Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2), 1st ed. 2020 Comparing Consular Services and Diaspora Policies IMISCOE Research Series

This second open access book in a series of three volumes examines the repertoire of policies and programmes led by EU Member States to engage with their nationals residing abroad. Focusing on sending states? engagement in the area of social protection, this book shows how a series of emigration-related policies that go beyond the realm of social security address the needs of nationals abroad in the area of health care, unemployment, family benefits, pensions and economic hardship. In addition, this volume highlights the variety of sending states? institutions that are involved in these policies (consulates, diaspora institutions, ministries, agencies?) and their engagement with citizens abroad in other policy areas such as electoral rights, citizenship, language, culture, education, business or religion. As such this book is a valuable read to researchers, policy makers, government employees and NGO?s.

Dr Jean-Michel Lafleur is the Associate Director of the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) and a Research Associate at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS). He also teaches different courses on Migration at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Liège. He holds a joint PhD in Political Science and International Relations from Sciences Po in Paris and the University of Liège (2008). Jean-Michel’s areas of expertise are the transnational dimension of contemporary migration, EU mobility, social protection and the political participation of immigrants. He currently holds a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to work on a project entitled “Migration and Transnational Social Protection in Post-crisis Europe”. During his career, Jean-Michel received different grants and scholarships to teach and conduct research in foreign institutions such as the Mora Institute in Mexico City, the European University Institute in Florence, the City University of New York (as a Fulbright scholar) and the City University of London. Since 2014, Jean-Michel is also Associate Researcher at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg (Germany).

Dr Daniela Vintila is a postdoctoral researcher in the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project MiTSoPro at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège. Prior to that, she was a member of the British team of the project “Pathways to power: the political representation of citizens of immigrant origin in eight European democracies” at the University of Leicester. She holds a PhD in Law and Political Science from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, a MA degree in “Democracy and Government” from the same institution, and a BA degree in International Relations and European Studies from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies of Romania. She was visiting researcher at the European University Institute and

This open access book provides a systematic analysis of consular and diaspora policies implemented by EU Member States for their nationals abroad

Compares policies and programmes across a wide array of social benefits in the areas of health care, unemployment, old-age pensions, family-related benefits, and guaranteed minimum resources

Identifies broader emigration-related initiatives that go beyond the realm of social security through which sending states respond to specific needs of emigrant populations