Precarity, work exploitation and inferior social rights
EU citizenship of Polish labour migrants in Norway
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3620600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mateus Schweyher (0000-0002-8033-1613, VID Specialized University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1292-1310 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2021.1987206 |
| OpenAlex | W3210584644 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 25 |
EU labour migrants enjoy comprehensive social rights while migrating within the block. However, research from various member states documents the presence of EU migrants who lack access to welfare support despite having lived and worked in these countries for years. This article explores why some EU migrants are excluded from welfare support despite a history of labour market participation in the host country. The phenomenon is studied through the lens of precarity, focusing on the nexus between precarious working conditions and migrants’ social rights. Based on participant observation and interviews with Polish labour migrants who struggled to access welfare benefits in Norway, the article shows, how precarious working conditions, including unstable employment, and work exploitation, such as wage theft, tax evasion and other breaches of Norwegian labour laws, function as barriers to successful benefit claims. Previous research has highlighted a divide in EU citizenship between labour migrants, who enjoy comprehensive social rights, and ‘economically inactive’ migrants, who have no or very limited social rights. This article argues that the divide runs through the working migrant population, protecting migrants in secure and stable employment while failing those in precarious work
Citizenship · Flexicurity · Human rights · Labour law · Norwegian · Political science · Population · Precarity · Social citizenship · Social protection · Social rights · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · Workfare · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Homelessness as structural vulnerability
Undermining, defending or expanding EU citizenship? CSOs’ positions on providing humanitarian assistance to EU citizens with limited rights to public welfare services in Norway
Liquid migration revisited
Beyond market vs. social citizenship
We don’t cooperate with the police’
A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives
I cannot transform myself into a pay slip’
Aspiration Gaps and Ambivalence in Onward Immobilities Within the European Economic Area
Velferdsstatens nådeløse optimisme
Alle vet at Norge er best
Digital Bordering of Polish Workers Registered with a D-Nummer in Norway
Tiggeturisme eller arbeidsinnvandring? Arbeid og tigging i offentlige dokumenter og blant EU-migranter i randsonen av det norske arbeidsmarkedet
Convoluted mobility
Pathways to Precarity
The Precariat
Probing Precarious Work
Null
Structures of Access to Social Provision for Migrants
The brave new world of European labor
How the Other Half Works
Social work and welfare bordering
Unity in adversity
The pillory, the precipice and the slippery slope
Hyper-precarious lives
Bordering practices in the UK welfare system
The Making of Immigrant Niches in an Affluent Welfare State
Conditional citizens and hostile environments
Responding to free movement
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Enter at your own risk
The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK
Creating Undocumented EU Migrants through Welfare
Work-related Conditionality and the Access to Social Benefits of National Citizens, EU and Non-EU Citizens
| Citations per year | 4.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |