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Migration and social protection [electronic resource] : claiming social rights beyond borders / [edited by] Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Rayah Feldman.

The growing scale of international migration has generated new questions about the social rights and social protection available to people outside their countries of origin. In particular, this rings true for the hidden extent of South-South migration which represents about two fifths of all global...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel, 1971-, Feldman, Rayah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2011.
Series:Rethinking international development series.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration.
Human rights.
Immigrants > Civil rights.
Foreign workers > Civil rights.
Refugees > Civil rights.
Noncitizens > Civil rights.
Undocumented immigrants.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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