Puzzling Social Protection across Several Countries: Opportunistic Strategy or Risky Compensation?

IMISCOE Research Series - Migration to and from Welfare States ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-67615-5_11 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 177-196

Author(s):

Polina Palash ◽

Virginie Baby-Collin

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Social Protection ◽

Transnational Families ◽

Matched Sample ◽

Spatial Perspective ◽

Cross Border ◽

The Cross ◽

The Life Course

AbstractIn a context of increasing mobility, the management of social protection issues from below may encompass several countries. The limited studies on this topic mainly frame migrants’ use of an extended transnational social-protection space as an opportunistic strategy aimed at increasing resources. This chapter analyses the cross-border arrangements of dual Ecuadorian-Spanish citizens coping with the recurrent crisis, adopting a socio-spatial perspective of circulation over the life course. Our findings show that families flexibly adapt to such destabilisations through a mechanism of diffuse circulation of support as compensation practices implying a risky accumulation of constraints and vulnerability. This contrasts with the framings on migrants’ opportunistic and strategic use of social-protection resources and with ‘the welfare magnet’ or ‘welfare tourism’ assumptions. The study draws on fieldwork among 36 transnational families investigated through a multi-sited ethnography in Spain, England and Ecuador in 2015–2016, with a partially matched sample.

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Forced migrant families' assemblages of care and social protection between solidarity and inequality

Journal of Family Research ◽

10.20377/jfr-375 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 415-434 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anna Amelina ◽

Niklaas Bause

Keyword(s):

Social Protection ◽

Well Being ◽

Small Scale ◽

Transnational Families ◽

Cross Border ◽

Migrant Families ◽

Hands On ◽

The Family ◽

The Cross

The article analyses various forms of care and social protection that forced-migrant transnational families exchange despite their individual members living in different countries. It presents outcomes of a small-scale empirical study of the family practices of mobile individuals from Syria and Afghanistan who arrived in Germany during and after the "long summer of 2015". Building on social protection research and transnational care studies, the article introduces the concept of care and protection assemblages, which highlights the heterogeneity, processuality and multi-scalar quality of migrant families’ efforts to improve well-being. It includes an empirical analysis that illustrates key elements of the proposed concept and shows the significance of cross-border circulation of remittances, the selectivity in the cross-border circulation of emotions and limitations on the cross-border circulation of hands-on and practical care. These findings are framed by an analysis of solidarity organizations at the meso-level and (multiscalar) securitized asylum policies at the macro-level in the German context. The proposed conceptual framework takes into consideration migrant families’ simultaneity of solidarity and inequality experiences by locating the examination of family-making at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of analysis.

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Beyond the Cross-Lagged Panel Model: Next-generation statistical tools for analyzing interdependencies across the life course

Advances in Life Course Research ◽

10.1016/j.alcr.2018.10.002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

pp. 100249 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Marcus Mund ◽

Steffen Nestler

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Next Generation ◽

Statistical Tools ◽

Panel Model ◽

The Cross ◽

The Life Course

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The Impact of Life Course Employment and Domestic Duties on the Well-Being of Retired Women and the Social Protection Systems That Frame This

Journal of Aging and Health ◽

10.1177/0898264318821205 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (5-6) ◽

pp. 285-295 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sara Zella ◽

Sarah Harper

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Women’S Health ◽

Women's Health ◽

Social Protection ◽

Positive Association ◽

Later Life ◽

Well Being ◽

Welfare States ◽

The Life Course ◽

The Impact

Objectives: The article addresses whether specific combinations of employment and domestic duties over the life course are associated with variations in women’s health at the time of retirement. It also explores the differences of this relationship in four European welfare states. Method: Women from three waves of SHARE (Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe) are grouped using sequence analysis. Using logistic regression models, group differences in later life depression and self-reported health are tested. Predicted probabilities are applied to analyze welfares’ differences. Results: The findings confirm that a combination of employment and domestic duties across the life course has a positive association with later life health. Being outside the labor market is detrimental for women’s health. Well-being across the life course is framed by the welfare context in which women live. Discussion: We suggest that further research is needed to explore the mechanisms linking work and care trajectories to poor health and enable appropriate interventions.

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Beyond the Cross-Lagged Panel Model: Next-Generation Statistical Tools for Analyzing Interdependencies Across the Life Course

10.31234/osf.io/zfy85 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Marcus Mund ◽

Steffen Nestler

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Change Score ◽

Latent Trajectory ◽

Panel Model ◽

Random Intercept ◽

The Cross ◽

Individual Variables ◽

Score Model ◽

The Life Course

For decades, researchers have employed the Cross-Lagged Panel Model (CLPM) to analyze the interactions and interdependencies of a wide variety of inner- or supra-individual variables across the life course. However, in the last years the CLPM has been criticized for its underlying assumptions and several alternative models have been proposed that allow to relax these assumptions. With the Random-Intercept CLPM, the Autoregressive Latent Trajectory Model with Structured Residuals, and the Dual Change Score Model, we describe three of the most prominent alternatives to the CLPM and provide an impression about how to interpret the results obtained with these models. To this end, we illustrate the use of the presented models with an empirical example on the interplay between self-esteem and relationship satisfaction. We provide R and Mplus scripts that might help life course researchers to use these novel and powerful alternatives to the CLPM in their own research.

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