Transnational Social Protection

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

Transnational Social Protection
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Published
14 February 2023
Pages
240
ISBN
9780197666838

Transnational Social Protection

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

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 The idea that social rights are something we are eligible for based on where we live or where we are citizens is out-of-date.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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