Abstract

Welfare provision as a border control strategy is often discussed in relation to irregular migrants and refugees. However, this article focuses on EU migrants. Using discourse theory, it explores interviews with policy experts from four migrant-receiving EU countries. The aim is to identify policy discourses on deservingness articulated in relation to intra-EU migrants from four member states in Eastern Europe, to detect mechanisms that generate these discourses and to reveal how they relate to welfare chauvinism. The article uncovers contesting logics that move policy experts toward welfare-chauvinist assumptions, which might contribute to the discursive welfare exclusion of EU migrants.

摘要

作为边境控制战略的福利条款经常被讨论为与非正常移民和难民有关。然而，本文关注的是欧盟移民。使用话语理论，它探讨了对来自四个移民接收欧盟国家的政策专家的采访。目的是确定与来自东欧四个成员国的欧盟内部移民有关的应得性政策话语，发现产生这些话语的机制，并揭示它们与福利沙文主义的关系。这篇文章揭示了将政策专家推向福利沙文主义假设的有争议的逻辑，这可能有助于欧盟移民的话语福利排斥。