Balancing informality and need – policy responses to informal East-West migration in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden
Ă…r: 2018
Typ av text: Academic article
Publicerad av: Policy Studies
SprĂĄk: English
Författare: Karin Zelano
Antal sidor: 36
Tillgänglig på: https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2018.1487051
Vad texten handlar om
“The article provides an analysis of policy responses to mobile EU citizens without legal residence in the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden. A comparative case study design uses qualitative survey and interview data to identify national and local policy responses to the implications of EU citizens from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) living without legal residence in the aforementioned countries. The theoretical framework specifies how the institutional logic of welfare regimes is likely to generate policy responses that address need, sanction informality or do both. The choice indicates the priority given to redistributive outcomes, administrative procedures, or both” (2).
Viktigaste resultat
“The results reveal similar responses to those implications relating to the labour market, but slightly different approaches to the implications in the social domain. Policy responses to labour market implications have predominantly focused on sanctioning informality. Swedish and Austrian policy responses in the social domain have focused on addressing need. Dutch policy responses to social issues instead focused on sanctioning informality, prioritizing procedure. The results indicate that local and national policy responses to implications of informal intra-EU migration may be fruitfully understood through the prism of welfare regimes and related approaches to need and informality” (2).
Perspektiv/teoretiska begrepp
Intra-EU mobility; social policy; labour market policy; welfare state; informality
Metoden för studien
Policy analysis
