Boundaries of European Social Citizenship: EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences
About this ebook
The volume provides a comparative analysis of formal organization and mobile individuals’ use of European social security coordination, which involves mobile Europeans' access to and portability of social security rights from the sending to the receiving country (and back). The book discloses the selectivity criteria of welfare provision in four areas (unemployment, family benefits, health insurance, and pensions) that lay at heart of European cross-border social security governance. It also identifies specific discourses of belonging (gendered, ethnicized/racialized and class-related images of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’) that frame the institutional selectivity by constructing images of mobile EUcitizens' ‘deserving’ or ‘non-deserving’ social membership.
The collection offers a detailed examination of inequality experiences mobile EU citizens from the new EU countries encounter while accessing and porting social security rights across borders. It will be of interest to a wide range of social science and interdisciplinary researchers, students, and practitioners as well as those interested in intra-EU migration and mobility, social security, European social citizenship, and transnational studies.
About the author
Anna Amelina is a Professor for Intercultural Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and UNESCO Chair for Heritage Studies. Her research areas are transnational migration studies, cultural sociology, gender and intersectionality, cross-border social inequalities, and European studies. Her recent publication is Gender and Migration: Transnational and Intersectional Prospects (with Helma Lutz, Routledge 2019).
Emma Carmel investigates how social and political order is imagined, produced, and contested in a range of empirical contexts. Her recent empirical work has been on EU and UK migration governance, and her latest book is Governance Analysis. Critical Enquiry at the Intersection of Politics, Policy and Society (Edward Elgar 2019).
Ann Runfors is an ethnologist and holds the position of Associate Professor at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Her fields of research are migration, education, welfare, transnationalism, youth, and ethnographic approaches. Her recent publication is Welfare Negotiations among Estonians Working in Sweden. Experiences, Barriers and Narrated Coping Strategies (with Maarja Saar and Florence Fröhlig, working paper, University of Södertörn 2018).
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer is an Associate Professor in Sociology at University of Vienna, working on migration and qualitative methods. Her recent publication is Shifting Aspirations in Migratory Projects. Biographic Reconstructions in the Context of a Multi-scaled Second Modernity (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2018).
