Protección social transnacional en Centroamérica. Reflexiones a partir de tres contextos de movilidad

Salazar, Sergio; Voorend, Koen

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“…As such, informal social protection mechanisms come to the forefront, many of which may have a transnational character; i.e., they transcend State borders. For Latin America, this literature is incipient, but highlights the importance of focusing on diverse informal mechanisms of social protection (Salazar & Voorend, 2019 ; Voorend & Alvarado, 2021b ). This paper finds itself somewhere on the frontiers of these bodies of literature.…”

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“…In the 1990s, labor migration dominated, especially due to the lack of economic opportunities in neighboring Nicaragua. More recently, migration flows have diversified, with Central Americans escaping violence in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala (Salazar & Voorend, 2019 ), and Venezuelans (since 2016) and Nicaraguans (since 2018) escaping political unrest (Fundación Arias, 2019 ; Voorend, Guilarte, et al, In press). Costa Rica is also a country of transition to the USA for other migratory groups, for example, from countries in Africa (Villalobos Torres, 2018 ).…”

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Barriers to Healthcare Access for Immigrants in Costa Rica and Uruguay

Voorend

Alvarado

2022

Int. Migration & Integration

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Access to public health has been, is, and will be a necessary right for any person in the world, motivating the proposal of universalist approaches as the best way to provide this service. However, we know that universalism is limited, at best, when it concerns immigrants. In this article, we focus on Costa Rica’s and Uruguay’s health systems, generally acknowledged as Latin America’s most universal, to argue that there are important barriers that limit immigrants’ access to public health insurance and health care. Applying a model based on the work by Niedzwiecki and Voorend (2019) that allows us to disaggregate the barriers to access into legal, institutional, de facto, and agency barriers, our analysis shows that migration and social policy interact to create barriers of different magnitudes, often conditioning healthcare access on migratory status, formal employment, and/or purchasing power. These limitations to universal social protection create important vulnerabilities, not only for the immigrants involved, but also for the health systems, and therefore for public health, highlighting the limitations of universalism.

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Barriers to Healthcare Access for Immigrants in Costa Rica and Uruguay

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Alvarado

2022

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…On the one hand, TS organizations are (1) entities with a certain degree of institutionalization; (2) independent from the government; (3) autonomous and capable of controlling their own activities; and (4) they function on a voluntary basis, without making a profit from their activities (ibid.). TS organizations often include non-governmental organizations (NGOs), CSOs, church groups, and labour unions that often provide low-cost health care, training, housing, or education to a defined group (Salazar & Voorend, 2019).…”

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“…First, the role of the TS, in particular the role of civil society organizations (CSOs), has been barely explored (Shutes & Ishkanian, 2021). Second, very few studies have addressed the social protection mechanisms "in transit" or during the migration trajectory, which often takes place in contexts characterized by state absenteeism (Salazar & Voorend, 2019). This is an important gap because migration is rarely a direct move from A to B.…”

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Transnational social protection infrastructures: African migrants in Mexico

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2022

International Migration

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In the past years, increasingly restrictive migration policies have pushed many migrants to seek new and more risky migration routes. Many studies have investigated aspects of social protection for migrants from the Global South in industrialized countries of the Global North, with powerful welfare states. Yet, such focus has failed to understand the complexities during the migration process, where people often spend uncertain periods of time in transit countries and the state is frequently absent. In these contexts, social protection is predominantly provided by the third sector (TS) and informal networks both nationally and transnationally. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with African migrants and TS organizations in Mexico, this paper explores the different and often semi‐formal relationships between the TS, the state, and the migrants that result in complex transnational social protection infrastructures to cover the migrants' basic social protection needs.

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“…La literatura, principalmente del Norte global sobre la protección social transnacional, ofrece un conjunto de elementos diversos que sirven para pensar la protección social en y desde el Sur, ante el actual reto de generar información sobre las dinámicas de protección social formal e informal de migrantes en estos países del mundo (Salazar y Voorend 2019;Speroni 2019;Yeates 2006;Holzmann, Koettl y Chernetsky 2005).…”

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Cruzando fronteras en vulnerabilidad. Estudio de la protección social transnacional en el Sur Global

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Abarca

2020

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Más de 270 millones de personas en el mundo viven en países diferentes al de su nacimiento. Estas acceden a servicios sociales, cuidan a miembros de sus familias, ahorran para su jubilación y opinan en la agenda pública. Sin embargo, se conoce relativamente poco sobre las prácticas de protección social de estas personas migrantes. En este artículo argumentamos que urge una agenda académica para indagar sobre las prácticas de protección social transnacional de migrantes, especialmente en el Sur global que esclarezca la capacidad de lidiar con los riesgos sociales de la vida cruzando fronteras nacionales. Para ello, discutimos lecciones claves de diferentes cuerpos de literatura y proponemos un marco analítico que se fundamenta en la investigación cuantitativa y cualitativa.

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Protección social transnacional en Centroamérica. Reflexiones a partir de tres contextos de movilidad

Cited by 3 publications

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Barriers to Healthcare Access for Immigrants in Costa Rica and Uruguay

Barriers to Healthcare Access for Immigrants in Costa Rica and Uruguay

Transnational social protection infrastructures: African migrants in Mexico

Cruzando fronteras en vulnerabilidad. Estudio de la protección social transnacional en el Sur Global

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