EU citizenship and social rights : entitlements and impediments to accessing welfare / edited by Frans Pennings, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pennings, Frans, editor.

Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on EU Citizenship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--European Union countries.

Citizenship.

Public welfare--European Union countries.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2018.

Summary:

The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 introduced the right to free movement for EU citizens. Despite this, in practice there are still substantial barriers to securing these freedoms. EU Citizenship and Social Rights discusses and analyses those legal and practical barriers preventing inter-European migrants from integrating into new host countries. Providing analysis of the development of EU social policy, this book highlights the disparate roles of the EU as a whole and of Member States in determining social rights and outcomes. In particular the issues of social assistance, housing benefits, study grants and health care are examined. In addition, the authors discuss the discrepancy between the social rights granted to workers and social rights granted to non-worker migrants, as well as the barriers facing minority groups like the Roma, which highlight issues in the development of EU social policy for migrants. This book will be a vital resource for students of European law as well as public and social policy. EU policy makers will also benefit from reading this, with its practical and theoretical suggestions for ways in which social policies may be amended to the benefit of EU citizens.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

1. Intra-EU migration and social rights: an introduction / Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Frans Pennings

Part I

Applicable supranational legal standards

2. The European social charter as a basis for defining social rights for EU citizens / Andrzej Marian S<U+00cc><U+0081>wia<U+00cc><U+009c>tkowski and Marcin Wujczyk

3. EU social citizenship: between individual rights and national concerns / Catherine Jacqueson

Part II

Freedom of movement, eu citizenship and social rights: comparative perspectives

4. (Dis)united in diversity?: social policy and social rights in the EU / Cecilia Bruzelius, Catherine Jacqueson and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

5 Legal barriers to access of EU citizens to social rights / Frans Pennings

6. Social human rights as a legal strategy to enhance EU citizenship / Sara Stendahl and Otto Swedrup

Part III

EU citizenship and social rights: various dimensions

7. The need of residence registration for enjoyment of EU Citizenship in Sweden / Katarina Hylte<U+00cc><U+0081>n-Cavallius

8. Social rights, labour market policies and the freedom of movement: contradictions within the European project? / Nadine Absenger and Florian Blank,

9. Roma persons and EU citizenship / Philip Martin, Lisa Scullion and Philip Brown

10.

EU Citizens' access to social benefits: reality or fiction? outlining a law and literature approach to EU citizenship / Pauline Phoa

11. The construction of social rights / Hartley Dean

Part IV

Conclusion

12. Conclusions / Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Frans Pennings

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-78811-271-7