27:T4d3,

This article draws a conceptual map of the mechanisms, dynamics and consequences of transnational social protection (TSP) for low-skilled labour migrants and their family members. While migrants’ social needs have also a transnational side, the responses of welfare institutions, if available at all, are typically territorialised. This brings to the fore the prospects for TSP of those affected by migration – most notably, here, migrants’ dear ones in home societies. TSP can be analysed as a field of evolving interactions between a formal, thinner dimension and a more substantive, informal one. The latter builds on the circulation of remittances and transnational care practices, primarily within migrants’ kinship networks. Informal TSP is then discussed as a privileged terrain to assess, first, the promises and pitfalls of migration as social protection and, second, the social consequences of emigration on welfare arrangements in home communities. An analytical framework is eventually advanced, with a view to systematising research on migration-driven transnational needs, on the ways of addressing them, on the dilemmas of informal social protection across state borders.

28:T47c,

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent global policy goals in contrast to Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), which had developmental focus. This is the global potential of SDGs for global health policy. However, the large number of goals bear the risk of prioritisation between different goals and broad global frameworks and specific targets may not be useful in shaping policy guidance and global approaches in policy areas, where we already have a global institutional and normative presence. In contrast to some other global social policy areas, global health policy has also something to lose. SDGs are thus likely to be better for global health in other policies, than for global health policy priorities, institutions and practice. This is a particular concern for the global health policy role of the World Health Organisation, global health policies seeking normative action as well as for such health policy priorities, which contrast or conflict with other policy areas or strong corporate interests. This has particular relevance to multistakeholder partnerships and the role of private sector in implementation of SDGs.

29:T416,

International migration has been subject to rising attention by policymakers at the global as well as national level, thus, amounting to ‘global migration governance’. The flurry of multi-lateral actions and regional activities have revolved around two interlinked concerns: 1. Management of migration, and 2. The migration-development nexus. Migrant rights issues have not been absent from these debates but are generally sidelined or appear in the context of extreme forms of human rights violations such as trafficking. The SDGs, by contrast, not only for the first time incorporate migration explicitly into global development policy, but they also have the potential to address the key factors that underline migration from a rights perspective if – as argued here - their realisation goes beyond the provision of ‘safe and orderly migration’ pathways to also address the lack of ‘decent work’ and participatory decision making from a (gendered) workers’ rights perspective at all stages of migration.

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