“No German, No Service”
EU Migrants’ Unequal Access to Welfare Entitlements in Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22017657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nora Ratzmann (0000-0001-7171-659X, The Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Inclusion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-2803 • E-ISSN: 2183-2803 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/si.v9i4.4647 |
| OpenAlex | W4210950009 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
While existing research has analysed the intersecting migration and social security law, which stratifies migrants’ formal social entitlements, less work has been done on the informal stratifications beyond the law that determine substantive social rights. This article illustrates the informal barriers to de facto benefit receipt that intra‐EU migrant citizens may experience when claiming social assistance in local German job centres, regardless of their manifest legal entitlements. Focussing on informal, yet commonly institutionalised practices of language discrimination, analysis of 103 qualitative, in‐depth interviews reveal recurring patterns of administrative exclusion beyond individual instances of discriminatory behaviour. The unwritten rules and everyday practices shaping administrators’ claims‐processing routines often go against what the law or administrative procedures proscribe, and could be considered as forms of discrimination. The former may be explained by institutional constraints, such as a performance‐orientedmanagement culture, legalistic claims‐processing, or superficial diversity policies. By shedding light on how inequalities in access are constructed in daily administrative practice, this article adds to existing empirical knowledge on how informal inequalities in access emerge at different stages of the benefit claiming process, in contrast to formal social rights on paper, as well as social administrations’ handling of diversity in a context of transnational social protection
Economics · German · Inequality · Political science · Receipt · Social exclusion · Social protection · Social security · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Accounting
Arbeitsmarktintegration für Migranten fördern
Street-Level Bureaucracy
Integrating social and employment policies at the local level
Institutionelle Diskriminierung. Neue Zugänge zu einem alten Problem
Immigrants and National Identity in Europe
Cops, Teachers, Counselors
Damn It, I Am a Miserable Eastern European in the Eyes of the Administrator’
Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge for Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Monolingually-Oriented Organisation
Deserving of Social Support? Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Decisions on EU Migrants’ Benefit Claims in Germany
People out of place
Solidarity towards immigrants in European welfare states
Dealing with Law in Migration Control
Diversity and the Imagined Community
The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK
Administrative Exclusion
Institutions in Comparative Policy Research
Health Care Versus Border Care
Gender and free movement
Immigration policy implementation in Italy
We don't worry that much about language
Re-bounding EU citizenship from below
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Work-related Conditionality and the Access to Social Benefits of National Citizens, EU and Non-EU Citizens
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |