Securing Retirement Through Intra-European Migration: Older Romanian Women’s Transnational Struggle for Formal Social Protection
This article explores through qualitative methods how structural inequalities and weak welfare states push women to migrate in their old age to piece together their pension across different countries. Based on in-depth interviews, observations, and ethnographic conversations conducted with Romanian...
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Universidad Pontificia Comillas
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| author | Angelina Kussy Ester Serra Mingot |
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| description | This article explores through qualitative methods how structural inequalities and weak welfare states push women to migrate in their old age to piece together their pension across different countries. Based on in-depth interviews, observations, and ethnographic conversations conducted with Romanian women in Spain, it explores how they navigate the European Union’s (UE) law on Social Security to aggregate social insurance periods from the work performed in different member states and therefore get entitled to a state pension. We analyze how the accumulation of vulnerabilities (related to class, gender, age, and ethnicity) shape the trajectories of these aging women in a context of structurally unequal welfare systems. The paper thus contributes to the transnational social protection field with a timely focus on old age formal arrangements within the EU and use of life-course approach to understand the reasons of related with social protection older migrant’s im/mobilities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-11b69f3fc52e48f7a06fa307e40ba4842023-12-19T10:50:36ZspaUniversidad Pontificia ComillasMigraciones1138-57742341-08332023-06-015912110.14422/mig.2023.01914702Securing Retirement Through Intra-European Migration: Older Romanian Women’s Transnational Struggle for Formal Social ProtectionAngelina Kussy0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5713-9407Ester Serra Mingot1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5399-0672Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaUniversität BielefeldThis article explores through qualitative methods how structural inequalities and weak welfare states push women to migrate in their old age to piece together their pension across different countries. Based on in-depth interviews, observations, and ethnographic conversations conducted with Romanian women in Spain, it explores how they navigate the European Union’s (UE) law on Social Security to aggregate social insurance periods from the work performed in different member states and therefore get entitled to a state pension. We analyze how the accumulation of vulnerabilities (related to class, gender, age, and ethnicity) shape the trajectories of these aging women in a context of structurally unequal welfare systems. The paper thus contributes to the transnational social protection field with a timely focus on old age formal arrangements within the EU and use of life-course approach to understand the reasons of related with social protection older migrant’s im/mobilities.https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/revistamigraciones/article/view/18844intra-european migrationolder migrantstransnational ageingpensionstransnational social protectiongender and class inequalitieslife-course |
| spellingShingle | Angelina Kussy Ester Serra Mingot Securing Retirement Through Intra-European Migration: Older Romanian Women’s Transnational Struggle for Formal Social Protection Migraciones intra-european migration older migrants transnational ageing pensions transnational social protection gender and class inequalities life-course |
| title | Securing Retirement Through Intra-European Migration: Older Romanian Women’s Transnational Struggle for Formal Social Protection |
| title_full | Securing Retirement Through Intra-European Migration: Older Romanian Women’s Transnational Struggle for Formal Social Protection |
| title_fullStr | Securing Retirement Through Intra-European Migration: Older Romanian Women’s Transnational Struggle for Formal Social Protection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Securing Retirement Through Intra-European Migration: Older Romanian Women’s Transnational Struggle for Formal Social Protection |
| title_short | Securing Retirement Through Intra-European Migration: Older Romanian Women’s Transnational Struggle for Formal Social Protection |
| title_sort | securing retirement through intra european migration older romanian women s transnational struggle for formal social protection |
| topic | intra-european migration older migrants transnational ageing pensions transnational social protection gender and class inequalities life-course |
| url | https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/revistamigraciones/article/view/18844 |
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