Peter Dwyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Dwyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Dwyer |
| SIGNATURE | DWYER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2297-2375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 784 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
In-work Universal Credit: Claimant Experiences of Conditionality Mismatches and Counterproductive Benefit Sanctions
Universal Credit is the UK's globally innovative social security reform that replaces six means tested benefits with one monthly payment for working age claimants - combining social security and tax credit systems. Universal Credit expands welfare conditionality via mandatory job search conditions to enhance 'progression' amongst working claimants by requiring extra working hours or multiple jobs. This exposes low paid workers to tough benefit sa…
Military Veterans and Welfare Reform: Bridging Two Policy Worlds through Qualitative Longitudinal Research
There has been an increasing focus in the UK on the support provided to the Armed Forces community, with the publication of the Armed Forces Covenant (2011), the Strategy for our Veterans (2018) and the first ever Office for Veterans’ Affairs (2019). There is also an important body of research – including longitudinal research – focusing on transitions from military to civilian life, much of which is quantitative. At the same time, the UK has wit…
Fighting or fuelling forced labour? The Modern Slavery Act 2015, irregular migrants and the vulnerabilising role of the UK’s hostile environment
Abolishing ‘modern slavery’ has now achieved international policy consensus. The most recent UK initiative – the 2015 Modern Slavery Act (MSA) – includes amongst other aspects tougher prison sentencing for perpetrators and the creation of an independent anti-slavery commissioner to oversee its implementation. However, drawing on research into forced labour among people seeking asylum in England, this article argues that when considered alongside …
Appropriating Fish, Appropriating Fishermen
In this paper we ask what happens to fish and to fishermen who are subjected to modern forms of risk management. First, we consider how fish are being or have been reconfigured in the imagination of fishermen, managers and others who have some tie to the fishing industry. Secondly, we ask how the imagination of fishermen is being reconfigured by the imposition of management strategies that, ultimately, translate the uncertainties inherent in macr…
Work, welfare, and wellbeing: The impacts of welfare conditionality on people with mental health impairments in the UK
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 people with mental health impairments as part of on‐going welfare reforms. This is particularly the case in the UK where, especially since the introduction of Employment and Support Allowance in 200…
Dealing with Welfare Conditionality: Implementation and Effects
Connections 3: Roape workshop in Johannesburg, 26–27 November 2018
South Africa was the location for the third of the interconnected workshops held across Africa in 2017–2018 initiated by this journal.1 As with the previous workshops, the preparation and planning
Dealing with Welfare Conditionality: Implementation and Effects
The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK
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 pape…
The conditional welfare state
Background: Cognitive Muscular TherapyTM (CMT) is an integrated behavioural intervention developed for knee osteoarthritis.CMT teaches patients to reconceptualise the condition, integrates muscle biofeedback and aims to reduce muscle overactivity, both in response to pain and during daily activities.This nested qualitative study explored patient and physiotherapist perspectives and experiences of CMT.Methods: Five physiotherapists were trained to…
Citizenship, conduct and conditionality: Sanction and support in the 21st-century UK welfare state
This chapter shows how the evil giant of ‘idleness’ has returned in the political debate, but with new features. In the current age, the welfare state is no longer considered as a solution for idleness, it is also assumed to cause idleness. This chapter shows how T.H. Marshall’s notion of social citizenship in which largely unconditional, de-commodified social rights have been replaced by a system of behavioural conditions and sanctions in differ…
Socio-legal status and experiences of forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
Socio-legal status determines the differential rights to residence, work and social welfare that accrue to migrants depending on their particular immigration status. This paper presents analysis of original empirical data generated in qualitative interviews with migrants who had both made a claim for asylum and experienced conditions of forced labour in the UK. Following an outline of the divergent socio-legal statuses assigned to individual migr…
The global development crisis
A popular misconception is that everything is now made by cheap labour in China and India or somewhere in Africa. What this in part represents is recognition of the gigantic expansion of the global
Rights, responsibilities and refusals: Homelessness policy and the exclusion of single homeless people with complex needs
Since 1977 homelessness legislation in England has offered limited statutory accommodation rights to unintentionally homeless people who are judged to be in priority need and able to demonstrate a local connection. Using data generated in interviews with homeless people and staff working to support them, this paper considers the impact of current homelessness policy and practice and explores how decisions about intentionality, priority need and l…
Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum
Precarious Lives: Forced labour, exploitation and asylum
"This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed in a broader picture of modern slavery produced through globalised working conditions. Drawing on original evidence generated in fieldwork with ref…
Universal Credit, ubiquitous conditionality and its implications for social citizenship
Between 2013 and 2017 Universal Credit replaces six means-tested working age benefits. Backed by a punitive system of tiered sanctions and fines, Universal Credit represents a major expansion and intensification of personalised behavioural conditionality and indicates the ubiquity of conditionality at the heart of twenty-first century UK social citizenship
Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North
This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The concept of precarity is explored as a way of understanding intensifying and insecure post-Fordist work in late capitalism. Migrants are centrally implicated in highly precarious work experiences at the bottom end of labour markets in Global North countries, including becoming…
An Introduction to Social Policy
An Introduction to Social Policy explores essential welfare topics, themes and issues for students studying social policy or related disciplines such as sociology, social work, or nursing and social care. - Part One examines key concepts including welfare, social justice, diversity and health and well-being. - Part Two explores policy issues in relation to key stages of the lifecourse. - Part Three takes a comparative perspective, discussing the …
Accession 8 Migration and the Proactive and Defensive Engagement of Social Citizenship
Following the expansion of the European Union in 2004 unprecedented numbers of Accession 8 migrants from Central and Eastern Europe entered the UK. These migrants are often concentrated in particular urban neighbourhoods, which are already routinely home to diverse communities and/or characterised by high levels of social deprivation. Using original data from a study in a northern English city, this paper explores the ways in which established co…
Comparing Men's and Women's Experiences of Multiple Exclusion Homelessness
This article explores gender as a variable in multiple exclusion homelessness in England. Much past research has taken insufficient account of the gender of homeless people, especially the predominance of men in the single homeless population and of women heading homeless households with dependent children. Drawing on qualitative data generated in a study of multiple exclusion homelessness in London and Nottingham, the article considers three way…
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Introduction: Themed Section on Exploring Multiple Exclusion Homelessness
Many of New Labour's welfare initiatives were underpinned by a stated desire to combat social exclusion among disadvantaged sections of the population. Allied to this, a commitment to end street homelessness/rough sleeping was an enduring feature of their term in office (for example SEU, 1998; DCLG, 2008). Of course, concerns about social exclusion predate New Labour, and a lack of meaningful involvement in many key areas of wider social life (fo…
The support priorities of multiply excluded homeless people and their compatibility with support agency agendas – new research into multiple exclusion homelessness
Purpose This paper aims to throw light on the value of accommodation and support services and the likely consequences of their withdrawal. Design/methodology/approach Research was completed by a team of researchers from Nottingham Trent and Salford Universities under the Multiple Exclusion Homelessness programme funded by CLG, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Findings Agencies whose priorities are influ…
Promoting social inclusion? The impact of village services on the lives of older people living in rural England
Drawing on data from a qualitative study, this paper explores the impact of ‘village services’ on the lives of people aged 70 or more years living in rural England. Throughout the paper, the phrase ‘village services’ refers to six community-based services and activities provided to help meet the needs of older rural residents, namely lunch clubs, welfare rights information and advice services, befriending schemes and community warden support, in …
Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North
This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The concept of precarity is explored as a way of understanding intensifying and insecure post-Fordist work in late capitalism. Migrants are centrally implicated in highly precarious work experiences at the bottom end of labour markets in Global North countries, including becoming…
Universal Credit, ubiquitous conditionality and its implications for social citizenship
Between 2013 and 2017 Universal Credit replaces six means-tested working age benefits. Backed by a punitive system of tiered sanctions and fines, Universal Credit represents a major expansion and intensification of personalised behavioural conditionality and indicates the ubiquity of conditionality at the heart of twenty-first century UK social citizenship
The Experiences of Accession 8 Migrants in England: Motivations, Work and Agency
