Members of the University of Bremen and BIGSSS at Jacobs University are cordially invited to the Oral Defense of Martín Cortina Escudero's PhD Thesis "Diverging Paths of Social Policy Development in Latin America States: A Case Study on Argentina and Mexico from the Colonial Times to the Early Post-World-War-II Period".

This defense will take place in hybrid mode, to receive the link please contact Martín directly (cortinae@uni-bremen.de).

The Examination Board is composed of:

• Prof. Dr. Philip Manow
  
• Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels
• Prof. Dr. Armando Barrientos
• Prof. Dr. Tobias ten Brink
• Dr. Johanna Kuhlmann
• Dr. Jakob Henninger
• Gonzalo Arevalo Iglesias

This workshop brings together the country experts involved in the creation of the Migrant Social Protection (MigSP) dataset. The dataset covers national policies regarding immigrants' access to social protection benefits in 39 countries from 1980 to 2018. It collects information on immigrants’ access to non-contributory social assistance and unemployment insurance, as well as requirements for family reunification and the impact of unemployment and benefit receipt on residence statuses. At the workshop, the final dataset and plans for a future extension will be presented. There will also be thematic inputs by country experts covering various topics such as immigrant welfare rights in traditional sending countries, welfare rights of humanitarian and irregular migrants, indirect restrictions of rights and immigrants’ rights in residual welfare states as well as the impact of COVID-19 on immigrant welfare rights.