Social Security Regulation in the EU: The De-Territorialization of Welfare?

TY - CHAP

T1 - Social Security Regulation in the EU

T2 - The De-Territorialization of Welfare?

AU - Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg

PY - 2012/3/22

Y1 - 2012/3/22

N2 - This chapter examines the integration of national social-security schemes that has taken place in the European Union through Community Regulation 1408/71. It seeks to demonstrate that a dimension of European social security has for long been a material fact, patched up by judicial activism and political compromises. The chapter is divided into five main parts. First, it introduces the European dimension of welfare as established through social-security coordination. Second, the chapter describes the europeanization process of migration control and access to national welfare. The third part asks to whom intra-European social security applies. The fourth part of the chapter analyses in greater detail the extent to which welfare has been de-territorialized in the EU. The last part provides some concluding remarks on the evolution of the European dimension of social security, and the relation between law and politics in the course of welfare integration.

AB - This chapter examines the integration of national social-security schemes that has taken place in the European Union through Community Regulation 1408/71. It seeks to demonstrate that a dimension of European social security has for long been a material fact, patched up by judicial activism and political compromises. The chapter is divided into five main parts. First, it introduces the European dimension of welfare as established through social-security coordination. Second, the chapter describes the europeanization process of migration control and access to national welfare. The third part asks to whom intra-European social security applies. The fourth part of the chapter analyses in greater detail the extent to which welfare has been de-territorialized in the EU. The last part provides some concluding remarks on the evolution of the European dimension of social security, and the relation between law and politics in the course of welfare integration.

KW - European union

KW - Migration control

KW - National social security

KW - National welfare

KW - Welfare integration

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84920081720&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199287413.003.0004

DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199287413.003.0004

M3 - Book chapter

AN - SCOPUS:84920081720

SN - 9780199287413

BT - EU Law and the Welfare State

PB - Oxford University Press

ER -