Drawing on a recently completed qualitative study in a northern English city, this paper explores motivations and experiences of Accession 8 (A8) migrants who have entered the United Kingdom following the expansion of the European Union in 2004. The paper considers commonalities and differences among the group of migrants routinely referred to as A8 migrant workers/labourers. Diversity is apparent in three particular respects: first, the motivati…
Creeping Conditionality in the UK: From Welfare Rights to Conditional Entitlements
Peter Dwyer, Creeping Conditionality in the UK: From Welfare Rights to Conditional Entitlements?, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 2, Special Issue on Social Policy: Canadian and International Perspectives (Spring, 2004), pp. 265-287
The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK
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 pape…
Fixed laws, fluid lives: The citizenship status of post-retirement migrants in the European Union
This paper presents key findings of a recently completed socio-legal study of international retirement migration in the European Union (EU). It highlights the diverse nature of retirement migration and the differential citizenship status that is formally granted to various groups of retired migrants. ‘Citizenship of the European Union’ (Articles 17–22 of the Treaty establishing the European Community) bestows important social and political rights…
New Directions in Research on Youth in Transition
New directions in research on youth transitions are examined, with particular reference to the research findings of recent studies from different countries. The convergence of evidence in the studies points to a significant shift of emphasis for the study of youth transitions and the need for a more interactive research process that enables the participants to articulate their own meanings and experiences. One limitation of the studies is that th…
Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s
In Britain the relationship between welfare rights and responsibilities has undergone change. A new welfare 'consensus' that emphasizes a citizen ship centred on notions of duty rather than rights has been built. This has allowed the state to reduce its role as a provider of welfare and also defend a position in which the welfare rights of some citizens are increas ingly conditional on those individuals meeting compulsory responsibili ties or dut…
Socio-legal status and experiences of forced labour among asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
Socio-legal status determines the differential rights to residence, work and social welfare that accrue to migrants depending on their particular immigration status. This paper presents analysis of original empirical data generated in qualitative interviews with migrants who had both made a claim for asylum and experienced conditions of forced labour in the UK. Following an outline of the divergent socio-legal statuses assigned to individual migr…
The Social Security Rights of Older International Migrants in the European Union
Europe is now home to a significant and diverse population of older international migrants. Social and demographic changes have forced the issue of social security in old age onto the European social policy agenda in the last decade. In spite of an increased interest in the financial wellbeing of older people, many retired international migrants who are legally resident in the European Union face structured disadvantages. It is argued that four l…
Making sense of social citizenship: Some user views on welfare rights and responsibilities
Against the backdrop of New Labour's claim to be constructing a new welfare state for the 21st century, this article explores how a diversity of welfare service users make sense of the principles and values central to the ongoing reform of public welfare. Drawing on a series of focus groups with welfare service users, the article adds an important empirical dimension to current debates about the contentious issue of welfare `resettlement' and not…
Work, welfare, and wellbeing: The impacts of welfare conditionality on people with mental health impairments in the UK
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 people with mental health impairments as part of on‐going welfare reforms. This is particularly the case in the UK where, especially since the introduction of Employment and Support Allowance in 200…
Rights, responsibilities and refusals: Homelessness policy and the exclusion of single homeless people with complex needs
Since 1977 homelessness legislation in England has offered limited statutory accommodation rights to unintentionally homeless people who are judged to be in priority need and able to demonstrate a local connection. Using data generated in interviews with homeless people and staff working to support them, this paper considers the impact of current homelessness policy and practice and explores how decisions about intentionality, priority need and l…
We nicked stuff from all over the place: Policy Transfer or Muddling Through
This article explores current thinking about policy learning and transfer, using recent work on the ‘Americanisation’ of UK active labour market policies as a focus of discussion. While it is clear that the UK has learned from the US in certain respects, academic debates about the US–UK policy relationship are marked by accounts of learning and transfer that depend on a highly rational interpretation of these processes. The article reviews curren…
Bower birds, bones and archaeology
Meeting Basic Needs? Forced Migrants and Welfare
