Transnational Social Protection

Social Welfare across National Borders

PEGGY LEVITT author Ken Chih-Yan Sun author Ruxandra Paul author Erica Dobbs author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:11th May '23

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Argues that a new set of transnational social welfare arrangements has emerged that challenge traditional social welfare provision based on national citizenship and residence. The idea that social rights are something we are eligible for based on where we live or where we are citizens is out-of-date. In Transnational Social Protection, Peggy Levitt, Erica Dobbs, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, and Ruxandra Paul consider what happens to social welfare when more and more people live, work, study, and retire outside their countries of citizenship where they receive health, education, and elder care. The authors use the concept of resource environment to show how migrants and their families piece together packages of protections from multiple sources in multiple settings and the ways that these vary by place and time. They further show how a new, hybrid transnational social protection regime has emerged in response to the changing environment that complements, supplements, or, in some cases, substitutes for national social welfare systems as we knew them. Examining how national social welfare is affected when migration and mobility become an integral part of everyday life, this book moves our understanding of social protection from the national to the transnational.

This book moves the field forward in several ways. First, it asks important central questions: How do people gain access to social protections within the context of migration? How do they negotiate such protections for themselves and their families as they reside in places offering markedly different levels of or exclusion from state offered social protection? or as they move through the life course? Second, it uses but also notes how much prior research on transnationalism or state-centered social protections cannot fully describe how migrants and their families seek to access such social protections. Finally, and critically, they use empirical fieldwork-based evidence to describe and analyze how these families create resource environments seeking access to social protections. They effectively ground and develop their theoretical arguments with data and cases. An important contribution. * Robert Smith, Baruch College and Graduate Center, CUNY *
This book is the first that introduces a framework to analyze how migration reconfigures social protection transnationally, and what policy and social changes are needed. Based on a wide range of empirical cases from across the world, this pioneering synthesis is an important intervention into the global debates on social welfare now. * Biao Xiang, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology *
Individuals in the transnational world painstakingly documented in this book can no longer triangulate based on citizenship, geography, or even local community. Whether in the area of political rights, education, health, or work, the authors provide salient and sobering insight into what determines social welfare for the millions of people without residence. * David Weil, Heller School for Social Policy, Brandeis University *
This book is an essential reference point in academic and policy debates on transnational social protection and the need to rethink the structures for the provision of social welfare and access to rights across borders given the realities of human mobility in a global context of neoliberalism, inequality, deindustrialization and austerity. * Alexandra Délano Alonso, Associate Professor of Global Studies, The New School *
More and more people are citizens of one country but live and work in another. How do they obtain social protections? How do they manage the vagaries of work, health, and the law? What roles are played by governments, communities, non-profits, families and friends? In Transnational Social Protection, Levitt, Dobbs, Sun, and Paul provide deeply researched answers to these questions. They develop the idea of Hybrid Transnational Social Protections (HTSP) and via case studies and data offer new and compelling insights on migration from the perspective of families struggling to make do in a complicated world. * Paul Osterman, NTU Professor, MIT Sloan School *
This book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners struggling to make sense of the 'triple-win' migration and development discourse. It offers a transnational multi-sectoral approach to thinking afresh about the roles of states, markets, the third sector, and social networks and families in securing migrant rights and protections in a world fragmented by the power of economic nationalism. * Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore *

ISBN: 9780197666838

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 15mm

Weight: 363g

240 pages