RT Generic
T1 Securing the care and welfare of dependants transnationally : peruvians and spaniards in Spain. Working Paper Number WP404
A1 Escrivá Chordá, María Ángeles
AB The aim of this paper is to illustrate the growing interdependence between householdstrategies in Europe and those stemming from developing countries whereinternational migration has become a main resource. In an attempt to reveal the forcesunderlying the match between the realities and expectations of an increasinglyconnected world population, I will compare the way that different families andindividuals secure care and welfare for themselves and for their dependants.Drawing from a case study on Peruvians in Spain I will demonstrate, immigration isonly a partial, and in the best of cases, non-global remedy for the need to care fordependants and to secure old-age pensions. Most Peruvians soon naturalize aftersettling in the country and eventually reunify their families who, in turn, hope toobtain the same social benefits for themselves. At the same time, the gap betweendependants from migrant and non-migrant families are clearly widening both here andin their country of origin. Given the current dynamics, the process of externalizingcare and welfare will result in people being replaced at whim, provided that othersocial arrangements, including a revision of gender roles, are not soughttransnationally to resolve these issues.
PB Oxford Institute of Ageing Working Papers
YR 2004
FD 2004
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7272
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7272
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026