Revisiting the EU’s new mobility regime: The impact of mobility and policies on labour market hierarchies within and across the EU
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Revisiting the EU’s new mobility regime : The impact of mobility and policies on labour market hierarchies within and across the EU . / Arnholtz, Jens; Leschke, Janine.
In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 49, No. 16, 2023, p. 4071-4091.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Revisiting the EU’s new mobility regime
T2 - The impact of mobility and policies on labour market hierarchies within and across the EU
AU - Arnholtz, Jens
AU - Leschke, Janine
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper serves as the introduction for a special issue investigating the current status of the new EU mobility regime (Favell, 2008b) close to 20 years after the first eastward enlargement. Our main claim is that EU labour mobility is shaped by and has created multiple hierarchies across the EU and within EU countries, as is evident in the unequal labour market outcomes of different groups of mobile EU workers. The EU migration regime has grown more complex and diversified over the years, but underneath this complexity remain strong hierarchies that structure the patterns and consequences of mobility. We therefore propose the concept of “hierarchized mobility” to grasp the complex yet unequal mobility opportunities of workers within the EU. Moreover, we argue that to understand this hierarchized mobility, both socio-economic factors and regulation should be studied. On the one hand, enduring hierarchies between national labour markets shape EU labour mobility and transform these hierarchies into hierarchies within national labour markets (Felbo-Kolding et al., 2019). On the other hand, both national and EU policies regulate and shape mobility and the hierarchies it creates (Scholten and van Ostaijen, 2018). The interaction between EU rules that shape different categories of mobile workers and national social and labour market regulation can counteract or reinforce the trend towards hierarchized mobility.
AB - This paper serves as the introduction for a special issue investigating the current status of the new EU mobility regime (Favell, 2008b) close to 20 years after the first eastward enlargement. Our main claim is that EU labour mobility is shaped by and has created multiple hierarchies across the EU and within EU countries, as is evident in the unequal labour market outcomes of different groups of mobile EU workers. The EU migration regime has grown more complex and diversified over the years, but underneath this complexity remain strong hierarchies that structure the patterns and consequences of mobility. We therefore propose the concept of “hierarchized mobility” to grasp the complex yet unequal mobility opportunities of workers within the EU. Moreover, we argue that to understand this hierarchized mobility, both socio-economic factors and regulation should be studied. On the one hand, enduring hierarchies between national labour markets shape EU labour mobility and transform these hierarchies into hierarchies within national labour markets (Felbo-Kolding et al., 2019). On the other hand, both national and EU policies regulate and shape mobility and the hierarchies it creates (Scholten and van Ostaijen, 2018). The interaction between EU rules that shape different categories of mobile workers and national social and labour market regulation can counteract or reinforce the trend towards hierarchized mobility.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - EU labour mobility
KW - intra-EU migration
KW - hierarchised mobility
KW - EU mobility regime
KW - labour market integration
KW - regulation
KW - Central Eastern Europe
U2 - 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2207329
DO - 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2207329
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 4071
EP - 4091
JO - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
JF - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
SN - 1369-183X
IS - 16
ER -
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