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      Administering the Union citizen in need: Between welfare state bureaucracy and migration control

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          How to determine whether mobile Union citizens have a right to social assistance? Research has shown how Western European Member States have made efforts to restrict Union citizens’ access to their welfare systems over the past decade, whereby lawful residence has increasingly become the linchpin for entitlement. Member States have responded strikingly differently, however, to the complex administrative puzzle of dealing with open borders, the ability to verify lawful residence and the right to social assistance over time. This article makes an analytical and empirical contribution to existing literature by asking how Member States adjust their welfare/migration administrations to fit the Union’s free movement regime and what implications this has for Union citizens. Based upon comparative case studies into the administration of social assistance rights in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, the article develops a typology of three different models of administering Union citizens’ access to the welfare state: the form, signal and delegation models. Demonstrating how bureaucratic design impacts the stratification of social rights in the Member States in different ways, the article concludes that studying alternative administrative models offers important insights into the functioning of territorial welfare states in open border regimes.

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                Journal
                J Eur Soc Policy
                J Eur Soc Policy
                ESP
                spesp
                Journal of European Social Policy
                SAGE Publications (Sage UK: London, England )
                0958-9287
                1461-7269
                12 April 2021
                October 2021
                : 31
                : 4
                : 380-394
                Affiliations
                [1-0958928721999612]Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Transnational Legal Studies, Netherlands
                [2-0958928721999612]Universität Salzburg – Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies/Department of Political Science, Austria
                Author notes
                [*]Dion Kramer, Department of Transnational Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Email: dion.kramer@ 123456vu.nl
                Article
                10.1177_0958928721999612
                10.1177/0958928721999612
                8521353
                34675453
                166d95db-f2f7-4d7d-bc40-3ee6a6a1f124
                © The Author(s) 2021

                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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                Funded by: NORFACE project TransJudFare, ;
                Funded by: austrian science fund, FundRef https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002428;
                Categories
                Themed Section: EU Citizenship and Social Rights
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                administration,bureaucracy,eu citizenship,european union,free movement,right of residence,social assistance,welfare state

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