Procedural (in)justice for EU citizens moving to Belgium : an inquiry into municipal registration practices
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- Roos-Marie van den Bogaard (UGent) , Ana Correia Horta, Wout Van Doren (UGent) , Ellen Desmet (UGent) and Anthony Valcke
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- Moving as a French or Dutch citizen to Belgium should be easy, given the freedom of movement of EU citizens. Reality paints a different picture, however. This paper analyses the practices of Belgian municipalities and the Immigration Office as to the registration of EU workers, self-employed, jobseekers and their family members. It is based on a desk study, a survey among a sample of municipalities as well as semi-structured interviews with municipal officials, the Immigration Office and other stakeholders. The paper adopts a legal understanding of 'procedural justice', focusing on dimensions of equal treatment and transparency. It shows that the achievement of procedural justice for EU citizens is impaired by divergent and at times questionable practices by street-level bureaucrats. These practices indicate, among others, that varying levels of 'deservingness' of residence in Belgium can be observed within the category of mobile EU workers. Furthermore, increased digitalization and the use of intermediaries in the registration procedure facilitate and reinforce differential treatments among EU citizens and their family members.
- Keywords
- Free movement, EU citizens, Family members, MIGR, HRC, EU workers, procedural justice, equal treatment, transparency, freedom of movement
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01GJFFPE1RYGQCJEZC37WWBHH1
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- van den Bogaard, Roos-Marie, et al. “Procedural (in)Justice for EU Citizens Moving to Belgium : An Inquiry into Municipal Registration Practices.” CITIZENSHIP STUDIES, vol. 26, no. 7, 2022, pp. 995–1010, doi:10.1080/13621025.2022.2137944.
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- van den Bogaard, R.-M., Horta, A. C., Van Doren, W., Desmet, E., & Valcke, A. (2022). Procedural (in)justice for EU citizens moving to Belgium : an inquiry into municipal registration practices. CITIZENSHIP STUDIES, 26(7), 995–1010. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2137944
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- Bogaard, Roos-Marie van den, Ana Correia Horta, Wout Van Doren, Ellen Desmet, and Anthony Valcke. 2022. “Procedural (in)Justice for EU Citizens Moving to Belgium : An Inquiry into Municipal Registration Practices.” CITIZENSHIP STUDIES 26 (7): 995–1010. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2137944.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- van den Bogaard, Roos-Marie, Ana Correia Horta, Wout Van Doren, Ellen Desmet, and Anthony Valcke. 2022. “Procedural (in)Justice for EU Citizens Moving to Belgium : An Inquiry into Municipal Registration Practices.” CITIZENSHIP STUDIES 26 (7): 995–1010. doi:10.1080/13621025.2022.2137944.
- Vancouver
- 1.van den Bogaard R-M, Horta AC, Van Doren W, Desmet E, Valcke A. Procedural (in)justice for EU citizens moving to Belgium : an inquiry into municipal registration practices. CITIZENSHIP STUDIES. 2022;26(7):995–1010.
- IEEE
- [1]R.-M. van den Bogaard, A. C. Horta, W. Van Doren, E. Desmet, and A. Valcke, “Procedural (in)justice for EU citizens moving to Belgium : an inquiry into municipal registration practices,” CITIZENSHIP STUDIES, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 995–1010, 2022.
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