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Building Bridges for Refugee Empowerment

Authors Ozlem Erden
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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42601 Journal Article

‘I have discovered new teaching pathways’: the link between language shift and teaching practice

Authors Marta Guarda, Francesca Helm
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Citations (WoS) 6
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42602 Journal Article

Multilingual school population: ensuring school belonging by tolerating multilingualism

Authors Anouk Van der Wildt, Mieke Van Houtte, Piet Van Avermaet, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Citations (WoS) 5
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42603 Journal Article

Migrating trust: contextual determinants of international migrants’ confidence in political institutions

Authors Bogdan Voicu, Claudiu D. Tufis, Claudiu D. Tufiş
Year 2017
Journal Name European Political Science Review
Citations (WoS) 1
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42604 Journal Article

Revisiting the Healthy Migrant Paradox in Perinatal Health Outcomes Through a Scoping Review in a Recent Host Country

Authors Sol P. Juárez, Sol Pia Juarez, Andres A. Agudelo-Suarez, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
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42605 Journal Article

Negotiating national (non)belongings: Vietnamese Australians in ethno/multicultural Australia

Authors Caitlin Nunn
Year 2017
Journal Name Identities
Citations (WoS) 2
42606 Journal Article

Communicative anxiety in English as a third language

Authors Alaitz Santos, Durk Gorter, Jasone Cenoz
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Citations (WoS) 9
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42607 Journal Article

Resilience, Moorings and International Student Mobilities – Exploring Biographical Narratives of Social Science Students in the UK

Authors Josef Ploner
Year 2017
Journal Name Mobilities
Citations (WoS) 12
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42608 Journal Article

Bilingual education and L3 learning: metalinguistic advantage or not?

Authors Dieuwerke Rutgers, Michael Evans
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Citations (WoS) 5
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42609 Journal Article

Recruiting the “culturally compatible” migrant: Irish Working Holiday migration and white settler Canadianness

Authors Jane Helleiner
Year 2017
Journal Name Ethnicities
Citations (WoS) 2
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42610 Journal Article

South Asian Immigrant Men and Women and Conceptions of Partner Violence

Authors F. Ahmad, Farah Ahmad, Patricia O'Campo, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
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42611 Journal Article

Why High School Students Aspire to Emigrate: Evidence from Greece

Authors Lois Labrianidis, Theodosis Sykas
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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42612 Journal Article

Branding ‘Canadian Experience’ in Immigration Policy: Nation Building in a Neoliberal Era

Authors Rupaleem Bhuyan, Izumi Sakamoto, Daphne Jeyapal, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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42613 Journal Article

The Unravelling of Identities and Belonging: Criminal Gang Involvement of Youth from Immigrant Families

Authors Hieu Van Ngo, David Este, Catherine Worthington, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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42614 Journal Article

Moroccan women in Madrid: between change and continuity

Authors Christof Van Mol
Year 2017
Journal Name Identities
Citations (WoS) 1
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42615 Journal Article

Second language anxiety among Latino American immigrants in Australia

Authors Marta Garcia de Blakeley, Marta Garcia de Blakeley, Ruth Ford, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Citations (WoS) 3
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42616 Journal Article

Welcoming Initiatives and Immigrant Attachment: The Case of Windsor

Authors Glynis George, Erwin D. Selimos, Jane Ku
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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42617 Journal Article

Second language instructional competence

Authors Kellie Rolstad
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Citations (WoS) 3
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42619 Journal Article

Can language attitudes be improved? A longitudinal study of immigrant students in Catalonia (Spain)

Authors Maria-Adelina Ianos, Cecilio Lapresta, Angel Huguet, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Citations (WoS) 7
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42620 Journal Article

On languaging and communities: Latino/a emergent bilinguals' expansive learning and critical inquiries into global childhoods

Authors Patricia Martínez-Álvarez, Patricia Martinez-Alvarez, Maria Paula Ghiso, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Citations (WoS) 2
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42621 Journal Article

Does ethnic identification promote integration into the larger society? A study of youth in Oslo

Authors Jon Lauglo
Year 2017
Journal Name Ethnicities
Citations (WoS) 3
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42622 Journal Article

Exceeding boundaries: Chinese children’s playful use of languages in their literacy practices in a Mandarin–English bilingual program

Authors Yan Zhang, Yan Guo
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Citations (WoS) 2
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42623 Journal Article

‘My language, my mother tongue’: competing language ideologies and linguistic diversity among speakers of standard and non-standard varieties

Authors Eleni Mariou
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Citations (WoS) 1
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42624 Journal Article

Tibetanminzumarket: the intersection of ethnicity and commodity

Authors Trine Brox
Year 2017
Journal Name Asian Ethnicity
Citations (WoS) 3
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42625 Journal Article

Les « origines » présumées du chercheur. Ethnicisation et racialisation de la relation d’enquête dans des contextes migratoires vers le « Sud » (Sénégal)

Authors Hélène Quashie
Year 2017
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
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42626 Journal Article

How social structure changes in Chinese global cities: Synthesizing globalization, migration and institutional factors in Beijing

Authors Qiujie Shi, Sako Musterd, Guangzhong Cao, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Cities
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42627 Journal Article

Minority children and academic resilience in the Nordic welfare states

Authors Anja Johnsen, Gaby Ortiz-Barreda, Guro Rekkedal, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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42628 Journal Article

Preschools as language learning environments for children of immigrants. Differential effects by familial language use across different preschool contexts

Authors Oliver J. Klein, Birgit Becker, Oliver Klein
Year 2017
Journal Name Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Citations (WoS) 7
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42629 Journal Article

GENDERED FAMILY PRACTICES AND CULTURAL DIFFUSION IN BINATIONAL COUPLES OF POLISH MIGRANT WOMEN

Year 2017
Journal Name Komitet Badań nad Migracjami PAN
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42630 Journal Article

Regulatory migration regimes and the production of space: The case of Nepalese workers in South Korea

Authors Seonyoung Seo, T Skelton, Tracey Skelton
Year 2017
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 10
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42631 Journal Article

Global Citizenship Law: International Migration and Constitutional Identity

Description
'Managing global migration is one of the most pressing issues of our time, particularly in Europe. With more than 230 million international immigrants, the manner in which new citizens are/should be 'created' has become a controversial issue, morally and politically. Traditionally, international law has not regulated nationality law; naturalization requirements remain the last stronghold of national sovereignty. This project advances the establishment of a new subfield in public international law—International Citizenship Law (ICIL)—which would regulate nationality law. It asks a critical and timely question: what are/should be the international legal limitations/privileges imposed on/granted to states in setting naturalization requirements? In order to address this question, the project has five scientific objectives: [1] to investigate the history of the law of naturalization in international law and what it can teach us about 21th-century challenges; [2] to identify the most recent legal developments in the field of naturalization law and establish the most up-to-date international legal standards of naturalization law; [3] to set out the theoretical foundations and the justifications for the establishment of ICIL; [4] to analyze the normative and structural implications derived from an-ICIL approach for future citizenship policy development, as well as to identify the legal reforms that should be taken to promote an-ICIL approach; and [5] to explore the interrelationship between ICIL, immigration policy, and constitutional identity. In essence, the project seeks to formulate international legal standards by which states can admit immigrants without fundamentally changing their cultural heritage and slipping into extreme nationalism. The outcome can serve as a basis for a future reform in international law, EU law, and national legal systems. As the immigration debate reaches a decisive moment, this project has both theoretical significance and policy implications'
Year 2017
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42632 Project

Etnické menšiny v Brně a předměstských obcích. Bulhaři, Řekové, Makedonci a další etnické menšiny v Brně.

