Barbulescu, R orcid.org/0000-0003-3362-4840 and Favell, A orcid.org/0000-0001-5801-6847 (2020) Commentary: A Citizenship without Social Rights? EU Freedom of Movement and Changing Access to Welfare Rights. International Migration, 58 (1). pp. 151-165. ISSN 0020-7985
Abstract
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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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. International Migration © 2019 IOM. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Barbulescu, R. and Favell, A. (2020), Commentary: A Citizenship without Social Rights? EU Freedom of Movement and Changing Access to Welfare Rights. Int Migr, 58: 151-165. doi:10.1111/imig.12607, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12607. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | intra-European migration; social rights; welfare; citizenship; EU |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 May 2019 11:52 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2021 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/imig.12607 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:146482 |