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Although migration is a social protection strategy that allows actors to diversify risk and escape hazards (Stark, 1991), migrants also have migration-related vulnerabilities that imply migrant-related needs for social protection (Rafique and Rogaly, 2003; Sabates-Wheeler and Waite, 2003). As many chapters in this book demonstrate, moreover, migrants often face disadvantages in accessing social protection from governments, non-governmental organizations, markets or individuals. Very often, therefore, migration makes people more vulnerable and less well protected.
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MacAuslan, I. (2011). Crossing Internal Boundaries: Political and Physical Access to the Public Distribution System in India. In: Sabates-Wheeler, R., Feldman, R. (eds) Migration and Social Protection. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306554_8
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