One of the greatest achievements of the EU is the freedom of movement between member states offering citizens equal rights in EU member states. EU enlargement and the COVID-19 pandemic allow for a ...critical test of whether EU citizens are indeed treated equally in practice. We test preferential treatment of EU citizens in two hypothetical choice experiments in Germany at two different time points: in the period before and during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Theories of responses to threat suggest that the COVID-19 crisis should increase discrimination against mobile EU citizens. While our findings reveal sizeable discrimination based on nationality and language proficiency of mobile EU citizens, the findings also suggest that, contrary to expectations, discrimination did not increase in the initial COVID-19 crisis period.
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In this article, I focus on social relations and institutional logics to explore how street-level bureaucrats in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) assess unemployed Polish ...migrants' entitlement to social assistance. The article draws on qualitative interviews with 12 employees in local NAV offices. Institutional theory and theoretical perspective on borderwork are used as analytical lenses. The article responds to a growing academic interest in exclusionary practices within welfare states, which are of particular relevance for mobile EU citizens. I argue that assessments concerning social assistance for Polish migrants represent subtle borderwork in which conditionalities derived from EU/EEA regulations are reinforced. Although formal regulations are ambiguous and seem open to discretion, the way in which these regulations are translated into practice is often not perceived as discretionary by the professionals. In this article, I suggest that the reason for this is connected to the social relations in which they participate as they assess applications as well as institutional logics, which provide meaning and understanding of situations. As a result, the street-level bureaucrats are drawn towards strict interpretations and practices of the regulation.
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