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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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42701 Journal Article

Interethnic Coexistence in European Cities

Authors Dahlvik Julia, Franz Yvonne, Myrthe Hoekstra, ...
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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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42702 Report

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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42703 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
42705 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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42706 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.
Year 2017
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42707 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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42708 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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42709 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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42710 Report

Migration, Social Capital, Financial Capital:

Authors Muhammad Zubair, Dieter Bögenhold, Universität Klagenfurt
Year 2017
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42711 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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42712 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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42713 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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42714 Journal Article

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

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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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42715 Project

Babbler feasibility study in adjacent market segments.

Description
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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42716 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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42717 Project

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

Description
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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42718 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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42719 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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42720 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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42721 Project

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

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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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42722 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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42723 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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42724 Journal Article

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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42725 Journal Article

Deaf mobilities across international borders: Visualising intersectionality and translanguaging

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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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42726 Project

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

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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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42727 Project

MyHealth: MyHealth

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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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42728 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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42729 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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42730 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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42731 Journal Article

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

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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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42732 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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42734 Report

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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42735 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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42736 Journal Article

Policy innovation in refugee integration

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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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42737 Project

Negotiating an Asiatown in Berlin: Ethnic diversity in urban planning

Authors Antonie Schmiz, Robert Kitzmann
Year 2017
Journal Name Cities
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42738 Journal Article

GlobalCitizenshipLaw: Global Citizenship Law: International Migration and Constitutional Identity

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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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42739 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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42740 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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42741 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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42742 Journal Article

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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42743 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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42744 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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42745 Project

FROM TRANSIT HUB TO DEAD END: A CHRONICLE OF IDOMENI

Authors Marianthi Anastasiadou, Athanasios Marvakis, Panagiota Mezidou, ...
Year 2017
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42746 Working Paper

Global Labour in Rural Societies

Principal investigator Johan Fredrik Rye (Principal Investigator)
Description
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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42747 Project

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

Principal investigator Robert Pütz (Principal Investigator)
Description
Die soziale Produktion von Räumen in urbanen Asylregimen. Am Beispiel von Frankfurt Rödelheim und Maintal
Year 2017
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42748 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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42749 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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42750 Book Chapter

Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society

Description
ISOTIS addresses the nature, causes and impact of early emerging social and educational inequalities in the context of socioeconomic, cultural and institutional processes. The aim is to contribute to effective policy and practice development to combat inequalities. Quasi-panels and pooled longitudinal datasets will be used to examine the variation in early educational gaps and developmental trajectories across countries, systems and time. To disentangle the complex interactions between characteristics of systems and target groups, ISOTIS will study significant immigrant, indigenous ethnic-cultural and low-income native groups, associated with persistent educational disadvantages. ISOTIS will examine current resources, experiences, aspirations, needs and well-being of children and parents in these groups in the context of acculturation and integration, and in relation to local and national policies. ISOTIS aims to contribute to effective policy and practice development by generating recommendations and concrete tools for (1) supporting disadvantaged families and communities in using their own cultural and linguistic resources to create safe and stimulating home environments for their children; for (2) creating effective and inclusive pedagogies in early childhood education and care centres and primary schools; for (3) professionalization of staff, centres and schools to improve quality and inclusiveness; for (4) establishing inter-agency coordination of support services to children and families; and for (5) developing policies to combat educational inequalities. ISOTIS will develop inter-linked programmes for parents, classrooms and professionals using Virtual Learning Environments for working in linguistically diverse contexts. All this work together is expected to support the education practice and policy field in Europe in meeting the challenges of reducing social and educational inequalities.
Year 2017
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42751 Project

The Effects of Media News about Immigrants on Majority’s Attitudes and Behaviors towards Immigrants

Description
The interdisciplinary IMMIGRANTS project aims at a better understanding of how media influence majority’s attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants – a socially pressing issue connected to rapid expansion of immigration in Europe. In the project, I will focus on different aspects of media news – their valence, labels used for immigrants’ ethnicity and pictures of immigrants accompanying media articles about immigrants. The first goal of my research is to investigate how different labels used for immigrants’ ethnicity (nouns vs. adjectives) combined with different valence of media articles about immigrants (positive vs. negative vs. ambivalent) influence participants’ attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants. My second goal is to compare the effects of articles accompanied by different images of immigrants and articles without such images on participants’ attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants. Both goals feature a number of tasks related to the effects of media articles on attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants: I will test underlying mechanisms (e.g., biometrically tracked positive and negative emotions) and boundary conditions (e.g., social status and category salience of an immigrant group, participants’ intergroup contact with immigrants) of these effects. In three studies of the IMMIGRANTS project, I bring together different traditions on media and immigrant research and address several gaps in social scientific literature (e.g., too narrow focus on negative media news in political and media research, too narrow focus on positive intergroup contact and self-reported emotions in psychology). The outcome of IMMIGRANTS can be used to inform guidelines for professional training of journalists, policy makers, and social workers to become more sensitive to the impact of language describing immigrants.
Year 2017
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42752 Project

The effect of perceived overqualification on job satisfaction and career satisfaction among immigrants: Does host national identity matter?

