Olivier Lizin’s research while affiliated with University of Liège and other places

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Transnational Health Insurances as Social Remittances: The Case of Congolese Immigrants in Belgium
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January 2016

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Jean-Michel Lafleur

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Olivier Lizin

There are different ways by which immigrants can help relatives to access health care in the homeland. Beyond financial remittances, this chapter looks at “transnational health insurances” (THIs) as a specific form of social remittances. THIs are insurance schemes set up by immigrants in cooperation with public and private actors in the home and host societies in order to provide health coverage to relatives across borders. Looking at the creation and implementation of THIs in the Belgian-Congolese postcolonial context, the authors discuss the nature of such remittances, the drivers of immigrant transnational engagement and its impact on communities in origin countries. The data used in this chapter was collected during extensive multi-sited fieldwork in Belgium and the DR Congo between January 2012 and August 2013.

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... First and foremost, Karolak (2016) and Grabowska et al. (2017) note that as long as social remittances are not transferred, they are only potential social remittances. The main disagreement is whether any idea or practice transferred by migrants qualifies as a social remittance or whether migrants need to acquire new ideas or Others like Lafleur and Lizin (2016) and Paarlberg (2022) seem to share this broad understanding. ...

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From Social to Intangible Remittances: A Conceptual Recalibration
Transnational Health Insurances as Social Remittances: The Case of Congolese Immigrants in Belgium
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  • January 2016