scholarly journals Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Cyprus

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
Christos Koutsampelas
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Migrant Population ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Economic Context

Abstract Cyprus has been an attractive destination for labour migration the last decades. The needs of the growing migrant population are catered by an evolving and continuously adapting welfare system. The chapter analyses the main features of the current welfare system in Cyprus with brief references to recent migration patterns and the wider economic context to analyse how differences in statutory provisions affect the access of nationals and migrants to social protection. The overall conclusion is that there are few statutory provisions differentiating conditions of access among the two groups. These differences are observed in regard to means-tested non-contributory benefits and mostly affect non-EU foreign citizens, while there are not specific social protection schemes targeting national citizens residing abroad.

scholarly journals Are Poland and Ukraine Gravity Centres for Each Other? Study on the Labour Migration Patterns

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz E. Sokołowicz ◽  
Ihor Lishchynskyy
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Effect ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Migration Flows

The paper consists of three parts. It starts with an introduction followed, by theoretical backgrounds of migration, outlining its main types and models. The next parts highlight the volume, directions and structure of migration flows for Ukraine and Poland. The evolution of the Ukraine-Poland migration channel and its mutual effect on the economies of both countries is highlighted in the final part.

scholarly journals Care of the elderly persons in the system of social protection in the Republic of Srpska

2010 ◽  
pp. 239-253
Author(s):  
Ljubo Lepir
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Adequate Model ◽  
Decentralized System ◽  
Social Welfare System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic

The number of the elderly in the overall population is increasing, which poses a need to seek an adequate model of organizing social care of the elderly. Most of them get social safety through the social welfare system. A functional and sustainable social welfare system requires application of efficient management and technique models based on the theoretical premises of contemporary management. The role and the importance of old people's protection in a social welfare system is becoming a topic of great importance both for theoreticians and the practitioners in the social sector area. This research analyzes the management functions and the roles of managers in running social protection of the elderly in the example of the social welfare system in the Republic of Srpska. A decentralized system, such as the one existing in the Republic of Srpska, brings along a number of organizational problems which points out to a need to apply the theoretical bases of managerial processes. The results obtained via empirical analyses indicate a number of deficiencies and obstacles in the implementation of social protection of the elderly in the social welfare system of the Republic of Srpska which are result of the insufficient and inconsistent application of the basic managerial elements. The obstacles emerging from this analysis indicate that there are chances and opportunities to improve the system and enhance the development of new forms of protection by applying managerial theories. .

scholarly journals Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Romania

2020 ◽  
pp. 361-377
Author(s):  
Irina Burlacu ◽  
Sorina Soare ◽  
Daniela Vintila
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Life Cycle Stages ◽  
Social Provisions

Abstract This chapter examines to what extent the Romanian welfare system covers resident citizens compared to foreigners residing in Romania and Romanians living abroad. In doing so, we analyse existing social policies aiming to ensure their coverage against a variety of risks at different life-cycle stages, including unemployment, poverty, sickness and old-age. The main conclusion is that the Romanian welfare state is open to all residents, regardless of their nationality, thus providing everyone equal grounds for accessing social benefits. The criterion of residence on the Romanian soil is, however, prevalent. This implies that relatively few social provisions are extended for non-resident Romanians, which represent an increasingly sizeable community given the intensity of migration outflows in recent years. Furthermore, the Romanian social protection system has had relatively little impact on reducing the risk of poverty and income inequality in the country, despite regular amendments during the last years.