Authors Jana Pospíšilová
Year 2017
Book Title History of Brno 6. Suburban municipalities
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42633 Book Chapter

Local initiatives for integration through intercultural bridge building

Principal investigator Thomas Jordan (Project Leader), Pia Andersson (Participants ), Björn Andersson (Participants)
Description
The purpose of the project is to develop knowledge about initiatives in Swedish metropolitan suburbs that aim at facilitating integration of extra-European immigrants. The study focusses the theories of change that explicitly or implicitly form the basis of projects or regular operations which use dialogue or competence development methods in order to bridge gaps in worldviews and norms, support relevant knowledge acquisition and understanding and facilitate empowerment. The approach of the study is based on program theory, discourse analysis and narrative analysis with a focus on elucidating and critically analysing the theories of change that underlie integration projects in the field. In the first phase of the study, an inventory is made of projects that fit the profile described above. 5-6 projects or regular operations are selected for a more thorough analysis. In the second phase we will develop analytical descriptions of the theories of change of each project, based on the actual activities and the articulated strategies as they present themselves in documents and interviews. We will also interview participants in the initiatives. In the third phase a comparative analysis is made of the theories of change, both in relation to each other and in relation to the different perspectives represented in academic research and public debate about integration. The fourth phase comprise reporting the findings, both in the form of a scientific article and as a more popular study adapted to practitioners.
Year 2017
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42634 Project

Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences

Authors V. Squire, A. Dimitriadi, N. Perkowski, ...
Description
This report provides a unique, in-depth analysis of the impact of EU policies in addressing the socalled European migration or refugee ‘crisis’ in 2015 and 2016. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat undertook 257 in-depth qualitative interviews with a total of 271 participants across seven sites in two phases: Kos, Malta and Sicily from September-November 2015, and Athens, Berlin, Istanbul and Rome from May-July 2016. Uniquely, the project focused directly on the impact of policies upon people on the move, drawing together policy analysis and observational fieldwork with in-depth analysis of qualitative interview data from people making – or contemplating making – the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea. As such, the report provides previously-unconsidered insights into the effects of policy on the journeys, experiences, understandings, expectations, concerns and demands of people on the move. In addition to providing seven site-based case study analyses, the project also provides the first detailed assessment of policies associated with A European Agenda on Migration in terms of policy effects both across routes (eastern and central Mediterranean) and over time (2015 and 2016). The findings and analysis summarised in this report are presented with the aim of informing policy developments, moving forward.
Year 2017
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42635 Report

Towards an Iraqi diaspora engagement policy

Authors Martin Russell, Marion Noack
Year 2017
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42636 Policy Brief

Gender, Flucht, Aufnahmepolitiken: Prozesse vergeschlechtlichter In- und Exklusionen in Niedersachsen

Principal investigator Helen Schwenken (Principal Investigator), Sabine Hess (Principal Investigator), Elke Grittmann (Principal Investigator), Silke Wenk (Principal Investigator)
Description
"Gibt es in Deutschland einen Unterschied bei der Aufnahme und Integration geflüchteter Männer und Frauen? Vor welchen Herausforderungen stehen geflüchtete Frauen und LGBTI? Medienberichte über sexuelle Gewalt in Unterkünften für Geflüchtete haben auf die unsichere Situation und Schutzbedürftigkeit insbesondere weiblicher Geflüchteter aufmerksam gemacht. Aber nicht nur bei der Aufnahme, auch bei Maßnahmen und Angeboten zur Integration von Geflüchteten stehen Frauen häufig vor besonderen Herausforderungen. Politik, Unterstützungsorganisationen und Einrichtungen diskutieren seit geraumer Zeit die Folgen dieser Differenzen und einige Kommunen haben begonnen, spezifische Angebote für geflüchtete Frauen zu entwickeln. Allerdings liegen bislang kaum Erkenntnisse über Formen und Ausmaß dieser Bedingungen und Folgen für die geflüchteten Frauen vor. Das Verbundprojekt untersucht die konkreten Bedingungen, Prozesse und öffentlichen Diskurse der Aufnahme und Integration von Geflüchteten in Niedersachsen. In vier thematischen Teilprojekten wird empirisch untersucht, wie Differenzen und Ungleichheiten in spezifischen Angeboten und Politiken zu Flucht und Migration hergestellt und welche Konflikte und Widersprüche damit wirksam werden. "
Year 2017
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42637 Project

Climate change and forced migrations: An effort towards recognizing climate refugees

Authors Issa Ibrahim Berchin, Isabela Blasi Valduga, Jessica Garcia, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 6
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42639 Journal Article

Economies of transit: exploiting migrants and refugees in Indonesia and Libya

Authors Melissa Phillips, Antje Missbach
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
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42640 Journal Article

Opportunity and opportunism: The expatriation practices of Indian information technology multinational corporations

Authors Dhara Shah, Bob Russell, Adrian Wilkinson
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of International Management
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42641 Journal Article

Re-reading remittances through solidarity: Mexican hometown associations in New York City

Authors Araby Smyth
Year 2017
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 2
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42642 Journal Article

Prostitution Regulation and Restriction: Dutch Dual Policy 1911–1949

Authors Mariëlle Kleijn
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Migration History
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42643 Journal Article

Images in Exile:Gender and representations among Syrian Kurdish women in Norway

Description
The project Images in Exile (IMEX) addresses the current refugee crisis and its implications for Syrian Kurdish women in Europe. It challenges images about Muslim women, who are often the subject of debates on the supposed dichotomy between an imagined secular progressive West and religious backwards East. Kurdish women disrupt this dichotomy through an alternative portrayal in global media. Whereas Kurds were previously often pictured as terrorists, backward, and conservative, they are now presented as courageous fighters against, and victims of, Islamic terrorism; and as progressive forces that include women in their ranks. Ideas about progressive, feminist and secular forms of governance are strongly developed in Kurdish political thought, and central in local self-representations. However, media representations and political ideology often differ from social realities on the ground. Going beyond these representations, this study will investigate Kurdish women’s experiences in a rapidly changing socio-political context. It aims at developing better insights into migrant women’s integration and participation in European societies. IMEX thus directly responds to an important policy priority of the H2020 work programme, and targets a better gender and equality balance. Building on extensive research experience in the Middle East and Europe, and the knowledge of Kurdish, IMEX will carry out field research among refugees and migrant organizations in Norway. Methods include narrative interviews with 40 women, focus group interviews, and action research through the set-up of a photo exhibition. The host organization is the Centre for Gender Research at Oslo University, a leading Gender institute in the Nordic region. Dissemination is directed towards high academic quality and policy development. IMEX strongly contributes to the researcher’s career prospects and to the broadening of the Centre’s research agenda, and responds to an urgent societal concern.
Year 2017
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42644 Project

Health behaviour in the face of cultural conflict: perceptions of immigrant Muslim women

Authors Ghezal Sabir, Gustaaf P. Sevenhuysen, Paul Fieldhouse, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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42645 Journal Article

The Contrasts of Migration Narratives. From Germany to the Swedish Garment Industry during the 1950s

Authors Johan Svanberg
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Migration History
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42646 Journal Article

