This open access book explores the role of family public market and third sector welfare
provision for individual and households' decisions regarding geographical mobility. It
challenges the state-centred approach in research on welfare and migration by emphasising
migrants' own reflections and experiences. It asks whether and in which ways different welfare
concerns are part of migrants' decisions regarding (or aspirations for) mobility. Employing a
transnational and a translocal perspective the book addresses different forms of geographical
mobility such as immigration emigration and re-migration circular and return migration. By
bringing in empirical findings from across a variety of Western and non-Western contexts the
book challenges the Eurocentric focus in current debates and contributes to a more nuanced and
more integrated global account of the welfare-migration nexus.