As the number of forced migrants entering Britain has risen, increasingly restrictive immigration and asylum policy has been introduced. Simultaneously, successive governments have sought to limit the welfare entitlements of forced migrants. Drawing on two sets of semi-structured qualitative interviews, with migrants and key respondents providing welfare services, this paper considers the adequacy of welfare provisions in relation to the financia…
Doing The Right Thing: Labour’s Attempt to Forge a New Welfare Deal Between the Individual and the State
This paper explores the rhetoric behind the Labour Government’s welfare reforms. Recent publications and statements emanating from the new administration indicate the extent to which Labour feels comfortable with notions of communitarianism and stakeholding. The influence and (potential) impact of these two concepts upon welfare policy is explored through the works of Macmurray, Etzioni, Hutton and, in spite of his departure from Government, Fiel…
Accommodating ‘others’: Housing dispersed, forced migrants in the UK
Utilising insights from a qualitative study in the city of Leeds (UK), this paper considers issues related to the housing of dispersed forced migrants. The term 'dispersed forced migrants' is used here as a general label to include four groups of international migrants (i.e. refugees, asylum seekers, those with humanitarian protection status and failed asylum seekers) who have previously been dispersed, on a no choice basis, to a variety of locat…
In-work Universal Credit: Claimant Experiences of Conditionality Mismatches and Counterproductive Benefit Sanctions
Universal Credit is the UK's globally innovative social security reform that replaces six means tested benefits with one monthly payment for working age claimants - combining social security and tax credit systems. Universal Credit expands welfare conditionality via mandatory job search conditions to enhance 'progression' amongst working claimants by requiring extra working hours or multiple jobs. This exposes low paid workers to tough benefit sa…
Promoting social inclusion? The impact of village services on the lives of older people living in rural England
Drawing on data from a qualitative study, this paper explores the impact of ‘village services’ on the lives of people aged 70 or more years living in rural England. Throughout the paper, the phrase ‘village services’ refers to six community-based services and activities provided to help meet the needs of older rural residents, namely lunch clubs, welfare rights information and advice services, befriending schemes and community warden support, in …
Governance, Forced Migration and Welfare
This paper explores the welfare of forced migrants (i.e. refugees, asylum‐seekers, those with humanitarian leave to remain, and “failed asylum‐seekers/overstayers”) at three linked levels. First, it considers the governance of forced migrants at a supranational (in this case European Union) level. Second, particularly, but not exclusively in the context of the UK, it considers the extent to which the welfare rights of forced migrants in EU member…
Accession 8 Migration and the Proactive and Defensive Engagement of Social Citizenship
Following the expansion of the European Union in 2004 unprecedented numbers of Accession 8 migrants from Central and Eastern Europe entered the UK. These migrants are often concentrated in particular urban neighbourhoods, which are already routinely home to diverse communities and/or characterised by high levels of social deprivation. Using original data from a study in a northern English city, this paper explores the ways in which established co…
Comparing Men's and Women's Experiences of Multiple Exclusion Homelessness
This article explores gender as a variable in multiple exclusion homelessness in England. Much past research has taken insufficient account of the gender of homeless people, especially the predominance of men in the single homeless population and of women heading homeless households with dependent children. Drawing on qualitative data generated in a study of multiple exclusion homelessness in London and Nottingham, the article considers three way…
Retired EU migrants, healthcare rights and European social citizenship
Drawing on a set of 210 qualitative interviews conducted in \nsix European countries, this paper investigates the citizenship status and \nexperiences of retired EU migrants at both national and European levels. The \npaper focuses upon the experiences of two types of respondents: ‘Retired \nMigrants’ (retired nationals of one EU country who moved on retirement and \nreside in another EU host state) and ‘Returnees’, that is, those migrants who \n…
Fighting or fuelling forced labour? The Modern Slavery Act 2015, irregular migrants and the vulnerabilising role of the UK’s hostile environment
Abolishing ‘modern slavery’ has now achieved international policy consensus. The most recent UK initiative – the 2015 Modern Slavery Act (MSA) – includes amongst other aspects tougher prison sentencing for perpetrators and the creation of an independent anti-slavery commissioner to oversee its implementation. However, drawing on research into forced labour among people seeking asylum in England, this article argues that when considered alongside …
Odds and Ends: Bower birds as taphonomic agents
Major taphonomic influences upon stone artefacts have been usually regarded as physical - fire, water, earth and air. Treadage and scuffage by people or other biological agents may be important but active displacement of stone artefacts by animals has received little attention. Cane (1982) described the use of artefacts as gastroliths by the Australian bustard and Horton (1978) has raised the possibility that seals and some sea birds may move art…