Intersectional Analyses of Welfare Chauvinism in Europe

Description
In the European context of ongoing crises (economical, political and humanitarian), populist radical right parties have consolidated their presence in mainstream politics. These parties sharpened the debate concerning the future of the welfare state, arguing for a separation between the “natives” of the ethnic majority, as self-evident targets for full welfare provision, and those belonging to a generic “other”–wherein migrants, ethnic minorities, racialized groups, people with alternative lifestyles are lumped together. However, both studies of the populist radical right and welfare studies are missing an intersectional awareness to how such conceptual distinction is operated. Taking a decidedly interdisciplinary approach, the present project aims to explore and scrutinize in a comparative framework the populist radical right’s discursive (re)construction of cultural identities and the terms of national belonging at times of economic, political and societal crises across Europe, from an intersectional perspective. The project will combine political sociology, with a focus on welfare and populism studies, intersectionality, and critical discourse analysis. The project focuses on three cases: the Finns Party (PS/SF) in Finland, the Greater Romania Party (PRM) in Romania, and the Sweden Democrats in Sweden. The objectives are to provide an account of the communalities and differences in articulating national identity and welfare chauvinism in the chosen countries, and to map out how these are expressed within the common European institutional framework, namely in the European Parliament.
Year 2017
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42647 Project

Financial inclusion of migrants in Germany

Principal investigator Lukas Menkhoff (Principal Investigator)
Description
The large numbers of refugees that arrived in Germany over the last few years, has raised the question about how migrants adjust to life in Germany and how easy it is for migrants to integrate into society. One important part of integration is financial integration or financial inclusion. In its simplest form this means both access and use of basic back accounts. In this project we study financial inclusion of Syrian migrants. In order to do this, we interview 30 refugees in Berlin using structured interviews. Furthermore, we conduct two focus group discussions with five refugees each. It is the aim of this project to find out whether Syrian refugees have a bank account in Germany and how they experiences the process of opening this account. We further study use of this account and other financial products. Lastly, we examine the reasons for financial behavior that maydeviate from other parts of the population.
Year 2017
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42648 Project

Social ties and embeddedness in old age: older Turkish labour migrants in Vienna

Authors Monika Palmberger
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 7
42650 Journal Article

Labour migrants and substance abuse. A pilot study of alcohol abuse among Polish labour migrants in Norway

Authors Åsmund Arup Seip
Description
This report summarises existing knowledge about alcohol abuse among labour migrants. We found a sizeable number of studies on the relationship between working life and substance abuse, but these studies fail to capture variations caused by special working conditions or labour migrant status. Thus, we are unable to draw any specific conclusions regarding alcohol abuse among labour migrants based on this literature. In recent years a great deal of published literature has documented the differences prevailing between Norwegian and foreign workers in terms of their wage levels, working conditions and affiliation with the labour market. In some cases, labour migrants work under very poor, occasionally illegal conditions. Some studies have investigated living conditions among labour migrants, but alcohol abuse in this group has not been documented to any appreciable extent. Further studies might help us understand how the organisation of working life, including absence of regulation and control, gives rise to risk factors for poor health, unsatisfactory integration and alcohol abuse. Based on interviews with representatives of the health services, organisations, employers and trade unions and in-depth interviews with labour migrants, the report points out some causes of alcohol abuse among Polish labour migrants. The study is not representative, and we are thus unable to identify the relative importance of the various factors. Our findings may nevertheless provide an overview of the risk factors that are highlighted by the key stakeholders. These risk factors may have their origin in the labour market or else be of a social nature. The organisation of work, employment and responsibilities among enterprises in the construction industry provides foreign workers with a weaker affiliation with the labour market than a permanent position in a Norwegian construction enterprise would ensure. The extensive use of temporary employment and manpower suppliers makes for a greater degree of uncertainty in the labour market. Being reported as having problems with alcohol may cause workers to lose their job. The use of sub-contractors transfers the responsibility for handling substance abuse to smaller (and occasionally unscrupulous) enterprises that have limited resources to assist their workers. Temporary employment and short work assignments may result in periods with no work or income. Polish craftsmen rarely have Norwegian approval of their professional training and are forced to accept lower paid jobs, which may engender a sense of exclusion and low self-esteem. Living in temporary construction site accommodation may result in a monotonous life with few opportunities for meaningful leisure activities. Lack of Norwegian language skills may partly lead to marginalisation and problems in finding relevant work, and partly to problems in establishing a social network in Norway. Language problems may also be a barrier to obtaining proper help for health problems and subsequent follow-up and support. Many Polish workers in Norway have no network of family and friends. This means that alcohol problems will be less likely to be detected and addressed by a trusted person. Missing one’s spouse or children could in itself be a burden on mental health and increase risk. Drinking culture may be a risk factor, although there is no certain correlation between drinking culture and alcohol consumption among Polish workers in Norway. The availability of alcohol is likely to be of major importance. The access to illegally imported alcohol is reported to be considerable among Polish workers in Norway, and prices are low. A number of agencies are responsible for assisting workers who have a substance abuse problem or providing voluntary assistance to labour migrants in Norway. None of these services directly target foreign workers who abuse alcohol, but many of them have geared their activities to include these groups. In the labour market, the employer is the main stakeholder, with responsibility to assist employees with drinking problems through the Akan programme or other resources that are made available. The Akan programme, whose objective is to combat alcohol and other substance abuse in working life, points out challenges associated with language skills in workplaces that have a large proportion of foreign labour. The Akan programme has therefore produced information material in Polish. Trade unions also occasionally observe substance abuse among labour migrants and provide assistance in some cases. At the national level, the trade unions have collaborated with the authorities to combat social dumping and prevent the emergence of conditions that might be conducive to alcohol abuse, among other things. The Oslo Drug and Alcohol Competence Centre, Alcoholics Anonymous and Blue Cross are some of the organisations that help provide assistance to substance abusers. The Oslo Drug and Alcohol Competence Centre has been informed that substance abuse problems among Polish workers have increased in pace with rising immigration. Alcoholics Anonymous provides an active network for self-help measures and maintains a number of groups with Polish members in Norway. Blue Cross primarily establishes contact with labour migrants who have dropped out of the labour market, and a reasonable number of Polish migrants have received assistance from Blue Cross. The primary and specialist health services are key to ensuring the health of labour migrants in Norway. These services are obligated to provide options for those who seek assistance for a substance abuse problem. However, foreign workers are not entitled to a contract GP, and systematic follow-up may thus be more complicated for them than for Norwegian workers. Insufficient language skills may also constitute a barrier that prevents Polish workers from receiving appropriate treatment from the health services.
Year 2017
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42651 Report

Existential mobilities: Politics of belonging among young people from conflict generated diasporas in Finland and Canada

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Project description: What happens when young people originating from conflict zones grow up in a different country? To what extent do they have a tendency to live with people coming from the same area? Does it entail a danger of propagating conflict to their host society? How could policy makers better evaluate this risk and respond adequately? This project proposes to answer these questions by studying the habits and world views of young people originating from war-torn countries but living in Finland and Canada, two countries having very different immigration histories and thus offering a good view on how immigrant communities or diasporas actually work, how they are created or sustained. Focusing on youth’s ways of seeing their own identity and their relations to their surroundings, the research intends to gain novel information valuable to policy makers and associative actors alike to face the challenge of multiculturalism. / Hankkeen julkinen kuvaus: Mitä tapahtuu, kun konfliktialueelta kotoisin olevat nuoret kasvavat eri maassa? Missä määrin nämä nuoret kiinnittyvät samalta alueelta kotoisin olevien ihmisiin? Voiko tästä seurata konflikteja vastaanottavassa yhteiskunnassa? Kuinka poliittiset toimijat voisivat arvioida konfliktin riskit ja vastata niihin riittävällä valmiudella? Tässä projektissa pyritään vastaamaan edellä esitettyihin kysymyksiin tutkimalla sodan repimiltä alueilta kotoisin olevien nuorten tapoja ja maailmankuvia Suomessa ja Kanadassa. Suomen ja Kanadan maahanmuuton historiallinen tausta poikkeaa toisistaan monella tapaa. Niiden vertaileminen tarjoaa erinomaisen lähtökohdan maahanmuuttajayhteisöjen ja diasporien muodostumisen ja ylläpitämisen tutkimiseen. Keskittymällä nuorten omaan tapaan hahmottaa identiteettiään ja suhteitaan ympäristöönsä, tutkimus pyrkii kokoamaan uudenlaista tietoa päättäjille ja järjestökentän toimijoille, jotta ne pystyisivät vastaamaan paremmin monikulttuurisuuden haasteisiin.
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42652 Project