Authors Maria Wassermann, Kaori Fujishiro, Annekatrin Hoppe
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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42753 Journal Article

Masculinities, Youth and Violence in the Moroccan Underclass: Young Men and Their Future Selves.

Description
Male juvenile delinquency as represented by self-styled tcharmils has been the focus of a moral panic in Morocco over the last years. The tcharmil subculture has gained visibility through a social-media propagated aesthetic that turns the stigma of social disqualification into a source of pride by extolling assertive masculinity, violence, and the transgression of social and religious norms. By adopting consumerist values that overlap with those of more privileged classes, and by frequenting the latter’s urban spaces of leisure, the tcharmil blur social boundaries. The resulting anxieties among the privileged has resulted in public campaigns and police crackdown. MoroccoMasculinities examines the construction of the masculinities of disadvantaged young men in order to understand how gender, class, space and ethnicity intersect in juvenile moral and cultural formations in today’s Morocco. On the one hand, studying the tcharmil subculture reveals how juvenile subjectivities are reshaped by the combined effect of urbanisation, the new media, and state policies interlinked with global systems of regulation such as neo-liberal reforms, restrictions on migratory movements, and the intensification of the struggle against the hashish economy. On the other hand, the study of state reactions to the same subculture allows to highlight changing patterns of criminalisation: the unprecedented emphasis on male delinquency possibly reflects a strategy of discursive de-politicisation of the threats to an established order faced with the challenges of the Arab Spring and its aftermaths.
Year 2017
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42754 Project

Two-step migration: A comparison of Australia's and New Zealand's policy development between 1998 and 2010

Authors Beibei Chiou
Year 2017
Journal Name Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
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42755 Journal Article

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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42756 Project

Religiosity and mental health among the immigrants in Brasília

Authors Marta Helena de Freitas, Benedito Rodrigues dos Santos
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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42757 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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42758 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
42759 Journal Article

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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42760 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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42761 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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42762 Project

Expatriate as a ‘good’ migrant: Thinking through skilled international migrant categories

Year 2017
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
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42763 Journal Article

Gegen Oben, Gegen Andere: Quellen von Demokratiekritik, Immigrationskritik und Rechtspopulismus

Principal investigator Ruud Koopmans (Principal Investigator), Wolfgang Merkel (Political Investigator), Susanne Veit (Political Investigator)
Description
"Das Brückenprojekt “Gegen Oben, Gegen Andere: Quellen von Demokratiekritik, Immigrationskritik und Rechtspopulismus“ (Kurztitel: DIR) vernetzt die Abteilungen ""Migration, Integration, Transnationalisierung"" (Direktor: Ruud Koopmans) und ""Demokratie und Demokratisierung"" (Direktor: Wolfgang Merkel). Mit Unterstützung durch die Abteilungsdirektoren liegt die operative Leitung bei Heiko Giebler und Susanne Veit. Vor dem Hintergrund des derzeitigen Erfolges rechtspopulistischer Bewegungen und Parteien in vielen westlichen Demokratien erforscht DIR, ob und warum rechtspopulistische Einstellungen mit einer kritischen Haltung gegenüber Demokratie und der Ablehnung von Zuwanderung assoziiert sind. Zentrales Ziel ist die Entwicklung und empirische Überprüfung eines Prozessmodells der Einstellungsentwicklung und -änderung sowie die Untersuchung der gemeinsamen Quellen von Demokratie- und Immigrationskritik. "
Year 2017
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42765 Project

Illegal employment of Third-Country Nationals in the EU – Luxembourg

Authors Adolfo Sommarribas, Ralph Petry, Birte Nienaber
Description
Illegal employment by third country nationals is a reality in Luxembourg. However, as well as in the case of grey and informal economy, it is rather hard to grasp or quantify to which extent. Nevertheless, the problem is not as significant as the one of the posted workers which is more relevant and worrisome and needs to be situated in the context of a labour market of the Greater Region. In the past, several labour related regularisation measures have been implemented in Luxembourg in order to provide both employers and employees the possibility to regularise situations of illegal employment. The last labour related regularisation measure was implemented in early 2013 in the context of the transposition of the Employers' Sanctions Directive 2009/52 by law of 21 December 2012. During this regularisation, the Directorate of Immigration received 664 applications. These regularisations give a partial indication of the extent of the phenomenon, even though these numbers do not provide a real picture of the problem because the conditions of this regularisation were very strict and in a very short time frame (less than two months) and a certain number of irregular migrants’ workers were not willing to expose themselves by applying and preferred to remain undetected. This regularisation also provided information on the main sectors were the phenomenon is found in order of importance: HORECA, cleaning, crafts, industry and construction. The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social and Solidary Economy at the end of the regularisation has insisted in the need to increase the number of controls to employers. The law of 21 December 2012 established administrative as well as criminal sanctions for employers who illegally employ irregularly staying third country nationals, particularly in relation to offenses to the Labour Code in aggravating circumstances. This law amended also article 89 of the Immigration Law abrogating the possibility of making labour related regularisations. The Inspectorate of Labour (‘Inspection de Travail et des Mines’, hereafter called ITM), which is in charge of labour inspections and the control of illegal employment of TCNs in Luxembourg, is currently going through a restructuring phase following the latest audit of this administration from January 2015. Particularly the current insufficient number of staff of the ITM, which is in need of a significant short term increase of staff, represents a main challenge in the field of illegal employment in Luxembourg. It is also in the context of this restructuring phase of the responsible administration that the drafting of this study presented a number of challenges, especially in relation to the operational and statistical part of the template. The information regarding the conditions to be fulfilled by both the employers and the employees in the context of an employment relationship are available on the website of the concerned authorities. Furthermore, they are disseminated by the NGOs working in the field, even though there are no specific campaigns targeted to prevent illegal employment of TCNs. The matter was raised in the context of the ‘social identification badge’, which was introduced in 2013 in order to fight against social dumping in particular in the construction sector. One national stakeholder suggested that the ‘social identification badge’ could be revised and adapted to other economic sectors in order to better monitor and prevent illegal employment. In regards to access to justice and enforcement of rights of illegally employed TCNs, Luxembourg foresees the right for illegally employed TCNs to make a claim against their employer, including in cases in which they have, or have been, returned. This claim falls under the general provisions concerning the right to bring a case before civil courts. The Labour Code establishes that the employer who has employed an irregular staying third-country national must pay to the third-country national the following amounts: 1) salaries and any other emoluments, which a similar employee would have benefited for the same employment; 2) the total amount of outstanding remuneration as well as the cost of the transfer of these amounts to the third-country national to the country to which s/he is returned; 3) the total amount of unpaid social contributions and taxes, including administrative fines, as well as, court and legal fees. In addition, the Labour Code establishes that the third-country national who has been illegally employed before the execution of any return decision has to be systematically and objectively informed by the control agents of his/her rights to recover the outstanding remunerations and back payments, as well as the right to benefit from free of charge legal aid in order to attempt a recovery action against the employer, even if the third-country national has already been returned. Labour unions can support and assist TCNs in legal proceedings related to social and labour law, provided that they have been given a mandate to do so. Eventual costs of administrative and civil proceedings can be taken in charge by the labour unions if the TCN is a member of the respective labour union. The Law does not establish fines against TCN’s who were illegally employed. The TCN may be issued a return decision and lose his/her residence rights; however, the Directorate of immigration processes these situations on a case-by-case basis and inform the persons concerned to terminate the illegal employment situation.
Year 2017
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42766 Report

Kurzfristige gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Effekte der Flüchtlingszuwanderung

Principal investigator Friedhelm Pfeiffer (Principal Investigator), Katrin Sommerfeld (Principal Investigator)
Description
"Die Aufnahme von rund einer Millionen Geflüchteten 2015 stellt die größte Netto-Zuwanderung ausländischer Personen in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschlands innerhalb eines Jahres dar. Dies wird in der Öffentlichkeit kontrovers diskutiert. Das Ziel des Forschungsvorhabens besteht darin, kausale Effekte der Zuwanderung mit ökonometrischen Methoden und neuen Daten empirisch abzuschätzen. Es konzentriert sich dabei auf die kurzfristige Perspektive der aufnehmenden Gesellschaft. Die Forschungsfragen lauten im Einzelnen: Wie verändert die humanitäre Zuwanderung kurzfristig die Beschäftigung der einheimischen Bevölkerung aufgrund der gestiegenen Nachfrage nach Versorgungsleistungen für die Zuwandernden? Wie verändert die humanitäre Zuwanderung kurzfristig die Akzeptanz gegenüber Einwanderern gemessen an Selbsteinschätzungen, Straftaten gegenüber Geflüchteten sowie Wahlergebnissen von Anti-Einwanderungsparteien? Wie verändert die humanitäre Zuwanderung kurzfristig die durch Ausländer verübte Kriminalität im Zuwanderungsland? Diese Fragen werden mit Hilfe der regional unterschiedlichen Intensität in der Flüchtlingsaufnahme von Kreisen untersucht. Im Rahmen der ersten Forschungsfrage erwartet Dr. Pfeiffer, dass kurzfristig erhöhte Staatsausgaben und neue Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten für Einheimische entstehen. Aufgrund der unterschiedlichen Konzentration von Geflüchteten zwischen Regionen besteht eine Variation, mit deren Hilfe das Ausmaß eines lokalen, kurzfristigen und ausgaben-induzierten Beschäftigungsmultiplikators abgeschätzt werden soll. Der Beitrag des Vorhabens besteht laut Analyse darin, erstmals für Deutschland einen Staatsausgabenmultiplikator in Bezug auf die kurzfristige Entwicklung der Beschäftigung in wirtschaftlich stabilen Zeiten zu schätzen und sie durch ein neues Identifikationsverfahren zu bereichern. Im Rahmen der zweiten Forschungsfrage wird der kurzfristige Effekt von Einwanderung auf die Akzeptanz gegenüber Einwanderern auf drei Arten geschätzt: Erstens werden mit Hilfe von Umfragedaten Änderungen in den Einstellungen zu Migranten der einheimischen Bevölkerung erforscht. Zweitens werden Straftaten gegen Geflüchtete sowie drittens Wahlentscheidungen als Manifestation von Anti-Immigrationseinstellungen analysiert. Hierbei wird dem Endogenitätsproblem Rechnung getragen, nach dem Menschen vorzugsweise in Regionen einwandern, in denen sie eine positive Aufnahme erwarten. Im Rahmen der dritten Forschungsfrage wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Einwanderung und Kriminalität, die von Geflüchteten verübt wird, untersucht. Dabei wird das Endogenitätsproblem berücksichtigt, nach dem sich Einwanderer mit krimineller Energie verstärkt in Regionen niederlassen, in denen sie schon vorhandene kriminelle Strukturen vorfinden. Daraus ergibt sich auch die Möglichkeit zu ermitteln, inwiefern die Größe von Einwanderernetzwerken die regionale Ausländerkriminalität erhöht."
Year 2017
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42767 Project

Crossings of borders in times of crisis. Finland and Sweden as transit countries of refugees and forced migrants in 1914–1945. (92 000 €)

Principal investigator Annette Forsén ()
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Summary in English not available, Summary in Finnish: Hankkeen julkinen kuvaus: Projekti käsittelee Suomea ja Ruotsia kauttakulkumaina vuosina 1914–1945. Tutkimuksen toisena ja kolmantena vuonna keskitytään aikaan 1919-1945. Suurimmat pakolaisvirrat tapahtuivat silloin 1917–1922 Venäjän vallankumouksen, Venäjän sisällissodan ja Venäjällä olevan nälänhädän seurauksena sekä 1938-1945 Hitler Saksan ja toisen maailmansodan seurauksena. Kysymyksenasettelu on rajoitettu pakolaisuuteen ja maahanmuuttoon pakon edessä (ns. forced migration).Tutkimus, joka on komparatiivinen, tuo esille transnationalistisen näkökulman pakolaiskysymykseen. Tutkimuksessa pyritään saada vastauksia seuraaviin kysymyksiin: Miten maiden viranomaiset ja paikalliset tahot hoitivat pakolaiskysymystä ja maahanmuuttovirta rajojen yli sekä miten he reagoivat kauttakulkuun? Miten paljon ja millä tavalla Suomi ja Ruotsi tekivät yhteistyötä maahanmuuttokysymyksissä? Kuinka suuri osa kauttakulkuliikenne oli koko maahanmuutosta? Erityinen huomio annetaan Suomen ja Ruotsin välisiin rajanylityksiin. Tärkeimmät lähteet löytyvät Suomen ja Ruotsin Kansallisarkistoista (mm. Suomen kenraalikuvernöörin, Suomen senaatin, Valtion pakolaisavustuskeskus ja Suomen punaisen ristin arkistot sekä Svenska Röda korset, Socialstyrelsen ja Passbyrån) ja ulkoministeriöiden arkistoista. Projektissa tuodaan esille uusi näkökulma, transitkysymys, Suomen ja Ruotsin pakolaisuuden historiassa. Projektin päämäärä on vertailevan tutkimuksen kautta luoda laajempaa kuvaa rajojen ylityksistä ja valtioiden toimintaan kriisien aikana. Aihe liittyy vahvasti ajankohtaisiin yhteiskuntakysymyksiin.
Year 2017
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42768 Project

The Tendency of Entrepreneurs to Employ Foreigners: Labour Immigrants in the Opinion of Employers

Authors Sabina Kubiciel-Lodzińska, Jolanta Maj
Year 2017
Journal Name Central and Eastern European Migration Review
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42769 Journal Article

A Universal Health Care System? Unmet Need for Medical Care Among Regular and Irregular Immigrants in Italy

Authors ANNALISA BUSETTA, ben wilson, valeria cetorelli
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
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42771 Journal Article

European Cities and Migrants with Irregular Status: Municipal initiatives for the inclusion of irregular migrants in the provision of services

Description
With this report, the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity – the learning-exchange arm of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford – aims to inform the discussions of the City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (the ‘City Initiative’). Organised with support from the Open Society Initiative for Europe, the City Initiative is a working group of European cities aiming to share learning, over a period of two years, on policies and practices of European municipalities in relation to the social needs of migrants with irregular immigration status in their area. COMPAS is supporting the working group in building a strong body of evidence on municipal initiatives in this field, and in developing a shared, city perspective on ways in which irregular migrants could be mainstreamed into European Union (EU) policy agendas. This report in particular aims to provide an overview of the findings of the academic and policy literature on practices and policies that European municipalities have implemented to enable individuals with irregular immigration status to access some municipal services.
Year 2017
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42772 Report

The challenge of responding to irregular immigration: European, national and local policies addressing the arrival and stay of irregular migrants in the European Union

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The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the most recent policy trends observed at international, European, national and sub-state governance level in relation to the arrival and presence in Europe of migrants with irregular immigration status. This paper aims to explain recent legal and policy developments on this issue, identify their main drivers and the direction of travel of current policy scenarios. There are several dimensions of policies governing irregular immigration. On one side, policies on irregular immigration aim to prevent and reduce the unauthorised arrival of unwanted immigrants. On the other side, policies on irregular migrants address the treatment of irregular migrants once they have entered (or overstayed their stay permits) in breach of immigration rules. With regard to this second dimension, policy makers can develop different approaches depending on whether they decide to grant some form of accommodation to their irregular population and facilitate regularisations, or instead, focus on enforcing immigration rules, denying accommodating measures to encourage voluntary returns, and ultimately enforcing removals. These two policy approaches necessarily overlap, as strict enforcement cannot overlook European states’ obligations vis-à-vis irregular migrants’ fundamental (including social) rights, but at the same time tougher policies on the treatment of irregular migrants are often implemented to deter new irregular arrivals. In this paper, both policies focusing on immigration law enforcement and deterrence, as well as policies aimed at regulating the treatment of irregular migrants vis-à-vis their social needs will be analysed.
Year 2017
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42773 Report

Una propuesta integral de medición de las migraciones forzadas. El caso de la población de origen colombiano en el País Vasco

Authors Iraide Fernandez Aragon, Iraide Fernández Aragón, Maite Fouassier Zamalloa, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name OBETS. Revista de Ciencias Sociales
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42774 Journal Article

GLIMER - Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees

Principal investigator Erica Righard (Project Leader)
Description
The current migration/refugee crisis presents opportunities and well as challenges. The overarching aim of the GLIMER project is to generate theoretically informed and empirically grounded knowledge that may, through best practice sharing and reporting, function to support policy-makers and stakeholders to cultivate durable solutions in the governance of local integration of migrants and refugees in Europe. The GLIMER consortium consists of partners from Italy and Cyprus (two landing points for many refugees as they first enter the EU) and UK and Sweden (two countries seen as final destinations), and the cases focus on new arrivals in the areas in and around Consenza, Nicosia, Glasgow and Malmö. Based in an understanding of the link between governance and integration at the local level, the project will examine emergent systems of co-responsibitliy between local and national agencies in their responses to managing the integration of migrants and refugees. Of central importance here will be the utilizing of what have become known as Urban Living Labs (ULLs) across each of the country cases. GLIMER will develop an approach to ULL as collaborative ventures between citizens, companies, local governments and researchers. In addition, GLIMER will utilize ‘natural’ ULLs that have arisen in the country cases where actors and networks can be brought together as stakeholders. Empirical data will be collected through participant observations, recordings and interviewing. The core research questions guiding the ULLs consider (i) to what extent cities and local contexts are adopting approaches to the governance of migration and refugees that diverge from national level policy position, (ii) how and in what ways cities and localities are cultivating innovative approaches in the reception and integration of migrants and refugees, and finally (iii) which approaches that are proving successful and how can these be a modelled for other contexts to learn from.
Year 2017
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42775 Project

