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Definitions, good practices, and global estimates on the status of social protection for international migrants

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  • Avato, Johanna
  • Koettl, Johannes
  • Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel

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This paper analyzes the issue of social protection for migrants by looking at formal and informal social protection provisions. In particular, it presents the latest global data on the social protection status on migrants, including undocumented migrants. The paper gives special attention to lower-income countries drawing upon recent studies from the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It finds that migrants in poorer countries have very limited access to formal social protection such as social security systems, and that the legal social protection frameworks are far from making benefits portable. Rather, migrants have to rely on informal social protection, and it is often migration itself that constitutes a form of social protection for migrants and their families. This means that making migration safer for low-income migrants is vital to allow migrants to fully benefit from their migration experience and to ultimately enhance their social protection.

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Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Social Protection Discussion Papers with number 49172.

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Date of creation: 01 May 2009
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Handle: RePEc:wbk:hdnspu:49172

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Keywords: Population Policies; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Emerging Markets; International Migration;

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