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Structures of Access to Social Provision for Migrants

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Migration and Social Protection

Part of the book series: Rethinking International Development Series ((RID))

Abstract

Low-income migrants are often more vulnerable and have poorer access to social provisioning than low-income non-migrants. The ethical and legal arguments for the right or entitlement of migrants to social provision have been discussed in Chapter 1. In this chapter we start from the hypothesis that being entitled or having a right to social provision does not guarantee that it is actually received. Of course, receiving welfare provision depends on formal entitlements specified in international and national laws, regulations and policies. Provision can be granted, denied, controlled and obscured at this level. However, successfully claiming social provision in practice turns on the way that individuals (formally entitled or not) are able to leverage opportunities for accessing resources. This hypothesis implies that getting the formal rules right is not enough.

While overlapping, ‘social provision’ is a broader concept than ‘social protection.’ The latter typically has a remit defined by instruments of provision and/or targeted populations. In this chapter we use the term ‘social provision’ as we are interested in the conceptual basis of access and distribution to all types of welfare provision and all types of groups.

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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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MacAuslan, I., Sabates-Wheeler, R. (2011). Structures of Access to Social Provision for Migrants. In: Sabates-Wheeler, R., Feldman, R. (eds) Migration and Social Protection. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306554_3

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