The social integration of the population of immigrant origin and refugee population in Spain. National survey

Principal investigator Antonio Juan Iglesias (Principal Investigator)
Year 2017
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42776 Project

Community context matters: Acculturation and underemployment of Russian-speaking refugees

Authors A Vinokurov, Edison Trickett, D Birman, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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42777 Journal Article

ORAMMA: Operational Refugee and Migrant Maternal Approach

Description
The ORAMMA project develops an integrated, mother and woman centered, culturally oriented and evidence based approach for all phases of the migrant and refugee women perinatal healthcare, including detection of pregnancy, care during pregnancy and birth, as well as support after birth. This approach implemented by multidisciplinary teams of experts, namely midwives, social workers and general practitioners, with the active participation of women from migrants and refugee communities, ensures a safe journey to motherhood.
Year 2017
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42778 Project

Private Companies of Colonisation and Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Brazil

Authors Patricia Bosenbecker
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Migration History
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42779 Journal Article

Microcontact. Language variation and change from the Italian heritage perspective.

Description
This project aims to add an important block to syntactic theory, by developing new theoretical tools to account for microvariation and change. The central idea is that change and microvariation are necessary parts of grammar, and that they are in fact constrained by Universal Grammar (Chomsky 1957 ff.); in order to understand them we need not focus on the starting point and endpoint of change only, but also on the process itself. Observing change in progress can offer insights into its causes and the mechanisms underlying it. We aim at getting snapshots of change in progress by examining endogenous, diachronic change and change in contact for a number of genetically and typologically related varieties. Between the end of the 19th c. and the 1920s, many Italians migrated to the Americas. After World War II, a third wave of migration took place: around 400.000 people left Italy between 1950-1960. Interestingly, most of these Italians did not speak Italian as their native language: they all spoke some “dialect”. With this term we traditionally refer to those Romance languages spoken in Italy that evolved from Latin, and are sister languages to standard Italian. When these immigrants moved across the Atlantic, their languages entered in contact with other Romance varieties, like Argentinian Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, or Québécois French, as well as with English. The languages spoken by these 1st generation immigrants, who are now very old, are extremely important, as they potentially give a unique window into the mechanisms of language change in general, and of syntactic change in particular.
Year 2017
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42780 Project

MIGHEALTH : MIGHEALTH

Description
MigHealth brings together 14 partners from universities, national authorities and NGOs in 10 EU countries, to produce a roadmap for 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. The project will include testing the feasibility of community-based care models in different settings and countries.
Year 2017
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42782 Project

Health-related quality of life in Jewish immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Germany

Authors Yuriy Nesterko, Heide Glaesmer, Michael Friedrich, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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42783 Journal Article

When worlds collide: Academic adjustment of Somali Bantu students with limited formal education in a U.S. elementary school

Authors By Dina Birman, D Birman, Nellie Tran
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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42784 Journal Article

Social innovation and urban revitalization in hyperdiverse local societies

Description
Traditional state-driven top-down revitalisation strategies have resulted in new urban dynamics and tensions, gentrification processes and social exclusion. In the meantime, ethnic concentration in neighbourhoods overlaps with situations of social exclusion and deprivation. The aim of the project is to investigate whether and how area-based programs inspired by an innovative social approach targeting deprived and hyperdiverse neighbourhoods can intervene on increasing socio-spatial inequalities, at the same time promoting institutional learning. Institutional learning is in fact considered as a pre-condition to assure the publicness and sustainability of bottom-up initiatives. The project stands on the assumption that promoting social cohesion in hyperdiverse cities urgently demands a new approach to territorial development. The GF will provide me with new competencies to be transferred in Italy and Europe where the development of coherent contextual strategies for urban revitalization is of utmost importance. The GF envisages: i) an outgoing period to Canada, University of Toronto, where I will be involved in a major research partnership over six Canadian metropolitan areas (NCPR) ii) a return period in Italy at IUAV, based at the SSIIM UNESCO Chair to transfer the skills acquired, develop an additional training to establish a sustainable career iii) a secondment being based at TU Delft, Netherlands, being involved in the ERC Project DEPRIVEDHOODS to develop specific hands-on training activities and strengthen the collaboration among hosting institutions. If funded IUAV will provide me with a full-time research contract to invest in my career development. My profile deeply based on migration studies, policy design and analysis, urban planning and human rights will be reinforced with new inter disciplinary expertise and strengthen skills on community development, urban regeneration, social innovation, segregation studies and neighbourhood research.
Year 2017
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42785 Project

Family ties that bind: A new view of internal migration, immobility and labour-market outcomes

