Migration to and from Welfare States : Lived Experiences of the Welfare-Migration Nexus in a Globalised World.
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2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Migration to and from Welfare States
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Chapter 1: Welfare and Mobility: Migrants' Experiences of Social Welfare Protection in Transnational and Translocal Spaces
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Welfare and Migration as a Research Field
- 1.3 Moving Beyond the Nation-State-Centred Approach
- 1.3.1 Key Issues
- 1.3.2 Key Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
- 1.3.3 Study Contexts
- 1.4 Content of the Book
- 1.5 Instead of a Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2: The Mobility of the Elderly and Family-Based Care: A Case Study of Chinese Migrant (Grand)Parents
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The Chinese Family-Based Care Regime in the Context of Social Transformations
- 2.3 Research Context and Methods
- 2.4 The Decision to Move
- 2.4.1 To Move Permanently: Fear of Becoming the 'Empty-Nest' Elderly
- 2.4.2 Grandparents 'on Duty': Temporary Migration and a Choice of No-Choice
- 2.5 The Return-or-Stay Dilemma
- 2.5.1 Grandparents as an Important Care (Re)Source for the Nuclear Family
- 2.5.2 Balancing Care Needs and Resources Within the Family
- 2.5.3 Dependency on Filial Care and Fear of Being a Burden
- 2.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3: Keeping It in the Family: Rotating Chains in Women's Transnational Care Work Between Italy and Ukraine
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The Main Features of Ukrainian and Italian Welfare States in the Past Decades
- 3.3 The Rotational Care System
- 3.4 Data and Methods
- 3.5 Ambivalence and Contradiction in the Gender Contract in Post-Soviet Ukraine
- 3.6 Responsibilities in a Migrant Family: All the Way around
- 3.7 New Forms of Family Mobility Capital
- 3.8 Conclusions
- References.
- Chapter 4: From Familial Pressure to Seeking One's Fortune: Chinese International Students' Search for Geographical and Social Mobility as a Response to Societal and Familial Pressures
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The Post-1980s Generation or bālínghòu
- 4.3 Sen's Development as Freedom
- 4.4 Method and Participants
- 4.5 Embodying Modernity Through Global Capital
- 4.5.1 Reasons for Leaving China
- 4.5.2 Why IUN?
- 4.5.3 The Opening Up of Life Trajectories
- 4.5.4 Parental Pressures
- 4.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5: 'He Has a Better Chance Here, So We Stay'. Children's Education and Parental Migration Decisions
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Welfare and Migration
- 5.3 School as an Element of the Welfare State
- 5.4 School and Life Chances
- 5.5 Methodology
- 5.6 Migrant Strategies in the Context of the Welfare State
- 5.6.1 Norwegian School in the Eyes of Polish Parents
- 5.6.2 Increasing Life Chances - Parents' Supplementary Strategies
- 5.7 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6: Settling for Welfare? Shifting Access to Welfare, Migration and Settlement Aspirations of Filipina Single Mothers in Japan
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Immigration and Welfare in Japan
- 6.3 Theoretical Framework
- 6.4 Research Methods and Data
- 6.5 Filipina Mothers' Transnational Social Protection
- 6.5.1 Marriage to Divorce
- 6.5.2 From a Nuclear to a Single-Parent Family
- 6.5.3 From Part-Time to Full-Time Employment and Home-Ownership
- 6.6 To Settle or to Return? The Impact of Social Welfare on Filipinas' Migration and Settlement Aspirations
- 6.7 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7: Labour Mobility from Eastern European Welfare States: Zooming in on Romania and Slovakia
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Family-Related Policies in and Care Mobility from Romania and Slovakia
- 7.3 Concepts and Theoretical Perspectives
- 7.4 Methods and Data.
- 7.5 The Needs of Care Workers' Families and Strategies Employed to Address Them
- 7.6 Care Needs as a Determinant of Mobility: The Tipping Point
- 7.7 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8: Welfare Considerations Underpinning Healthcare Workers' Decision About Migration: The Case of Slovenia
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The Migration of Healthcare Workers
- 8.3 The Slovenian Case
- 8.4 Spectrum of Motivations for Migrating
- 8.4.1 Subjective Wellbeing
- 8.4.2 Social Welfare Benefits and Services
- 8.4.3 Patients' Welfare
- 8.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 9: When the Expatriate Wife Returns Home: Swedish Women Navigating National Welfare Politics and Ideals of Gender Equality in Expatriate Family Migration
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 From Gender Equality to Homemaker and Back Again
- 9.3 Gender and Migration in the Swedish Pension System
- 9.4 Fieldwork in an All-Women's Network
- 9.5 The Transnationalisation of Social Inequality
- 9.6 Leaving Working Life - And Losing Swedish National Identity?
- 9.7 To Be a Homemaker: On Subordination and Dependency
- 9.8 'What Do you Do all Day Long?'
- 9.9 Back to the Future in the Swedish Welfare State
- 9.10 Family-Oriented Privileges and Gendered Dependency
- 9.11 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 10: (Im)mobility Patterns among Polish Unemployed Migrants in Iceland Navigating Different Welfare Regimes
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Intra-European Labour Mobility
- 10.3 Methods
- 10.4 The Financial Crisis, Unemployment and (Im)Mobility Patterns Among Polish Migrants in Iceland
- 10.5 Mobile Workers Facing the National Logic of Welfare Regimes
- 10.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 11: Puzzling Social Protection across Several Countries: Opportunistic Strategy or Risky Compensation?
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Managing an Enlarged Transnational Social-Protection Space.
- 11.3 Research Methods
- 11.4 Balancing TSP Between Here, There and Beyond
- 11.4.1 Juan's Family
- 11.4.2 Ramón's Family
- 11.5 The (Im)Mobility of People and Provisions in a TSP Space
- 11.5.1 Differential Circulatory Capabilities
- 11.5.2 The Diffuse Circulation of Support as a Compensatory Adaptation to Constraining Environments
- 11.5.3 Low Socio-Economic-Status Families: Thick Reciprocity and (Inter-)Dependence
- 11.5.4 High Socio-Economic-Status Families: Thin Reciprocity and Autonomy
- 11.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 12: Beloved Land, Beloved Family: The Role of Welfare in Timorese Migration to England
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Theoretical Lens: Culturally Situated Welfare-Resource Environments
- 12.3 The Case: Timorese Migration to England
- 12.4 Data and Methods
- 12.5 The Role of Labour Markets in Welfare Provision
- 12.5.1 (Un)employment and Labour-Market Conditions in Timor-Leste
- 12.5.2 Employment and Labour-Market Conditions in England
- 12.6 State-Based Welfare Provision
- 12.6.1 State Responsibility, Distrust, Dependency and Education in Timor-Leste
- 12.6.2 Welfare Systems in England: Social Security, Taxation, Healthcare, Law and Education
- 12.7 Family-Based Welfare Provision
- 12.7.1 The Role of Family: Migration Determinants, Remittances and Return
- 12.7.2 Interdependence and Independence in Culturally Embedded Welfare Provision
- 12.8 In Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 13: Securing Old-Age Pensions Across Borders: Sudanese Transnational Families Across the Netherlands, the UK and Sudan
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Mobile Populations in Immobile Welfare Systems
- 13.2.1 Growing Old Across Borders
- 13.2.2 Aging in Sudan
- 13.3 Data and Methods
- 13.4 Catering for Old-Age Needs Across Borders and Generations
- 13.4.1 Providing for One's Parents Pension.
- 13.4.2 Arranging One's Own Pension
- 13.5 Conclusions
- References.