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Migration and Social Protection

Claiming Social Rights Beyond Borders

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

    1. Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK

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  2. Rayah Feldman

    1. Department of Arts and Human Sciences, London South Bank University, UK

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Part of the book series: Rethinking International Development series (RID)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Frameworks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Mapping Migrant Welfare onto Social Provisioning

      • Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Rayah Feldman
      Pages 3-35

    3. Migration and Citizenship: Rights and Exclusions

      • Tendayi Bloom, Rayah Feldman
      Pages 36-60

    4. Structures of Access to Social Provision for Migrants

      • Ian MacAuslan, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
      Pages 61-87

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. ‘An Increasingly Uncomfortable Environment’: Access to Health Care for Documented and Undocumented Migrants in the UK

      • Rosalind Bragg, Rayah Feldman
      Pages 143-163

    3. A Market Place for Migrants: Mobility, Settlement and Social Protection in Kerala

      • Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma
      Pages 164-182

    4. Crossing Internal Boundaries: Political and Physical Access to the Public Distribution System in India

      • Ian MacAuslan
      Pages 183-209

    5. Social Protection as a Multi-Actor Process in Ecuadorian Migration: Towards a Transnationalism of Social Rights?

      • Paolo Boccagni
      Pages 210-231

    6. Coping and Investment Strategies of Migrants in the South: Malawian Migrants in South Africa

      • Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
      Pages 232-261

    7. Bangladeshi Labour Migrants in the Gulf: Coping with a Large Unmet Need for Social Protection

      • Chowdhury R. Abrar
      Pages 262-282

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 283-292
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About this book

The growing scale of international migration has reshaped the debate on the social rights and social protection available to people outside their countries of origin. This book uses conceptual frameworks, policy analysis and empirical studies of migrants to explore international migrants' needs for and access to social protection across the world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK

    Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

  • Department of Arts and Human Sciences, London South Bank University, UK

    Rayah Feldman

About the editors

C R ABRAR is Professor of International Relations and Executive Director of the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. MYTHRI PRASAD ALEYAMMA is a PhD student at Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. JOHANNA AVATO is an economist consulting for the World Bank's Human Development Network for Social Protection and Labor (HDNSP). PAOLO BOCCAGNI is Research Fellow at the University of Trento, Italy. TENDAYI BLOOM is a PhD student in the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Research Associate in the Centre for the Study of Migration, also at Queen Mary. ROSALIND BRAGG is Director of the UK charity Maternity Action. JOHANNES KOETTL is an economist at the Human Development Department of the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia unit. IAN MACAUSLAN is a consultant in Oxford Policy Management's Poverty Reduction and Social Protection portfolio. MARIUS OLIVIER is Director of the International Institute for Social Law and Policy (IISLP), Australia.

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