Under de senaste decennierna har Sverige genomgått en rad genom­gripande förändringar som gjort att många upplever att vårt samhälle har blivit hårdare och mer polariserat. Vad är det som har hänt? På vilka sätt påverkar samtidens förändringar männi­skors vardag och livsvillkor?

Med utgångspunkt i fyra teman plats, kategori­sering, engagemang och transformationer beskriver boken hur människor upplever dagens Sverige och det svenska. Författarna har gjort intervjuer, deltagande observationer, undersökt mediedebatter, sociala medier och analyserat arkivmaterial. Genom nedslag i olika verkligheter, ­platser och situationer förmedlas insikter och reflektioner om gemenskap och engagemang. Här berättas både om erfarenheter av polarisering och misstro och om männi­skors tillit till varandra, till politiken och våra samhällsinstitutioner.

Bokens skribenter är alla etnologiska forskare och verksamma vid olika lärosäten i Sverige.

This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare, and European social citizenship by focusing on transnational labour movements from new to the old EU member states (Hungary–Austria, Bulgaria–Germany, Poland–UK and Estonia–Sweden).

The volume provides a comparative analysis of formal organization and mobile individuals’ use of European social security coordination, which involves mobile Europeans'' access to and portability of social security rights from the sending to the receiving country (and back). The book discloses the selectivity criteria of welfare provision in four areas (unemployment, family benefits, health insurance, and pensions) that lay at heart of European cross-border social security governance. It also identifies specific discourses of belonging (gendered, ethnicized/racialized and class-related images of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’) that frame the institutional selectivity by constructing images of mobile EUcitizens'' ‘deserving’ or ‘non-deserving’ social membership.

The collection offers a detailed examination of inequality experiences mobile EU citizens from the new EU countries encounter while accessing and porting social security rights across borders. It will be of interest to a wide range of social science and interdisciplinary researchers, students, and practitioners as well as those interested in intra-EU migration and mobility, social security, European social citizenship, and transnational studies.

This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare, and European social citizenship by focusing on transnational labour movements from new to the old EU member states (Hungary–Austria, Bulgaria–Germany, Poland–UK and Estonia–Sweden).

The volume provides a comparative analysis of formal organization and mobile individuals’ use of European social security coordination, which involves mobile Europeans'' access to and portability of social security rights from the sending to the receiving country (and back). The book discloses the selectivity criteria of welfare provision in four areas (unemployment, family benefits, health insurance, and pensions) that lay at heart of European cross-border social security governance. It also identifies specific discourses of belonging (gendered, ethnicized/racialized and class-related images of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’) that frame the institutional selectivity by constructing images of mobile EUcitizens'' ‘deserving’ or ‘non-deserving’ social membership.

The collection offers a detailed examination of inequality experiences mobile EU citizens from the new EU countries encounter while accessing and porting social security rights across borders. It will be of interest to a wide range of social science and interdisciplinary researchers, students, and practitioners as well as those interested in intra-EU migration and mobility, social security, European social citizenship, and transnational studies.

Under de senaste decennierna har Sverige genomgått en rad genom­gripande förändringar som gjort att många upplever att vårt samhälle har blivit hårdare och mer polariserat. Vad är det som har hänt? På vilka sätt påverkar samtidens förändringar männi­skors vardag och livsvillkor?

Med utgångspunkt i fyra teman plats, kategori­sering, engagemang och transformationer beskriver boken hur människor upplever dagens Sverige och det svenska. Författarna har gjort intervjuer, deltagande observationer, undersökt mediedebatter, sociala medier och analyserat arkivmaterial. Genom nedslag i olika verkligheter, ­platser och situationer förmedlas insikter och reflektioner om gemenskap och engagemang. Här berättas både om erfarenheter av polarisering och misstro och om männi­skors tillit till varandra, till politiken och våra samhällsinstitutioner.

Bokens skribenter är alla etnologiska forskare och verksamma vid olika lärosäten i Sverige.

This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare, and European social citizenship by focusing on transnational labour movements from new to the old EU member states (Hungary–Austria, Bulgaria–Germany, Poland–UK and Estonia–Sweden).

The volume provides a comparative analysis of formal organization and mobile individuals’ use of European social security coordination, which involves mobile Europeans'' access to and portability of social security rights from the sending to the receiving country (and back). The book discloses the selectivity criteria of welfare provision in four areas (unemployment, family benefits, health insurance, and pensions) that lay at heart of European cross-border social security governance. It also identifies specific discourses of belonging (gendered, ethnicized/racialized and class-related images of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’) that frame the institutional selectivity by constructing images of mobile EUcitizens'' ‘deserving’ or ‘non-deserving’ social membership.

The collection offers a detailed examination of inequality experiences mobile EU citizens from the new EU countries encounter while accessing and porting social security rights across borders. It will be of interest to a wide range of social science and interdisciplinary researchers, students, and practitioners as well as those interested in intra-EU migration and mobility, social security, European social citizenship, and transnational studies.

This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare, and European social citizenship by focusing on transnational labour movements from new to the old EU member states (Hungary–Austria, Bulgaria–Germany, Poland–UK and Estonia–Sweden).

The volume provides a comparative analysis of formal organization and mobile individuals’ use of European social security coordination, which involves mobile Europeans'' access to and portability of social security rights from the sending to the receiving country (and back). The book discloses the selectivity criteria of welfare provision in four areas (unemployment, family benefits, health insurance, and pensions) that lay at heart of European cross-border social security governance. It also identifies specific discourses of belonging (gendered, ethnicized/racialized and class-related images of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’) that frame the institutional selectivity by constructing images of mobile EUcitizens'' ‘deserving’ or ‘non-deserving’ social membership.

The collection offers a detailed examination of inequality experiences mobile EU citizens from the new EU countries encounter while accessing and porting social security rights across borders. It will be of interest to a wide range of social science and interdisciplinary researchers, students, and practitioners as well as those interested in intra-EU migration and mobility, social security, European social citizenship, and transnational studies.