Description
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 The idea that social rights are something we are eligible for based on where we live or where we are citizens is out-of-date.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.
About the Author
Peggy Levitt is the Mildred Lane Kemper Chair of Sociology and the Chair of the sociology department at Wellesley College. She is also a co-founder of the Global (De)Centre. Levitt has received Honorary Doctoral Degrees from the University of Helsinki (2017) and from Maastricht University (2014). She was recently a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (2017-2019) and a Distinguished Visitor at the Baptist University of Hong Kong (2019). Her earlier books include Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display (2015), Religion on the Edge (Oxford, 2012), God Needs No Passport (2007), The Transnational Studies Reader (2007), The Changing Face of Home (2002), and The Transnational Villagers (2001). Erica Dobbs is Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College. Her research explores how mass migration forces both states and individuals to rethink the dynamics of political and social citizenship in liberal democratic societies. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Oxford Migration Studies, and other outlets, and has received support from the Fulbright-Schuman program for the European Union, the American Council of Learned Societies foundation, and the Hirsch Research Initiation program at Pomona College. Ken Chih-Yan Sun is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Villanova University. His research interests include families, migration, life stage, inequalities, and globalization. He is the author of Time and Migration: How Long-term Taiwanese Immigrants Negotiate Later Life (2021). He also published his works in Social Problems; Journal of Marriage and Family; Global Networks; Sociological Forum; Qualitative Sociology; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Symbolic Interaction; Identities; Journal of Family Issues; Population, Space, and Place; and Current Sociology. Ruxandra Paul is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, Massachusetts, and a local affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Her research agenda examines the socio-political effects of globalization, supranational integration, and increasingly porous borders. Specific interests include European integration, international migration, citizenship, pandemic politics, and cyberpolitics. Her work has appeared in European Policy Analysis, Oxford Development Studies, PS: Political Science & Politics, Foreign Policy - Romania, and Courrier International. She was a Harvard Academy Dissertation Fellow and a Chateaubriand Fellow of the French Government for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Reviews
This book moves the field forward in several ways. First, it asks important central questions: How do people gain access to social protections within the context of migration? How do they negotiate such protections for themselves and their families as they reside in places offering markedly different levels of or exclusion from state offered social protection? or as they move through the life course? Second, it uses but also notes how much prior research on transnationalism or state-centered social protections cannot fully describe how migrants and their families seek to access such social protections. Finally, and critically, they use empirical fieldwork-based evidence to describe and analyze how these families create resource environments seeking access to social protections. They effectively ground and develop their theoretical arguments with data and cases. An important contribution. * Robert Smith, Baruch College and Graduate Center, CUNY *
This book is the first that introduces a framework to analyze how migration reconfigures social protection transnationally, and what policy and social changes are needed. Based on a wide range of empirical cases from across the world, this pioneering synthesis is an important intervention into the global debates on social welfare now. * Biao Xiang, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology *
Individuals in the transnational world painstakingly documented in this book can no longer triangulate based on citizenship, geography, or even local community. Whether in the area of political rights, education, health, or work, the authors provide salient and sobering insight into what determines social welfare for the millions of people without residence. * David Weil, Heller School for Social Policy, Brandeis University *
This book is an essential reference point in academic and policy debates on transnational social protection and the need to rethink the structures for the provision of social welfare and access to rights across borders given the realities of human mobility in a global context of neoliberalism, inequality, deindustrialization and austerity. * Alexandra Delano Alonso, Associate Professor of Global Studies, The New School *
More and more people are citizens of one country but live and work in another. How do they obtain social protections? How do they manage the vagaries of work, health, and the law? What roles are played by governments, communities, non-profits, families and friends? In Transnational Social Protection, Levitt, Dobbs, Sun, and Paul provide deeply researched answers to these questions. They develop the idea of Hybrid Transnational Social Protections (HTSP) and via case studies and data offer new and compelling insights on migration from the perspective of families struggling to make do in a complicated world. * Paul Osterman, NTU Professor, MIT Sloan School *
This book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners struggling to make sense of the 'triple-win' migration and development discourse. It offers a transnational multi-sectoral approach to thinking afresh about the roles of states, markets, the third sector, and social networks and families in securing migrant rights and protections in a world fragmented by the power of economic nationalism. * Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197666838
