Transnational Social Protection: Migrants' Strategies and Patterns of Inequalities

Faist, Thomas; Bilecen, Başak; Barglowski, Karolina; Sienkiewicz, Joanna Jadwiga

doi:10.1002/psp.1903

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“…This will be discussed by drawing on the new mobilities paradigm (NMP). By focusing on migration and specifically welfare rules, this study contributes to what Faist et al (, p. 194) have called the ‘lacuna within the body of literature addressing social protection across borders’.…”

Section: Dutch Retirement Migration To Spainmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Specifically, when researching mobilities across borders, it is important not to overlook states, but to include an analysis of state actors and their power to influence mobility. Through legal rules on migration and welfare provisions, states restrict or enable the physical movements of persons across the borders of national states (Faist et al, ). The actors that constitute the regime‐of‐mobility for the retirement migrants discussed in this paper are the Dutch and Spanish states and the EU.…”

Section: Retirement Migrants' Mobility and The New Mobilities Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pensioners on the Move: a ‘Legal Gate’ Perspective on Retirement Migration to Spain

Gehring

2015

Population Space and Place

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This paper analyses how retirement migrants' mobility is enabled, impeded, and sometimes enforced by national and European Union migration and welfare rules and the ways in which retirement migrants deal with these 'legal gates' in practice. Legal gates are conceptualised as the rules operating at different local, national, and supranational levels, which regulate human mobility between one jurisdiction and another. Drawing on the new mobilities paradigm, the paper shows how retirement migrants construct and negotiate their mobility and residence arrangements within the confines of the different welfare systems. Focusing on Dutch and Spanish retirement migrants who spent their working life in the Netherlands and move or return (permanently or temporarily) to Spain after retirement, this paper shows on the one hand the power of the state to influence retirement migrants' mobility and on the other hand it shows how inequalities between retirement migrants' socio-economic status influences their capacity to be mobile.

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Section: Dutch Retirement Migration To Spainmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Retirement Migrants' Mobility and The New Mobilities Paradigmmentioning

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Pensioners on the Move: a ‘Legal Gate’ Perspective on Retirement Migration to Spain

Gehring

2015

Population Space and Place

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“…The literature highlighting the family as one of the central cores of the construction, maintenance, and management of migration projects emphasises international mobility as a social protection strategy (Avato, Koettl & Sabates-Wheeler, 2010;Baldassar & Merla, 2014;Bryceson & Vuorela, 2002;Faist et al, 2015;SabatesWheeler & Feldman, 2011). In this sense, the circulation of care within transnational families' networks can be considered a way to create, maintain, and transform strategies of transnational social protection.…”

Section: Transnational Families and Care Circulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The emergence of transnational lives has an impact on how we think about social protection, as it transforms the ways individuals and groups face social risks that emerge in capitalist economies in the spheres of employment, education, health, and care (Faist, Bilecen, Barglowski & Sienkiewicz, 2015). Consequently, a research agenda on transnational social protection has been emerging in recent years Boccagni, 2017;Faist et al, 2015;Levitt, Viterna, Mueller & Lloyd, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Consequently, a research agenda on transnational social protection has been emerging in recent years Boccagni, 2017;Faist et al, 2015;Levitt, Viterna, Mueller & Lloyd, 2017). The ambition of this article is to contribute to this agenda, highlighting the individuals' and families' agency in the development of strategies of transnational social protection.…”

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It is not only about access: Transnational Bolivian families in Barcelona and their meanings of social protection

Speroni

2018

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The ambition of this exploratory article is to contribute to the analyses of transnational social protection, highlighting the relevance of migrants’ agency. Specifically, I argue that the strategies of transnational social protection are manifested in the interface between informal (interpersonal networks) and formal social protection (provided by national states and organisations), not only through their objective elements (multi-sited resources and services), but also by their subjective aspects (actors’ meanings and institutional normative concepts). The understanding of the actors’ subjective meanings has the potential to articulate the interpretation of transnational ways to access resources of social protection, with the comprehension of the meanings that motivate different modes of use of these resources, by mobile and non-mobile actors. In this paper, a survey and semi-structured interviews from the “Return from Transnationalism” project (RETTRANS, 2011-2013) and life story interviews from the ongoing doctoral project “Transnational social protection: Bolivian transnational families in Barcelona and São Paulo” are analysed. La ambición de este artículo exploratorio es contribuir a los análisis de la protección social transnacional, destacando la relevancia de la agencia de los migrantes. En concreto, argumento que las estrategias de protección social transnacional expresan las interfaces entre la protección social informal (redes interpersonales) y formal (proporcionada por los estados y organizaciones nacionales), no sólo a través de sus elementos objetivos (recursos y servicios multisituados) sino también por sus aspectos subjetivos (los significados de los actores y los conceptos normativos institucionales). La comprensión de los significados subjetivos de los actores tiene el potencial de articular la interpretación de las vías transnacionales de acceso a los recursos de protección social con la comprensión de los significados que motivan diferentes modos de uso de estos recursos por parte de actores móviles y no móviles. En este trabajo se analizan una encuesta y entrevistas semi-estructuradas del proyecto Retorno del Transnacionalismo (RETTRANS, 2011-2013) y entrevistas de historias de vida del proyecto doctoral “Protección social transnacional: familias transnacionales bolivianas en Barcelona y Sao Paulo”.

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Social Inequalities Through the Lens of Social Protection: Notes on the Transnational Social Question

Faist

Bilecen

2014

Population Space and Place

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This concluding article to our special issue places the linkage of social protection and social inequalities in a broader context, namely the transnational social question in Europe and its periphery. The transnational social question pertains to the perception of social inequalities as illegitimate and to their politicisation. In so doing, this article also draws preliminary conclusions, based upon the main findings of the contributions in this special issue, with respect to the social protection strategies utilised by migrants and their significant others, both within and across borders. Transnationality as a marker of heterogeneity is of strategic significance for our understanding of the transnational social question, because it reveals the linkages across the fragmented worlds of social protection. In particular, it provides a window into the social mechanisms that underline social protection across borders and how these mitigate old and generate new social inequalities.

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Transnational Social Protection: Migrants' Strategies and Patterns of Inequalities

Abstract: How migrants organise their social protection is not a straightforward process but, rather, a much more intricate and nuanced one,

Cited by 91 publications

References 23 publications

Pensioners on the Move: a ‘Legal Gate’ Perspective on Retirement Migration to Spain

Pensioners on the Move: a ‘Legal Gate’ Perspective on Retirement Migration to Spain

It is not only about access: Transnational Bolivian families in Barcelona and their meanings of social protection

Social Inequalities Through the Lens of Social Protection: Notes on the Transnational Social Question

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