Panel Paper:
EU Migrants' Social Rights at the Street-Level: A State-of-the-Art Review
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
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11:50 AM
Clement House, 3rd Floor, Room 06 (London School of Economics)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
The extent to which 'ethnic variation' among European Union (EU) migrants, and
compared to Germanborn nationals, translates into (in)equality of access to work-related subsistence benefits administered by German jobcentres, remains under-explored. It is nevertheless considered important because of the impact of differential access has on (in)equality of material well-being and of subsequent life chances. The paper provides an a state of the art review of research on administrative influences on non-take-up. The paper forms part of a larger doctoral research project exploring whether the potential (in)formal barriers to take-up can be attributed, in part, to ethnic penalty (e.g. through gatekeepers' potentially unfavourable understandings of EU migrants' 'ethnic deservingness') or whether potential intra-European inequalities of benefit access can be explained through other means.
compared to Germanborn nationals, translates into (in)equality of access to work-related subsistence benefits administered by German jobcentres, remains under-explored. It is nevertheless considered important because of the impact of differential access has on (in)equality of material well-being and of subsequent life chances. The paper provides an a state of the art review of research on administrative influences on non-take-up. The paper forms part of a larger doctoral research project exploring whether the potential (in)formal barriers to take-up can be attributed, in part, to ethnic penalty (e.g. through gatekeepers' potentially unfavourable understandings of EU migrants' 'ethnic deservingness') or whether potential intra-European inequalities of benefit access can be explained through other means.
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