Author Peggy Levitt
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 158mm * 235mm * 15mm
About the Author
Peggy Levitt is the Mildred Lane Kemper Chair of Sociology and the Chair of the sociology department at Wellesley College. She is also a co-founder of the Global (De)Centre. Levitt has received Honorary Doctoral Degrees from the University of Helsinki (2017) and from Maastricht University (2014). She was recently a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (2017-2019) and a Distinguished Visitor at the Baptist University of Hong Kong (2019). Her earlier books include Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display (2015), Religion on the Edge (Oxford, 2012), God Needs No Passport (2007), The Transnational Studies Reader (2007), The Changing Face of Home (2002), and The Transnational Villagers (2001). Erica Dobbs is Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College. Her research explores how mass migration forces both states and individuals to rethink the dynamics of political and social citizenship in liberal democratic societies. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Oxford Migration Studies, and other outlets, and has received support from the Fulbright-Schuman program for the European Union, the American Council of Learned Societies foundation, and the Hirsch Research Initiation program at Pomona College. Ken Chih-Yan Sun is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Villanova University. His research interests include families, migration, life stage, inequalities, and globalization. He is the author of Time and Migration: How Long-term Taiwanese Immigrants Negotiate Later Life (2021). He also published his works in Social Problems; Journal of Marriage and Family; Global Networks; Sociological Forum; Qualitative Sociology; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Symbolic Interaction; Identities; Journal of Family Issues; Population, Space, and Place; and Current Sociology. Ruxandra Paul is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, Massachusetts, and a local affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Her research agenda examines the socio-political effects of globalization, supranational integration, and increasingly porous borders. Specific interests include European integration, international migration, citizenship, pandemic politics, and cyberpolitics. Her work has appeared in European Policy Analysis, Oxford Development Studies, PS: Political Science & Politics, Foreign Policy - Romania, and Courrier International. She was a Harvard Academy Dissertation Fellow and a Chateaubriand Fellow of the French Government for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Reviews
This book moves the field forward in several ways. First, it asks important central questions: How do people gain access to social protections within the context of migration? How do they negotiate such protections for themselves and their families as they reside in places offering markedly different levels of or exclusion from state offered social protection? or as they move through the life course? Second, it uses but also notes how much prior research on transnationalism or state-centered social protections cannot fully describe how migrants and their families seek to access such social protections. Finally, and critically, they use empirical fieldwork-based evidence to describe and analyze how these families create resource environments seeking access to social protections. They effectively ground and develop their theoretical arguments with data and cases. An important contribution. * Robert Smith, Baruch College and Graduate Center, CUNY *
This book is the first that introduces a framework to analyze how migration reconfigures social protection transnationally, and what policy and social changes are needed. Based on a wide range of empirical cases from across the world, this pioneering synthesis is an important intervention into the global debates on social welfare now. * Biao Xiang, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology *
Individuals in the transnational world painstakingly documented in this book can no longer triangulate based on citizenship, geography, or even local community. Whether in the area of political rights, education, health, or work, the authors provide salient and sobering insight into what determines social welfare for the millions of people without residence. * David Weil, Heller School for Social Policy, Brandeis University *
This book is an essential reference point in academic and policy debates on transnational social protection and the need to rethink the structures for the provision of social welfare and access to rights across borders given the realities of human mobility in a global context of neoliberalism, inequality, deindustrialization and austerity. * Alexandra Delano Alonso, Associate Professor of Global Studies, The New School *
More and more people are citizens of one country but live and work in another. How do they obtain social protections? How do they manage the vagaries of work, health, and the law? What roles are played by governments, communities, non-profits, families and friends? In Transnational Social Protection, Levitt, Dobbs, Sun, and Paul provide deeply researched answers to these questions. They develop the idea of Hybrid Transnational Social Protections (HTSP) and via case studies and data offer new and compelling insights on migration from the perspective of families struggling to make do in a complicated world. * Paul Osterman, NTU Professor, MIT Sloan School *
This book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners struggling to make sense of the 'triple-win' migration and development discourse. It offers a transnational multi-sectoral approach to thinking afresh about the roles of states, markets, the third sector, and social networks and families in securing migrant rights and protections in a world fragmented by the power of economic nationalism. * Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197666838
Author Peggy Levitt
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 158mm * 235mm * 15mm
