POPULIST HYSTERIA AND EASTERN EUROPEAN ECONOMIC MIGRATION. THE IMPACT OF ROMANIAN MIGRATION  ON THE UK LABOR MARKET

Dana  DÖMȘÖDI

doi:10.24193/subbeuropaea.2017.3.03

Authors

Dana DÖMȘÖDI PhD candidate, Sant’Anna Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pisa, Italia. Email: dana_domsodi@yahoo.com.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeuropaea.2017.3.03

Keywords:

populism, economic migration, labor, asymmetry

Abstract

This paper focuses on the impact of Eastern European economic migration on the UK labor-market, such as to offer an analysis of the British populist hysteria against Romanians in the context of the lifting of labor-market restrictions for A2 nationals in January 2014. Instead of focusing on the deconstruction of the reactionary and xenophobic populist discourse against Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants, our choice was to focus on structural determinants of economic migration and to link such an approach with a discussion of the European economic and political structures of asymmetry between states, on the one hand, and labor and capital, on the other.

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