Description
Internal migration (long-distance moves within national borders) is generally assumed to be beneficial to individuals and households. This FamilyTies project has been designed to make a decisive contribution to a much more comprehensive explanation of internal migration and its labour-market outcomes than current, mainly economic, explanations have achieved thus far. It introduces a novel perspective on internal migration and immobility, which focuses on the role of family outside the household in deciding on whether and where to relocate, and which takes into account contemporary family complexity: the family ties perspective. The aim is to identify the role of family ties in internal migration, immobility and labour-market outcomes. The objectives are: 1. Identifying the role of family ties as a deterrent of migration and key determinant of immobility. 2. Explaining migration towards family in relation to migration in other directions. 3. Determining to what extent and for whom family-related motives drive migration and immobility. 4. Unravelling how individual labour-market outcomes of migration versus immobility differ between (im)mobility related to family ties and (im)mobility due to other factors. Geo-coded register and census data containing micro-links between family members will be used for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as survey data for Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA and New Zealand. These will be analysed using advanced applications of hazard regression, logistic regression, OLS regression and structural equation models, which take into account the multilevel and multi-actor structure of the data and issues of endogeneity and self-selection. The project will provide major new insights into migration, immobility and labour-market outcomes, and input for better predictions and policies concerning migration, population growth and decline, ethnic segregation, labour-market flexibility and family support.
Year 2017
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42786 Project

Economic recession and the reverse of internal migration flows of Latin American immigrants in Spain

Authors Jordi Bayona-i-Carrasco, Rosalia Avila-Tapies, Jenniffer Thiers Quintana, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 5
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42787 Journal Article

Unauthorized immigration and fiscal competition

Authors Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Santiago M. Pinto
Year 2017
Journal Name European Economic Review
Citations (WoS) 1
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42788 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
42789 Journal Article

Cultural Studies in the Past and Today

Authors Universität Klagenfurt, Rainer Winter, Zeigam Azizov
Year 2017
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42790 Journal Article

Inmigraciónafricana en el contexto rural de Cataluña

Year 2017
Journal Name Revista Internacional de Estudios Migratorios (RIEM)
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42791 Journal Article

Różnorodność repatriacji w Europie - polityki państwowe i praktyki migrantów jako wyraz ponowoczesnego nacjonalizmu

Principal investigator Katarzyna Andrejuk (Principal Investigator)
Year 2017
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42792 Project

God brought you home – deportation as moral governance in the lives of Nigerian sex worker migrants

Authors Sine Plambech
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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42793 Journal Article

Invisible Edges of Citizenship: Re-addressing the position of Romani Minorities in Europe

Description
This research addresses the question why the position of Roma in Europe keeps deteriorating despite all the (inter)national efforts put into its improvement. Roma persist as the main targets of ethnic discrimination and are faced by severe socio-economic inequalities throughout Europe. This project recognizes the urgent need to readdress the position of Roma at the times, when most of the programmes for their integration are nearing its conclusion (such as the Decade for Roma Inclusion 2005-2015) and when their intra-European mobility is being particularly problematized. By employing interdisciplinary quantitative and qualitative methodology and theoretical conceptualizations from the perspective of citizenship studies, this project aims to offer a novel insight on the position of Roma in Europe. The project investigates different dimensions of citizenship (rights, dimensions, belonging) in order to show that Roma are not an exception or a minority that simply ‘does not fit’ and is hence excluded from society. I seek to develop a new theoretical perspective to support the above claim: I argue that there are certain institutional mechanisms, that I call as invisible edges of citizenship involved in the production of the marginalization of Romani minorities in all European states where they reside either as citizens or migrants. Instead of only offering selected case studies, this research aims to offer a cross-country comparative analysis of citizenship and minority acts as well as Roma National Strategies and the experience of Romani individuals themselves with the invisible edges of citizenship. The results of this research will be relevant both for academics as well as policy makers: I will prepare a cross-country database on approaches to minority protection and major challenges connected to the position of Roma, 2 journal articles and a book manuscript.
Year 2017
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42794 Project

Social support needs of Sudanese and Zimbabwean refugee new parents in Canada

Authors Miriam Stewart, Edward Makwarimba, Knox Makumbe, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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42795 Journal Article

The plights of Eritrean refugees in the Shimelba Refugee Camp, Ethiopia

Authors Natnael Terefe Arega
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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42796 Journal Article

The impact of flight experiences on the psychological wellbeing of unaccompanied refugee minors

