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Impact of the refugee crisis in the EU CSDP. Reference to the Spanish contribution
2015
For the last three years the EU has been facing a refugee crisis which adds on to the flux of immigrants heading to Europe. The absence of safe and legal routes results in both immigrants and refugees having to recur to traffic mafias in order to cross the Mediterranean (through two main routes, the central one from Libya and the eastern one from Turkey), which ends up turning into a pit for thousands of deaths. The EU has launched a dispositive to fight against this situation, specifically in the route that stems from Libya, the operation EUNAVFOR MED. However, its features raise a series of problems which the Security Council’s Resolution 2240 (2015) has yet to resolve.
The socio-ecology of zoonotic infections
2011
The resurgence of infectious diseases of zoonotic origin observed in recent years imposes a major morbidity/mortality burden worldwide, and also a major economic burden that extends beyond pure medical costs. The resurgence and epidemiology of zoonoses are complex and dynamic, being influenced by varying parameters that can roughly be categorized as human-related, pathogen-related, and climate/environment-related; however, there is significant interplay between these factors. Human-related factors include modern life trends such as ecotourism, increased exposure through hunting or pet owning, and culinary habits, industrialization sequelae such as farming/food chain intensification, globali…
Religion and the Scandinavian Welfare State: Public Support for Socio-economic Rights in Times of Migration
2020
The theme of this article is the legitimisation of social and economic rights within the context of the Scandinavian welfare state. This problem has become more prominent in the light of the recent influx of immigrants from countries in the Middle East and Africa dominated by other religious and cultural traditions than Lutheran Protestantism. Two questions are discussed in the article. First, what role has religion played vis-a-vis the development of the welfare states in Scandinavia? Second, in what ways have recent immigration trends influenced popular support for welfare provision and social rights?
The migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea: Empirical evidence on policy interventions
2021
Abstract This paper presents a novel set of empirical evidence to explore several hypotheses regarding the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. The political instability in transit countries, such as Libya, that made pre-existent repatriation policies ineffective, called for several search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean, which in turn have been wrongly accused of fostering illegal immigration and increasing deaths at sea. The empirical results show that the main determinants of the departures are several root causes at the departing African countries, underlining the importance of fighting human smuggling networks. The paper suggests a change in migration studies’ perspectiv…
Peer ethnicity and achievement: a meta-analysis into the compositional effect
2010
This study reports a meta-analysis on the effects of ethnic minority share in school on achievement test scores. Best evidence from the studies that have appeared thus far on this topic shows that these compositional effects appear small in general, but may be larger when the ethnic minority group is African Americans in the USA, than when the minority group consists of immigrants. A high share of students from an ethnic minority group seems to affect the achievement from students belonging to the same ethnic group more, than the achievement of students belonging to the ethnic majority or to other ethnic minority groups. Effects of the share of immigrants on test scores of ethnic majority s…
La inmigración y el género como factores clave de la movilidad educativa en España
2021
En este trabajo analizamos los determinantes del logro educativo para la población inmigrante en España, así como su grado de movilidad intergeneracional educativa, comparando estos resultados con el resto de residentes en nuestro país. Como fuente de información, utilizamos la encuesta EU-SILC de 2011, que incluye un módulo de transmisión intergeneracional de pobreza. Gracias a este módulo, podemos conocer el nivel académico de los progenitores y compararlo con el alcanzado por sus hijos. Para analizar los determinantes del logro educativo, utilizamos una estimación de máxima verosimilitud, teniendo en cuenta variables del propio individuo, de su familia y de su entorno, mientras que el es…
La movilidad geográfica de búlgaros y rumanos durante la Gran Recesión en España
2021
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las pautas de movilidad de los inmigrantes procedentes de Bulgaria y Rumania durante la grave crisis económico-laboral que afecta a España. La información utilizada procede de entrevistas en profundidad a migrantes búlgaros y rumanos, que se completa con datos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y del Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social. Los resultados muestran el fuerte incremento de la movilidad interprovincial de trabajadores, sobre todo en los primeros años y con un destacado protagonismo de los varones, y el progresivo aumento de la migración internacional, que adopta diversas formas: retorno, migración circular entre el lugar de origen y …
The Role of the Church and Mosque in the Political Mobilization of Black African Immigrants in Finland at the Municipal Level
2015
Research has generally shown that the church and mosque play some role in immigrant political integration, especially mobilization. In Finland, this is not yet known as no research has yet examined it. This leaves a gap on whether the church and/or the mosque play such role. This paper seeks to fill this gap, using Black African immigrants as a case study through in-depth interviews. The focus is on political mobilization at the municipal level where many immigrants in Finland have full local suffrage. The study does not just examine the role of the church and mosque in mobilization in conventional politics (such as voting, party membership, campaigning), but also in the unconventional (suc…
Moroccans and Ecuadorians in the Mediterranean litoral intensive agriculture
2002
Desde el final de los años 1990 hay cambios importantes en el panorama migratorio español. Entre éstos cabe destacar la llegada de nuevos colectivos y la generalización del fenómeno en regiones y en sectores económicos que hasta el momento no conocían la mano de obra extranjera. Entre los nuevos grupos sobresalen los ecuatorianos que ya son el segundo colectivo de extranjeros en España y que en ciertas zonas entran en competencia con los marroquíes. Esta situación se aprecia especialmente bien en las comarcas agrarias del litoral mediterráneo. Since the end of the 1990s, there have been significant changes in the Spanish migration scene. Among them it is important to highlight the arrival o…
Differential Greek and northern African migrations to Sicily are supported by genetic evidence from the Y chromosome
2009
The presence or absence of genetic heterogeneity in Sicily has long been debated. Through the analysis of the variation of Y-chromosome lineages, using the combination of haplogroups and short tandem repeats from several areas of Sicily, we show that traces of genetic flows occurred in the island, due to ancient Greek colonization and to northern African contributions, are still visible on the basis of the distribution of some lineages. The genetic contribution of Greek chromosomes to the Sicilian gene pool is estimated to be about 37% whereas the contribution of North African populations is estimated to be around 6%. In particular, the presence of a modal haplotype coming from the southern…