Abstract
This article argues that the politics and governance of migrants’ rights needs to be reframed. In particular, the terms “welfare chauvinism”, and deservingness should be replaced. Using a qualitative transnational case study of policymakers in Poland and the UK, we develop an alternative approach. In fine-grained and small-scale interpretive analysis, we tease out four distinct rationales of belonging that mark out the terms and practices of social membership, as well as relative positions of privilege and subordination. These rationales of belonging are: temporal-territorial, ethno-cultural, labourist, and welfareist. Importantly, these rationales are knitted together by different framings of the transnational contexts, within which the politics and governance of migration and social protection are given meaning. The rationales of belonging do not exist in isolation, but in each country, they qualify each other in ways that imply different politics and governance of migrants’ rights. Taken together, these rationales of belonging generate justifications for migrant inclusion that are stratified by class, gender and ethnicity as well as transnational projects of social exclusion.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 645-667 |
Journal | Journal of Social Policy |
Volume | 50 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 24 Jul 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 31 Jul 2021 |
Funding
The research on which this article is based was funded by the NORFACE Welfare State Futures programme (grant number: --). The research was developed in the TRANSWEL project on Mobile Welfare in a Transnational Europe, led by Prof Anna Amelina. The initial analysis of the interviews was directed and supervised by Prof Ann Runfors, Florence Fröhlig and Maarja Saar. We are grateful to our participants for their time and consideration in sharing their views and experiences with us.
Keywords
- welfare chauvinism,
- migrant rights,
- deservingness,
- migration,
- EU free movement,
- governance,
- UK,
- Poland
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Emma Carmel
- Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy and Society (CASPS)
- Department of Social & Policy Sciences - Professor
- Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy
- UKRI CDT in Accountable, Responsible and Transparent AI
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Associate Dean (Research)
- Bath Institute for the Augmented Human
Person: Research & Teaching, Affiliate staff