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Social welfare versus transnational social protection regimes: the changing roles of church and state

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posted on 2020-04-22, 11:01 authored by BREDA GRAY, Peggy Levitt
In this article we argue that transnational social protection (TSP) is becoming the norm in the context of globalisation, heightened mobility and neoliberalism, but cannot be understood without addressing its religious components. TSP differs significantly from national welfare state regimes, which place the responsibility for providing social support firmly on the shoulders of the state. In contrast, TSP regimes involve multiple actors and opportunities in origin and receiving states and place most of the onus for social protection on individuals and families. This article investigates church and state interaction in the development of TSP across the Italian, Mexican and Filipino contexts. It advances scholarship in three key ways: first, it showcases how TSP is replacing state social welfare arrangements and brings to light those shifting church-state entanglements that are central to this shift; second, it highlights the historically rooted trajectories of church-state entanglements that these three cases have in common; and third, it shows that as TSP becomes a state tool in governing non-resident citizens, the church's critical stance in relation to state provisioning is central to TSP as a mode of migration government.

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies;

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Taylor and Francis

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peer-reviewed The full text of this article will not be available in ULIR until the embargo expires on the 06/09/2022

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This is an Author's Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2020 copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at:https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1733946

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English

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