Project: Mobile Welfare in a Transnational Europe: An Analysis of Portability Regimes of Social Security Rights
Approaching EU enlargements as transnational events, this collaborative project examines transnational European welfare. It focuses on the portability of social security rights in the enlarged European Union; that is, the rights to health insurance and to unemployment, retirement and family-related benefits. The project involves a comparative analysis, which traces the migrations of regularly and irregularly employed migrants and their family members and the portability of their social security rights between four pairs of countries: Hungary-Austria, Bulgaria-Germany, Poland-United Kingdom and Estonia-Sweden. The main outcome will be a typology of transnational portability regimes derived from the comparative analysis of four research objectives for the respective pairs of countries. First, the project examines legal regulations on the portability of social security rights (WP 1: Document Analysis and Expert Interviews). Second, it analyses a variety of mobile EU citizens’ practices of portability, including limitations to portability they may involve (WP 2: Quantitative Survey). Third, the project reconstructs discourses of belonging incorporated into portability regulations to determine how they shape individuals’ access to social security (WP 3: Discourse Analysis). Fourth, it provides insights into individuals’ inequality experiences resulting from limitations to portability (WP 4: Qualitative In-Depth Interviews). Building on a transnational comparison of the four pairs of countries, the project then reconstructs variations in the portability of social security rights (WP 5: Integrated Analysis of Results and Comparison).
| Acronym | TRANSWEL (Reference Number: 462-14-133) |
| Duration | 01/02/2015 - 31/01/2018 |
| Project Topic | welfare state futures |
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Project Results (after finalisation) |
not available yet |
| Website | visit project website |
| Network | WSF |
| Call | NORFACE Welfare State Futures |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main | Coordinator | Germany |
| 2 | University of Bath | Partner | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Södertörn University | Partner | Sweden |
| 4 | Universität Wien | Partner | Austria |