Peter Dwyer

TL;DR: The authors unpacks the contested interconnections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers, and proposes the concept of precarity as a way to define the precarity of workers.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that as policies based on conditional entitlement become central to the ongoing process of welfare reform, the very idea of "welfare rights" is systematically undermined.

TL;DR: Universal Credit as discussed by the authors replaces six means-tested working age benefits with a punitive system of tiered sanctions and fines, which represents a major expansion and intensification of personalised behavioural conditionality and indicates the ubiquity of conditionality at the heart of twenty-first century UK social citizenship.

TL;DR: The development of social citizenship in Britain and contemporary approaches to social citizenship are discussed in this article, where the authors discuss issues of difference and stratification: Poverty, class, citizenship and welfare Gender, citizenship, disability, race, ethnicity, and welfare.

TL;DR: The authors explored the motivations and experiences of Accession 8 (A8) migrants who have entered the United Kingdom following the expansion of the European Union in 2004 and considered commonalities and differences among the group of migrants commonly referred to as A8 migrant workers/labourers.