Labor Migrants at Risk
Formal and Informal Insurance Strategies among Central Asians in Moscow
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2634083 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Sandra Pellet (0000-0003-4828-5415, Paris-Est Sup, autor correspondente), Marine De Talancé (0000-0003-2261-0718, Université Gustave Eiffel) |
| Ano | 2023 |
| Volume | 39 - n°1 |
| Páginas | 101-129 |
| Data de publicação | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Revue européenne des migrations internationales (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0765-0752 • E-ISSN: 1777-5418 |
| Editora | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/remi.22238 |
| OpenAlex | W4319985631 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 46 |
This article studies formal and informal risk-mitigating practices among Central Asian labor migrants in Moscow. The migration context is inherently uncertain, implying that migrants may try to protect themselves against potential risks by resorting to insurance mechanisms. However, migration is a unique situation that raises a number of questions. First of all, do formal protective institutions or insurance markets exist in the country of arrival? Secondly, if state or market insurance schemes exist, are they accessible to all migrants? What do at-risk labor migrants do when they cannot rely on formal schemes? Central Asian people are used to relying on social networks and informal practices in their home country. Previous articles have shown that these informal networks may be transposed in a migratory context, suggesting that informal risk-mitigating practices can be a substitute for formal insurance schemes and act as a social safety net for precarious migrants not covered by social security or insurance contracts. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between informal and formal insurance schemes and whether these can act as a substitute or complement among Tajikistani and Uzbekistani migrants, based on a survey of 1,213 labor migrants in Moscow
Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Informal sector · Market economy · Political science · Safety net · Social insurance · Social security · Agricultural risk and resilience · Employment and Welfare Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics
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