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Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand
No full textThrough an inter-subjective lens, this open access book investigates the initial labour market integration experiences of these migrants, refugees or asylum seekers, who are characterised by different biographies and migration/asylum trajectories. The book gives voice to the migrants and seeks to highlight their own experiences and understandings of the labour market integration process, in the first years of immigration. It adopts a critical, qualitative perspective but does not remain ethnographic. The book rather refers the migrants’ own voice and experience to their own expert knowledge of the policy and socio-economic context that is navigated. Each chapter brings into dialogue the migrant’s intersubjective experiences with the relevant policies and practices, as well as with the relevant stakeholders, whether local government, national services, civil society or migrant organisations. The book concludes with relevant critical insights as to how labour market integration is lived on the ground and on what migrants ‘do’ with labour market policies rather than on what labour market policies ‘do’ to or for migrants
Contemporary Polish Migration in Europe: Complex patterns of movement and settlement
No full textForeword by Bill Jordan
Acknowledgements
1. Poles in Europe: Migration in the New Europe - Anna Triandafyllidou
2. Polish Emigration: Permanent and Temporary Patterns - Norbert Cyrus
3. Recent Polish Immigrants in the U.K. – Franck Düvell
4. Polish Immigrants in Germany – Norbert Cyrus and Dita Vogel
5. Polish Immigrants in Greece – Iordanis Psimmenos and Koula Kassimati
6. Poles in Italy – Anna Triandafyllidou and Ankica Kosic
7. Polish Female Migration in Europe: A Gendered Approach - Anna Triandafyllidou
8. Migrant Identities - Ankica Kosic
9. Polish Immigrants: Tensions Between Sociological Typologies and State Categories - Franck Düvell
10. Polish Migration, Labour and Glbalisation - Iordanis Psimmenos and Koula Kassimat
Gender, migration and globalisation: an overview of the debates.
No full textWhat does it mean to talk about ‘gender’ in relation to migration? When confronted by this question, scholars and students who already know what ‘migration’ means are puzzled by how they should put this together with an equally vast realm of concepts and facts – those that consider what gender
is
. Or, to be more precise: what gender
does
. For this purpose, in this chapter I am providing an overview of what gender
does
to migration, illustrating some of the ways in which taking a gender perspective changes the way we understand the link between migration and globalisation, and how gender-based differ-ences and inequalities affect (and are affected) by global migrations.I will do this, first of all, by introducing the relevance of gender issues to migration debates, and thus speak of the ‘feminisation of migration’. This, I contend, can be seen at a quantitative and qualitative level. Therefore, the chapter delves into a specific dimen-sion of the feminisation of migration by taking the case of domestic and care workers to discuss issues such as the ‘international division of reproductive labour’ and the ‘global care chain’. In the second part of the chapter I offer an historical overview of the scholar-ship that has developed around the gender–migration–globalisation nexus in the last 40 years. At the end, I outline other possible directions for research in this fiel
Labour Market Integration as an Interactive Process
No full textThis chapter presents the analytical framework of this volume, arguing that an interpretive-biographical methodology for analysing labour market integration can highlight the many ways in which migrants exercise agency both materially in shaping their lives but also cognitively and emotionally in making sense of what is happening to them, taking decisions and following specific courses of action. The chapter introduces the notion of turning points and epiphanies as a new approach to labour market integration that goes beyond ticking boxes of who has a job. It also looks into the employment trajectories of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. After elaborating on the interpretive biographical methodology and its tools, this chapter briefly outlines the contents of this volume
European immigration : a sourcebook
No full textTable of Contents
Half Title Page
Dedication
Title Page
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Biographical notes of contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruby Gropas and Dita Vogel
Chapter 2. Austria
Albert Kraler and Karin Sohler
Chapter 3. Belgium
Hassan Bousetta, Sonia Gsir and Dirk Jacobs
Chapter 4. Cyprus
Nicos Trimikliniotis and Corina Demetriou
Chapter 5. Czech Republic
Jan ?erník
Chapter 6. Denmark
Marco Goli and Shahamak Rezaei
Chapter 7. Estonia
Mikko Lagerspetz
Chapter 8. Finland
Silvain Sagne, Sanna Saksela and Niklas Wilhelmsson
Chapter 9. France
Ulrike Schuerkens
Chapter 10. Germany
Norbert Cyrus and Dita Vogel
Chapter 11. Greece
Ruby Gropas and Anna Triandafyllidou
Chapter 12. Hungary
Andr s Kov ts and Endre Sik
Chapter 13. Ireland
Abel Ugba
Chapter 14. Italy
Ankica Kosic and Anna Triandafyllidou
Chapter 15. Latvia
Inese ¿?pule
Chapter 16. Lithuania
Rita Zukauskiene
Chapter 17. Luxembourg
Serge Kollwelter
Chapter 18. Malta
Katia Amore
Chapter 19. The Netherlands
Jessika ter Wal
Chapter 20. Poland
Krystyna Iglicka
Chapter 21. Portugal
Ana Teixeira and Rosana Albuquerque
Chapter 22. Slovakia
Boris Divinský
Chapter 23. Slovenia
Svetlozar A. Andreev
Chapter 24. Spain
Carmen Gonz lez Enríquez
Chapter 25. Sweden
Miguel Benito
Chapter 26. United Kingdom
Franck Düvell
Chapter 27. Concluding remarks
Ruby Gropas and Anna Triandafyllidou
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A long journey of integration
