Working Group 3
Social rights and social protection of transnational families

Working Group 3 starts from the observation that, in top of the fact that in many countries, Transnational Families are even not reflected in national social policies, research has revealed important differences in the social protection (including e.g. the portability of pensions, parental leave benefits) of Transnational Families. Especially the differences between Transnational Familiesemerging from intra EU migration and transnational families emerging from migration of so called “third country nationals” need to be explored because the latter group has additional barriers to access (quality) services. In addition, social protection is increasingly contested in a number of EU-member states (Kilkey, 2017), indicating the urgency to further analyse this theme. This WG also wants to better map out how Transnational Families themselves manufacture ‘care and protection assemblies’ and how informal and formal systems are linked, also include gender and ethnicity as important differentiating factors.

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Contact

Working group leader:
Dr Vida Cesnuityte
Mykolas Romeris University, Institute of Educational Sciences and Social Work
Vilnius, Lithuania

Co-leader:
Mr Faruk Çam
Adnan Menderes University

Contact:
WG3@trafady.eu

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