Mobility, migration and rights in the European Union: critical reflections on policy and practice

Carmel, Emma

doi:10.1080/01442872.2013.778028

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“…In the past, European Union (EU) citizens moving to the United Kingdom have enjoyed political, economic, and social rights that have not always been available to other groups of migrants (Carmel, ). The most important of these has been the right to live and work in the United Kingdom with minimal bureaucratic requirements based on EU legislation on freedom of movement.…”

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“…Immigration governance arrangements explicitly create hierarchies of political desirableness that are, to a greater or a lesser extent, reflected in public opinion on the acceptability of different immigrant groups. Across the EU, as a result of the freedom of movement arrangements, and influenced by official EU discourses of perceived cultural proximity, EU citizens have often been towards the top of these hierarchies (Carmel, ; Ford, ). But within the broad category of EU citizens, differences have been made between different nationalities based on different national contexts, different political framings, or different historical trajectories (Ford, ; Hellwig & Sinno, ).…”

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“…But within the broad category of EU citizens, differences have been made between different nationalities based on different national contexts, different political framings, or different historical trajectories (Ford, ; Hellwig & Sinno, ). In the United Kingdom, important differences have been made in public narratives between those from the EU15, the countries that joined in 2004 (EU8), and the newer accession countries (EU2; Carmel, ; Collett, ; Fox, Morosanu, & Szilassy, ). Increasingly, there is also a diversity within nationality groups that may or may not be reflected in public narratives.…”

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Spanish nationals' future plans in the context of Brexit

McCarthy

2018

Population Space and Place

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This paper examines the future plans of Spanish nationals resident in the United Kingdom following the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union, commonly referred to as Brexit. Drawing on the literature on migration decisionmaking, the paper asks how changes to rights-based ideas of belonging and identity in the wake of the Brexit vote will impact on Spanish nationals' decisions about the future. Using results from an online survey, the paper explores Spanish nationals' plans for the future, their sense of feeling of "at home" in the United Kingdom, and their views on Brexit. Recognising that the community is not homogenous, the paper considers the different experiences of Latin Americans with Spanish nationality and Spaniards who were born in Spain. Feelings of belonging are contingent and shift over time, and Brexit is perceived negatively by the vast majority of respondents. However, a number of factors such as time in the country and family relationships affect planned future length of time in the United Kingdom. Individuals respond differently to the uncertainty provoked by the referendum, with Latin Americans with Spanish nationality reporting a greater desire to take the necessary steps to establish themselves permanently in the United Kingdom.

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Spanish nationals' future plans in the context of Brexit

McCarthy

2018

Population Space and Place

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“…Exercising free movement rights is by no means absolute, unconditional or evenly applied to all mobile citizens. In the sense that member states still determine their national, social and labour market policies, they have (for example) substantial powers to determine the specific welfare provisions eligible for intra EU citizens (Dwyer, 2005;Askola 2012;Carmel 2013). There is no doubt that intra-EU mobile citizens differ from other immigrants, both in their legal status and formal entitlements.…”

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“…In this article, we use the term 'intra EU migrants' instead of the official 'EU free movers'. EU free-movers are not always intrinsically dissimilar to other migrant groups since they are exposed to variety of restriction by country of origin and destination, employment type, skill level and so on (Askola 2012;Carmel 2013). …”

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Passing the Buck: <i>The case of failing multilevel governance and vulnerable EU migrants in Sweden</i>

Spehar¹,

Hinnfors²,

Bucken-Knapp

2017

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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Sweden represents an intriguing paradox regarding EU migrant integration. Its welfare state institutions are highly developed; its integration policies have a solid record. Still, a substantial proportion of EU migrants are facing poor working conditions, unemployment and homelessness. This article highlights the ongoing difficulties, both for EU migrants to Sweden, as well as for a broad range of Swedish public actors seeking to devise governance solutions in a frequently ad hoc manner. We argue that while EU migrant integration is a policy challenge reflecting a multilevel setting, there is little evidence that multilevel governance has emerged thus. Rather, actors at all levels seek instead to shift the responsibilities associated with EU migrant integration to other levels, maintaining that EU migrant integration is beyond their competencies and resource levels. The analysis draws upon public documents and interviews with the key national and local stakeholders.

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Between Law and Political Truth? Member State Preferences, EU Free Movement Rules and National Immigration Law

Shaw

2015

Camb. Yearb. Eur. Legal Stud.

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This article explores how Member States respond to the challenge of complying with EU law obligations, whilst remaining alert to the demands of domestic politics in the context of contentious areas of EU competence. It is argued that in the case of free movement we can see the United Kingdom drawing upon three overlapping strategies in order to tread the fine line 'between law and political truth': it exploits as much as possible any uncertainties within free movement law; it draws upon the proximate field of domestic immigration law in order to reinterpret free movement law; and it argues for new resources to be brought into the field of free movement, in particular resources which restrict the freedoms of Member States. A discursive frame of migration governance provides the analytical construction within which the argument is located. The article is therefore a contribution to debates about (legal) Europeanisation and compliance, as well as the more specific challenges facing the UK in the latter half of the 2010s, namely a renegotiation of and referendum on EU membership.

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Mobility, migration and rights in the European Union: critical reflections on policy and practice

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

Spanish nationals' future plans in the context of Brexit

Spanish nationals' future plans in the context of Brexit

Passing the Buck: <i>The case of failing multilevel governance and vulnerable EU migrants in Sweden</i>

Between Law and Political Truth? Member State Preferences, EU Free Movement Rules and National Immigration Law

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