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Staley, Roberta
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BA (University of Calgary)
Diploma Journalism (Grant MacEwan)
MA Liberal Studies (Simon Fraser University)
Roberta Staley is an author, a magazine editor and writer, and a documentary filmmaker who has reported from such places as Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, El Salvador, Haiti, Colombia, Cambodia, South Africa, Israel, and New Zealand. She currently edits Enterprise magazine, and is a contributor to BC Business, the South China Morning Post Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Trek, the Canadian Chemical News, Corporate Knights, and Sculpture, among others. She is also a columnist for Just for Canadian Doctors/Dentists magazines. Roberta has published her first book, titled Voice of rebellion : how Mozhdah Jamalzadah brought hope to Afghanistan. It is a biography of Afghan-Canadian human rights activist Mozhdah Jamalzadah
EU-TRHeaDS Conjoint Dataset
No full textThe EU-TRHeaDS Conjoint Dataset is a set of 20,920 observations that was gathered, organised and edited in the framework of the research project ‘EU Citizens’ Transnational Rights and Health-related Deservingness at the Street-level - EU-TRHeaDS’ (PI: Roberta Perna), which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101022244.
One of EU-TRHeaDS' aims is to investigate which criteria ‘activate’ the category of healthcare (un)deservingness in the context of intra-EU migration among the general public in two EU Member States (Belgium and Spain), and the extent to which these preferences turn into patterns of systematic penalisation towards specific EU nationality groups. It does so by carrying out a conjoint experimental study nested in an online survey run in parallel in Belgium and Spain with a representative sample of the population on the dimensions of gender, age (18 years old), level of education achieved and geographical region of residence. During the four tasks of the experiment, respondents were asked who they would prioritise to access publicly-funded healthcare out of two fictitious patients who differed in four attributes, all randomly assigned: 1) nationality; 2) migration trajectory; 3) responsibility over ill health, and 4) employment status.
As a subset of a larger survey on intra-EU mobility and access to healthcare rights, the EU-TRHeaDS Conjoint Dataset specifically includes the socio-demographic variables of the probabilistic sample in each country, the variables of the conjoint experiment and information about the time spent by respondents in completing each of the four experimental tasks.
For detailed information and the codebook, see the document 'EU-TRHeaDS_conjoint_Description&Codebook'European Commission, EU Citizens’ Transnational Rights and Health-related Deservingness at the Street-level 101022244Peer reviewe
Legal migration for work and training: Mobility options to Europe for those not in need of protection. Italy case study
No full textThis report was prepared in the framework of the project “Legal migration for work and training: Mobility options to Europe for those not in need of protection” coordinated by the Research Unit of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration in cooperation with the Migration Policy Institute Europe, funded by Stiftung Mercator. Given large-scale irregular migration flows to Europe, the central question is what legal alternatives do and could exist for third-country nationals who are not in need of protection and who move for education, training and or work. Through a combination of five country case studies (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden) and analysis of the European Union’s external migration policy, the project explored existing legal migration options, challenges in policy design and implementation, and reflected on the options for the development of effective legal migration policies and programmes.
FIERI was in charge of the Italian case study. This report aims at presenting and critically assessing Italy’s migration policies for work and training purposes in the last two decades. The report is also available here: https://www.fieri.it/2019/09/23/legal-migration-for-work-and-training-mobility-options-to-europe-for-those-not-in-need-of-protection-italy-case-study/
All other papers related to this project are availvable here:
https://www.svr-migration.de/en/publications/mobility_options_to_europe/
Con autorización de la editorialThis report was prepared in the framework of the project “Legal migration for work and training: Mobility options to Europe for those not in need of protection” coordinated by the Research Unit of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration in cooperation with the Migration Policy Institute Europe, funded by Stiftung Mercator.Peer reviewe
Bound between care and control: Institutional contradictions and daily practices of healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation in Italy
No full textOn the books, the inclusiveness of the Italian framework regulating healthcare access for migrants is indisputable. However, we might wonder how access takes shape on the front-line of the healthcare system, particularly in times of increasingly hostile institutional and discursive environments. By focusing on Italian migration and healthcare policies and the practices of health workers during their encounters with migrants in an irregular situation, this contribution analyses how health workers deal with institutional tensions in the field and how these, in turn, shape their narratives and actions. It suggests that individual positioning plays a major role in favouring the adoption of discretional practices of care or control. Nonetheless, practices are also mediated by the wider institutional and discursive landscape, which has been exponentially characterized by a tension between a medical-humanitarian logic that legitimates providing healthcare to vulnerable migrants, and a control-oriented logic targeting immigration and health expenditure.Peer reviewe
L'immigrazione in Italia. Dinamiche e trasformazioni in tempo di crisi
