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Cecilia Bruzelius

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ID377065
NAMECecilia Bruzelius
GIVEN NAMESCecilia
FAMILY NAMEBruzelius
SIGNATUREBRUZELIUS C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Tübingen
ORCID0000-0002-7574-0447
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS140
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5
  • Free movement and the challenge of emigration: How does EU law structure redistribution through people

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Dion Kramer•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2026•References: 11

    EU free movement has resulted in social, economic and demographic challenges for some EU countries where large numbers of citizens have left This also implies a de facto transfer of resources between Member States and specifically from the periphery to the core. This article asks what room EU law leaves for acknowledging and mitigating social and economic consequences of emigration and their distributive implications. For this purpose, we concept…

  • Please come back! How and why European governments try to reattract emigrated citizens

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Lea Reiß•ARTICLE•Comparative Migration Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    Many EU Member States have adopted emigrant return policies (ERPs) meant to encourage and assist emigrated citizens’ migration back to their country of origin. Despite the significance of this trend, there is a notable lack of comparative research on the nature of ERPs and explanations for their introduction. This article offers a comprehensive analysis of ERPs across all EU countries that have introduced such policies in the past two decades (20…

  • Problems chasing missing solutions: The politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda

    Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2025•Cited by: 4•References: 47

    Despite emigrations’ adverse impacts on several EU Member States, especially in Central Eastern Europe, topics like brain drain and depopulation have received relatively little attention at EU level compared to concerns associated with free movement and immigration. This article offers an answer to why this is so. Drawing on agenda-setting theory, it argues that the institutional framework of the EU both inhibits and disincentivises attempts to t…

  • Agency, institutions, and welfare chauvinism: Tracing the exclusion of European Union migrant citizens from social assistance in Germany

    Open Access•Dominic Afscharian, Cecilia Bruzelius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    What explains welfare chauvinistic policy reform, that is, targeted exclusion of non-citizens from welfare? Existing research suggest that contextual factors like far-right party success, perceived immigration pressures, party ideologies and institutions could spur such reform, but the processes behind reforms remain understudied. This article draws on public policy literature to call attention the critical role of agency and institutions in welf…

  • Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Nora Ratzmann et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    Most research on the social policy–migration control link focuses on indirect control, that is, denying access to welfare. This article instead draws attention to how welfare institutions are made directly involved in migration control through duties to report certain categories of migrants to migration authorities. We ask how these obligations are put into practice and how local governments shape this process. In so doing, we place special empha…

  • Enforcing outsiders' rights: Seasonal agricultural workers and institutionalised exploitation in the EU

    Cecilia Bruzelius, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    Enforcement is a crucial aspect for understanding labour market hierarchies in Europe and exploitation of mobile and migrant EU workers. Whereas most literature on intra-EU mobility and enforcement has focused on posted workers, this paper sheds light on enforcement in seasonal agriculture and forestry where posted work is very uncommon yet mobile workers overrepresented. In the EU, enforcement highly depends on Member States’ capacities. Therefo…

  • Towards an understanding of mobility in social policy research

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Isabel Shutes•ARTICLE•Global Social Policy•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 21

    Over recent years, there has been increasing attention to migration in social policy research. Uniting this research has been a focus on cross-national migration, and predominantly immigration. In the meantime, the relationship between human mobility and social policy at other scales and sites has gained much less attention. This is in spite of the salience of multiple forms of mobility and measures for restricting, facilitating or promoting mobi…

  • Local government responses to EU citizens’ integration needs

    Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•New Community•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    EU citizens migrating between EU member states are expected to be self-sufficient movers, with little access to social or integration support for the economically inactive. This generates challenges for both migrant EU citizens and local governments in places of destination. The latter are confronted with new social challenges resulting from migration that balances between mobility and settlement. How local governments respond to this crucially s…

  • Social citizenship in federations: Free movement and social assistance rights in the EU and beyond

    Cecilia Bruzelius, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser et al.•ARTICLE•West European Politics•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 33