Mapping Specific Incentives for Countries of Origin to Facilitate Cooperation on Return

Principal investigator Albert Kraler (Project Team Member), Bernhard Perchinig (Project Team Member)
Description
This project aims at identifying need-based potentials for cooperation, which can lead to opportunities for improved cooperation between countries wishing to return persons not holding residence rights and five countries (Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia, Iran) in the field of return and readmission. More specifically, and based on the analysis of relevant international relations theories as well as on insights from expert interviews, the study will examine: • Options for the development of strategies for the creation of incentive based cooperation schemes in the field of return and readmission and to determine which incentives could be offered to the countries of origin of illegally resident third-country nationals without jeopardizing the EU's objectives in this area, and ultimately its own interests. • Experiences of selected EU-countries (Italy, the Netherland, the UK, Sweden) in cooperation with the above mentioned countries in the field of return. • Necessary conditions for the establishment of sustainable cooperation in the field of return (based on theoretical considerations and results of the empirical investigations) In addition, the project aims at producing five country specific case studies including information on: • the general situation with regard to migration and the corresponding third country. • the current state of cooperation between Austria and the third country • perceived problems in the area of repatriation • European experiences • positive incentives
Year 2017
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42653 Project

Más allá de las dicotomías. un análisis de la actividad del trenzado en la diáspora senegalesa desde el feminismo negro

Authors Mercedes Jabardo Velasco, Beatriz Ródenas Cerezo
Year 2017
Journal Name RES. Revista Española de Sociología
Citations (WoS) 1
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42654 Journal Article

Innvandrerorganisasjoners rolle i integreringen Sett gjennom en statlig tilskuddsordning

Authors Beret Bråten, Josefine Jahreie, Ragna Lillevik
Description
I denne rapporten ser vi på hva som bidrar til at innvandrerorganisasjoner og kommuner lykkes i å samarbeide om integrering. Myndighetene er opptatt av å hindre utenforskap, både gjennom arbeid og utdanning og ved å skape tilhørighet og tillit til det norske samfunnet. Innvandrerorganisasjoner forventes å bidra gjennom aktiviteter der folk møtes på tvers av minoritet-majoritet. Sett innenfra er innvandrerorganisasjonen en arena for identitet. De bidrar gjerne til dialog og felles aktiviteter, men lokale myndigheter må lede an. Dette lykkes best der forvaltningen opptrer ubyråkratisk, ser på innvandrerorganisasjonene som likeverdige partnere og skaper møteplasser i form av fysiske steder og dialogfora.
Year 2017
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42655 Report

Migration, Social Capital, Financial Capital:

Authors Muhammad Zubair, Dieter Bögenhold, Universität Klagenfurt
Year 2017
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42656 Journal Article

Las políticas de retorno desde una perspectiva transnacional: el caso de España y Colombia

Year 2017
Journal Name Revista Internacional de Estudios Migratorios (RIEM)
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42657 Journal Article

Alien or Refugee? The Politics of Russian Émigré Claims to British Asylum at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Authors Lynne Ann Hartnett
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Migration History
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42658 Journal Article

Halkias Daphne and Adendorff Christian, Governance in Immigrant Family business. Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics

Authors Thomas Lacroix
Year 2017
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
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42659 Journal Article

Transnational meanings and makings of class: Polish labour, capital and the state

Description
Class, as a leading category that explains unequal social relations between labour and capital, emerged out of the context of a national state framework. This research examines how class is made and imagined in instances in which transnational processes of global capitalism release both capital and labour from the confines of a single nation state, and what remains of the nation state’s role as the guardian of particular class interests and in managing change. The answer will be provided by a multi-sited ethnographic analysis of posted work, one of the flagship European Union projects which involves the transnational subcontracting of foreign labour for short-term projects under the provision of service. The analysis will be conducted from the perspective of Polish workers posted to Belgium, their direct employers and the Polish state as the leading European state who posts labour abroad. By bringing to the fore the transnationally and culturally sensitive investigation of class, the research will help to understand current economic situation and power struggles, and to gauge the practical and political possibilities for action towards a more just and equal European society, including providing an informed basis on which to create posted work regulations, currently under the debate by the European Commission. At the theoretical level, the research will offer a fruitful cross-fertilization, whereby ethnographically sensitive, anthropological inquiry will inform industrial relations research and help to reconceptualize class in the transnational era. The action will further my academic development towards acquiring a professorship position and will open up collaborative possibilities on multi-disciplinary projects related to mobility and European transformations with Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre at KU Leuven.
Year 2017
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42660 Project

Babbler feasibility study in adjacent market segments.

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Babbler is a next-generation seal for supply-chains.
 Supply-chain security is flawed and unchanged in 30 years. If you transport or store goods, it is difficult to know that your goods were treated correctly. For decades the supply chain industry has depended on bolt/cable seals, documentation and locks, knowing that these provide extremely limited safeguards and evidence trails. As a result theft, people trafficking and narcotics smuggling are rampant. An estimated 8% of medicine sold worldwide is counterfeit (Source: WHO 2015). Improper storage is detected too late to prevent waste. In addition, inspection delays are a major cost in the total supply chain. Babbler uses IoT and an inverted evidence principle to provide much better assurance of cargo security problems.
In 2015 we were selected for an accelerator in the EU FIWARE program and in that accelerator won a cash prize for best startup in 2016. The accelerator provided funding so we could create and test a solution for shipping containers with business partners (Royal FloraHolland, Dutch Customs Organisation, Seatrade and others).
 Although Babbler proved its value in those trials and is attracting international interest, the shipping industry is conservative and slow-moving. To use Babbler a number of links in the supply chain have to decide to work together, which makes the buying process slow. We concluded that we can grow faster by focussing on niches in the supply chain, rather than an entire chain itself.
 We have identified several candidate market segments but need funds to test our assumptions and determine if Babbler needs to be tweaked accordingly. We are considering: 
1. Transport and storage of medical supplies,
 2. TAPA level 2 certified road carriers,
 3. Road carriers that EU cross borders with people trafficking issues. Given the size of the markets we can create a €20-25 million business, with a high-tech labour force of 40-50 people.
Year 2017
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42661 Project

‘This country is ours’: Collective psychological OWNERShip and ethnic attitudes

Description
Even in the absence of legal ownership, people tend to experience objects, places, and ideas as belonging to them (‘mine’). This state of mind is called psychological ownership. Research has shown that experiences of ownership are very important for individuals, but can also lead to interpersonal conflicts. What we know almost nothing about is collective psychological ownership (CPO): a shared sense that something is ‘ours’. CPO might be especially relevant with regard to territories and in the context of intergroup relations. Statements like ‘we were here first’ or ‘we built this country’ are increasingly used by right-wing politicians in immigration countries to claim ownership on historical basis for the dominant ethnic group, and to exclude newcomers. There are also contexts where two established groups disagree about territorial ownership, such as Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo. While CPO might strengthen solidarity within groups, it might worsen intergroup relations, thus threatening social cohesion. It is important to establish where a sense of CPO comes from, and how it shapes intergroup relations, so that interventions could be implemented. This ground-breaking project examines 1) the extent to which people perceive their ethnic group as historically owning the country, 2) the psychological needs that motivate them to claim collective ownership, and 3) the implications of collective ownership claims for attitudes towards ethnic groups. My approach is multidisciplinary, combining social psychological theories on intergroup relations with the literature on ownership and territoriality from organizational science and anthropology. I will develop an instrument to measure CPO and provide first empirical evidence about the importance of CPO by collecting representative survey data in European immigration countries (Netherlands, UK, France), settler societies (Australia, New Zealand, USA), and countries with clear territorial disputes (Kosovo, Cyprus, Israel).
Year 2017
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42662 Project

