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Transnational social protection

Setting the agenda

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ID23373134
AuthorsP Levitt (0000-0002-6427-0101, Wellesley College, corresponding author), Jocelyn Viterna (0000-0002-3038-2199, Harvard University), Armin Mueller (0000-0001-9375-5872, University of Göttingen), Charlotte Lloyd (0000-0002-5597-2072, Harvard University)
Year2017
Volume45
Issue1
Pages2-19
Publication date2017-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueOxford Development Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-0818 • E-ISSN: 1469-9966
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13600818.2016.1239702
OpenAlexW2528862121
LanguageEN
Citations received87
References cited39

Social welfare has long been considered something which states provide to its citizens. Yet today 220 million people live in a country in which they do not hold citizenship. How are people on the move protected and provided for in the contemporary global context? Have institutional sources of social welfare begun to cross borders to meet the needs of individuals who live transnational lives? This introductory paper proposes a transnational social protection (TSP) research agenda designed to map the kinds of protections which exist for people on the move, determine how these protections travel across borders, and analyze variations in access to these protections. We define TSP; introduce the heuristic tool of a ‘resource environment’ to map and analyze variations in TSP over time, through space, and across individuals; and provide empirical examples demonstrating the centrality of TSP for scholars of states, social welfare, development, and migration.

Centrality · Citizenship · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Social protection · Social Welfare · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Welfare · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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