Abstract
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.
Highlights
Following enlargement of the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007 over one million Central and Eastern European (CEE) migrants from Accession 81(A8) and Accession 2 (A2)2 countries entered the UK
This paper highlights and explores how conditionality operating at three levels, come together to restrict and have a negative impact on the social rights of EU migrants living in the UK
In grappling with the trade-off between the closed solidarity implied in national welfare states and the diversity that international migration encourages, some on the Left have become highly ‘circumspect when it comes to permissive migration regimes in general and the reality of freedom of movement in the EU in particular’ (Parker, 2017, 480) The onset of the global financial crisis, increasing unemployment and growing populist fears about EU migrants’ access to ‘British’ jobs and social welfare benefits (Farage, 2014), saw the UK government’s stance on EU migration change
Summary
The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK Dwyer, P, Scullion, LC, Jones, KE and Stewart, A Article This version is available at: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/47178/ 2019. 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.
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