Migration and Social Protection: Claiming Social Rights Beyond Borders

ISBN-13: 9780230245914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 292 str.

Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel

Opis

The growing scale of international migration has reshaped the debate on the social rights and social protection available to people outside their countries of origin. This book uses conceptual frameworks, policy analysis and empirical studies of migrants to explore international migrants' needs for and access to social protection across the world.

Spis treści

PART I: FRAMEWORKS Introduction: Mapping Migrant Welfare onto Social Provisioning: Access and Control; R.Sabates-Wheeler & R.Feldman Migration and Citizenship: Rights and Exclusions; T.Bloom & R.Feldman Structures of Access to Social Protection for Migrants; R.Sabates-Wheeler & I.Macauslan PART II: POLICIES AND POLICY SPACES Social Security for Migrants: Trends, Best Practice and Ways Forward; R.Sabates-Wheeler, J.Koettl & J.Avato Political and Regulatory Dimensions of Access, Portability and Exclusion: Social Security for Migrants, with an Emphasis on Migrants in Southern Africa; M.Olivier PART III: CASE STUDIES 'An Increasingly Uncomfortable Environment': Access to Health Care for Documented and Undocumented Migrants in the UK; R.Bragg & R.Feldman A Market Place for Migrants: Mobility, Settlement and Social Protection in Kerala; M.P.Aleyamma Crossing Internal Boundaries: Political and Physical Access to the Public Distribution System in India; I.Macauslan Social Protection as a Multi-Actor Process in Ecuadorian Migration: Towards a Transnationalism of Social Rights?; P.Boccagni Coping and Investment Strategies of Migrants in the South: Social Protection Profiles of Malawian Migrants in South Africa; R.Sabates-Wheeler Bangladeshi Labour Migrants in the Gulf: Coping With a Large Unmet Need for Social Protection; C.R.Abrar Conclusion; R.Sabates-Wheeler & R.Feldman

O autorze

C R ABRAR is Professor of International Relations and Executive Director of the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. MYTHRI PRASAD ALEYAMMA is a PhD student at Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. JOHANNA AVATO is an economist consulting for the World Bank's Human Development Network for Social Protection and Labor (HDNSP). PAOLO BOCCAGNI is Research Fellow at the University of Trento, Italy. TENDAYI BLOOM is a PhD student in the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Research Associate in the Centre for the Study of Migration, also at Queen Mary. ROSALIND BRAGG is Director of the UK charity Maternity Action. JOHANNES KOETTL is an economist at the Human Development Department of the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia unit. IAN MACAUSLAN is a consultant in Oxford Policy Management's Poverty Reduction and Social Protection portfolio. MARIUS OLIVIER is Director of the International Institute for Social Law and Policy (IISLP), Australia.