The UK migrant cap, migrant mobility and employer implications

Scullion, LC; Pemberton, S

doi:10.1111/imig.12068

Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access (2024)
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McEachern, M. G., Moraes, C., Scullion, L., & Gibbons, A. (2024). Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access. Urban Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241234803

This research examines the role of food aid providers, including their spatial engagement, in seeking to alleviate urban food poverty. Current levels of urban poverty across the UK have resulted in an unprecedented demand for food aid. Yet, urban pov... Read More about Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access.

The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality (2024)
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Jones, K., Wright, S., & Scullion, L. (in press). The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality. Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231219677

This article contributes to emerging debates about how behavioural conditionality within welfare systems influences job quality. Drawing upon analysis of unique data from three waves of qualitative longitudinal interviews with 46 UK social security r... Read More about The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality.

Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity (2023)
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De Vries, R., Baumberg Geiger, B., Scullion, L., Summers, K., Edmiston, D., Ingold, J., …Young, D. (2023). Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity. Journal of Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279423000466

COVID-19 had the potential to dramatically increase public support for welfare. It was a time of apparent increased solidarity, of apparently deserving claimants, and of increasingly widespread exposure to the benefits system. However, there are also... Read More about Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity.

Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway (2023)
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Gjersøe, H. M., Jones, K., Leseth, A. B., Scullion, L., & Martin, P. (2023). Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway. European Journal of Social Work, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2023.2212875

In this article, we present an analysis of young unemployed peoples’ perceptions and experiences with public and third sector support in Norway and the UK. Drawing on data generated through qualitative semi-structured interviews, the analysis shows t... Read More about Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway.

Accessing and sustaining work after service: the role of active labour market policies (ALMP) and implications for HRM (2022)
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Jones, K., Scullion, L., Hynes, C., & Martin, P. (2022). Accessing and sustaining work after service: the role of active labour market policies (ALMP) and implications for HRM. International Journal of Human Resource Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2022.2133574

This article considers the extent to which active labour market policies (ALMPs) support the sustained inclusion of veterans in the civilian labour market. Drawing on the first in-depth research into veteran’s interactions with the UK’s public employ... Read More about Accessing and sustaining work after service: the role of active labour market policies (ALMP) and implications for HRM.

Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security (2022)
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Edmiston, D., Robertshaw, D., Young, D., Ingold, J., Gibbons, A., Summers, K., …de Vries, R. (2022). Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security. Social Policy and Administration, 56(5), 775-790. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12803

Local state and third sector actors routinely provide support to help people navigate their right to social security and mediate their chequered relationship to it. COVID-19 has not only underlined the significance of these actors in the claims-makin... Read More about Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security.

Military veterans and welfare reform : bridging two policy worlds through qualitative longitudinal research (2021)
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Scullion, L., Jones, K., Dwyer, P., Hynes, C., & Martin, P. (2021). Military veterans and welfare reform : bridging two policy worlds through qualitative longitudinal research. Social Policy and Society, 20(4), 670-683. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746421000166

In recent years, there has been an increasing focus in the UK on the support provided to those who have served in the Armed Forces, with the publication of the Armed Forces Covenant (2011), the ten year Strategy for our Veterans (2018) and the creati... Read More about Military veterans and welfare reform : bridging two policy worlds through qualitative longitudinal research.

Understanding lived experiences of food insecurity through a paraliminality lens (2021)
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Moraes, C., McEachern, M., Gibbons, A., & Scullion, L. (2021). Understanding lived experiences of food insecurity through a paraliminality lens. Sociology, 55(6), 1169-1190. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211003450

This article examines lived experiences of food insecurity in the United Kingdom as a liminal phenomenon. Our research is set within the context of austerity measures, welfare reform and the precarity experienced by increasing numbers of individual... Read More about Understanding lived experiences of food insecurity through a paraliminality lens.

The impact of in-Service physical injury or illness on the mental health of military veterans (2021)
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Hynes, C., Scullion, L., Lawler, C., Steel, R., & Boland, P. (2021). The impact of in-Service physical injury or illness on the mental health of military veterans. BMJ Military Health, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001759

Background Each year approximately 2000 UK service personnel are medically discharged with physical and/or psychological injury or illness. While there is much research on both psychological injury and physical injury, the challenges of transition... Read More about The impact of in-Service physical injury or illness on the mental health of military veterans.

