On April, 28th 2025 16:00–18:00, Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College) and Erica Dobbs (Pomona College) will hold the Global Migration Lecture titled „Labor Rights and Transnational Social Protection: Changing Social Welfare in a World on the Move“. 

This Global Migration Lecture is a cooperation event of InZentIM, CGCR and GRK2951.

Increasing numbers of individuals live for long periods outside their countries of citizenship without full rights or voice as long-term residents without membership. More and more people also live as long-term members without residence, residing outside their native countries while still participating in their political and economic life. Over the past three decades, scholars have examined the many kinds of transnational social fields that emerge as a result – i.e., networks, relationships, and institutions that operate across borders. Migrants and non-migrants co-construct these to earn their livelihoods, claim their political rights and fulfill their political responsibilities, and to protect and provide basic care for their families. These dynamics fundamentally challenge nationally-based social welfare systems and labor protections in ways that we are just beginning to understand. This talk, based on our new book co-authored with Ken Sun and Ruxandra Paul, will synthesize research on transnational social protection, discuss recent theoretical developments, and focus on the types of protections available to workers in a world where both capital and labor are highly mobile.

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