The welfare mobility dilemma : Transnational strategies and national structuring at crossroads
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Summary, in English
The inquiry has employed extensive reviews of the relevant scholarly literature. Through conceptual and methodological developments, the analyses shed empirical light on the research questions. Generally, the study adds to knowledge about the relation between transnational migration and national welfare states. More specifically, it contributes firstly to an understanding of how the tension between transnational welfare strategies and national structuring can be manifested in the everyday lives of individual and collective transnational actors, and secondly to an understanding of how (Swedish) social policy is constituted by and constitutive of the borders and boundaries of the nation-state. The findings stimulate further reflections on transnational welfare, and a formulation of the ‘transnational social question’ is attempted, as well as proposing two research frontiers to improve the understanding of transnational welfare.
Department/s
Publishing year
2008
Language
English
Publication/Series
Lund Dissertations in Social Work
Volume
31
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Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
The School of Social Work, Lund University
Topic
- Social Work
Keywords
- Transnational welfare
- The Swedish welfare state
- Transnational social spaces
- Social policy
- Migration
- Social policy
- Migration
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Tapio Salonen
- Thomas Faist
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-91-89604-38-4
Defence date
24 May 2008
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Edebalksalen, School of Social Work
Opponent
- Yuri Kazepov (Professor)