Free Movement and Welfare Access in the European Union - Re-Balancing Conflicting Interests in Citizenship Jurisprudence

This book assesses the balancing act between EU free movement law, fundamental EU objectives and Member States'' concerns regarding their welfare systems. It takes a novel dual approach: namely combining doctrinal analysis of EU citizenship case law with an examination of mobility data. This allows the study to clearly show an imbalance between the representation and protection of these conflicting interests in EU case law. It goes further, identifying avenues for reform and highlighting the importance of the principle of proportionality for attaining a legitimate balance of interests. In a field in which much has been written, this offers a truly original perspective. It will be much welcomed by scholars of EU free movement and citizenship law.>

List of contents

1. Free Movement, Redistributive Tension and the Role of EU Law
2. Residency and Welfare Access for Intra-EU Jobseekers
3. Residency and Welfare Access for Mobile Students
4. Residency and Welfare Access for Economically Inactive Citizens
5. Intra-Union Mobility and the Justifiability of Imbalance
6. Rebalancing Interests: Towards Better Co-Governances of Union Citizenship

About the author

Victoria Hooton is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Victoria (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Hooton, Victoria Hooton, Hooton Victoria Hooton
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781509966851
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-6685-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Modern Studies in European Law
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LAW / Practical Guides, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, EU (European Union), Law, citizenship & rights for the lay person, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems, Citizenship and nationality law, Citizenship & nationality law, Law, citizenship and rights for the lay person