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Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare Across National Borders

Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare Across National Borders

Levitt, Peggy
Sun, Ken Chih-Yan
Dobbs, Erica

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0197666833
ISBN13: 9780197666838
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 14 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.21 Depth: 9.27
Language: English
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The idea that social rights are something we are eligible for based on where we live or where we are citizens is out-of-date.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.

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