    When and how have free movement and social citizenship been reconciled in federal settings characterised by devolved welfare responsibilities and extensive internal diversity? The EU fails to guarantee minimum social protection rights for EU citizens migrating within the Union, as access to social assistance in countries of destination is highly conditional. This situation is very similar to historical experiences in other federations, where fear…

  • Taking emigration seriously: A New Agenda for Research on Free Movement and Welfare

    Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 36

    Free movement of persons (FoM) is a key topic in current research on European integration's effects on social justice and national welfare states. These debates have focused almost exclusively on FoM as the right to entry, and neglected the correlative right to exit. As a consequence, mainstream political science and public policy research has paid very little attention to welfare state-related implications of extensive emigration in several EU m…

  • How EU Juridification shapes Constitutional Social Rights

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 40

    This article demonstrates how EU member states' distinct constitutional traditions shape the impact of EU juridification on national welfare states and social rights. These traditions come with different ‘constitutional social rights norms’ – that is, distinct distributions of obligation and power to protect social rights between judicial and political actors. The article argues that norms common to the political constitutional tradition are less…

  • Non-for-Profits and EU Citizens' Cross-Border Social Rights in Different Welfare States

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Policy•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 30

    This paper looks at rights in practice to understand how migrant EU citizens' formal social rights translate into substantive ones. It highlights a factor thus far overlooked in the literature on welfare states and migrants' social rights: namely, the actors involved in welfare delivery. The argument is based, first, on non-profit organisations' (NPOs) function as 'rights intermediaries'; and second, on the distinct make-up of the 'welfare mix' a…

  • Freedom of movement, social rights and residence-based conditionality in the European Union

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2018•Cited by: 34•References: 4

    This article stresses the need to study how European Union (EU) member states define and implement the concept of habitual residence to assess boundaries of welfare in the EU. It focuses specifically on EU migrant citizens’ social rights and draws on comparative qualitative research on two EU member states – Germany and Sweden. The article first clarifies the differences between legal and habitual residence, and distinguishes between legal defini…

  • Stratified Social Rights Limiting EU Citizenship

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Constantin Reinprecht et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2017•Cited by: 49•References: 17

    Differences in Member States' economic development and national social protection systems can translate into significant differences in the substantive social rights of EU migrant citizens. The substantive rights of economically inactive EU migrant citizens are dependent on the ‘export’ of social rights from their country of origin to the Member State of destination, in particular during the initial phase of their residence in a new Member State …

  • Social Rights of EU Migrant Citizens: Britain and Germany Compared

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Elaine Chase et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Society•2015•Cited by: 10•References: 3

    European migrant citizens and their social rights are strongly contested in British political debate. This article seeks to challenge some common concerns and perceptions regarding the exceptionality of the British welfare state and the alleged ‘costs’ to it from intra-EU migration. The article first provides a brief overview of the foundations for EU citizenship and associated social rights, highlighting the semi-sovereign nature of welfare stat…

  • Stratified Social Rights Limiting EU Citizenship

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Constantin Reinprecht et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2017•Cited by: 49•References: 17

    Differences in Member States' economic development and national social protection systems can translate into significant differences in the substantive social rights of EU migrant citizens. The substantive rights of economically inactive EU migrant citizens are dependent on the ‘export’ of social rights from their country of origin to the Member State of destination, in particular during the initial phase of their residence in a new Member State …

  • Freedom of movement, social rights and residence-based conditionality in the European Union

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2018•Cited by: 34•References: 4

    This article stresses the need to study how European Union (EU) member states define and implement the concept of habitual residence to assess boundaries of welfare in the EU. It focuses specifically on EU migrant citizens’ social rights and draws on comparative qualitative research on two EU member states – Germany and Sweden. The article first clarifies the differences between legal and habitual residence, and distinguishes between legal defini…

  • Taking emigration seriously: A New Agenda for Research on Free Movement and Welfare

    Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 36

    Free movement of persons (FoM) is a key topic in current research on European integration's effects on social justice and national welfare states. These debates have focused almost exclusively on FoM as the right to entry, and neglected the correlative right to exit. As a consequence, mainstream political science and public policy research has paid very little attention to welfare state-related implications of extensive emigration in several EU m…

  • Social Rights of EU Migrant Citizens: Britain and Germany Compared

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Elaine Chase et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Society•2015•Cited by: 10•References: 3

    European migrant citizens and their social rights are strongly contested in British political debate. This article seeks to challenge some common concerns and perceptions regarding the exceptionality of the British welfare state and the alleged ‘costs’ to it from intra-EU migration. The article first provides a brief overview of the foundations for EU citizenship and associated social rights, highlighting the semi-sovereign nature of welfare stat…

  • Non-for-Profits and EU Citizens' Cross-Border Social Rights in Different Welfare States

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Policy•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 30

    This paper looks at rights in practice to understand how migrant EU citizens' formal social rights translate into substantive ones. It highlights a factor thus far overlooked in the literature on welfare states and migrants' social rights: namely, the actors involved in welfare delivery. The argument is based, first, on non-profit organisations' (NPOs) function as 'rights intermediaries'; and second, on the distinct make-up of the 'welfare mix' a…

  • Social citizenship in federations: Free movement and social assistance rights in the EU and beyond

    Cecilia Bruzelius, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser et al.•ARTICLE•West European Politics•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 33

    When and how have free movement and social citizenship been reconciled in federal settings characterised by devolved welfare responsibilities and extensive internal diversity? The EU fails to guarantee minimum social protection rights for EU citizens migrating within the Union, as access to social assistance in countries of destination is highly conditional. This situation is very similar to historical experiences in other federations, where fear…

  • Problems chasing missing solutions: The politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda

    Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2025•Cited by: 4•References: 47

    Despite emigrations’ adverse impacts on several EU Member States, especially in Central Eastern Europe, topics like brain drain and depopulation have received relatively little attention at EU level compared to concerns associated with free movement and immigration. This article offers an answer to why this is so. Drawing on agenda-setting theory, it argues that the institutional framework of the EU both inhibits and disincentivises attempts to t…

  • Enforcing outsiders' rights: Seasonal agricultural workers and institutionalised exploitation in the EU

    Cecilia Bruzelius, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    Enforcement is a crucial aspect for understanding labour market hierarchies in Europe and exploitation of mobile and migrant EU workers. Whereas most literature on intra-EU mobility and enforcement has focused on posted workers, this paper sheds light on enforcement in seasonal agriculture and forestry where posted work is very uncommon yet mobile workers overrepresented. In the EU, enforcement highly depends on Member States’ capacities. Therefo…

  • Towards an understanding of mobility in social policy research

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Isabel Shutes•ARTICLE•Global Social Policy•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 21

    Over recent years, there has been increasing attention to migration in social policy research. Uniting this research has been a focus on cross-national migration, and predominantly immigration. In the meantime, the relationship between human mobility and social policy at other scales and sites has gained much less attention. This is in spite of the salience of multiple forms of mobility and measures for restricting, facilitating or promoting mobi…

  • Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Nora Ratzmann et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    Most research on the social policy–migration control link focuses on indirect control, that is, denying access to welfare. This article instead draws attention to how welfare institutions are made directly involved in migration control through duties to report certain categories of migrants to migration authorities. We ask how these obligations are put into practice and how local governments shape this process. In so doing, we place special empha…

  • Local government responses to EU citizens’ integration needs

    Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•New Community•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    EU citizens migrating between EU member states are expected to be self-sufficient movers, with little access to social or integration support for the economically inactive. This generates challenges for both migrant EU citizens and local governments in places of destination. The latter are confronted with new social challenges resulting from migration that balances between mobility and settlement. How local governments respond to this crucially s…

  • Agency, institutions, and welfare chauvinism: Tracing the exclusion of European Union migrant citizens from social assistance in Germany

