Migration, Law, Governance

EU Migrant Worker

The EU Migrant Worker Project has been exploring the experiences of people who come to work in the UK from other EU Member States.

Their aim has been to gather robust empirical evidence about EU migrants' experiences of finding work and being in employment in the UK, as well as exploring EU migrant workers’ use of social security, particularly in situations where work cannot be found or where pay is sufficiently low that it needs to be supplemented.

By combining this insight with knowledge about the law in this field, we hope to shed new light on the big question of how we adequately regulate migration within a socio-economically diverse EU and a post-financial crisis context. We hope that this research project will help to inform public debate as we reconceive and renegotiate the UK's relationship with the EU.

RESPOND

More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggled to cope with the influx.

The so-called refugee crisis has created deep divisions and policy incoherence in the EU among member states. The crisis foregrounded the vulnerability of European borders, the tenuous jurisdiction of the Schengen system and broad problems with multi-level governance  of  migration  and  integration. One of the most visible impacts of the refugee crisis has been the polarization of politics in EU Member States and intra-Member State policy (in)coherence in responding to the crisis. The recently granted Horizon 2020 project RESPOND will study the multilevel governance of migration in 11 countries. The successful Oct 2019 RESPOND Conference held in Newnham College, welcomed 175 participants to Newnham College. Blog report here:  https://www.respondmigration.com/blog-1/respond-conference-unpacking-challenges-possibilities-migration-governance