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Introduction: Mapping Migrant Welfare onto Social Provisioning

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International migration of all kinds has grown significantly since the mid-twentieth century. It has become an important element of globalization, with political, economic and social implications for both sending and receiving countries. Inevitably there has been a concomitant increase in scholarly attempts to understand and theorize migratory processes.

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  1. Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK

    Rachel Sabates-Wheeler (Research Fellow Centre for Social Protection) (Research Fellow Centre for Social Protection)

  2. Department of Arts and Human Sciences, London South Bank University, UK

    Rayah Feldman (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow) (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow)

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Sabates-Wheeler, R., Feldman, R. (2011). Introduction: Mapping Migrant Welfare onto Social Provisioning. In: Sabates-Wheeler, R., Feldman, R. (eds) Migration and Social Protection. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306554_1

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