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Migration to and from Welfare States Lived Experiences of the Welfare–Migration Nexus in a Globalised World

Publication year: 2021

ISBN: 978-3-030-67615-5

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This book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ decisions regarding geographical mobility. It challenges the state-centred approach in research on welfare and migration by emphasising migrants’ own reflections and experiences.


Subject: Social Sciences, Migration, Population Economics, Political Science, Immigration and emigration, Nexus of welfare provisions, Global social protection, Migration and integration, Population mobility, Rural to urban migration, Circular and return migration, Welfare-migration nexus, Citizenship, Welfare and mobility, Mobility of the elderly and family-based care, Chinese international students, Children's education and parental migration decisions, Migration and settlement aspirations, Labour mobility from Eastern European welfare states, Healthcare workers and migration, Gender equality in expatriate family migration, Old-age pensions across borders, Social protection across countries