This chapter makes the case for adopting a specific approach to theorising public policy governan... more This chapter makes the case for adopting a specific approach to theorising public policy governance and regulation, named ‘governance analysis’. The chapter’s argument originates from a need to ‘bring society back into’ political and politico-legal explanations of how governing is done, what it achieves and how its wider socio-political effects are realized. It argues that by bringing the social back in, that is by considering the intended and unintended social and political ordering effects of governance systematically and in their empirical specificity, we can account for processes and effects of “shaping society” more holistically. In governance analysis, then, the theorization of public policy governance and regulation is oriented towards a distinct set of enquiries and interests. These focus on explaining how relations of power and authority shape governing and regulatory practices, and on assessing the wider socio-political and socio-economic implications of these modes of exerting influence. Beyond the orientation of empirical enquiry, however, in governance analysis, the explanation and assessment are also organized by reference to a specific analytical framework. Empirically, this governance analysis framework enables us to explore the relationship of structures, processes and actors in particular situations and moments of wielding intentional societal change. Conceptually, adopting this framework facilitates the integrated theorization of regulatory conditions, contingent governing practices, their interaction and their public policy consequences over time.
THREE European Union migration governance: utility, security and integration Emma Carmel Introduc... more THREE European Union migration governance: utility, security and integration Emma Carmel Introduction1 Policies relating to migration and immigration ... management in the EU: the European Commission as network manager', in J. Torfing and M. Marcussen (eds) Democratic ...
It is common to describe the deaths of hundreds of people in the Mediterranean sea over the last ... more It is common to describe the deaths of hundreds of people in the Mediterranean sea over the last few days as “a tragedy” and “a crisis”. The suffering of victims, their families and their home communities is indeed shocking and extreme. Yet the idea that this is a tragedy and crisis is perhaps misleading.
European leaders have assembled in Brussels in an attempt to come up with a way of preventing the... more European leaders have assembled in Brussels in an attempt to come up with a way of preventing the deaths of hundreds of migrants as they try to escape conflict and poverty in Africa by crossing the Mediterranean. But at the special European summit on Thursday, the unity of purpose which European leaders were proclaiming in their response to migrants at the weekend appeared to have faded.
"This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare a... more "This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare and European social citizenship by focusing on transnational labour movements from new to the old EU membe ...
This chapter makes the case for adopting a specific approach to theorising public policy governan... more This chapter makes the case for adopting a specific approach to theorising public policy governance and regulation, named ‘governance analysis’. The chapter’s argument originates from a need to ‘bring society back into’ political and politico-legal explanations of how governing is done, what it achieves and how its wider socio-political effects are realized. It argues that by bringing the social back in, that is by considering the intended and unintended social and political ordering effects of governance systematically and in their empirical specificity, we can account for processes and effects of “shaping society” more holistically. In governance analysis, then, the theorization of public policy governance and regulation is oriented towards a distinct set of enquiries and interests. These focus on explaining how relations of power and authority shape governing and regulatory practices, and on assessing the wider socio-political and socio-economic implications of these modes of exerting influence. Beyond the orientation of empirical enquiry, however, in governance analysis, the explanation and assessment are also organized by reference to a specific analytical framework. Empirically, this governance analysis framework enables us to explore the relationship of structures, processes and actors in particular situations and moments of wielding intentional societal change. Conceptually, adopting this framework facilitates the integrated theorization of regulatory conditions, contingent governing practices, their interaction and their public policy consequences over time.
THREE European Union migration governance: utility, security and integration Emma Carmel Introduc... more THREE European Union migration governance: utility, security and integration Emma Carmel Introduction1 Policies relating to migration and immigration ... management in the EU: the European Commission as network manager', in J. Torfing and M. Marcussen (eds) Democratic ...
It is common to describe the deaths of hundreds of people in the Mediterranean sea over the last ... more It is common to describe the deaths of hundreds of people in the Mediterranean sea over the last few days as “a tragedy” and “a crisis”. The suffering of victims, their families and their home communities is indeed shocking and extreme. Yet the idea that this is a tragedy and crisis is perhaps misleading.
European leaders have assembled in Brussels in an attempt to come up with a way of preventing the... more European leaders have assembled in Brussels in an attempt to come up with a way of preventing the deaths of hundreds of migrants as they try to escape conflict and poverty in Africa by crossing the Mediterranean. But at the special European summit on Thursday, the unity of purpose which European leaders were proclaiming in their response to migrants at the weekend appeared to have faded.
"This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare a... more "This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare and European social citizenship by focusing on transnational labour movements from new to the old EU membe ...
Boundaries of European Social Citizenship EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences, 2019
This chapter explains how the combination of EU, national, and transnational regulations in our s... more This chapter explains how the combination of EU, national, and transnational regulations in our study generate various different assemblages of rights, with different regulatory logics of inclusion and exclusion for key ‘categories’ of migrants in four social security areas (unemployment, family benefits, health insurance, and pensions). The chapter first reviews the EU regulations, before setting out the distinctive characteristics of the transnational regulation of social security between each of our country pairs. Within country pairs we found that informal regulatory practices were adopted to strongly privilege particular forms of employment and assemblages of rights for EU migrants, with strong sedentarist criteria of selectivity especially in the Western European member states. Across our country pairs, we found that there were only very limited policy areas where portability regulation was straightforward, and these also tended to privilege particular forms of regular, full-time employment. Residency requirements stemming from EU law on the rights of free movement could in practice make access and portability difficult, especially for more mobile migrants, making social security a privilege rather than a right.
Boundaries of European Social Citizenship EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences, 2019
This chapter sets out the portability practices and experiences of Polish transnational migrants ... more This chapter sets out the portability practices and experiences of Polish transnational migrants moving between the United Kingdom and Poland. We offer the first systematic and in-depth study that links transnational regulations, discourses of belonging, and migrant experiences and practices between these two major EU countries at a time of significant political and policy upheaval. We explain and evaluate the ways in which major policy reforms in the UK and in Poland were established through statutory, non-statutory, and informal mechanisms. We examine how mobility is problematized in both cases, but in different ways in Poland and the UK. In particular, we explain the exclusionary, regulatory logics for migrants in our case, which rest on the intersection of migrants’ employment status and income in the UK, and employment and residence in Poland. In exploring the experiences of transnational migrants, our initial findings indicate the adoption of highly gendered and classed strategies to cope with these shifting boundaries of ‘belonging’ and the exclusionary logics embedded in regulations.
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