Multilevel Social Citizenship: Free Movement and Minimum Social Protection (International Policy Exchange)

Access to minimum social rights for EU citizens who move across member state borders is highly contested in the EU.At the same time, these and other limits to EU social citizenship are often identified in relation to national citizenship.However, the EU and EU citizenship is in many ways comparable to federations and other multi-tiered jurisdictions, which is often overlooked. By comparing how internal migrants gain-or are denied-access to basic social benefits in multi-level political systems, Multilevel Social Citizenship: Free Movement and Minimum Social Protection reveals the political forces that shape who qualifies for help and why.It offers an account of the determinants of social citizenship in federal contexts where freedom of movement of persons is combined with sub-federal welfare provision.We understand social citizenship as the entitlement and access to minimum social benefits and therefore examine the political processes behind the extension and contraction of social assi