ABSTRACT
The nexus between migration and welfare has been one of the most contested issues of European welfare state politics since the end of the Second World War. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the question of what categories of mobile EU citizens ‘deserve’ social membership is still at the heart of current debates around intra-European mobility. Employing a Foucauldian approach to welfare and social citizenship, this chapter not only addresses the nexus between the patterns of institutional organization of cross-border social security and its discursive narration, but also considers ways in which the institutional structures produce power effects on mobile Europeans’ welfare opportunities in the context of current patterns of intra-EU mobility.