    Open Access•Dominic Afscharian, Cecilia Bruzelius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    What explains welfare chauvinistic policy reform, that is, targeted exclusion of non-citizens from welfare? Existing research suggest that contextual factors like far-right party success, perceived immigration pressures, party ideologies and institutions could spur such reform, but the processes behind reforms remain understudied. This article draws on public policy literature to call attention the critical role of agency and institutions in welf…

  • Please come back! How and why European governments try to reattract emigrated citizens

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Lea Reiß•ARTICLE•Comparative Migration Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    Many EU Member States have adopted emigrant return policies (ERPs) meant to encourage and assist emigrated citizens’ migration back to their country of origin. Despite the significance of this trend, there is a notable lack of comparative research on the nature of ERPs and explanations for their introduction. This article offers a comprehensive analysis of ERPs across all EU countries that have introduced such policies in the past two decades (20…

  • How EU Juridification shapes Constitutional Social Rights

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 40

    This article demonstrates how EU member states' distinct constitutional traditions shape the impact of EU juridification on national welfare states and social rights. These traditions come with different ‘constitutional social rights norms’ – that is, distinct distributions of obligation and power to protect social rights between judicial and political actors. The article argues that norms common to the political constitutional tradition are less…

  • Social Rights of EU Migrant Citizens: Britain and Germany Compared

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Elaine Chase et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Society•2015•Cited by: 10•References: 3

    European migrant citizens and their social rights are strongly contested in British political debate. This article seeks to challenge some common concerns and perceptions regarding the exceptionality of the British welfare state and the alleged ‘costs’ to it from intra-EU migration. The article first provides a brief overview of the foundations for EU citizenship and associated social rights, highlighting the semi-sovereign nature of welfare stat…

  • Stratified Social Rights Limiting EU Citizenship

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Constantin Reinprecht et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2017•Cited by: 49•References: 17

    Differences in Member States' economic development and national social protection systems can translate into significant differences in the substantive social rights of EU migrant citizens. The substantive rights of economically inactive EU migrant citizens are dependent on the ‘export’ of social rights from their country of origin to the Member State of destination, in particular during the initial phase of their residence in a new Member State …

  • Freedom of movement, social rights and residence-based conditionality in the European Union

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2018•Cited by: 34•References: 4

    This article stresses the need to study how European Union (EU) member states define and implement the concept of habitual residence to assess boundaries of welfare in the EU. It focuses specifically on EU migrant citizens’ social rights and draws on comparative qualitative research on two EU member states – Germany and Sweden. The article first clarifies the differences between legal and habitual residence, and distinguishes between legal defini…

  • How EU Juridification shapes Constitutional Social Rights

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 40

    This article demonstrates how EU member states' distinct constitutional traditions shape the impact of EU juridification on national welfare states and social rights. These traditions come with different ‘constitutional social rights norms’ – that is, distinct distributions of obligation and power to protect social rights between judicial and political actors. The article argues that norms common to the political constitutional tradition are less…

  • Non-for-Profits and EU Citizens' Cross-Border Social Rights in Different Welfare States

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Policy•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 30

    This paper looks at rights in practice to understand how migrant EU citizens' formal social rights translate into substantive ones. It highlights a factor thus far overlooked in the literature on welfare states and migrants' social rights: namely, the actors involved in welfare delivery. The argument is based, first, on non-profit organisations' (NPOs) function as 'rights intermediaries'; and second, on the distinct make-up of the 'welfare mix' a…

  • Social citizenship in federations: Free movement and social assistance rights in the EU and beyond

    Cecilia Bruzelius, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser et al.•ARTICLE•West European Politics•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 33

    When and how have free movement and social citizenship been reconciled in federal settings characterised by devolved welfare responsibilities and extensive internal diversity? The EU fails to guarantee minimum social protection rights for EU citizens migrating within the Union, as access to social assistance in countries of destination is highly conditional. This situation is very similar to historical experiences in other federations, where fear…

  • Taking emigration seriously: A New Agenda for Research on Free Movement and Welfare

    Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 36

    Free movement of persons (FoM) is a key topic in current research on European integration's effects on social justice and national welfare states. These debates have focused almost exclusively on FoM as the right to entry, and neglected the correlative right to exit. As a consequence, mainstream political science and public policy research has paid very little attention to welfare state-related implications of extensive emigration in several EU m…

  • Towards an understanding of mobility in social policy research

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Isabel Shutes•ARTICLE•Global Social Policy•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 21

    Over recent years, there has been increasing attention to migration in social policy research. Uniting this research has been a focus on cross-national migration, and predominantly immigration. In the meantime, the relationship between human mobility and social policy at other scales and sites has gained much less attention. This is in spite of the salience of multiple forms of mobility and measures for restricting, facilitating or promoting mobi…

  • Local government responses to EU citizens’ integration needs

    Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•New Community•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 23

    EU citizens migrating between EU member states are expected to be self-sufficient movers, with little access to social or integration support for the economically inactive. This generates challenges for both migrant EU citizens and local governments in places of destination. The latter are confronted with new social challenges resulting from migration that balances between mobility and settlement. How local governments respond to this crucially s…

  • Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Nora Ratzmann et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    Most research on the social policy–migration control link focuses on indirect control, that is, denying access to welfare. This article instead draws attention to how welfare institutions are made directly involved in migration control through duties to report certain categories of migrants to migration authorities. We ask how these obligations are put into practice and how local governments shape this process. In so doing, we place special empha…

  • Enforcing outsiders' rights: Seasonal agricultural workers and institutionalised exploitation in the EU

    Cecilia Bruzelius, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    Enforcement is a crucial aspect for understanding labour market hierarchies in Europe and exploitation of mobile and migrant EU workers. Whereas most literature on intra-EU mobility and enforcement has focused on posted workers, this paper sheds light on enforcement in seasonal agriculture and forestry where posted work is very uncommon yet mobile workers overrepresented. In the EU, enforcement highly depends on Member States’ capacities. Therefo…

  • Agency, institutions, and welfare chauvinism: Tracing the exclusion of European Union migrant citizens from social assistance in Germany

    Open Access•Dominic Afscharian, Cecilia Bruzelius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    What explains welfare chauvinistic policy reform, that is, targeted exclusion of non-citizens from welfare? Existing research suggest that contextual factors like far-right party success, perceived immigration pressures, party ideologies and institutions could spur such reform, but the processes behind reforms remain understudied. This article draws on public policy literature to call attention the critical role of agency and institutions in welf…

  • Please come back! How and why European governments try to reattract emigrated citizens

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Lea Reiß•ARTICLE•Comparative Migration Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    Many EU Member States have adopted emigrant return policies (ERPs) meant to encourage and assist emigrated citizens’ migration back to their country of origin. Despite the significance of this trend, there is a notable lack of comparative research on the nature of ERPs and explanations for their introduction. This article offers a comprehensive analysis of ERPs across all EU countries that have introduced such policies in the past two decades (20…

  • Problems chasing missing solutions: The politics of placing emigration on the EU agenda

    Cecilia Bruzelius•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2025•Cited by: 4•References: 47

    Despite emigrations’ adverse impacts on several EU Member States, especially in Central Eastern Europe, topics like brain drain and depopulation have received relatively little attention at EU level compared to concerns associated with free movement and immigration. This article offers an answer to why this is so. Drawing on agenda-setting theory, it argues that the institutional framework of the EU both inhibits and disincentivises attempts to t…

  • Free movement and the challenge of emigration: How does EU law structure redistribution through people

    Open Access•Cecilia Bruzelius, Dion Kramer•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2026•References: 11

    EU free movement has resulted in social, economic and demographic challenges for some EU countries where large numbers of citizens have left This also implies a de facto transfer of resources between Member States and specifically from the periphery to the core. This article asks what room EU law leaves for acknowledging and mitigating social and economic consequences of emigration and their distributive implications. For this purpose, we concept…

Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (7 works)

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