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Freedom of Movement and Benefit Tourism: Paying Attention to the Background
Behind the folk devil figure of the ‘benefit tourist’ - which has become so prominent in the Brexit debate - is the politics of freedom of movement and the realities of those who are forced to be mobile to reproduce their lives.