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What Happens When Migration Control and Social Assistance Get Entangled?
Messages for Decision-Makers Independence from social assistance is now a preponderant criterion to assess the legally required “integration” of foreign nationals in Switzerland. — The implementation of the legislation that targets foreign nationals receiving social assistance intertwines the inherently different competences and objectives of each administration and makes their procedures more complex. — For recipients of social assistance, this complexification can lead to potentially contradictory expectations and advice. Such mixed messages can generate further economic and legal status precarization.
(Un)Conditional Welfare? Tensions Between Welfare Rights and Migration Control in Swiss Case Law
This analysis of Swiss Federal Supreme Court judgements shows the coupling of welfare and migration control. Foreign nationals depending on social assistance might face the withdrawal of their residence permits. We show how the conveyed legal logics create conditionality of rights and a differentiation of (non-)citizens. The judgements individualise social assistance dependence and follow a neoliberal logic of economic participation. They establish rationalities which reinforce politics of belonging and welfare chauvinism.