The Mediation of Climate Change Induced Migration. Implications for meaningful media discourse and empowerment of key intermediaries to raise public awareness

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The IKETIS project will seek to raise awareness in the UK of the need for action to address climate change induced migration and will focus on the mediation of the climate refugees’ issue. The first aim of the action is to understand the representational practices that shape media and NGOs discourse about climate refugees. The second aim is to build capacity of journalists, NGOs and policy-makers, key intermediaries in the mediation of climate change induced migration, to enhance social support for policy actions. Together, both aims contribute to the transformation of how climate change induced migration is perceived and provide new patterns of critical thinking and civic engagement. The research consists of four phases: i) identify the policy, institutional and definitional factors that may impede meaningful media discourse on the issue ii) perform critical discourse analysis (image and text) and frame analysis of the representations of climate change induced migration of UK online news media iii) using these findings, then move on to examine how UK humanitarian and environmental NGOs utilise and challenge frames identified by online news media coverage of climate displacement and iv) based on the understanding of the representational practices that formulate climate refugees mediated discourse, promote climate justice approach to frame climate change and build capacity of journalists, NGOs and policy-makers to best use climate justice approach through e-learning strategies. This training-through research scheme will provide the applicant with the necessary skills to develop competences in media theory, visual communication, critical discourse and frame analysis and digital media research and plan an academic career track for a better integration into the academic community, while the applicant will be of specific benefit to the research-informed teaching that forms the basis of the host institution’s approach to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching practice.
Year 2017
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42663 Project

Dublin iv and excom: Aspirational Blunders and Illusive Solidarity

Authors Sophie Capicchiano Young, Sophie Capicchiano Young
Year 2017
Journal Name European Journal of Migration and Law
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42664 Journal Article

Morbidity differential among emigrants’ and non-emigrants’ wives in Kerala, India

Authors Imtiyaz Ali, Geetika Shankar, Raj Kumar Verma, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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42665 Journal Article

Disentangling variation: A crosslinguistic investigation of bilingualism and non-standardization

Description
This project will investigate the ways in which variation in the linguistic input affects the trajectory of language development and its final outcome. This exploration of language variation and its contributing factors will bring together both the sociolinguistic and the neurocognitive aspects of the human ability to use language, through adopting a cross-linguistic perspective. Acceptability judgment tasks will be the vehicle to test different domains of grammar, such as word-order patterns, adjective orderings, and grammatical illusions, across different linguistic communities in Scandinavia, Cyprus, and Greece. Through examining acceptability judgments in neurotypical adult populations, this project will foster a novel, three-way comparison across (i) monolingual, bilingual, and bilectal speakers, (ii) three domains of grammar, (iii) varying developmental trajectories within the bilingual population, including heritage language learners and L1 attriters. The combination of on-line and off-line measures will shed light on how different domains of grammar are processed by the monolingual and bilingual mind and elucidate whether some or all types of bilingualism confer a cognitive advantage in this processing. Two key objectives of this project are the investigation of both standard and non-standard varieties and the promotion of linguistic diversity. Ultimately, the findings of this project will generate substantive, empirically informed hypotheses about human language and the bilingual mind. Within the present context of increased multilingualism throughout the lifespan these results are likely to achieve a marked scientific impact.
Year 2017
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42666 Project

Ingenious Science shops to promote Participatory Innovation, Research and Equity in Science.

Description
InSPIRES brings together practitioners and experts from across and beyond Europe to co-design, jointly pilot, implement and roll out innovative models for Science Shops (SS). The InSPIRES models integrate Responsible Research and Innovation, Open Science and Impact Evaluation as part of their DNA in order to open the research process up in a more strategic way to civil society and other stakeholders. The inputs from systematic impact evaluation studies will be continuously integrated in order to make InSPIRES SS 2.0 models more accurate and responsive to civil society needs and concerns. Concentrating most of its efforts on Research & Innovation in the health sector, with a strong focus on the environmental and social determinants, and giving special attention to gender parity and vulnerable groups (women, the elderly, adolescents, migrants and refugees), InSPIRES brings Science Cafés and other public engagement initiatives into its models together with a “glocal” international focus, for more inclusive, context relevant and culturally adapted community-based participatory research and innovation. Building on a comprehensive communication plan, with a strong effort dedicated to the development and implementation of a sustainability strategy, InSPIRES outcomes will: a) give evidence and support political bodies and decision-makers, in order to propose changes in local, regional, national and international policies; b) nurture the debate about the place and role of society in science, encouraging the systematic and ethical involvement of civil society actors and their societal concerns in the research and innovation processes, and c) support the development of new Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Open Science (OSc) strategies and guidelines, in the context of safe spaces to involve and engage civil society in the whole science process.
Year 2017
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42667 Project

The role of higher education in China's inclusive urbanization

Authors Lennon H.T. Choy, LHT Choy, Victor J. Li
Year 2017
Journal Name Cities
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42668 Journal Article

Communicating across cultures in multinational Ibis West Africa

Authors Muhammed Abdulai, Mashoud Adam Mohammed, Hadi Ibrahim
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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42669 Journal Article

Interethnic Coexistence in European Cities

Authors Dahlvik Julia, Franz Yvonne, Myrthe Hoekstra, ...
Description
Das letzte vorliegende Kapitel widmet sich einer speziellen, aber dafür umso innovativeren Thematik. Es werden, ausgehend von der seit Mitte der 2000er-Jahre auch die Sozialwissenschaften stimulierenden Living-Lab-Konzeption, die Effekte von Urban Living Labs und „ungeplanter“ Begegnungsräume auf interethnische Kontakte untersucht. Die Analyse basiert methodisch auf halbstrukturierten Interviews und teilnehmenden Beobachtungen in drei Urban Living Labs in Wien, nämlich dem Nachbarschaftszentrum in Gumpendorf, dem Nachbarschaftsraum „Herbststraße 15“ sowie dem Urban-Gardening-Projekt „Matznergarten“ im 14. Wiener Gemeindebezirk. Es wird untersucht, ob und in welcher Weise sich interethnische Begegnungen in den drei Living Labs unterscheiden von anderen institutionalisierten Räumen und welche Konsequenzen dies für die BewohnerInnen und die politischen Entscheidungsträger hat. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung bildete eine Konzeption des Social Urban Living Labs mit ausgeprägten Elementen der Kokreation, die auf einem explorativen Umfeld basiert, den Ansatzpunkt. Die komparative Analyse zeigt, dass der Erfolg einer Initiative vor allem abhängt von der Zahl ihrer TeilnehmerInnen, ihrer Kontinuität und dem Grad interethnischer Begegnung.
Year 2017
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42670 Report

Citizenship representations, group indispensability and attitudes towards immigrants’ rights

Authors Kieran Mepham, Maykel Verkuyten
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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42671 Journal Article

Deaf mobilities across international borders: Visualising intersectionality and translanguaging