Description
Since early 2015, the media continuously confront us with images of refugee children drowning in the Mediterranean, surviving in appalling conditions in camps or walking across Europe. Within this group of fleeing children, a considerable number is travelling without parents, the unaccompanied refugee minors. While the media images testify to these flight experiences and their possible huge impact on unaccompanied minors’ wellbeing, there has been no systematic research to fully capture these experiences, nor their mental health impact. Equally, no evidence exists on whether the emotional impact of these flight experiences should be differentiated from the impact of the traumatic events these minors endured in their home country or from the daily stressors in the country of settlement. This project aims to fundamentally increase our knowledge of the impact of experiences during the flight in relation to past trauma and current stressors. To achieve this aim, it is essential to set up a longitudinal follow-up of a large group of unaccompanied refugee minors, whereby our study starts from different transit countries, crosses several European countries, and uses innovative methodological and mixed-methods approaches. I will hereby not only document the psychological impact these flight experiences may have, but also the way in which care and reception structures for unaccompanied minors in both transit and settlement countries can contribute to reducing this mental health impact. This proposal will fundamentally change the field of migration studies, by introducing a whole new area of study and novel methodological approaches to study these themes. Moreover, other fields, such as trauma studies, will be directly informed by the project, as also clinical, educational and social work interventions for victims of multiple trauma. Last, the findings on the impact of reception and care structures will be highly informative for policy makers and practitioners.
Year 2017
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42797 Project

The Problem of Exclusion from Refugee Status on the Grounds of Being Guilty of Terrorist Acts in the cjeu Case-law

Authors Anna Magdalena Kosińska, Anna Magdalena Kosinska
Year 2017
Journal Name European Journal of Migration and Law
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42798 Journal Article

Migration Solidarity and Acts of Citizenship along the Balkan Route

Description
The aim of this 24-month Fellowship is to explore how refugees and refugee solidarity groups along the “Balkan route” relate to and enact European citizenship. While the project of European citizenship is an unprecedented political development, it has institutionally been modelled upon and reproduces national conceptualisations of citizenship, rights and identity. The research will undertake a comparative analysis of discourses and practices of refugees and pro-refugee volunteers in both EU and non-EU sites, and of the way in which they challenge concepts and institutions of European citizenship derived from national models of membership. It will pay particular attention to the relationship between “movement” and the constitution of new European political subjectivities. The main objectives of this study are (1) to engage in a critical examination of the processes and institutions of European citizenship with a specific focus on countries of the “Balkan route”; (2) to develop a cross-national and cross-local perspective on solidarity practices with refugees that have emerged along the Balkan route; (3) to investigate “acts of citizenship” emerging from both EU and non-EU citizens in relation to refugee mobilities and to assess their implication for European citizenship; (4) To develop analytical and theoretical frames to reflect on new politics of solidarity in Europe and the way in which they contest exclusionary readings of Europe; and (5) to contribute to conceptual debates on citizenship, the governance of migration and social movements and solidarity in the EU and beyond. In the current context of uncertainty regarding the future of the EU, these questions appear of rising urgency. This study proposes to address these issues through ethnographic research with a range of pro-refugee initiatives in Hungary, Serbia and Greece, three countries at the heart of the Balkan route yet which hold different historical and political relationships to “Europe” and the EU.
Year 2017
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42799 Project

Syrian Imaginations of Europe

Description
Refugees’ attempts to flee to a certain country are usually preceded by imaginations about possible destination countries. These imaginations not only contribute to refugees’ decisions where to seek asylum but also have an effect on how refugees experience realities when they eventually arrive in the destination country. The research project ‘SYRMAGINE – Syrian Imaginations of Europe’ focusses on how Europe is imagined by Syrian refugees settling in Syria’s neighbouring countries and examines how refugees’ imaginations affect their attitudes to seek asylum in European countries. SYRMAGINE understands “geographical imaginations” of Europe as subjective human conceptions of a geographical location and stresses the differences between “imagined regions” and reality. The project adopts an interdisciplinary mixed-method approach combining a large sample of individual surveys, semi-directive interviews and an online ethnography in two recipient and transit countries of Syrian refugees in the Middle East, Lebanon and Turkey. SYRMAGINE contributes to the academic literature on the active role of imaginations in refugees’ decision-making. From a policy perspective, it responds to one of the key priorities of the Horizon 2020 work programme 2016-2017, which is to investigate the governance of migration and asylum. The research is highly time relevant due to the surge of Syrian asylum application in Europe in the last years: Between April 2011 and June 2016, more than one million Syrians have applied for asylum in Europe (UNHCR 2016). The research project has the following three objectives: 1) to investigate the relation between refugees’ imaginations and decision-making and to study how the present country of residence compares to Europe as a destination choice, 2) to examine how refugees inform themselves about social and political realities in European countries and 3) to use these findings to contribute to the development of evidence-based asylum and integration policies.
Year 2017
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42800 Project
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