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Social protection for migrants: The challenges of delivery in the context of changing migration flows

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  • Rachel Sabates‐Wheeler
  • Johannes Koettl

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Access to social protection differs widely among international migrants. This article focuses on the issue of earnings‐related contributions to social security programmes and their (frequent) lack of portability across borders — a problem that particularly affects South‐South migrants. Furthermore, attention is drawn to the fact that in many low‐income countries a lack of administrative capacity in the operation of social security programmes is often, in the first instance, a greater problem than the lack of portability of any potential earned rights to cash benefits provided under them. Commonly, the inability of migrants to benefit, both from social security programmes that are in place in the country of origin and in the host country detracts significantly from the well‐being and security of migrants and their families. The article concludes that South‐South migration must be understood as being significantly different from North‐North migration, where social protection issues are much more tractable.

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  • Rachel Sabates‐Wheeler & Johannes Koettl, 2010. "Social protection for migrants: The challenges of delivery in the context of changing migration flows," International Social Security Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 63(3‐4), pages 115-144, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:intssr:v:63:y:2010:i:3-4:p:115-144
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-246X.2010.01372.x
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    1. Nikolov, Plamen & Adelman, Alan, 2019. "Do private household transfers to the elderly respond to public pension benefits? Evidence from rural China," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 14(C).
    2. Nikolov Plamen & Adelman Alan, 2018. "Short-Run Health Consequences of Retirement and Pension Benefits: Evidence from China," Forum for Health Economics & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 21(2), pages 1-27, December.
    3. Nikolov, Plamen & Adelman, Alan, 2019. "Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China," IZA Discussion Papers 12524, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. 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.
    5. Ye, Juntao & Cai, Liming & Shi, Xinjie & Cheng, Mingwang, 2024. "Pursuing a brighter future: Impact of the Hukou reform on human capital investment in migrant children in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    6. Ockert Dupper, 2014. "Coordination of Social Security Schemes," KFG Working Papers p0060, Free University Berlin.

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