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Transnational social protection in Europe: a social inequality perspective

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The provision of social protection, especially among migrants, often occurs across the borders of nation-states. More generally, cross-border migration is itself a strategy to reduce risks and threats and may lead to additional employment and social protection. Examining migration is particularly important because it links the disparate, fragmented worlds of unequal life chances and social protection. This analysis asks how efforts to provide social protection for cross-border migrants in the European Union (EU) reinforce existing inequalities (e.g. between regions or within households), and lead to new types of inequalities. Social protection in the EU falls predominantly under the purview of individual member states; hence, frictions between different protection systems and informal social protection are particularly apparent in the case of cross-border flows of people and resources. In order to understand the social protection process, we consider various realms of provision together – state, markets, civil society and families, and formal and informal types of social protection. Using this grid we detail the social mechanisms operative in cross-border forms of social protection, in particular, exclusion, opportunity hoarding, hierarchization, and exploitation.

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  • Thomas Faist, 2017. "Transnational social protection in Europe: a social inequality perspective," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(1), pages 20-32, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:oxdevs:v:45:y:2017:i:1:p:20-32
    DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2016.1193128
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    1. Koen Voorend & Daniel Alvarado, 2023. "Barriers to Healthcare Access for Immigrants in Costa Rica and Uruguay," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 24(2), pages 747-771, June.
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    3. Yu Hao & Yujia Li & Zhiyang Shen, 2023. "Does carbon emission trading contribute to reducing infectious diseases? Evidence from China," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(1), pages 74-100, March.
    4. Karolina Barglowski & Lisa Bonfert, 2022. "The Affective Dimension of Social Protection: A Case Study of Migrant-Led Organizations and Associations in Germany," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-17, November.
    5. Sanna Saksela-Bergholm, 2019. "Welfare beyond Borders: Filipino Transnational Families’ Informal Social Protection Strategies," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(4), pages 221-231.
    6. Elisabeth Scheibelhofer, 2022. "Transnational Social Protection: Inclusion for Whom? Theoretical Reflections and Migrant Experiences," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10(1), pages 161-163.
    7. Elisabeth Scheibelhofer, 2022. "Migrants’ Experiences With Limited Access to Social Protection in a Framework of EU Post‐National Policies," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10(1), pages 164-173.
    8. Elisabeth Scheibelhofer & Clara Holzinger, 2018. "‘Damn It, I Am a Miserable Eastern European in the Eyes of the Administrator’: EU Migrants’ Experiences with (Transnational) Social Security," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 201-209.

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