Boundaries of European Social Citizenship

Anna Amelina is a Professor for Intercultural Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and UNESCO Chair for Heritage Studies. Her research areas are transnational migration studies, cultural sociology, gender and intersectionality, cross-border social inequalities, and European studies. Her recent publication is Gender and Migration: Transnational and Intersectional Prospects (with Helma Lutz, Routledge 2019). Emma Carmel investigates how social and political order is imagined, produced, and contested in a range of empirical contexts. Her recent empirical work has been on EU and UK migration governance, and her latest book is Governance Analysis. Critical Enquiry at the Intersection of Politics, Policy and Society (Edward Elgar 2019). Ann Runfors is an ethnologist and holds the position of Associate Professor at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Her fields of research are migration, education, welfare, transnationalism, youth, and ethnographic approaches. Her recent publication is Welfare Negotiations among Estonians Working in Sweden. Experiences, Barriers and Narrated Coping Strategies (with Maarja Saar and Florence Fröhlig, working paper, University of Södertörn 2018). Elisabeth Scheibelhofer is an Associate Professor in Sociology at University of Vienna, working on migration and qualitative methods. Her recent publication is Shifting Aspirations in Migratory Projects. Biographic Reconstructions in the Context of a Multi-scaled Second Modernity (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2018).

1. European Welfare Between Complex Regulatory Frameworks and Mobile Europeans’ Experiences of Social (In)Security; 2. Theorizing European Social Citizenship: Governance, Discourses, and Experiences of Transnational Social Security; 3. Beyond the Rights-Bearing EU Mobile Citizen: Governing Inequality and Privilege in European Union Social Security; 4. Discourses of Belonging in the Context of EU Enlargements: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Discourses Specifying EU Welfare Access; 5. Navigating the Labyrinths of Transnational Social Security: Experiences and Meaning-Making Processes of EU Migrants When Accessing and Porting Social Rights; 6. When Vicinity Divides: Transnational Social Security in the Cross-Border region of Hungary and Austria; 7. From Subordination to Empowerment? Mobile Europeans’ Access to and Portability of Social Security Rights Between Bulgaria and Germany; 8. Inequalities, Insecurities, and Informalities: Making Sense of Migrants’ Experiences of Social Security Between Poland and the UK; 9. Business Contract Meets Social Contract: Estonians in Sweden and Their Transnational Welfare Opportunities; 10. Labyrinths of European Social Citizenship: Variations in and Levels of Comparison.