This paper maps and explores the policy territory for improving migration's development impacts, including but also going beyond migration and development policy.
This paper maps and explores the policy territory for improving migration's development impacts, including but also going beyond migration and development policy.
This book is about the experience of transit outside and inside European borders and its impact on both the states and the people. Traditional approaches to migration put migrants into clear-cut categories: legal or illegal, new comers or settlers. This study explores the often-ignored phase in the migration process between emigration and settlement. The author argues that transit migration is a complex process that puts pressure on countries and neighbours, and, more importantly, renders migrants and refugees particularly vulnerable. It addresses the questions: Why do migrants stay in transit? How do they experience this situation? What sustains transit migration and how can this be addressed? How do transit destination countries react and what challenges do they face? Three examples are used to analyse transit migration Greece, North Africa and the CIS and Eastern Europe.
This book is about the experience of transit outside and inside European borders and its impact on both the states and the people. Traditional approaches to migration put migrants into clear-cut categories: legal or illegal, new comers or settlers. This study explores the often-ignored phase in the migration process between emigration and settlement. The author argues that transit migration is a complex process that puts pressure on countries and neighbours, and, more importantly, renders migrants and refugees particularly vulnerable. It addresses the questions: Why do migrants stay in transit? How do they experience this situation? What sustains transit migration and how can this be addressed? How do transit destination countries react and what challenges do they face? Three examples are used to analyse transit migration Greece, North Africa and the CIS and Eastern Europe.
Subject terms:
migration, refugees;
Content type:
research
Location(s):
Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Greece, Europe, United Kingdom
This report reviews evidence on the impact of migration into Scotland since 2004, when the accession of the A8 countries - Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia - to the European Union resulted in increased migration into the UK. The review includes available evidence in relation to other groups, including asylum seekers and refugees. The review uses
This report reviews evidence on the impact of migration into Scotland since 2004, when the accession of the A8 countries - Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia - to the European Union resulted in increased migration into the UK. The review includes available evidence in relation to other groups, including asylum seekers and refugees. The review uses evidence from a range of published and unpublished sources, including datasets, surveys and qualitative studies, across the two main areas of economic and employment impacts and social impacts.
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Publication year:
2000
Pagination:
233p.
Place of publication:
Luxemburg
This publication presents statistics on the main international migration topics collected by Eurostat. The focus of the publication is the 15 European Union Member States, other European Economic Area countries and Switzerland.
This publication presents statistics on the main international migration topics collected by Eurostat. The focus of the publication is the 15 European Union Member States, other European Economic Area countries and Switzerland.
Provides a comparatively-based insight to the historical context for migrant care work. It shows how migration policies, general welfare and long-term care policies (including the cash-for-care schemes) as well as cultural differences in values in the UK and Norway set the context for how migrant care workers can realise their individual life projects. Through viewing migrants as individuals who
(Edited publisher abstract)
Provides a comparatively-based insight to the historical context for migrant care work. It shows how migration policies, general welfare and long-term care policies (including the cash-for-care schemes) as well as cultural differences in values in the UK and Norway set the context for how migrant care workers can realise their individual life projects. Through viewing migrants as individuals who actively construct their lives within the options and conditions they are given at any time, the authors bring to the discussion an awareness of what might be called ‘a new type of migrant’, one who is neither a victim of the divide between the global north and the global south, nor someone leaving family behind, but rather individuals using care work as a part of their own life project of potential self-improvement.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
care workers, migrants, migration, care workforce;
British Journal of Social Work, 44(7), 2014, pp.2004-2022.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
A large percentage of professionals, including social workers, practise in a country other than where they obtained their professional qualification. Reasons for migration have been well documented and vary by country and population. Common migrating factors for social workers include employment challenges and opportunities related to the ageing population, increased government expenditure
(Publisher abstract)
A large percentage of professionals, including social workers, practise in a country other than where they obtained their professional qualification. Reasons for migration have been well documented and vary by country and population. Common migrating factors for social workers include employment challenges and opportunities related to the ageing population, increased government expenditure on health and social care services, and insufficient numbers of new graduates entering the profession. This article draws on research about the experiences of migrant social workers in New Zealand. It highlights this population's perceptions of the status of social work as a profession and their own professional identity. The study utilised a combination of qualitative and quantitative strategies in a three-phased project. The findings provide insights into the nature of the transitional experience for migrant professionals and new vantage points on views of social work as practised in different contexts. We identified perceptions reflecting what we term ‘enduring professional dislocation’, and argue that maintaining a broad view of social work is the foundation for understanding the profession in a new country. We advocate for strategies to facilitate migrant social workers' adjustment to a new setting, especially where some degree of social and cultural contextualisation in social work practice is required.
(Publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
social workers, professional role, migration, international social work;
This paper examines how some elderly Chinese tenants in a cluster of housing schemes in the north of England differed in their perception, consciousness and management of time. It examines how there was too much or too little time for some of these tenants and how time played a part in their personal and social identification arising from their experiences of migration. Lefebvre's concept
(Publisher abstract)
This paper examines how some elderly Chinese tenants in a cluster of housing schemes in the north of England differed in their perception, consciousness and management of time. It examines how there was too much or too little time for some of these tenants and how time played a part in their personal and social identification arising from their experiences of migration. Lefebvre's concept of rhythmanalysis is intended to be a transdisciplinary theory that could be used to theorise ‘everyday life’. The writer superimposes this concept on the activity and disengagement theories of ageing to add meaning to the ethnographic data gathered and argues that ageing is not a simple matter of activity or disengagement. These Chinese elders coped with change through a flexible and ongoing process of adapting to different rhythms of life. This paper aims to contribute to the empirical understanding of ageing for a minority in Britain and to present a novel theoretical perspective on research approaches to ageing.
(Publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
Chinese people, sheltered housing, ageing, migration;
Journal of European Social Policy, 24(3), 2014, pp.207-222.
Publisher:
Sage
... has grown and that transnational interactions themselves have become a criterion for differentiation. International migration is of strategic significance for an understanding of the transnational social question, because it reveals the cross-connections of the fragmented world of social protection. In particular, it provides a window into the social mechanisms that support social protection across
(Edited publisher abstract)
This article asks the question 'What are the consequences of cross-border employment and social protection practices for social inequalities in Europe?' The transnational social question is a multifaceted one: it is linked not only to inequalities generated by heterogeneities such as class, gender, ethnicity, legal status and religion, but also to the perception that cross-border interdependence has grown and that transnational interactions themselves have become a criterion for differentiation. International migration is of strategic significance for an understanding of the transnational social question, because it reveals the cross-connections of the fragmented world of social protection. In particular, it provides a window into the social mechanisms that support social protection across borders and how these mitigate old and generate new social inequalities.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
inequalities, employment, migration, social policy;
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 39(7), 2013, pp.1159-1175.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
The experiences of Colombian refugees living in London are analysed from a gendered perspective, based on qualitative fieldwork carried out between 2003 and 2007. First, it shows that these migration flows are remarkably heterogeneous and include threatened political activists in search of refuge, and asylum-seekers and others escaping insecurity and more-generalised violence, thus differing from more-traditional Latin American refugee movements to Europe. Secondly, it focuses on how gender, contexts of exit and arrival, class, type of refugee migration and life course, combine to frame the migration experiences of refugees in industrialised countries.
(Edited publisher abstract)
The experiences of Colombian refugees living in London are analysed from a gendered perspective, based on qualitative fieldwork carried out between 2003 and 2007. First, it shows that these migration flows are remarkably heterogeneous and include threatened political activists in search of refuge, and asylum-seekers and others escaping insecurity and more-generalised violence, thus differing from more-traditional Latin American refugee movements to Europe. Secondly, it focuses on how gender, contexts of exit and arrival, class, type of refugee migration and life course, combine to frame the migration experiences of refugees in industrialised countries.
(Edited publisher abstract)
PENNINGTON Jenny, INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
Publisher:
Hanover
Publication year:
2013
Pagination:
28
Place of publication:
Staines
To mark its 50th anniversary, Hanover has commissioned a series of 'think pieces' and new research from nine think tanks from across the political spectrum, that question assumptions and perceptions regarding housing policy and the ageing population. This paper from IPPR considers the reality, challenges and opportunities of mobility in later life. It explores migration trends of older people within England in the context of wider migration trends, using data to corroborate these trends, and the challenges that movement can present. It sets out the lessons that these insights give for policymakers, local areas and care providers, and the steps that should be taken in order to meet the needs of this large age group It finds that there is some truth in the stereotype that older people move
(Original abstract)
To mark its 50th anniversary, Hanover has commissioned a series of 'think pieces' and new research from nine think tanks from across the political spectrum, that question assumptions and perceptions regarding housing policy and the ageing population. This paper from IPPR considers the reality, challenges and opportunities of mobility in later life. It explores migration trends of older people within England in the context of wider migration trends, using data to corroborate these trends, and the challenges that movement can present. It sets out the lessons that these insights give for policymakers, local areas and care providers, and the steps that should be taken in order to meet the needs of this large age group It finds that there is some truth in the stereotype that older people move to: areas where there is already a large proportion of older people, particularly coastal areas, and that they move from urban areas to small rural destinations. However, the data is also clear that movement patterns are more varied, suggesting that older people also move to areas without a history of older in-migration.
(Original abstract)