EU-kommissionens konstruktion av 'sociala rättigheter' : En WPR-analys av den europeiska pelaren för sociala rättigheter

Sammanfattning: This thesis aims to investigate how ‘social rights’ is filled with meaning by the European Commission within the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR). It also aims to study how the effects of this construction of ‘social rights’ can be understood through Isabell Loreys theory of precarisation as a form of governmentality. In order to do so, Carol Bacchis methodology for critical policy analysis ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) is used to study the problem representations within the European Commission’s proposal for a social pillar and its instruments to fulfil principles of the EPSR. This study shows that ‘social rights’ is filled with meaning by the European Commission as a matter of in different ways make it possible for the European citizens to provide for themselves, which reproducers an idea that citizens first and foremost should be responsible for their security. The way the European Commission fill ‘social rights’ with meaning also put the citizens living the most precarious lives in a subordinated stigmatized position in comparison to the citizens that can provide for themselves. The truth and knowledge that the European Commission produce and reproduce with its construction of ‘social rights’ may also have serious impact on the citizens living under precarious conditions.