Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (post-)crisis Europe

Projektinformationen

MiTSoPro

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 680014

DOI 10.3030/680014

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 20 Juli 2016

Startdatum 1 November 2016

Enddatum 28 Februar 2023

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten € 1 306 717,98

EU-Beitrag € 1 306 717,98

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE
Belgium

Ziel

The negative employment and social developments across Europe since the start of the crisis, coupled with increased fiscal constraints and changing migration patterns, have led to increasing depictions of EU and third-country immigrants as ‘abusers’ of their social protection systems. Member States have accordingly sought reduce migrants’ ability to access social protection benefits, despite the fact that they are disproportionately at risk of poverty and social exclusion.

This project looks at the different strategies that migrants have to access social protection within (post) crisis Europe and does so by explicitly integrating social policy and migration studies’ approaches on the phenomenon. More precisely, it aims to study transnational social protection, that we define as migrants’ cross-border strategies to cope with social risks in areas such as health, long-term care, pensions or unemployment that combine entitlements to host and home state-based public welfare policies and market-, family- and community-based practices.

This study thus consists in, first, identifying the social protection policies and programs that home countries make accessible to their citizens abroad, and then compiling this information into an online database. We will then aggregate the results of the database into a Transnational Social Protection Index (TSPIx) in order to determine the overall level of engagement of each state with citizens abroad in a comparative way.

Second, on the basis of the results of the index, we will select case studies of migrants from two EU and two non-EU countries that vary in their level of engagement in providing social protection to their citizens abroad. We will then undertake multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork to qualitatively assess the informal social protection strategies used by migrants and examine their interaction with formal host and home state social protection provision.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › databases
• social sciences › sociology › social issues › social inequalities
• social sciences › economics and business › business and management › employment
• social sciences › sociology › social issues › unemployment
• social sciences › sociology › demography › human migrations

Schlüsselbegriffe

• migration
• social protection
• diaspora
• welfare
• European Union

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme

Thema/Themen

• ERC-StG-2015 - ERC Starting Grant

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

ERC-2015-STG

Finanzierungsplan

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Gastgebende Einrichtung

UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 306 717,98
• Adresse: PLACE DU 20 AOUT 7 ; 4000 Liege ; Belgien
• Region: Région wallonne › Prov. Liège › Arr. Liège
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 306 717,98

Begünstigte (1)

UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE

Belgien

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 306 717,98
• Adresse: PLACE DU 20 AOUT 7 ; 4000 Liege
• Region: Région wallonne › Prov. Liège › Arr. Liège
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 306 717,98