Transnational Social Protection

Peggy Levitt is the Mildred Lane Kemper Chair of Sociology and the Chair of the sociology department at Wellesley College. She is also a co-founder of the Global (De)Centre. Levitt has received Honorary Doctoral Degrees from the University of Helsinki (2017) and from Maastricht University (2014). She was recently a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (2017-2019) and a Distinguished Visitor at the Baptist University of Hong Kong (2019). Her earlier books include Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display (2015), Religion on the Edge (Oxford, 2012), God Needs No Passport (2007), The Transnational Studies Reader (2007), The Changing Face of Home (2002), and The Transnational Villagers (2001).Erica Dobbs is Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College. Her research explores how mass migration forces both states and individuals to rethink the dynamics of political and social citizenship in liberal democratic societies. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Oxford Migration Studies, and other outlets, and has received support from the Fulbright-Schuman program for the European Union, the American Council of Learned Societies foundation, and the Hirsch Research Initiation program at Pomona College.Ken Chih-Yan Sun is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Villanova University. His research interests include families, migration, life stage, inequalities, and globalization. He is the author of Time and Migration: How Long-term Taiwanese Immigrants Negotiate Later Life (2021). He also published his works in Social Problems; Journal of Marriage and Family; Global Networks; Sociological Forum; Qualitative Sociology; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Symbolic Interaction; Identities; Journal of Family Issues; Population, Space, and Place; and Current Sociology.Ruxandra Paul is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, Massachusetts, and a local affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Her research agenda examines the socio-political effects of globalization, supranational integration, and increasingly porous borders. Specific interests include European integration, international migration, citizenship, pandemic politics, and cyberpolitics. Her work has appeared in European Policy Analysis, Oxford Development Studies, PS: Political Science & Politics, Foreign Policy - Romania, and Courrier International. She was a Harvard Academy Dissertation Fellow and a Chateaubriand Fellow of the French Government for Humanities and Social Sciences.

This book moves the field forward in several ways. First, it asks important central questions: How do people gain access to social protections within the context of migration? How do they negotiate such protections for themselves and their families as they reside in places offering markedly different levels of or exclusion from state offered social protection? or as they move through the life course? Second, it uses but also notes how much prior research on transnationalism or state-centered social protections cannot fully describe how migrants and their families seek to access such social protections. Finally, and critically, they use empirical fieldwork-based evidence to describe and analyze how these families create resource environments seeking access to social protections. They effectively ground and develop their theoretical arguments with data and cases. An important contribution.

• Introduction Chapter One: Children and Families Chapter Two: Education Chapter Three: Labor Chapter Four: Health Chapter Five: Aging and Elder Care Conclusion NotesReferences Index