abstract: 'EU labour migrants enjoy comprehensive social rights while migrating

  within the block. However, research from various member states documents

  the presence of EU migrants who lack access to welfare support despite

  having lived and worked in these countries for years. This article

  explores why some EU migrants are excluded from welfare support despite

  a history of labour market participation in the host country. The

  phenomenon is studied through the lens of precarity, focusing on the

  nexus between precarious working conditions and migrants'' social rights.

  Based on participant observation and interviews with Polish labour

  migrants who struggled to access welfare benefits in Norway, the article

  shows, how precarious working conditions, including unstable employment,

  and work exploitation, such as wage theft, tax evasion and other

  breaches of Norwegian labour laws, function as barriers to successful

  benefit claims. Previous research has highlighted a divide in EU

  citizenship between labour migrants, who enjoy comprehensive social

  rights, and `economically inactive'' migrants, who have no or very

  limited social rights. This article argues that the divide runs through

  the working migrant population, protecting migrants in secure and stable

  employment while failing those in precarious work.'
affiliation: 'Schweyher, M (Corresponding Author), VID Specialized Univ, Ctr Diaconia
  \& Profess Practice, Stavanger, Norway.

  Schweyher, Mateus, VID Specialized Univ, Ctr Diaconia \& Profess Practice, Stavanger,
  Norway.'
author: Schweyher, Mateus
author-email: mateus.schweyher@vid.no
author_list:
- family: Schweyher
  given: Mateus
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1987206
earlyaccessdate: OCT 2021
eissn: 1469-9451
files: []
issn: 1369-183X
journal: JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
keywords: 'EU Citizenship; precarity; work Exploitation; welfare benefits; Polish

  migrants in Norway'
keywords-plus: FREE MOVEMENT; WELFARE; ACCESS; CONDITIONALITY; BENEFITS; FREEDOM
language: English
month: MAR 16
number: '5'
number-of-cited-references: '56'
pages: 1292-1310
papis_id: 1f49dba46667918e7c4a2fb67aedbdbb
ref: Schweyher2023precaritywork
times-cited: '2'
title: 'Precarity, work exploitation and inferior social rights: EU citizenship of
  Polish labour migrants in Norway'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000712713300001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '4'
volume: '49'
web-of-science-categories: Demography; Ethnic Studies
year: '2023'