No full textThe aim of the contribution is to analyse immigration in Italy, focusing on the peculiarities that the phenomenon assumes across the country. Accordingly, using secondary data (Eurostat, ISTAT, Ministry of Labour), several aspects will be presented on various themes, related to population distribution, age-sex structures, labour market, specialization sectors and professions. Overall, it emerges a trend toward stabilization of the phenomenon despite the long-standing economic crisis and the persistency of a dual labour market in Italy, where foreigners are employed in dirty, dangerous and demanding jobs. Moreover, the abiding North/South cleavage, and the territorial peculiarities of the country result in different and even diverging geographies of immigration. Hence, it is rather difficult to define an «Italian model of immigration».Peer reviewe
Street-level workers, managers and institutional tensions: a comparative ethnography of healthcare practices of in/exclusion in three Italian public organisations
No full textEste artículo está sujeto a una licencia CC BY 4.0Public organisations are fundamental actors in migrant incorporation processes, as they are in charge of assessing migrants’ entitlement and providing access to welfare services. While a lot has been written on the individual determinants of street-level decisions, the role of organisational and institutional factors in shaping implementation practices has received little attention so far. By linking the street-level bureaucracy approach and the neo-institutionalist perspective in organisational analysis, this article investigates how public organisations mediate migrant incorporation processes in the field of healthcare. Drawing on a comparative ethnographic study of three public health organisations in an Italian region, the paper suggests that, in times of institutional tensions, managers’ priorities and framings of the issue, the ways they respond to decision-makers’ goals and allocate resources for implementing them, orient - and lead to variation in - street-level healthcare practices of in/exclusion for migrants with irregular status.The author acknowledges support of the publication fee by Erasmus University and the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI)Peer reviewe
Migrant Health Policies. Actors and Levels in a Multi‐Level Perspective
No full textUntil recently, migrant health policies have been overlooked as a topic of policy analysis. Although interest in the issue has developed in parallel with the progressive acknowledgement of the presence of unhealthy migrants and the transformation of welfare states and policy dynamics in Europe, studies on migrant health policies have often focused on the state as a unique unit of observation while hindering the role played by other institutional and non‐institutional actors taking part in the migrant health multi‐level governance. This contribution will bridge this gap, deconstructing the various actors and levels involved in migrant health policymaking from a multi‐level perspective. By critically reviewing migrant health policy research and discussing it with the new MIPEX Health Strand, this contribution suggests a more encompassing perspective in the analysis of migrant health policies and processes, looking at the different players at stake in this multifaceted policy field.Peer reviewe
Re-bounding EU citizenship from below: practices of healthcare for ‘(Il)legitimate EU Migrants’ in Italy
No full text“This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1362977”.Since multiple crises are currently affecting Europe, interest on changes in intra-EU mobility patterns, policies and EU movers’ strategies of integration has re-emerged in academic debates. What seems to still lack to date is a focus on the chaining actors linking the macro level of policies and the micro level of individual strategies, that is, civil servants who are in charge of implementing national policies in their daily encounters with EU citizens. Through an in-depth qualitative analysis of formal policies and daily practices in the field of healthcare for EU citizens in Piedmont, in the North of Italy, this contribution analyses how EU citizens’ right to free movement and equal access to social protection is officially framed and concretely enacted within the boundaries of the Italian National Healthcare System and the role of health workers as de facto citizenship-makers. It suggests that, along with managerial orientations, different evaluations of the Italian economic and financial situation, and of EU citizens’ root motivations behind their decisions to move across Europe play a crucial role in shaping health workers’ assessments of EU citizens’ deservingness of healthcare.Peer reviewe
Granting rights through illegalisation: EU citizens’ contested entitlements, actors’ logics and policy inconsistency in Belgium
No full textAlthough Member states have increasingly relied on welfare policies to control intra-EU migration in the last decade, they often grant additional social rights to EU citizens who do not comply with residency requirements set by EU law, revealing a gap between declared restrictive aims and actual inclusive measures. Based on document analysis and semi-structured interviews in Belgium, this article analyses the interests and logics of the plurality of institutional and civil society actors on the welfare-EU migration nexus, suggesting that policy inconsistency resulted from the struggle of these – conflictive – logics. In doing so, the paper also reveals how the category of ‘illegal EU migrants’ has been institutionally produced ‘from below’, with healthcare providers, welfare bureaucracies and pro-immigrant organisations – rather than ‘the State’ – taking the lead in that process.Peer reviewe
Relabelling in Bayesian mixture models by pivotal units
No full textA simple procedure based on relabelling to deal with label switching when exploring complex posterior distributions by MCMC algorithms is proposed. Although it cannot be generalized to any situation, it may be handy in many applications because of its simplicity and low computational burden. A possible area where it proves to be useful is when deriving a sample for the posterior distribution arising from finite mixture models when no simple or rational ordering between the components is available
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