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Stratified Social Rights Limiting EU Citizenship
Author(s) -
Bruzelius Cecilia,
Reinprecht Constantin,
SeeleibKaiser Martin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/jcms.12555
Subject(s) - citizenship , member state , residence , social rights , limiting , free movement , state (computer science) , political science , member states , social citizenship , european union , political economy , economic system , law and economics , human rights , law , business , economics , international trade , demographic economics , mechanical engineering , engineering , algorithm , politics , computer science
Differences in Member States' economic development and national social protection systems can translate into significant differences in the substantive social rights of EU migrant citizens. The substantive rights of economically inactive EU migrant citizens are dependent on the ‘export’ of social rights from their country of origin to the Member State of destination, in particular during the initial phase of their residence in a new Member State as a jobseeker or a pensioner. This paper demonstrates that EU citizens' social rights are substantively stratified, not only by economic status, but also according to the Member State of origin and destination. Stratified social rights, it is argued, generate unequal opportunities to free movement and eo ipso challenge the very concept of EU citizenship. The paper concludes with a proposal for a European Minimum Income Scheme to at least partially overcome the shortcomings of existing EU citizenship.