Migration to and from Welfare States : : Lived Experiences of the Welfare-Migration Nexus in a Globalised World.

• Superior document: IMISCOE Research Series
• Author: Ryndyk, Oleksandr.
• TeilnehmendeR: Suter, Brigitte.; Odden, Gunhild.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 pages)

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.