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More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13502 Oleksandr Ryndyk • Brigitte Suter Gunhild Odden Editors Migration to and from Welfare States Lived Experiences of the Welfare–Migration Nexus in a Globalised World Editors Oleksandr Ryndyk Brigitte Suter Centre for Intercultural Communication Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, VID Specialized University Diversity and Welfare Stavanger, Norway University of Malmö Malmö, Sweden Gunhild Odden Center for Intercultural Communication VID Specialized University Stavanger, Norway ISSN 2364-4087 ISSN 2364-4095 (electronic) IMISCOE Research Series ISBN 978-3-030-67614-8 ISBN 978-3-030-67615-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67615-5 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021. 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 Contents 1 Welfare and Mobility: Migrants’ Experiences of Social Welfare Protection in Transnational and Translocal Spaces ������������������������������ 1 Oleksandr Ryndyk, Brigitte Suter, and Gunhild Odden 2 The Mobility of the Elderly and Family-­Based Care: A Case Study of Chinese Migrant (Grand)Parents ������������������������������ 15 Yan Zhao and Yu Huang 3 Keeping It in the Family: Rotating Chains in Women’s Transnational Care Work Between Italy and Ukraine ������������������������ 33 Svitlana Odynets 4 From Familial Pressure to Seeking One’s Fortune: Chinese International Students’ Search for Geographical and Social Mobility as a Response to Societal and Familial Pressures ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 49 Alexander Gamst Page 5 ‘He Has a Better Chance Here, So We Stay’. Children’s Education and Parental Migration Decisions �������������������� 67 Magdalena Ślusarczyk and Agnieszka Małek 6 Settling for Welfare? Shifting Access to Welfare, Migration and Settlement Aspirations of Filipina Single Mothers in Japan �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 87 Jocelyn O. Celero 7 Labour Mobility from Eastern European Welfare States: Zooming in on Romania and Slovakia �������������������������������������������������� 105 Mădălina Rogoz and Martina Sekulova 8 Welfare Considerations Underpinning Healthcare Workers’ Decision About Migration: The Case of Slovenia ���������������� 123 Mojca Vah Jevšnik v vi Contents 9 When the Expatriate Wife Returns Home: Swedish Women Navigating National Welfare Politics and Ideals of Gender Equality in Expatriate Family Migration �������� 143 Catrin Lundström 10 (Im)mobility Patterns among Polish Unemployed Migrants in Iceland Navigating Different Welfare Regimes �������������������������������� 161 Anna Wojtyńska and Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir 11 Puzzling Social Protection across Several Countries: Opportunistic Strategy or Risky Compensation? �������������������������������� 177 Polina Palash and Virginie Baby-Collin 12 Beloved Land, Beloved Family: The Role of Welfare in Timorese Migration to England �������������������������������������������������������� 197 Claire C. Millar 13 Securing Old-Age Pensions Across Borders: Sudanese Transnational Families Across the Netherlands, the UK and Sudan ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 219 Ester Serra Mingot About the Editors and Contributors Editors Oleksandr Ryndyk is a researcher at the Centre for Intercultural Communication, VID Specialized University, Norway. He holds a master’s degree in international economics (2010) from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, and a joint European master’s degree in migration and intercultural relations (EMMIR) from the University of Stavanger, Norway, and Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany (2013). He has researched a broad range of migration-related topics, such as social-welfare protection and the integration of intra-European migrants, the labour-market integration of refugees, gender roles, equality and child-rearing practices among migrants, the integration of 1.5-generation migrants, family counselling, and confict resolution among migrant families. Brigitte Suter is a senior researcher and lecturer in international migration and ethnic relations at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) at Malmö University, Sweden. She has researched a wide range of migration-related topics and has extensive experience in qualitative, interpretative research methods. Her research interests include (im)mobility, social networks, the transformative potential of migration, ethnography, the mobility of highly skilled migrants in the global economy, and the role of norms and rights in the feld of migration and integration. Gunhild Odden is professor of research in migration studies and vice-rector for research at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway. She holds a PhD in sociology and a master’s degree in international migration and interethnic relations, both from the University of Poitiers, France. Her research interests include transna- tional migration dynamics, migratory trajectories, migration and family life, and migration and social mobility. She has conducted extensive feldwork in Spain, Norway and Senegal. vii viii About the Editors and Contributors Contributors1 Yan Zhao has a PhD in sociology and is an associate professor of social work at Nord University, Norway. Her research areas include ethnic and racial relations, gender studies, adoption studies, migration and welfare/care and transnational social work. She has also theoretical interests in feminist methodology, postcolonial theories, intersectionality and actor network theories. Yu Huang holds a master’s degree in social science, with a specialisation in social work, from Nord University, Norway. Besides working at an international high school in China, she is an independent researcher, with a special interest in migra- tion, family and gender relations. Svitlana Odynets has a PhD in ethnology and is a former junior research fellow at the Institute for Ethnology in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research interests include the anthropology of migration, oral history, female migra- tion from post-communist countries, the redistribution of care in transnational spaces and changing post-imperial and national identity boundaries among Ukrainian migrants in the EU after the Maidan uprising in 2013–2014. She defended her PhD thesis on changes in the life trajectories and social identities of Ukrainian female migrants in Italy. From 2014 to 2017, she was a researcher on the EURA-­ NET project Transnational Migration in Transition: Transformative Characteristics of Temporary Mobility of People, and, from 2014 to 2015, a Country Expert on Ukraine