The Cost of Free Movement for Vulnerable (EU) Citizens in the UK (pre and post Brexit).

Costello, Fiona (2024) The Cost of Free Movement for Vulnerable (EU) Citizens in the UK (pre and post Brexit). Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

The portfolio of work presented here (which forms the basis of this PhD) catalogues the lives of EU migrant workers, their experiences of coming to the UK, their living and working conditions and how they navigated their new immigration status in the period leading up to Brexit and now via the UK’s Withdrawal Arrangements post-Brexit. The overarching enquiry of this work is to understand what legal problems this group faced in the context of utilising their EU free movement rights. The consistent theme which emerges from this enquiry is that of precarity and its related outcome of vulnerability. Although free movement can be hailed as one of the great successes of the (EU’s) internal market, my work shows another side to this success through the experiences of those in low paid, precarious work and unstable low-quality housing/temporary accommodation (e.g. shared housing, caravans). Living and working conditions of free movement can be equated with poverty, exploitation, precarity and vulnerability. Scholarship on this understanding of free movement is limited to date, and this portfolio of work is the first to comprehensively catalogue and analyse these issues. This understanding is sought to improve knowledge around the application and enforcement of EU Law at a local level, as well as (post Brexit) UK Immigration law in action.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Publication
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Depositing User:	Chris White
Date Deposited:	26 Jun 2025 09:05
Last Modified:	26 Jun 2025 09:05
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99731
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