ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to analyse how formal welfare management among mobile Estonian EU citizens working in Sweden is shaped in an interplay with regulatory and discursive conditions. The chapter reveals low rates of, and interest in, accessing social support in Sweden among the interviewed EU movers. This is discussed in relation to an interplay of the complex and procedural Swedish welfare system, how this system is experienced by mobile individuals, and to the discursive expectations by the Estonian welfare system. In light of the results, the chapter argues that an important and overlooked aspect in analysing EU movers’ formal welfare management is the discursive expectations of welfare systems – expectations on who should be entitled to welfare and how a welfare claimant should behave.