Examining veterans’ interactions with the UK social security system through a trauma-informed lens (2021)
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Scullion, L., & Curchin, K. (2021). Examining veterans’ interactions with the UK social security system through a trauma-informed lens. Journal of Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279420000719

This paper uses the principles of trauma-informed care – safety, collaboration, choice, trustworthiness, and respect – to reflect on the quality of veterans’ treatment within the UK social security system. Drawing upon new data from qualitative longi... Read More about Examining veterans’ interactions with the UK social security system through a trauma-informed lens.

Wasted lives in scapegoat Britain : overlaps and departures between migration studies and disability studies (2019)
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Duda-Mikulin, E., Scullion, L., & Currie, R. (2020). Wasted lives in scapegoat Britain : overlaps and departures between migration studies and disability studies. Disability and Society, 35(9), 1373-1397. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1690428

The focus of this paper is to consider how disability studies and migration studies may be brought into further conversation with one another. While their experiences overlap and intersect in many ways, the lives of disabled people and migrants have... Read More about Wasted lives in scapegoat Britain : overlaps and departures between migration studies and disability studies.

Work, welfare and wellbeing? The impacts of welfare conditionality on people with mental health impairments in the UK (2019)
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Dwyer, P., Scullion, L., Jones, K., McNeill, J., & Stewart, A. (2020). Work, welfare and wellbeing? The impacts of welfare conditionality on people with mental health impairments in the UK. Social Policy and Administration, 54(2), 311-326. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12560

The personal, economic and social costs of mental ill-health are increasingly acknowledged by many governments and international organisations. Simultaneously, in high income nations the reach of welfare conditionality has extended to encompass many... Read More about Work, welfare and wellbeing? The impacts of welfare conditionality on people with mental health impairments in the UK.

Sanctuary to sanction : asylum seekers, refugees and welfare conditionality in the UK (2018)
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Scullion, L. (2018). Sanctuary to sanction : asylum seekers, refugees and welfare conditionality in the UK. Journal of Social Security Law, 25(3), 158-172

Successive UK Governments have introduced a raft of legislation that has reduced the level of support for asylum seekers, whilst simultaneously attaching conditions to the receipt of this support. While refugee status brings people into the mainstr... Read More about Sanctuary to sanction : asylum seekers, refugees and welfare conditionality in the UK.

The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK (2018)
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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

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... Read More about The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK.

Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective (2017)
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Harris, N., Ryffe, D., Scullion, L., & Stendahl, S. (2017). Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 31(2), 230-267. https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebx001

Access to public education systems has tended to be below normative levels where Roma children are concerned. Various long-standing social, cultural, and institutional factors lie behind the lower levels of engagement and achievement of Roma children... Read More about Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective.

Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives (2017)
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McNeill, J., Scullion, L., Jones, K., & Stewart, A. (2017). Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 25(2), 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1332/175982717X14943392083755

In order to fully understand the impact of the extension of conditionality in the UK to include people with impairments, it is vital to give voice to those with direct experience of the welfare system. The case studies that follow are taken from inte... Read More about Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives.

Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance (2014)
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Scullion, L., Somerville, P., Brown, P., & Morris, G. (2015). Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance. Health and Social Care in the Community, 23(4), 419-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12159

This paper argues that the increasing international salience of homelessness can be partially explained by reference to the revanchist thesis (involving processes of coerced exclusion and abjection), but the situation on the ground is more complex. I... Read More about Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance.

Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size (2014)
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Brown, P., Martin, P., & Scullion, L. (2014). Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size. People, Place and Policy, 8(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.0008.0001.0003

Within the political framework of the European Union (EU), there has been long standing recognition that the on-going exclusion of Roma represents a key challenge for human rights, justice and social inclusion agendas. By introducing a requirement fo... Read More about Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size.

The UK migrant cap, migrant mobility and employer implications (2013)
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Scullion, L., & Pemberton, S. (2013). The UK migrant cap, migrant mobility and employer implications. International Migration, 53(2), 291-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12068

Advocates of the “borderless world” thesis suggest that migrant workers can benefit from employment opportunities available everywhere, with workers simply migrating towards these opportunities. However, as global inequalities widen and potential glo... Read More about The UK migrant cap, migrant mobility and employer implications.

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