No full textThis chapter summarizes the interaction between integration and agency by comparing migrants’ encounters with labour markets through which their agency challenges existing discourses. The chapter investigates the complex relationship between policy discourse, gender, and class in the production of migrant agency across different countries. The gendered experiences of low labour in Denmark centre around the crucial moments of retraining for migrant women, through which they reconsider their adjustment to the labour market as ‘devoid integration’. The EU discourses of integration are further disrupted by humanitarian migrants in Scotland and Switzerland, whose encounters with the non-recognition of qualifications and inadequate social welfare contradict the ‘migrant-welcoming’ national facades. The Canadian grand discourse of ‘smooth transition’ is opposed by the analysis of aspirations that clash with outcomes such as the labour market entrance. In this connection, we can see the Italian ‘borderline’ space of the informal market, within which many legal economic migrants navigate a complex web of existing laws and informal opportunities. The comparison is amplified by a visually ‘successful’ portrait of entrepreneurial integration, which is nevertheless perceived by skilled migrants in Finland as a less desirable option. The quality of migrants’ agency thus becomes contested if they seek to progress in the labour market. An essential element in this contestation is the transnational migrants’ disagreement with official discourses of ethnic solidarity and national citizenship in the Czech Republic. The comparative analysis of these lived experiences leads toward a new understanding of ‘agency’ and ‘resilience’ in labour market integration
Migrants with irregular status in Europe : evolving conceptual and policy challenges
No full textThis open access book explores the conceptual challenges posed by the presence of migrants with irregular immigration status in Europe and the evolving policy responses at European, national and municipal level. It addresses the conceptual and policy issues raised, post-entry, by this particular section of the migrant population. Drawing on evidence from different parts of Europe, the book takes the reader through philosophical and ethical dilemmas, legal and sociological analysis to questions of public policy and governance before addressing the concrete ways in which those questions are posed in current policy agendas from the international to the local level. As such this book is a valuable read to researchers, practitioners and policy makers as well as to students working on irregular migration in Europe in a comparative and/or country based perspective.-- Prelims -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: A Multi-faceted and Dynamic Reality: Anna Triandafyllidou and Sarah Spencer -- Chapter 2: Understanding Irregularity: Anna Triandafyllidou and Laura Bartolini -- Chapter 3: Contradictions in the Moral Economy of Migrant Irregularity: Sébastien Chauvin and Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas -- Chapter 4: The Human Rights of Migrants with Irregular Status: Giving Substance to Aspirations of Universalism: Colm O’Cinneide -- Chapter 5: European Union and National Responses to Migrants with Irregular Status: Is the Fortress Slowly Crumbling?: Nicola Delvino -- Chapter 6: The Transnational Mobilization of ‘Irregular Migrants’: Milena Chimienti and John Solomos -- Chapter 7: Crackdown or Symbolism? An Analysis of Post-2015 Policy Responses Towards Rejected Asylum Seekers in Austria: Ilker Ataç and Theresa Schütze -- Chapter 8: Irregular Migration and Irregular Work: A Chicken and Egg Dilemma : Anna Triandafyllidou and Laura Bartolini -- Chapter 9: The Economy of Reception: A View from Southern Europe: Laura Bartolini, Regina Mantanika, and Anna Triandafyllidou -- Chapter 10: Cities Breaking the Mould? Municipal Inclusion of Irregular Migrants in Europe: Sarah Spencer -- Chapter 11: Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges Sarah Spencer and Anna Triandafyllido
Attempting the Impossible? The Prospects and Limits of Mobility Partnerships and Circular Migration
No full textIn ELIAMEP Thesis 1/2009 Anna Triandafyllidou, Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, argues that mobility partnerships and circular migration as proposed by the Commission in its respective Communication are not likely to work. The author holds that many if not most neighbouring countries will be unable to comply and implement the conditions set by the EU. At the same time, it is questionable whether one should tie schemes of legal migration to the efficiency of the source country in combating irregular migration, as this is both economically irrational and politically questionable
Anna Triandafyllidou (ed.): Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Who Cares? Aldershot: Ashgate 2013, 256 pp.
No full textA review of the book by Anna Triandafyllidou
Representations of the European Union and the Nation(-state) in Italian party discourse. A critical analysis of electoral platforms and Parliamentary debates
No full textResearch on party attitudes towards European integration has concentrated on the relationship between party ideology and positions related to European integration as an economic and/or political process, ignoring the representational aspect of party discourse. This study aims to contribute towards filling this gap by examining how Italian parties represent the European Union, the nation(-state) and the relationship between the two in their electoral platforms and parliamentary debates. We shall therefore analyse critically how parties use specific representations of Europe, the EU and the nation to frame and support their ideologies and positions and how they shape these representations in different ways depending on the challenge they are confronted with. We shall also look beyond presumed clear-cut relationships between party ideology and party attitudes towards European integration, exploring the complexities and ambiguities of party discourse and highlighting how specific EU or nation representations are used as legitimisation strategies by parties in combination to their left- or right-wing ideology
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