Migration and Social Protection: Claiming Social Rights Beyond Borders

By Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349319155
• ISBN13: 9781349319152
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"