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

Dwyer, P; Scullion, LC; Jones, KE; Stewart, A

Abstract

This paper highlights and explores how conditionality operating at three levels (the EU supra-national 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.

Citation

Dwyer, P., Scullion, L., Jones, K., & Stewart, A. (2019). The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK. Policy and Politics, 47(1), 133-150. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557318X15296527346800

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 17, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jul 11, 2018
• Publication Date: Jan 31, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 1, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 17, 2018
• Journal: Policy & Politics
• Print ISSN: 0305-5736
• Electronic ISSN: 1470-8442
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 133-150
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/030557318X15296527346800
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1332/030557318X15296527346800
• Related Public URLs: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/pap; http://policypress.co.uk/journals/policy-and-politics
• Additional Information: Projects : Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions, Support and Behaviour Change