Die Grenzen von Freizügigkeit und Solidarität – Der Ausschluss von EU-Bürgern aus der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende

Absenger, Nadine; Blank, Florian

doi:10.5771/0342-300x-2015-5-355

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“…Germany has two minimum income programmes for non-elderly needy people, one for jobseekers and workers on low income (social code II) and a second scheme for needy people who are unable to support themselves through work (social code XII). EU migrant citizens’ access to support under social code II was for several years a matter of legal dispute (Absenger and Blank, 2015; Martinsen and Werner, 2019: 643), due to the dual nature of the benefit as an instrument for labour market integration and a social assistance benefit. Eventually, the European Court of Justice ruled that Member States could deny EU jobseekers access to social assistance and left it to Germany whether to classify the benefits under social code II as social assistance (Absenger and Blank, 2015).…”

Section: Social Assistance Exclusions Of Eu Migrant Citizens In Germanymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…EU migrant citizens’ access to support under social code II was for several years a matter of legal dispute (Absenger and Blank, 2015; Martinsen and Werner, 2019: 643), due to the dual nature of the benefit as an instrument for labour market integration and a social assistance benefit. Eventually, the European Court of Justice ruled that Member States could deny EU jobseekers access to social assistance and left it to Germany whether to classify the benefits under social code II as social assistance (Absenger and Blank, 2015). In 2015, the German Federal Social Court then ruled that though it was acceptable to exclude EU migrant citizens from benefits under social code II, it would be unconstitutional to not provide persons in need with any social support.…”

Section: Social Assistance Exclusions Of Eu Migrant Citizens In Germanymentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Afscharian,

Bruzelius,

Seeleib-Kaiser

2024

Journal of European Social Policy

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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 welfare chauvinist reform. It focuses on a law excluding migrant EU citizens from social assistance in Germany. Through process tracing and inductive reconstruction of the policy process, based on political documents, interviews, media reporting and descriptive statistics, we show that the policy proposal originated from German city administrations; that the city of Hamburg was key in pushing for exclusions; and that Hamburg’s success in doing so crucially depended on the city’s mayor. Several comparable German cities (in terms of party politics and levels of immigration) were equally concerned with ‘welfare immigration’ and complained about problem pressure, but only Hamburg had a committed mayor with the right political networks and institutional resources to lobby for welfare exclusions at the federal level.

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Section: Social Assistance Exclusions Of Eu Migrant Citizens In Germanymentioning

confidence: 99%