Migration and migrant labour in the gig economy: An intervention

N Van Doorn, F Ferrari… - Work, Employment and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In urban gig economies around the world, platform labour is predominantly migrant labour,
yet research on the intersection of the gig economy and labour migration remains scant. Our …

Deserving of social support? Street-level bureaucrats' decisions on EU migrants' benefit claims in Germany

N Ratzmann - Social Policy and Society, 2021 - cambridge.org
Migration raises the question of how street-level bureaucrats treat non-citizens when it
comes to the distribution of limited welfare resources. Based on a German case study, this …

" No German, no service": EU migrants' unequal access to welfare entitlements in Germany

N Ratzmann - Social Inclusion, 2022 - ssoar.info
While existing research has analysed the intersecting migration and social security law,
which stratifies migrants' formal social entitlements, less work has been done on the informal …

Welfare mediators as game changers? Deconstructing power asymmetries between EU migrants and welfare administrators

N Ratzmann, A Heindlmaier - Social Inclusion, 2022 - cogitatiopress.com
Under EU law, EU citizens constitute a particular group of immigrants, as they can, mostly
without restrictions, move to, and reside in, another EU country, enjoying equal treatment …

Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany

L Gschwind, N Ratzmann… - Social Policy & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sanctions are payment cuts that case managers implement in order to discipline welfare
recipients. Previous research suggests that immigrants face a particularly high risk to receive …

Into the promised land: Modelling the role of take-up agents in realising welfare rights

R Holler, A Benish - Social Policy and Society, 2022 - cambridge.org
Throughout the years, social policy scholars have advanced a multi-level perspective of non-
take-up, viewing it as is a complex process shaped by a broad range of interacting barriers …

Guarding the borders of the Norwegian welfare state. How NAV employees decide on social assistance for unemployed Polish migrants

KM Synnes - Nordic social work research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, I focus on social relations and institutional logics to explore how street-level
bureaucrats in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) assess …

[HTML][HTML] The German platform economy: Strict regulations but unfair standards?

F Ferrari, A Bertolini, M Borkert, M Graham - Digital Geography and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
In the German public debate, platform work and crowdwork have become the epitome of the
dark side of the digital transformation of the working world. Although Germany is marked by …

Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice

C Bruzelius, N Ratzmann… - Journal of European …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Most research on the social policy–migration control link focuses on indirect control, that is,
denying access to welfare. This article instead draws attention to how welfare institutions are …

Introduction: The (un) deserving migrant? Street-level bordering practices and deservingness in access to social services

N Ratzmann, N Sahraoui - Social Policy and Society, 2021 - cambridge.org
Introduction The (Un)Deserving Migrant? Street-Level Bordering Practices and Deservingness
in Access to Social Services Page 1 Introduction The (Un)Deserving Migrant? Street-Level …