{"title":"The Nexus of Cross-Border Migration and Social Inequalities","authors":"Thomas Faist","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199249015.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199249015.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"How is cross-border migration a visible reflection of manifold global inequalities, political and economic alike? This question raises two major issues. The first concerns how social inequalities affect opportunities for cross-border migration for different socio-economic groups. The second issue, conversely, is how the outcomes of migration affect social inequalities in life chances in both countries of emigration and immigration. Of ultimate interest is whether migration buttresses the dominant forms of social stratification, or whether it transforms the distribution of valued goods in a fundamental way. The results suggest that cross-border migration constitutes a path to upward social mobility for migrants, and—at the same time—that such processes tend to reinforce durable inequalities on a deeper level. As a consequence, cross-border migration reflects the importance of location, residence, and membership in countries as an important proxy for life chances.","PeriodicalId":215970,"journal":{"name":"The Transnationalized Social Question","volume":"503 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122819732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Rights and Social Standards in Cross-Border Migration","authors":"Thomas Faist","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199249015.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199249015.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Examining social protection in the context of migration is particularly important because it links the disparate, fragmented social spaces of unequal life chances and social protection across the world. We need to analyse how social protection has been organized across borders with special consideration of migrants and their dependents. This includes a description of the assemblages of social protection, encompassing programmes by the state and civil society organizations, but also social protection in kinship groups. It also concerns the issue of how to conceptualize social protection with respect to human rights. Most importantly, an understanding of the current status of cross-border social protection has to address the elements of global governance and existing transnational social standards in the realm of migration. While these norms mostly concern soft law, they are important elements in the political struggles around rights for both migrant labour and workers affected by the mobility of capital.","PeriodicalId":215970,"journal":{"name":"The Transnationalized Social Question","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127443637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Alternative? The Public Role of Social Scientists in Understanding the Transnationalized Social Question","authors":"Thomas Faist","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199249015.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199249015.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Given the high political relevance of the transnationalized social question, it is important to ask how social scientists might intervene in public debates on inequalities. Academic and public debates on social inequalities and social protection often raise the question whether and in what ways social scientific research may form a basis for rational political decisions. The main thesis in the spirit of public sociology here is that, while social science research indeed has implications for public policies, such a question is ultimately misleading. While social scientists as experts, advocates, or public intellectuals offer crucial information for describing and understanding social inequalities and social protection, the most important function of social scientists is to offer concepts and interpretations which can guide political debates in the public sphere.","PeriodicalId":215970,"journal":{"name":"The Transnationalized Social Question","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121868365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Protection among Small Groups in European Transnational Social Spaces","authors":"Thomas Faist","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199249015.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199249015.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Social protection in small groups such as families and kinship and friendship circles is based on reciprocity and sometimes solidarity. This chapter adopts a close examination of social protection in three transnational social spaces, namely Turkey–Germany, Poland–Germany, and Kazakhstan–Germany. It looks at how migrants organize their social protection, taking into account the manifold state regulations, supranational frameworks, and civil society organizations, as well as the migrants themselves and their significant others spread across various state borders. It accounts for migrants’ social protection in small groups, influenced by a variety of heterogeneities which intersect with transnationality, that is, the extent to which actors entertain ties across borders. Special consideration is given to the finding that migrants engage in comparative social positioning in between countries of origin and destination.","PeriodicalId":215970,"journal":{"name":"The Transnationalized Social Question","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129588155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Social Question Then and Now","authors":"Thomas Faist","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199249015.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199249015.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 examines the question whether exit has replaced voice as a dominant strategy to deal with the unequal distribution of life chances between the late nineteenth century and the early 2000s. Instead of exit and voice being exclusive options, there are distinctive combinations of exit and voice across time. Four differences between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries can be discerned: first, the development of national welfare states in response to political struggles around social inequalities and the implications for social closure towards non-citizens; second, the gradual emergence of sophisticated state migration control; third, the growing political relevance of cultural heterogeneities going beyond class; and fourth, a lack of a coherent theory around the social question which would be able to mobilize politically and intellectually.","PeriodicalId":215970,"journal":{"name":"The Transnationalized Social Question","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131037841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migration, Social Protection, and the (Re)Production of Inequalities in the European Union","authors":"Thomas Faist","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199249015.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199249015.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Europe, and the European Union in particular, can be conceived as a transnational social space with a high degree of transactions across borders of member states. The question is how efforts to provide social protection for cross-border migrants in the EU reinforce existing inequalities (e.g. between regions or within households), and lead to new types of inequalities (e.g. stratification of labour markets). Social protection in the EU falls predominantly under the purview of individual member states; hence, frictions between different state-operated protection systems and social protection in small groups are particularly apparent in the case of cross-border flows of people and resources. Chapter 5 examines in detail the general social mechanisms operative in cross-border forms of social protection, in particular, exclusion, opportunity hoarding, hierarchization, and exploitation, and also more concrete mechanisms which need to be constructed bottom-up.","PeriodicalId":215970,"journal":{"name":"The Transnationalized Social Question","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129213484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Externalization in Cross-Border Migration","authors":"Thomas Faist","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199249015.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199249015.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"To understand the politics of inequalities around migration necessitates an analysis of the transnational architecture of migration control. The main idea is that the transnationalized social question finds its mirror image in immigration and emigration contexts. While it is the welfare state that promises protection from unfettered global economic competition in the immigration states, development in emigration countries is typically thought to lead to increased participation in the global economy. On the part of immigration countries, migration control assumes a high priority, characterized by externalization through remote control and securitization in areas of origin and transit. On the side of emigration countries, the migration–development nexus takes centre stage—with the developmental (national) state in the global South often working as a functional equivalent to the national welfare state in the global North. The agenda is set by the immigration side by linking migration control in exchange for development cooperation.","PeriodicalId":215970,"journal":{"name":"The Transnationalized Social Question","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127169338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Socio-Natural Question","authors":"Thomas Faist","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199249015.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199249015.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Exit through cross-border migration is one of several ways in which people have adapted to both the slow-onset and fast-onset environmental destruction of human habitat in the Anthropocene. This destruction pre-empts and precedes all other aspects of the transnationalized social question. Like the threat of nuclear war, the destruction of ecological foundations underlies human life. So far, two generations of scholarship have discussed the climate change–migration debate in a rather narrow framework, without considering in full that climate change is mainly an add-on to environmental destruction. The first generation dealt with vulnerability, the second with adaptation and resilience. These perspectives have occluded the effects of environmental destruction on different categories of people with respect to social inequalities. Scholars have not fully dealt with the analogy between the exploitation of humans by humans and the exploitation of nature by capitalism.","PeriodicalId":215970,"journal":{"name":"The Transnationalized Social Question","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134361637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}