Description
Deaf signers’ international mobilities are rapidly increasing. These mobilities are unique in a number of respects: while being biologically deaf leads to certain limitations and to discrimination and inequalities, being skilled in visual language also creates possibilities and opportunities for communication across national and linguistic borders. There are two main research questions in the project. First, within contexts of international deaf spaces, how does the status of being deaf intersect with other statuses, particularly ethnicity, nationality, education, religion and gender, and which meaningful connections or accumulated inequalities occur? Second, how do deaf signers in these contexts practice and experience translanguaging, by making strategical use of multiple languages and language modalities, and International Sign? Four subprojects will focus on structurally different kinds of international deaf mobilities: (1) forced migration, (2) labour migration, (3) professional mobility, and (4) tourist mobility. The research team will be all-deaf as to maximise access to various sign languages, access to distinct deaf networks, and insights into deaf ways of living. This is a unique endeavour as most deaf-related research is hearing-led. The methodology will be ethnographic but neither logocentric nor audiocentric as visual methods (photography, video, mapping, and the production of four ethnographic documentaries) will be heavily employed, doing justice to the visual nature of sign language communication. By scrutinizing and bridging the concepts of intersectionality and translanguaging, this study will contribute to the study of growing complexity in diversity and mobility; the production/delimitation of social spaces particularly through language practices, strategies and ideologies; while engaging with issues of researchers’ embodiment, positionality and engagement, concerns which are central to the so-called third wave in deaf studies.
Year 2017
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42672 Project

Mig-Healthcare: Minimize health inequalities and improve the integration of vulnerable migrants and refugees into local communities

Description
The project aims to facilitate the transition from institutional to community-based care and integrated services for migrants and refugees that will ensure health equality and promote social inclusion. The overall objective of Mig-HealthCare is to improve health care access for vulnerable migrants and refugees, support their inclusion and participation in European communities and reduce health inequalities. Mig-HealthCare will produce effective community-based care models, pilot tested in different contexts and countries, which will focus on health promotion and prevention. It will develop guidelines and tools to reorient health care services to a community level. The project is implemented by a consortium of Universities, national authorities and NGOs from ten countries across Europe, with diverse experience on issues of public health and integration of refugees and migrants.
Year 2017
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42673 Project

MyHealth: MyHealth

Description
aims to improve healthcare access for vulnerable migrants and refugees, in particular women and unaccompanied minors, who have recently arrived in Europe. To this end the project partners, which include universities, research institutes and charities from seven EU countries, will develop and implement models to engage vulnerable migrants and refugees in their health through community empowerment and learning.
Year 2017
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42674 Project

Language training and well-being for qualified migrants in Sweden

Authors Lika Rodin, Andre Rodin, Susanne Brunke
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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42675 Journal Article

On waiting, work-time and imagined futures: Theorising temporal precariousness among Chinese chefs in Sweden’s restaurant industry

Authors Linn Axelsson, Bo Malmberg, Qian Zhang
Year 2017
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 20
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42676 Journal Article

Policy innovation in refugee integration

Description
De Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam heeft een 'quick scan' uitgevoerd naar innovatieve beleidspraktijken op het terrein van integratiebeleid voor vluchtelingen met verblijfsstatus. Het betreft een internationale vergelijking die EUR in het kader van de internationale wetenschappelijke samenwerkingsprogramma IMISCOE en op verzoek van het Ministerie van SZW heeft uitgevoerd. In het rapport worden beleidspraktijken op verschillende beleidsthema’s in tien Europese landen besproken. Hierbij gaat het om beleid op terreinen als huisvesting, onderwijs, arbeidsmarkt, gezondheidszorg, etc. Het rapport biedt een overzicht van wat in verschillende landen op verschillende beiedsdomeinen aan beleid ontwikkeld is, daarmee levert het nuttige inzichten voor zowel wetenschappers als beleidmakers.
Year 2017
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42677 Project

Palestinian perceptions of home and belonging in Britain: negotiating between rootedness and mobility

Authors Stephanie Anna Loddo
Year 2017
Journal Name Identities
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42678 Journal Article

Interfaces for Relational Listening: body, telematics, memory, migration

Description
In the European context of migration and diasporas, and at the intersection of sound art, music cognition, psychology and human-computer interaction, this project will develop INTIMAL: a novel physical-virtual “embodied system” for relational listening. Through the artistic practice of telematic sonic performance this system will interconnect people’s bodily motion and voice with their memories and dreams of distant locations. The fellowship aims to equip the researcher with cutting-edge tools and transferable skills for creating sonic relations for both well-being and healing, tackling important societal challenges of migration. The project will use a unique practice-based methodology, combining different types of listening: relational listening (in dialog with the surroundings), deep listening (sonic meditations, dream and body awareness), networked listening (through telematic performance), and body sonification (translating motion to sound). These will inform and be informed by the development of the modular software platform INTIMAL. As a case study, nine Colombian migrant women in Europe will test INTIMAL in their listening experiences as a catalyst for healing and reconciliation within the context of Colombian post-conflict and peace building. At the University of Oslo the researcher will gain artistic, conceptual and technological skills through: (a) the exploration of artistic, psychological, scientific and cultural implications of capturing the body while listening; (b) the development of spatiotemporal models that interrelate data sources using a graphical programming environment (Max with Jamoma) in a system; (c) the development of complex and meaningful relational processes for telematic sonic performance. Throughout the two years the project will reach academic and non-academic audiences, opening career opportunities for the researcher’s unique profile for the design of interfaces for relational listening, within a variety of dislocation contexts.
Year 2017
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42679 Project

REHEALTH2 / Re-Health2: Implementation of the Personal Health Record as a tool for integration of refugees in EU health systems

Description
The Re-Health2 project, has the overall objective to contribute to the integration of newly-arrived migrants and refugees, including those to be relocated, in the EU Member States’ health systems through the utilization of the PHR/e-PHR - a universal EU tool for health assessments that aims at improving the continuity of care, making medical records available to health professionals within and from reception to destination countries, and facilitating data collection to better understand and meet migrants’ and refugees’ health needs as also through supporting and fostering use of and capacity-building of health mediators. Ultimately, the project will contribute to the EU Digital Strategy by demonstrating the feasibility and limitations of such a system, which then can, if positive, be further up taken /taken in to consideration by e-(Health) EU related entities. http://re-health.eea.iom.int/sites/default/files/images/docs/Re-Health2_brochure_Sept2017.pdf
Year 2017
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42680 Project

GlobalCitizenshipLaw: Global Citizenship Law: International Migration and Constitutional Identity

Description
Managing global migration is one of the most pressing issues of our time, particularly in Europe. With more than 230 million international immigrants, the manner in which new citizens are/should be "created" has become a controversial issue, morally and politically. Traditionally, international law has not regulated nationality law; naturalization requirements remain the last stronghold of national sovereignty. This project advances the establishment of a new subfield in public international law—International Citizenship Law (ICIL)—which would regulate nationality law. It asks a critical and timely question: what are/should be the international legal limitations/privileges imposed on/granted to states in setting naturalization requirements? In order to address this question, the project has five scientific objectives: [1] to investigate the history of the law of naturalization in international law and what it can teach us about 21th-century challenges; [2] to identify the most recent legal developments in the field of naturalization law and establish the most up-to-date international legal standards of naturalization law; [3] to set out the theoretical foundations and the justifications for the establishment of ICIL; [4] to analyze the normative and structural implications derived from an-ICIL approach for future citizenship policy development, as well as to identify the legal reforms that should be taken to promote an-ICIL approach; and [5] to explore the interrelationship between ICIL, immigration policy, and constitutional identity. In essence, the project seeks to formulate international legal standards by which states can admit immigrants without fundamentally changing their cultural heritage and slipping into extreme nationalism. The outcome can serve as a basis for a future reform in international law, EU law, and national legal systems. As the immigration debate reaches a decisive moment, this project has both theoretical significance and policy implications
Year 2017
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42681 Project

Solidarity and Responsibility: Advancing Humanitarian Responses to eu Migratory Pressures

Authors Sonia Morano-Foadi
Year 2017
Journal Name European Journal of Migration and Law
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42682 Journal Article

Politics isn’t cool, it’s hot! Do emotions influence political attitudes?

