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Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 3) IMISCOE Research Series Jean-Michel Lafeur Daniela Vintila Editors Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 3) A Focus on Non-EU Sending States IMISCOE Research Series This series is the offcial book series of IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. It comprises publications which present empirical and theoretical research on different aspects of international migration. The authors are all specialists, and the publications a rich source of information for researchers and others involved in international migration studies. The series is published under the editorial supervision of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee which includes leading scholars from all over Europe. The series, which contains more than eighty titles already, is internationally peer reviewed which ensures that the book published in this series continue to present excellent academic standards and scholarly quality. Most of the books are available open access. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13502 Jean-Michel Lafeur • Daniela Vintila Editors Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 3) A Focus on Non-EU Sending States Editors Jean-Michel Lafeur Daniela Vintila FRS-FNRS & Centre for Ethnic and Centre for Ethnic and Migration Migration Studies (CEDEM) Studies (CEDEM) University of Liege University of Liege Liege, Belgium Liege, Belgium ISSN 2364-4087 ISSN 2364-4095 (electronic) IMISCOE Research Series ISBN 978-3-030-51236-1 ISBN 978-3-030-51237-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51237-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020. This book is an open access publication. 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This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Acknowledgements This study explores the mobility–welfare nexus from a comparative perspective by bridging two bodies of literature – social policy studies and migration research – in an innovative way. This book is part of a series of three volumes involving a large number of scholars from different European and non-European institutions. We were very lucky to have the opportunity to bring together such an extraordinary group of experts and would like to sincerely thank all of them for their support and dedication throughout this collaborative project. All three volumes are part of the series Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (Post) Crisis Europe (MiTSoPro), which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 680014). We are very grateful to the ERC for this support. In addition to these three volumes, readers can fnd a series of indicators comparing national social protection and diaspora policies across 40 countries on the following website: http://labos.ulg.ac.be/socialprotection/. We are also extremely grateful to all members of the MiTSoPro Advisory Board for their guidance during the project: Evelyn Astor, Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Daniel Clegg, Michael Collyer, Yves Jorens, Alain Jousten, Madalina Moraru, Eva Østergaard-Nielsen, Luicy Pedroza, Frans Pennings, Kitty Stewart and Frank Vandenbroucke. Several institutions and academic networks have hosted panels, workshops and conferences during which this book was discussed at different stages of this col- laborative project. We are particularly thankful to the IMISCOE network (especially for organizing the IMISCOE Springer Conference in collaboration with MiTSoPro, the ECPR Standing Group Migration and Ethnicity (which endorsed several MiTSoPro-related panels/workshops during the ECPR Annual Conference and Joint Sessions), the IPSA Research Committee RC03 European Unifcation (for endorsing MiTSoPro panels at the IPSA World Congress of Political Science), the Belgian Association of Political Science ABSP (we received extremely helpful feedback on this book during different ABSP events) and the University of Liege (which hosted several workshops and seminars related to this project). v vi Acknowledgements We also wish to thank warmly Anna Triandafyllidou and Irina Isaakyan of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee as well as Bernadette Deelen-Mans and Evelien Bakker of Springer for their support throughout the publication process. We are indebted to our colleagues from the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (FaSS) of the University of Liege for their continuous support and useful feedback during the preparation of this manu- script. We are particularly thankful to the CEDEM Director Marco Martiniello for always encouraging and supporting our MiTSoPro-related activities, Angeliki Konstantinidou for her extremely helpful assistance in compiling comparative migration data used in the introductory chapter of this book, Larisa Lara and Cindy Regnier for the administrative help they provided to this project, and Donatienne Franssen for her assistance during the preparation of the fnal manuscript. Liege, Belgium Jean-Michel Lafeur 15 May 2020 Daniela Vintila Contents 1 The Immigration-Emigration Nexus in Non-EU Sending States: A Focus on Welfare Entitlements, Consular Services, and Diaspora Policies . 1 Daniela Vintila and Jean-Michel Lafeur 2 Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in Argentina �������������������������������������������������������� 41 Verónica Carmona Barrenechea, Giuseppe M. Messina, and Mora Straschnoy 3 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Argentine Citizens Abroad ������������������������������������������������������������������ 57 Ana Margheritis 4 Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in China �������������������������������������������������������������� 77 Alex Jingwei He 5 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Chinese Citizens Abroad . 93 Elena Barabantseva and Tao Wang 6 Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in Ecuador �������������������������������������������������������� 109 Analía Minteguiaga and Valerie Carmel 7 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Ecuadorian Citizens Abroad . 127 Consuelo Sánchez Bautista 8 Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in India. 147 Sony Pellissery, Saloni Jain, and Geo Varghese vii viii Contents 9 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Indian Citizens Abroad ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 163 Daniel Naujoks 10 Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in Lebanon. 183 Paul Tabar, Andrew Denison, and Maha Alkhomassy 11 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Lebanese Citizens Abroad . 199 Paul Tabar and Andrew Denison 12 Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in Morocco �������������������������������������������������������� 217 Abderrahim Oulidi and Keivan Diakité 13 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Moroccan Citizens Abroad ���������������������������������������������������������������� 231 Rilke Mahieu 14 Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in the Russian Federation . 247 Daria Popova 15 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Russian Citizens Abroad . 263 Anna Prokhorova 16 Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in Senegal. 277 Adrien Dioh 17 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Senegalese Citizens Abroad . 289 Etienne Smith 18 Access to Social Protection by Immigrants, Emigrants and Resident Nationals in Serbia. 305 Tamara Popic 19 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Serbian Citizens Abroad ��������������������������������������������������������������������
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