Social Welfare in India

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shrivridhi Shukla ◽  
Arpita Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
The Government ◽  
Private Corporations

India’s rapid economic growth is accompanied by economic inequality, poverty, and a range of social issues, thus, raising important questions concerning the breadth and depth of social protection and promotion policies prevalent in the country. The social welfare system in India is different for the formal and informal sectors of the economy. It consists of two largely parallel systems. With respect to the formal economy or the organized sector, it operates directly through the government, state-owned enterprises, and/ or private corporations that provide reasonably strong social protection to their employees through mandatory legislations spanning aspects such as payment of gratuity, employees’ provident fund, and the employees’ state insurance fund. In contrast, the informal or the unorganized sector is covered through a fragmented system of welfare schemes and benefits provided by the central government and the respective state governments. Along with tracing the historical evolution of India’s welfare system, this article outlines the constitutional place of welfare in the country. With respect to the informal sector of the economy, it provides an overview of some of the key promotion and protection-orientated welfare policies and schemes, including those that address poverty, unemployment, education, health and food insecurity. Further, it discusses the barriers experienced by people in accessing welfare benefits, such as corruption and bureaucratic hurdles, and challenges faced by the government in welfare provision, such as scale of operation and identification of the target population groups. Finally, it assesses the country’s welfare system in light of the Global Social Protection Floor Initiative of the ILO-UN.

Some thoughts about migration of maritime workers in the eighteenth-century North Sea region

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelle van Lottum
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Migrant Population ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Qualitative Changes

This article discusses some key aspects of labour migration in the eighteenth-century maritime labour market, focussing in particular on the changes that occurred over the course of the century and their effect on receiving and sending economies. These changes consisted not only of a marked expansion in the number of migrant workers engaged in the maritime sector; the characteristics of the migrant population were significantly altered as well. The article argues that the quantitative and qualitative changes in the maritime labour market caused the effects of migration in this important economic sector to change substantially throughout the century, having an impact on both the sending and receiving regions.

Rational skivers or desperate strivers? The problematisation of fraud in the Irish social protection system

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Gaffney ◽  
Michelle Millar
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Financial Hardship ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Welfare Fraud ◽  
First Time

The Irish social protection system has taken an increasingly workfarist turn in the post-crisis era. Concurrently, ‘welfare fraud’ emerged as a contentious political issue, leading some commentators to argue certain groups of welfare claimants have been cast as ‘scapegoats’ for widely experienced financial hardship. This article brings these two points of inquiry together for the first time by critically engaging with two anti-fraud strategy policy documents, from 2011 and 2014 respectively, using a Foucauldian inspired policy analysis methodology called ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ We find the practices outlined in these documents predominantly problematise fraud as an act carried out by entrepreneurial ‘rational actors’ – silencing alternative problematisations of abuse and error. Furthermore, welfare claimants are constituted as subjects under constant surveillance, reinforcing the workfarist turn, but also potentially serving to undermine the legitimacy of the welfare system in the eyes of both claimants and wider society.

scholarly journals Toward a Precarious Projectariat? Project dynamics in Slovenian and French social services

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 1873-1895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Greer ◽  
Barbara Samaluk ◽  
Charles Umney
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Project Organization ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
European Social Fund ◽  
Social Fund ◽  
State Affect ◽  
Project Dynamics

Project organization is used extensively to promote creativity, innovation and responsiveness to local context, but can lead to precarious employment. This paper compares European Social Fund (ESF)-supported projects supporting ‘active inclusion’ of disadvantaged clients in Slovenia and France. Despite many similarities between the two social protection fields in task, temporality, teams and socio-economic context, the projects had different dynamics with important implications for workers. In Slovenia project dynamics have been precarious, leading to insecure jobs and reduced status for front-line staff; in France, by contrast, projects and employment have been relatively stable. Our explanation highlights the transaction, more specifically, the capacity of government agencies to function as intermediaries managing the transactions through which ESF money is disbursed to organizations providing services. We find that transnational pressures on the state affect its capacity as a transaction organizer to stabilize the organizational field. In Slovenia, transnational pressures associated with austerity and European Union integration have stripped away this capacity more radically than in France, leading to precarious project dynamics and risk shifting onto project workers.

scholarly journals Between ‘Labour Migration’ and ‘New European Mobilities’: Motivations for Migration of Southern and Eastern Europeans in the EU

