Non-discrimination, in-work benefits, and free movement in the EU
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6260221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Sangiovanni (0000-0002-9996-9385, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-163 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474885116654636 |
| OpenAlex | W2464127520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 18 |
The Cameron government has recently negotiated a deal with the EU which permits the UK (temporarily) to restrict access to in-work benefits for recent EU migrants in the first four years of residence. Withdrawing access to in-work benefits will lead to significant inequalities in pay between British workers and their EU equivalents working at the same job, in the same general situation. The proposal has been widely decried as discriminatory. Is it? I do not, in this article, ask the legal question: Does it violate anti-discrimination norms implicit in the treaties (or wider human rights law)? Rather, I will ask the moral question underlying the legal one: Would, say, Polish citizens denied in-work benefits that British citizens receive be victims of wrongful discrimination? This question deserves consideration not simply because it will help us to evaluate some of the central concerns at stake in the Brexit debates but also because it will allow us to explore the role of norms against discrimination according to nationality within the EU, to address the nature of the European commitment to freedom of movement, and, in the reverse direction, to better understand our own moral commitment to anti-discrimination norms
Brexit · Citizenship · Economics · European union · Freedom of movement · Human rights · Immigration · Labour law · Law and economics · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Reasonable accommodation · Religious discrimination · Residence · Right to work · Sociology · Work (physics · Discrimination and Equality Law · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Humanity without Dignity
Born Free and Equal?
The Problem of Global Justice
Staying, returning, working and living
The Fiscal Effects of Immigration to the UK
Distributive Justice, State Coercion, and Autonomy
Global Justice, Reciprocity, and the State
What Is Discrimination
The Irrelevance of Coercion, Imposition, and Framing to Distributive Justice
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| Citations per year | 0.88 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |