ABSTRACT
This chapter describes coordination arrangements governing migrants’ access to social security. It shows that the insurance nature of many benefits has provided a relatively uncontentious basis for the coordination of social security provision for migrants. The chapter examines the situation of non-nationals who stay in, and endeavor to claim benefits from, the host state, rather than returning to their home state. It explores the situation of asylum-seekers in Europe with that of European Union nationals. One way of explaining the Court's approach is that its primary concern was with countering economic inequality between states. The central idea of welfare magnet theory is that states offering generous benefits attract poor migrants. The chapter analyzes the policy effects of the movement of people in Europe by identifying the pressures on social security systems that movement may generate and examining the possible responses.