Description
Europeans and Americans are anxious about the number of refugees entering their country; angry about unresponsive political elites; or sad how immigrants are treated. To answer the question whether these emotions influence citizens’ political attitudes, the state-of-the-art relies primarily upon self-reported emotions. Yet, when asked to self-report emotions, people are likely to mix their initial emotion with their cognitive evaluation which leads to an invalid measure of the emotion. In HotPolitics, I employ a ground-breaking methodological design by not relying upon self-reported emotions but measuring emotions via the actual physiological responses that citizens experience. Physiological responses are automatic, directed by the autonomous nervous system, when the brain experiences emotion. I test which citizens experience which physiological responses to political messages in two studies. First, I assess whether citizens experience physiological responses to political messages. Next, I assess whether political sophistication - i.e., political knowledge and political interest - as well as political ideology condition these physiological responses. The second Research Objective addresses whether physiological responses influence political attitudes. I expect that the experience of negative physiological responses triggers the disconfirmation bias which leads citizens to formulate counterarguments and disregard the political message they received. As a consequence their attitudes should become stronger and more extreme. The experience of positive feelings triggers the confirmation bias which makes people likely to accept the message. This should make attitude stronger and more extreme. Building upon research in psychology, political science and communication science, I move beyond self-reported measures of emotions and theorize and assess whether emotions – measured using physiological responses – influence citizens’ political attitudes.
Year 2017
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42683 Project

Emotional support on re-entry into the home country: Does it matter for repatriates’ adjustment who the providers are?

Authors Lore Van Gorp, Piet Bracke, Peter A. J. Stevens, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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42684 Journal Article

The self-managed house. Analysis of the Galician’s migrant strategy to provide its home

Year 2017
Journal Name Revista Internacional de Estudios Migratorios (RIEM)
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42685 Journal Article

Social Response to Europe’s Refugee Infl ux: Some Theoretical Considerations

Year 2017
Journal Name Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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42686 Journal Article

Citizenship in a Changing Multi-Scalar Post-Brexit European Context

Description
The third workshop from the series ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations’ took place in the neighbourhood of Molenbeek in Brussels on 11 September 2017. It was entitled ‘Scaling Migration Through the European City-Regions’ (#ScalingMigration) and blended very diverse perspectives and techniques. The macro scale examined the nation-state’s role in the global crisis of migration and the emergence of city-networks; at the meso scale, the workshop examined newcomers’ and refugees’ integration programmes; and at the micro scale, it analysed grounded projects set up in neighbourhoods and districts.
Year 2017
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42687 Report

Challenges and practices for establishing applicants’ identity in the migration process. Luxembourg.

Authors Adolfo Sommarribas, Ralph Petry, Birte Nienaber
Description
In Luxembourg, the procedure for identity verification/establishment in the context of international protection is separated from the decision-making procedure as such. While the authority for granting international protection status lies with the Ministry in charge of Immigration (Directorate of Immigration), the Judicial Police is in charge of identity verification/establishment. For this means, the applicant will be interviewed with regard to his/her travel itinerary, including questions on border crossing and used means of transports to arrive in Luxembourg. During the last few years, the large majority of international protection applications in Luxembourg have come from persons originating from the Western Balkan countries (in 2016 they represent 35% of the applicants). Concerning these applicants, most of them (85% to 90%) have presented valid identity documents to the authorities in Luxembourg. However, with the migration crisis there is a growing number of international protection applicants coming from the Middle East and North Africa and who cannot produce valid identity documents. National authorities have always been confronted with lacking identity documents, predominantly observable among applicants from African countries. In some cases, identity documents were intentionally destroyed or withheld from the authorities in order to avoid being identified. If credible identity documents are lacking, the identification procedure can become complicated and resource consuming, and the responsible authorities, especially the Police, have a limited set of methods and means available (provided for in the Asylum Law).
Year 2017
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42689 Report

An exploratory study into organizational repatriates’ emotional support network

Authors Lore Van Gorp, Piet Bracke, Peter A. J. Stevens, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Cross Cultural & Strategic Management
Citations (WoS) 2
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42690 Journal Article

Immigrant home-school information flows in Finnish comprehensive schools

Authors Minna Säävälä, Minna Saavala, Elina Turjanmaa, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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42691 Journal Article

Coming and going: the impacts of precarious work and non-citizenship on immigrant in- and out-migration in New Brunswick

Authors Catherine Holtman, Luc Thériault
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
42692 Journal Article

Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond

Principal investigator Ilektra Petrakou (PI)
Description
More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a sense of crisis as countries struggled to cope. The so-called refugee crisis has created deep divisions and policy incoherence in the EU among member states. The crisis foregrounded the vulnerability of European borders, the tenuous jurisdiction of the Schengen system and broad problems with multi-level governance of migration and integration. One of the most visible impacts of the refugee crisis has been the polarization of politics in EU Member States and intra-Member State policy (in)coherence in responding to the crisis. The recently granted Horizon 2020 project RESPOND will study the multilevel governance of migration in 11 countries. The consortium behind this project consists of 14 partners from source, transit and destination countries and will be coordinated by Uppsala University. This project is the first to be granted within the Humanities at Uppsala University and will take place from December 2017 – November 2020
Year 2017
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42693 Project

Médiations Linguistiques et interculturelles en contexte de Migrations Internationales

