Call for papers

 

 

 

 

REVISTA MIGRACIONES

INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE ESTUDIOS SOBRE MIGRACIONES

UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA COMILLAS

(MONOGRAPHIC)

 

The Transnationalization of Social Protection

Guest Editors

  • Sonia Parella. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB)
    PhD in Sociology at UAB and currently professor at the Department of Sociology (UAB) and director of CER-Migracions (UAB).
  • Alisa Petroff. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
    PhD in sociology at UAB and currently postdoctoral researcher of the Researching Gender in the Network Society - GenTIC at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute - IN3 (UOC). Collaborator of the CER-Migracions (UAB).
  • Thales Speroni. Universidade de Brasilia (UnB) y Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
    PhD in sociology at UAB and Federal Univeristy of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and currently postdoctoral researcher of the Escola de Medicina (PUCRS) and Observatório das Migrações Internacionais – OBMigra (UnB). Collaborator of the CER-Migracions (UAB).
 

Presentation

National and global social protection systems have undergone profound transformations in recent decades. Since the mid-1970s, the Welfare State model, consolidated throughout the 20th century to reduce inequalities, has continuously been questioned. The different economic crises have accelerated the deterioration of the Welfare State in countries with robust protection systems and have limited possible expansions in other countries. Thus, in the era of globalization, social risks have increased for a significant part of the population. Austerity policies have particularly affected the most vulnerable social groups, including migrants. Their fragile position in the labour market and their legal status, largely explain the difficulties in accessing health care services, social assistance, unemployment benefits, family benefits, social housing, among other forms of social protection. These challenges point to a reconfiguration of the state's role as the primary provider of protection. Different academics stress the need to shape a "new social contract" that goes "beyond the nation-state"1. In this new scenario, a research agenda has been designed around transnational social protection (TSP), whose objective is to understand the interfaces between migration and social protection. The TSP arises from the need to develop an analytical framework capable of understanding the new forms of production and distribution of risks and protections. The aim is to build synergies between studies focused on national welfare regimes, global social policies and transnational care. Such convergences are essential to overcome the frameworks that limit the welfare to a national scale, that dilute it in a de-spatialized globalization or describe it in the microcosm of care relationships.

References1

Bilecen, B., & Barglowski, K. (2015). On the assemblages of informal and formal transnational social protection. Population, Space and Place, 21(3), 203–214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.1897
Boccagni, P. (2017). Addressing transnational needs through migration? An inquiry into the reach and consequences of migrants’ social protection across borders. Global Social Policy, 17(2), 168–187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468018116678523
Faist, T. (2019). The transnationalized social question: Migration and the politics of social inequalities in the twenty-first century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199249015.001.0001
Levitt, P., Viterna, J., Mueller, A., & Llyod, C. (2017). Transnational social protection: Setting the agenda. Oxford Development Studies, 45(1), 2–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2016.1239702

Content

In order to contribute to the TSP agenda, this special issue invites the submission of articles addressing theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the interfaces between migration, transnationality and social protection. Submissions from different disciplines (sociology, anthropology, demography, geography and law) are encouraged. This special issue presents the following guide questions:

  • What are the main contributions from the field of migratory studies to the debate on transnational social protection?
  • What are the strategies, methodological designs, and techniques that allow us to analyze the transnational dynamics of social protection?
  • In what ways and with what social implications do transnational families develop social protection strategies in the fields of education, health and social security?

These questions are indicative. Proposals on other topics and approaches related to the special issue may be accepted.

Important dates

  • Submissions of papers: from March 6 to July 31, 2020

The papers, duly anonymized, will be submitted through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform. The platform can be accessed on the journal’s web page.
In the submission through the OJS platform, it must be clearly specified it is a paper sent for the special issue on TSP.
The editorial standards of the Journal are available to the authors on the website.
Articles will have a maximum length of 9,000 words (in Spanish or English).
Only original papers that follow the academic structure and requirements will be accepted: abstract, keywords, introduction, theoretical framework, state of the art, methodology and objectives; presentation and discussion of the results; conclusions and bibliography. Where required, annexes may be added. We suggested not to use footnotes, and if necessary, we recommend using the minimum ones.

Articles that do not strictly fulfill the editorial standards will not be accepted.

  • First review: October to December 2020. The papers that will be selected during the first phase will be sent, anonymously, to at least two external reviewers, experts on the topic.
  • Peer review: January to July 2021.
  • Expected publication of the special issue: March-April 2022.

The editorial team of the special issue and the editorial board of the journal will ultimately decide on the publication of the papers and will notify the authors.