Securing retirement through intra-European migration: older romanian women’s transnational struggle for formal social protection

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• dc.contributor.author Kussy, Angelina
• dc.contributor.author Serra Mingot, Ester
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-03-03T07:19:47Z
• dc.date.available 2025-03-03T07:19:47Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract 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.en
• dc.description.sponsorship Angelina Kussy wants to thank Dolors Comas d’Argemir and Marta Bivand Erdel for their careful reading of the manuscript and comments that allowed to greatly improve it, and Miranda Lubbers for the same work regarding a conference paper that led to this article, to be presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop: Migrants Access to Welfare in Times of Crisis. Policy Transformations and Migrants Experiences in EU (8–12/04/2019). She is also grateful to that workshop’s participants for their useful feedback, especially to Daniela Vintila and Jean Michel Lafleur, and to Angela García, Tatjana Thelen and other participants of the 5th Vienna Ethnographic Laboratory Mobilities and Care (2–4/07/2020), where she presented later version of the manuscript. This work was supported by the Secretariat for Universities and Research of the Ministry of Business and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia (AGAUR) in form of an individual grant [2020 FI-2 00033 to AK]. It also received support from the R+D+I research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness [FEM2017-83517-R] and R&D research project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education [CSO2015-68687-P] in which the first author participated.en
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• dc.identifier.citation Kussy A, Serra E. Securing retirement through intra-European migration: older romanian women’s transnational struggle for formal social protection. Migraciones. 2023 Jun 19;(59):1-21. DOI: 10.14422/mig.2023.019
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.14422/mig.2023.019
• dc.identifier.issn 2341-0833
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69760
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Universidad Pontificia Comillas
• dc.relation.ispartof Migraciones. 2023 Jun 19;(59):1-21
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• dc.subject.keyword Intra-European migrationen
• dc.subject.keyword Older migrantsen
• dc.subject.keyword Transnational ageingen
• dc.subject.keyword Pensionsen
• dc.subject.keyword Transnational social protectionen
• dc.subject.keyword Gender and class inequalitiesen
• dc.subject.keyword Life-courseen
• dc.title Securing retirement through intra-European migration: older romanian women’s transnational struggle for formal social protectionen
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