Welfare beyond Borders: Filipino Transnational Families’ Informal Social Protection Strategies
Remittances and caregiving arrangements are among the most significant practices of informal social protection against social risks and exclusion among transnational families. This article argues that remittances can provide social protection in cases where formal welfare services do not reach the c...
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| author | Sanna Saksela-Bergholm |
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| description | Remittances and caregiving arrangements are among the most significant practices of informal social protection against social risks and exclusion among transnational families. This article argues that remittances can provide social protection in cases where formal welfare services do not reach the citizens properly. Furthermore, it illustrates how members of Filipino transnational families can create sustainable informal social protection and utilise it long-term. The transnational practices are analysed to show how migrant capital, particularly the intersection of economic and social capital (Bourdieu, 1986), is transferred to informal social protection through meaningful reciprocity between the senders and recipients of remittances. Successful allocation of remittances and negotiation of care arrangements depend on the realisation of reciprocity and its social context, such as life circumstances, moral obligations and migrants’ personal goals for migration. The data draw on observations and 41 qualitative interviews conducted both in Finland and in the Philippines. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4b38249cd8f145c49d82d93bc29c854d2022-12-22T02:32:45ZengCogitatioSocial Inclusion2183-28032019-12-017422123110.17645/si.v7i4.23091273Welfare beyond Borders: Filipino Transnational Families’ Informal Social Protection StrategiesSanna Saksela-Bergholm0Swedish School for Social Science, University of Helsinki, FinlandRemittances and caregiving arrangements are among the most significant practices of informal social protection against social risks and exclusion among transnational families. This article argues that remittances can provide social protection in cases where formal welfare services do not reach the citizens properly. Furthermore, it illustrates how members of Filipino transnational families can create sustainable informal social protection and utilise it long-term. The transnational practices are analysed to show how migrant capital, particularly the intersection of economic and social capital (Bourdieu, 1986), is transferred to informal social protection through meaningful reciprocity between the senders and recipients of remittances. Successful allocation of remittances and negotiation of care arrangements depend on the realisation of reciprocity and its social context, such as life circumstances, moral obligations and migrants’ personal goals for migration. The data draw on observations and 41 qualitative interviews conducted both in Finland and in the Philippines.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/2309caregivinginformal social protectionfilipino transnational familiesmigrant capitalsocial capitalreciprocityremittances |
| spellingShingle | Sanna Saksela-Bergholm Welfare beyond Borders: Filipino Transnational Families’ Informal Social Protection Strategies Social Inclusion caregiving informal social protection filipino transnational families migrant capital social capital reciprocity remittances |
| title | Welfare beyond Borders: Filipino Transnational Families’ Informal Social Protection Strategies |
| title_full | Welfare beyond Borders: Filipino Transnational Families’ Informal Social Protection Strategies |
| title_fullStr | Welfare beyond Borders: Filipino Transnational Families’ Informal Social Protection Strategies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Welfare beyond Borders: Filipino Transnational Families’ Informal Social Protection Strategies |
| title_short | Welfare beyond Borders: Filipino Transnational Families’ Informal Social Protection Strategies |
| title_sort | welfare beyond borders filipino transnational families informal social protection strategies |
| topic | caregiving informal social protection filipino transnational families migrant capital social capital reciprocity remittances |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/2309 |
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