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maricia Fischer-Souan
Keyword(s):  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Decision To Leave ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Country Level

This article investigates in comparative perspective different accounts of the motivations for migration offered by Bulgarian, Romanian, Italian and Spanish nationals living in another EU country, or planning to move. In-depth interviews yield a range of accounts for the decision to leave the home-country, from narrowly defined economic motivations, professional and ‘qualitative’ labour market considerations, to desires for cultural/lifestyle exploration. Both individual and country-level factors are mobilised in motivational accounts, which are also set against the backdrop of major external shocks, such as the 2007 enlargement of the European Union and the 2008 global financial crisis. Findings highlight the need to consider the interplay between macro and individual-level factors—that is, perceptions of cultural, economic, political and societal structures as well as individual characteristics—in studying migratory behaviour. Moreover, the findings to a certain extent support the distinction between the ‘classic’ labour migration behaviour of Bulgarian and Romanian respondents and the ‘new European mobilities’ of Italian and Spanish participants, who emphasise more the overlapping professional, affective, cultural and quality of life considerations that shape the decision to move. However, convergence across groups may be expected in the future as East-West movers become more socialised into ‘new’ cultures of European mobility and as South–North migration patterns increasingly reinforce some of the ‘periphery-core’ dynamics of contemporary intra-EU mobility.

scholarly journals Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Hungary

2020 ◽  
pp. 211-223
Author(s):  
Gábor Juhász
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Public Attitude ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
The Third ◽  
Relevant Topic ◽  
Filtering Effect ◽  
Social Security Benefits

Abstract Given the recent salience of anti-immigrant propaganda and politics in Hungary, the inclusiveness of the Hungarian social legislation towards individuals in a situation of international mobility is a particularly relevant topic. The first section of this chapter gives an overview of the Hungarian welfare system and the main migration feature in the country. The second section closely examines differences in terms of access of nationals and non-nationals to social security benefits. The third section demonstrates that, despite negative public attitude to migration and anti-migration government measures, the Hungarian social legislation is not particularly restrictive concerning migrants’ entitlement to social security benefits. We conclude that it is probably due to the filtering effect of contributory benefits that dominate the Hungarian welfare system and prevent gaining access to the most essential benefits without work. At the same time, the chapter identifies several obstacles that foreign (and particularly non-EU) residents face when trying to access social security benefits in Hungary.

scholarly journals External Explanations

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-211
Author(s):  
Leonardo Morlino ◽  
Daniela Piana ◽  
Cecilia E. Sottilotta
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Institutional Architecture ◽  
The Impact

When checking the influence of European Union empirically, as for inequalities, first, the amount of resources which are devoted to cohesion policy is still negligible. Second, looking at the effects of the crisis and the impact of austerity measures, compounded by significant reforms of the EMU institutional architecture, the six countries under examination were affected to different degrees. Germany was mostly immune to the crisis, and Poland even experienced sustained growth during the crisis years. As a non-member of the Eurozone, the UK was affected by the crisis but retained its monetary sovereignty, and its commitment to austerity with a decline in social protection, healthcare and education cannot be directly traced to EU-level commitments. France avoided a significant overhaul of its welfare system, while Spain and Italy experienced a contraction, especially in the sectors of healthcare and education. As for freedoms, in the case of the possible ‘trade-off’ between the need to guarantee security in the face of domestic and international terrorism and citizens’ right to privacy, the middle ground established by the current EU ‘Privacy Shield’ paradigm leaves several problems unsolved. Moreover, it is essential to mention that the mechanism put in place by Article 7 of the Treaty on the European Union to sanction possible violations of those values and principles, has not been sufficient to stop the current democratic backslides in some member states, notably Poland and Hungary. To sum up, the new scenario seems to depict a more nuanced predominance of the transnational provisions in terms of European freedoms and a reshaping of the domestic-European balance.

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