Transnational Social Protection and the Future of the Welfare State

Traditional models of the welfare state are bounded by place or nationality: social protection is conceived as something that we are eligible for based on where we live and what passport we may carry. This talk, based on a co-authored book by Prof. Dobbs with Prof. Peggy Levitt (Wellesley), Ken Sun (Villanova) and Ruxandra Paul (Amherst), offers a alternative model for understanding social protection, one that transcends international borders and recognizes transnational lives. In doing so, it also reflects on questions of precarity and the future of welfare state policy – particularly within Europe.

About the Speaker: Erica Dobbs is Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College. Her teaching and research focus on the comparative politics of social and political citizenship within the context of mass migration in Europe and North America.

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