EU migrants are caught in ‘a constellation of conditionality’ in the UK, our project finds. As research team member Professor Lisa Scullion says in our newly released video, the situation of EU migrants is especially hard as the reduction in their social rights in the UK collides with the increased and intensified conditionality of the social security system.

Other migrants to the UK are also disadvantaged. Conditionality, our team found, did not help migrants to find work, and actually hampered their efforts. Our project finds there is a need to ensure not only that migrants are aware of their rights but for those administering benefits to fully understand the rights of migrants. Read our final findings

An academic paper by team members Professor Peter Dwyer, Professor Lisa Scullion, Dr Katy Jones and Dr Alasdair B R Stewart highlights and explores how conditionality operating at three levels (the EU supra-national level, the UK national level and in migrants’ mundane ‘street level’ encounters with social security administrators), comes together to restrict and have a negative impact on the social rights of EU migrants living in the UK. View our video explainer.

A longer video gives highlights of our ‘Brexit: what welfare, what rights?‘ event from March 2018.