Principal investigator Yasmine Bouagga (Coordinator)
Description
Le projet LIMINAL porte sur les interactions et les médiations entre migrants et acteurs institutionnels, associatifs et informels en situation de crise migratoire et humanitaire, telle que celle-ci se développe en France depuis 2015 (multiplication de campements, camps, centres d’accueil et d’hébergement). L’équipe pluridisciplinaire étudie la spécificité des interactions dans les langues parlées sur les terrains majeurs de de la migration (Ile-de-France, Haut-de-France, vallée de la Roya). Etudier les situations d’interaction et de médiation : un impact social majeur Le projet LIMINAL se présente comme une recherche-action en terrain sensible, traitant avec une population d’exilés dans des situations de contrôle, de transit ou d’installation. Il répond à un besoin exprimé par les acteurs professionnels et associatifs. Le projet repose sur plusieurs hypothèses dont (i) la spécificité des interactions et médiations en situation migratoire d’urgence, (ii) l’impact des contextes institutionnels et informels sur les situations de médiation, (iii) la centralité des interprètes–médiateurs dans les dispositifs d’accueil des migrants, (iv) la nécessité de développer des outils d’information et de formation adéquats en réponse aux demandes récurrentes des acteurs sociaux. Grâce à la collecte de données anthropologiques et sociolinguistiques sur les terrains, puis grâce à l’analyse de données verbales et non verbales, textuelles, sonores et audiovisuelles, LIMINAL a pour objectif : (i) la constitution d’une plateforme numérique multilingue à partir de données lexico-terminologiques sur des populations migrantes et sur leurs usages des langues dans des situations d’urgence (ii) le lien du corpus lexical avec un corpus audiovisuel sur les situations d’interaction et de médiation autour de situations clés ponctuant la vie des migrants, (iii) la création d’outils scientifiques et pédagogiques pour la formation des interprètes-médiateurs (élaboration de modules, de glossaires et de lexiques, traduction des livrets d’accueil pour demandeurs d’asile dans le bon niveau de langue, création d’un diplômes universitaire professionnalisant les médiateurs), (iv) la production et la diffusion d’une recherche originale qui présente une nouvelle méthodologie en anthropologie de terrain sur les migrations, à partir de corpus inédits (inscriptions des exilés dans les centres d’accueil, réflexion sur l’urgence de l’accueil, analyse de récits de vie dans les langues de la migration peu traduites). Les enjeux méthodologiques de l’ANR LIMINAL sont (i) l’adoption d’une méthodologie propre aux terrains sensibles au travers d’une approche pluridisciplinaire en binôme (anthropologues-sociologues et sociolinguistes) à plusieurs échelles d’analyse ; ?(ii) la création d’outils numériques originaux (base lexicale en lien avec les données audiovisuelles issues du terrain) pour l’analyse d’un lexique de la migration et d’une possible langue de la migration; (iii) l’adaptation de ces outils et ressources numériques pour l’analyse, le traitement, la conception et la diffusion de données; (iv) la validation des résultats avec les travailleurs sociaux et associatifs, mais aussi avec les exilés, lorsqu’ils sont usagers (par exemples guides pour demandeurs d’asile). L’ANR LIMINAL développe ainsi une nouvelle méthodologie de l’anthropologie interactionniste, en écho à l’interactionnisme sociologique de E. Goffman, qui prend racine dans l’expérience de terrain et dans l’échange verbal et non verbal. Ceci présente deux caractéristiques : d’une part, la dimension réflexive au cœur de la dynamique de l’enquête dans la mesure où la présence du chercheur et ses représentations modifient l’interaction, d’autre part la production de nouvelles catégories de sciences sociales pour rendre compte de l’expérience de terrain que construisent ensemble les acteurs. Les premiers résultats de l’ANR LIMINAL (à mi-parcours) sont de 4 ordres : (i) L’étude a dévoilé l’émergence d’un vocabulaire de la migration, spécifique et trans véhiculaire. Une lingua franca s’est ainsi mise en place, constituée d’acronymes, de mots adaptés aux contextes spécifiques des lieux et des étapes de la procédure de demande d’asile, aux langues employées, aux statuts des concernés. (ii) LIMINAL a mis au jour un corpus multilingue jusqu’à présent non étudié, celui des inscriptions, tags et graffitis des demandeurs d’asile dans les centres d’accueil et d’hébergement et les campements. Les subjectivités qui s’y expriment, au croisement des champs du politique, du religieux, du nostalgique et du projectif apparaissent particulièrement riches en termes de contenu et de données linguistiques. (iii) Les recherches menées ont conduit à préciser le rapport entre langues, interactions, médiations (et profils des médiateurs) et conjointement ont donné lieu à un renouvellement méthodologique et conceptuel, ce qui permet des publications scientifiques originales (5 ouvrages prévus dont 1 livré). (iv) Les recherches ont révélé la nécessité tant au niveau des acteurs concernés (les exilés) que des institutions (associations, programmes d’accueil et d’insertion) de valoriser les locuteurs multilingues et de professionnaliser les médiateurs, d’où la nécessité de créer des outils pédagogiques originaux (Diplôme universitaire sur les médiations par exemple) et scientifiques en ce sens.
Year 2017
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42694 Project

FROM TRANSIT HUB TO DEAD END: A CHRONICLE OF IDOMENI

Authors Marianthi Anastasiadou, Athanasios Marvakis, Panagiota Mezidou, ...
Year 2017
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42695 Working Paper

Global Labour in Rural Societies

Principal investigator Johan Fredrik Rye (Principal Investigator)
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The GLARUS project theorizes the ways in which rural societies are transformed as result of large-scale labour immigration, predominantly in low-skilled, manual industries, and how the different parties in the rural societies (immigrants, hosting communities) experience these processes. A key dimension is to explore hypothesized rural/urban and rural/rural differences: In what ways is rural immigration a different phenomenon from its urban counterpart? Are there differences in how the labour immigration phenomenon unfolds in rural communities? What are the implications of the economic base, demographic structure, peripherality, and historical experiences of the receiving communities? The conceptual approach draws on, seeks to cross-fertilize and moves beyond insights from three strands of literature: immigration theory, labour market theory and the rural studies tradition. Key concepts, theories and perspectives within these fields are transnationalism, segmented labour market theory, flexibilization and precarious work, and heterolocal identities, belongings and spaces. The project is genuinely comparative in its approach; nationally and internationally, to order to identify both generic aspects of rural labour migration, and to gain an understanding of how various contextual aspects influence the unfolding of the phenomenon. In Norway three rural study areas with different economic bases (agriculture, fish processing, and tourism) will be studied and compared to study cases in the US and the UK. These study cases will be explored using an extensive mixed-methods methodological design combining various qualitative and quantitative techniques. A key objective of the project is to develop a strong international research network on global rural labour. The project will recruit several young scholars and offer an extensive visiting scholar programme for early- and mid-career scientists.
Year 2017
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42696 Project

Die soziale Produktion von Räumen in urbanen Asylregimen. Am Beispiel von Frankfurt Rödelheim und Maintal

Principal investigator Robert Pütz (Principal Investigator)
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Die soziale Produktion von Räumen in urbanen Asylregimen. Am Beispiel von Frankfurt Rödelheim und Maintal
Year 2017
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42697 Project

Migrations de retour dans les Alpes italiennes : mobilités, « cittadinanza » et sentiment d’appartenance

Authors Blanchard Melissa, Sirna Francesca
Year 2017
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
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42698 Journal Article

To stay or to go? The motivations and experiences of older British returnees from Spain

Authors Kelly Hall, Charles Betty, Jordi Giner-Monfort
Year 2017
Book Title Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and their Families
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42699 Book Chapter

Mig-HealthCare: Strengthen Community Based Care to minimize health inequalities and improve the integration of vulnerable migrants and refugees into local communities

Description
Mig-HealthCare will produce a roadmap to effective community based care models to improve physical and mental health care services, support the inclusion and participation of migrants and refugees in European communities and reduce health inequalities. Through the roadmap Mig-HealthCare will test implementation feasibility of community based care models in different settings and countries through pilot testing and assessment. Mig-HealthCare responds to all the current Work Program priorities and especially to the ones regarding the creation of innovative, efficient and sustainable health systems and facilitating access to better and safer healthcare services. Mig-HealthCare implements a participatory approach and recognizes differences between refugee/migrant groups and MS. The roadmap and toolbox will include guidelines and tools using ICT technology to reorient health care services to a community level. It will create networks of cooperation on all aspects that influence community health care including mental health and community integration characteristics. The project methodology is participatory and includes focus groups/interviews and surveys with all the target groups (vulnerable migrants/refugees, service providers, local community stakeholders), review of the current state of the art, collection and assessment of best practice, the development of an algorithm & prediction model, pilot implementation and creation of evidence based guidance and recommendations. Mig-HealthCare will: (1) Describe the current physical and mental health profile of vulnerable migrants/refugees including needs, expectations and capacities of service providers (2) Develop a comprehensive roadmap/toolbox for the implementation of community based care models including prediction models, best practice examples, algorithms and tailored made health and mental health materials (3) Pilot test and assess community care models and produce guidance and recommendations.
Year 2017
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42700 Project
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