Bower birds, bones and archaeology
Konai, Febi And Kubo: The north-west corner of the Bosavi language family
Au Sud-Ouest de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee, dans le Strickland Bosavi, 18 populations forment la famille linguistique du Bosavi. L'etude concernant les Konai, Febi et Kubo au Nord-Ouest de cette region, vise a clarifier la distribution linguistique en terme d'auto-identification, a partir de la litterature existante. Bien que l'identite clanique prime sur l'identite linguistique, l'affiliation clanique et linguistique se recoupe. D'apres sa lan…
The New Managerialism and the Rhetoric of Outcomes in Post-compulsory Education Policy
Outside the Educational Mainstream: Foreclosed Options in Youth Policy
(1997). Outside the Educational Mainstream: foreclosed options in youth policy. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 71-85
Education and Negotiated Reality: Complexities Facing Rural Youth in the 1990s
The educational decisions of rural youth are examined using data from two longitudinal surveys. One has questionnaire data gathered in 1992 and 1996, from about 2000 high school graduates in Victoria, Australia. The second studied a cohort of over 1200 youths (born in 1971) in urban and rural Canada, surveyed in 1989 and 1994. Findings show rural/urban differences in educational expectations and outcomes. The two data sets also document the compl…
Post‐compulsory education policy in Australia and its impact on participant pathways and outcomes in the 1990s
The substantial redefinition of youth and education policy in Australia over the past decade has been associated with an increased emphasis on university entrance and the adoption of a sequential model of pathways between the two worlds of study and work. Because these new policy settings have been in operation for sufficient time now to warrant examination of their effectiveness in terms of participant outcomes, this article examines them in the…
Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s
In Britain the relationship between welfare rights and responsibilities has undergone change. A new welfare 'consensus' that emphasizes a citizen ship centred on notions of duty rather than rights has been built. This has allowed the state to reduce its role as a provider of welfare and also defend a position in which the welfare rights of some citizens are increas ingly conditional on those individuals meeting compulsory responsibili ties or dut…
New Directions in Research on Youth in Transition
New directions in research on youth transitions are examined, with particular reference to the research findings of recent studies from different countries. The convergence of evidence in the studies points to a significant shift of emphasis for the study of youth transitions and the need for a more interactive research process that enables the participants to articulate their own meanings and experiences. One limitation of the studies is that th…
Doing The Right Thing: Labour’s Attempt to Forge a New Welfare Deal Between the Individual and the State
This paper explores the rhetoric behind the Labour Government’s welfare reforms. Recent publications and statements emanating from the new administration indicate the extent to which Labour feels comfortable with notions of communitarianism and stakeholding. The influence and (potential) impact of these two concepts upon welfare policy is explored through the works of Macmurray, Etzioni, Hutton and, in spite of his departure from Government, Fiel…
Welfare rights and responsibilities: Contesting social citizenship
Welfare rights and responsibilitiesContesting social citizenship
INTRODUCTION: Pregnancy is a crucial period which ultimately directly impacts two individuals health and wellbeing. Within the UK, a standardised pattern of care is established with collaborations across disciplines to the benefit of women and babies. During the COVID19 pandemic, this pattern of care was disrupted to align with protective protocols which until now, has not been formally reported. METHODS: A retrospective, mixed methods study of U…
New Patterns of Youth Transition in Education
Current research provides evidence that new relationships are being forged between youth people and education. Increased participation in post-compulsory education, combinations of work and study and uncertain career outcomes havebecome common experiences. There is an emerging disparity between the stated goals of education and the changing priorities and choices of young people. In particular, the linear notion of transitions, expressed in the m…
Retired EU migrants, healthcare rights and European social citizenship
Drawing on a set of 210 qualitative interviews conducted in \nsix European countries, this paper investigates the citizenship status and \nexperiences of retired EU migrants at both national and European levels. The \npaper focuses upon the experiences of two types of respondents: ‘Retired \nMigrants’ (retired nationals of one EU country who moved on retirement and \nreside in another EU host state) and ‘Returnees’, that is, those migrants who \n…
Senior Citizenship?: Retirement, Migration and Welfare in the European Union
Debates about citizenship in Europe are increasingly topical as the EU expands. This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for retired people moving or returning home under the Free Movement of Persons provisions. It raises important issues around the future of social citizenship in an increasingly global and mobile world.
