that in addition to the regulation of residence and the access to labour markets, the unequal access to the welfare system represents a significant sphere of differentiation in the immigration process. Non-citizens' social entitlements differ depending on the nationality, the type of legal status and the form of employment, affecting their position in the labour markets and in the society. The article highlights the role of immigration law in manipulating the residence status of non-citizens, consequently invalidating the universalism of rights and a residence-based welfare system. Immigration controls, rather than representing a neutral framework of regulation of immigration, function as an institution, which produces conditional subjects and asymmetrical social relations in the sphere of universal citizenship.

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“…The neoliberalisation of what once were perceived as mature welfare states has not only implied a move towards a fragmented and increasingly marketised model of service provision, but also a redefinition of the social contract with a stronger emphasis on the duties and responsibilities of individual citizens (see also Carmel et al 2011;Schierup & Ålund 2011). Accordingly, there is a call for research that empirically examines the implications of the reconfigurations occurring at the nexus of state policies, street-level encounters and the individual.…”

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Street-Level Engagements: <i>Migrated Families Encountering the Local Welfare State</i>

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Wrede

2015

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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Migration and welfare in the new EuropeSocial protection and the challenges of integration

Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

Commentary: A Citizenship without Social Rights? EU Freedom of Movement and Changing Access to Welfare Rights

Commentary: A Citizenship without Social Rights? EU Freedom of Movement and Changing Access to Welfare Rights

Differential inclusion of non-citizens in a universalistic welfare state

Street-Level Engagements: <i>Migrated Families Encountering the Local Welfare State</i>

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