Transnational social protection infrastructures: African migrants in Mexico
| Published date | 01 June 2023 |
| Author | Ester Serra Mingot,Carlos Alberto Gonález Zepeda |
| Date | 01 June 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13029 |
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International Migration. 2023;61:162–174.
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INTRODUCTION
Human mobi lity across nat ional borders has led to in creasing academi c and policy attention to t he transnational
dimensions of social protec tion in the migration process (Faist et al., 2014; Levitt et al., 2017) , which go be yond the
stat e provisi ons to incl ude reso urces pr ovided by the market , the thi rd secto r (TS) and i nformal social ne tworks . To
date, however, most of these studies have focused on the role of formal or state- provided ben efits through various
governmental institutions and/or the informal mechanisms of support, such as family and social networks, across
Received: 17 Novemb er 2021
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Revised: 25 Apri l 2022
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Accepted: 14 May 2022
DOI: 10.1111/imig.13029
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Transnational social protection infrastructures:
African migrants in Mexico
Ester Serra Mingot1| Carlos Alberto Gonález Zepeda2,3
1Sociology of Transnationalization,
Faculty of Soci ology, Center on Migr ation,
Citizenship a nd Development (COM CAD),
Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
2Universida d Autónoma Metropo litana
Unidad Cuaji malpa (UAM- C), Mexico City,
Mexico
3Maria Sibylla M erian Center for Adv anced
Latin Amer ican Studies (CAL AS),
Guadalajara, Mexico
Correspondence
Ester Serr a Mingot, Sociolog y of
Transnationaliz ation, Faculty of So ciology,
Center on Migr ation, Citizenshi p and
Development (COMCAD), Bielefeld
Universit y, Vaalser Strasse 119, 52074
Aachen, Ge rmany.
Email: ester.s.mingot@gmail.com
Funding information
Maria Sibylla M erian Center for Adv anced
Latin Amer ican Studies (CAL AS)
Abstract
In the past years, i ncreasingly restrictive migr ation policies
have p ushed many migrants to seek new and more r isky
migration routes. Many studies have investigated aspect s
of social protection for mig rants from the Global South in
industrialized count ries of the Global North, with powerful
welfare states. Yet, such focus has failed to underst and the
complexities during the migration process, where pe ople
often sp end uncertain periods of tim e in transit countries
and the state is frequent ly absent. In these contexts, social
protection is pr edominantly pr ovided by the thi rd sector
(TS) and informal n etworks both nation ally and transna-
tionally. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with
African migrants and TS organizations in Mexico, this paper
explores t he different and often semi- formal relationships
between the TS, the state, and the migrants that result in
complex transnational social protection infrastructures to
cover the migrants' basic s ocial protection needs.
This is an open ac cess article und er the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which
permits us e and distributio n in any medium, provid ed the original wor k is properly cited , the use is non-comme rcial and no
modificat ions or adaptatio ns are made.
© 2022 The Auth ors. International Migration published by John W iley & Sons Ltd on behalf o f International Or ganization for
Migration.
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