Making sense of social citizenship: Some user views on welfare rights and responsibilities
Against the backdrop of New Labour's claim to be constructing a new welfare state for the 21st century, this article explores how a diversity of welfare service users make sense of the principles and values central to the ongoing reform of public welfare. Drawing on a series of focus groups with welfare service users, the article adds an important empirical dimension to current debates about the contentious issue of welfare `resettlement' and not…
Chris Grover and John Stewart (2002), The Work Connection: The Role of Social Security in British Economic Regulation , Basingstoke: Palgrave, £69.95
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Agency, ‘dependency’ and welfare: Beyond issues of claim and contribution?
This chapter discusses the concepts of agency and dependency in relation to contemporary welfare reform. This chapter is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the ‘third way’ theory and its implications for future welfare provision. In this section, the notions of agency and dependency which are central to theorising are discussed. It is argued that the ways in which these ideas are used and controlled are flawed. The negative impact o…
Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future
Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s.The book reviews ten years of research, policy and practice as related to the 15…
Fixed laws, fluid lives: The citizenship status of post-retirement migrants in the European Union
This paper presents key findings of a recently completed socio-legal study of international retirement migration in the European Union (EU). It highlights the diverse nature of retirement migration and the differential citizenship status that is formally granted to various groups of retired migrants. ‘Citizenship of the European Union’ (Articles 17–22 of the Treaty establishing the European Community) bestows important social and political rights…
Creeping Conditionality in the UK: From Welfare Rights to Conditional Entitlements
Peter Dwyer, Creeping Conditionality in the UK: From Welfare Rights to Conditional Entitlements?, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 2, Special Issue on Social Policy: Canadian and International Perspectives (Spring, 2004), pp. 265-287
Meeting Basic Needs? Forced Migrants and Welfare
As the number of forced migrants entering Britain has risen, increasingly restrictive immigration and asylum policy has been introduced. Simultaneously, successive governments have sought to limit the welfare entitlements of forced migrants. Drawing on two sets of semi-structured qualitative interviews, with migrants and key respondents providing welfare services, this paper considers the adequacy of welfare provisions in relation to the financia…
Governance, Forced Migration and Welfare
This paper explores the welfare of forced migrants (i.e. refugees, asylum‐seekers, those with humanitarian leave to remain, and “failed asylum‐seekers/overstayers”) at three linked levels. First, it considers the governance of forced migrants at a supranational (in this case European Union) level. Second, particularly, but not exclusively in the context of the UK, it considers the extent to which the welfare rights of forced migrants in EU member…
The Social Security Rights of Older International Migrants in the European Union
Europe is now home to a significant and diverse population of older international migrants. Social and demographic changes have forced the issue of social security in old age onto the European social policy agenda in the last decade. In spite of an increased interest in the financial wellbeing of older people, many retired international migrants who are legally resident in the European Union face structured disadvantages. It is argued that four l…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Risk, Uncertainty and Decision-Making by Victorian Fishers
In this paper, decision-making by Australian commercial fishers is explored with reference to aspects of risk or uncertainty that characterize their experience of the physical and biological environment, the socioeconomic environment and the environment of management. In these environments decisions are grounded in, respectively and particularly, skill, strategy and (often) recklessness. In a broader frame it is argued that ways in which fishers …
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