The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK

TY - JOUR

T1 - The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK

AU - Dwyer, Peter James

AU - Scullion, Lisa

AU - Jones, Katy

AU - Stewart, Alasdair

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PY - 2019/1/1

Y1 - 2019/1/1

N2 - This paper highlights and explores how conditionality operating at three levels (the EU supranational level, the UK national level and in migrants' mundane 'street level' encounters with social security administrators), come together to restrict and have a negative impact on the social rights of EU migrants living in the UK. Presenting analysis of new data generated in repeat qualitative interviews with 49 EU migrants resident in the UK, the paper makes an original contribution to understanding how the conditionality inherent in macro level EU and UK policy has seriously detrimental effects on the everyday lives of individual EU migrants.

AB - This paper highlights and explores how conditionality operating at three levels (the EU supranational level, the UK national level and in migrants' mundane 'street level' encounters with social security administrators), come together to restrict and have a negative impact on the social rights of EU migrants living in the UK. Presenting analysis of new data generated in repeat qualitative interviews with 49 EU migrants resident in the UK, the paper makes an original contribution to understanding how the conditionality inherent in macro level EU and UK policy has seriously detrimental effects on the everyday lives of individual EU migrants.

KW - EU migration

KW - Social citizenship

KW - Social integration

KW - Welfare benefits

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U2 - 10.1332/030557318X15296527346800

DO - 10.1332/030557318X15296527346800

M3 - Article

SN - 0305-5736

VL - 47

SP - 133

EP - 150

JO - Policy and Politics

JF - Policy and Politics

IS - 1

ER -