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Jean-Michel Lafleur
Daniela Vintila Editors
Migration and Social
Protection in Europe
and Beyond
(Volume 2)
Comparing Consular Services and
Diaspora Policies
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Jean-Michel Lafleur • Daniela Vintila
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Migration and Social
Protection in Europe
and Beyond (Volume 2)
Comparing Consular Services
and Diaspora Policies
Editors
Jean-Michel Lafleur Daniela Vintila
FRS-FNRS & Centre for Ethnic Centre for Ethnic and Migration
and Migration Studies (CEDEM) Studies (CEDEM)
University of Liege University of Liege
Liege, Belgium Liege, Belgium
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Acknowledgements
This study explores the mobility–welfare nexus from a comparative perspective by
bridging two bodies of literature – social policy studies and migration research – in
an innovative way. This book is part of a series of three volumes involving a large
number of scholars from different European and non-European institutions. We
were very lucky to have the opportunity to bring together such an extraordinary
group of experts and would like to sincerely thank all of them for their support and
dedication throughout this collaborative project.
All three volumes are part of the series Migration and Transnational Social
Protection in (Post) Crisis Europe (MiTSoPro), which has received funding from
the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s 2020 research
and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 680014). We are very grateful to
the ERC for this support. In addition to these three volumes, readers can find a series
of indicators comparing national social protection and diaspora policies across 40
countries on the following website: http://labos.ulg.ac.be/socialprotection/. We are
also extremely grateful to all members of the MiTSoPro Advisory Board for their
guidance during the project: Evelyn Astor, Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Daniel
Clegg, Michael Collyer, Yves Jorens, Alain Jousten, Madalina Moraru, Eva
Østergaard-Nielsen, Luicy Pedroza, Frans Pennings, Kitty Stewart and Frank
Vandenbroucke.
Several institutions and academic networks have hosted panels, workshops and
conferences during which this book was discussed at different stages of this col-
laborative project. We are particularly thankful to the IMISCOE network (especially
for organizing the IMISCOE Springer Conference in collaboration with MiTSoPro,
the ECPR Standing Group Migration and Ethnicity (which endorsed several
MiTSoPro-related panels/workshops during the ECPR Annual Conference and
Joint Sessions), the IPSA Research Committee RC03 European Unification (for
endorsing MiTSoPro panels at the IPSA World Congress of Political Science), the
Belgian Association of Political Science ABSP (we received extremely helpful
feedback on this book during different ABSP events) and the University of Liege
(which hosted several workshops and seminars related to this project).
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vi Acknowledgements
We also wish to thank warmly Anna Triandafyllidou and Irina Isaakyan of the
IMISCOE Editorial Committee as well as Bernadette Deelen-Mans and Evelien
Bakker of Springer for their support throughout the publication process. We are
indebted to our colleagues from the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies
(CEDEM) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (FaSS) of the University of Liege for
their continuous support and useful feedback during the preparation of this manu-
script. We are particularly thankful to the CEDEM Director Marco Martiniello for
always encouraging and supporting our MiTSoPro-related activities, Angeliki
Konstantinidou for her extremely helpful assistance in compiling comparative
migration data used in the introductory chapter of this book, Larisa Lara and Cindy
Regnier for the administrative help they provided to this project, and Donatienne
Franssen for her assistance during the preparation of the final manuscript.
Liege, Belgium Jean-Michel Lafleur
15 May 2020 Daniela Vintila
Contents
1 Do EU Member States Care About their Diasporas’ Access
to Social Protection? A Comparison of Consular and Diaspora
Policies across EU27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jean-Michel Lafleur and Daniela Vintila
2 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Austrian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Anita Heindlmaier
3 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Belgian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Jérémy Mandin
4 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Bulgarian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Zvezda Vankova
5 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Croatian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Daphne Winland
6 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Cypriot Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Angeliki Konstantinidou
7 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Czech Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Eva Janská and Kristýna Janurová
8 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Danish Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Romana Careja
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9 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Estonian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Maarja Saar
10 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Finnish Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Maili Malin
11 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for French Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Jean-Thomas Arrighi and Jean-Michel Lafleur
12 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for German Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels
13 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Greek Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Michalis Moutselos and Georgia Mavrodi
14 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Hungarian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Eszter Kovács
15 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Irish Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Mary J. Hickman
16 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Italian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Carlo Caldarini
17 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Latvian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Aija Lulle
18 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Lithuanian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Dangis Gudelis and Luka Klimavičiūtė
19 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Luxembourgish Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Nathalie Perrin
20 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Maltese Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Hillary Briffa and Alessandra Baldacchino
21 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Dutch Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Joost Jansen and Robbert Goverts
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22 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Polish Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Magdalena Lesińska and Izabela Wróbel
23 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Portuguese Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
José Carlos Marques and Pedro Góis
24 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Romanian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Felicia Nica and Madalina Moraru
25 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Slovak Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Michal Vašečka and Viera Žúborová
26 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Slovenian Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Mojca Vah Jevšnik and Sanja Cukut Krilić
27 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Spanish Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Pau Palop-García
28 Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection
for Swedish Citizens Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
André Olsson Nyhammar and Erik Olsson
