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Essential? COVID-19 and highly educated Africans in Finland’s segmented labour market
2022
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to characterise the position of highly educated African migrants in the Finnish labour market and to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on that position.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on the biographical work stories of 17 highly educated African migrant workers in four occupation areas in Finland: healthcare, cleaning, restaurant and transport. The sample was partly purposively and partly theoretically determined. The authors used content driven thematic analysis technique, combined with by the biographical narrative concept of turning points.FindingsUsing the case of highly educated African migrants in the Finnish labour market, …
Reemigrācijas attīstība Baltijas valstīs
2016
Migrācija ir nebeidzams pārvietošanās process, gan reģionālā, gan globālā līmenī. Migrācija ietekmē dažādas cilvēku grupas – ekonomiskos migrantus, bez pajumtes palikušās personas, bēgļus (patvēruma meklētājus) un ceļotājus. Migrācija ir daudzslāņains, sarežģīts process, kuru izpētes gaitā nepieciešams skatīt no dažādiem aspektiem, tādēļ, lai gūtu plašāku pārskatu par migrācijas paveida – remigrācijas attīstību Baltijas valstīs, maģistra darbs ir strukturēts divos līmeņos – empīriskais pētījums par trīs Baltijas valstīm – Lietuvu, Latvija un Igauniju un kvalitatīvais pētījums – reemigrācijas attīstība Baltijas valstīs: Latvijas gadījums. Maģistra darba mērķis ir veikt padziļinātu izpēti par…
Care and reunification in a Cape Verdean family: Changing articulations of family and legal ties
2018
This article looks at the interaction between transnational family relationships, on the one hand, and family-related immigration policies, on the other. Taking the conflicting concerns that arose between administrative decision-makers and family members during an attempt to reunite a Cape Verdean family spread across several countries as an example, the questions of what ‘family’ means, what relationships are included and the nature of the relationships involved answered differently by different actors will be shown. The article discusses the way in which the regulation of transnational mobility according to specific categories of eligibility is giving social ties a concrete legal form whi…
La política de inmigración en la Unión Europea. Desde tres claves
2005
The European Union's immigration policy regarding the control and management of migratory flow, can be seen from many viewpoints. Of these, three are of particular interest. Firstly, the economic aspect, which is based on reducing the figure of the immigrant to a worker, taking into account the conditions and protection of the European Community's employment market. Secondly, the defensive aspect, which emphasises the need to secure frontiers vulnerable to immigrant migration, in order to ensure both security and law and order. Lastly the social aspect, which focuses on the aim for European homogeneity a reference point for the implementation of this policy and for the need to integrate imm…
Cultural policy and cultural diversity in Finland
2008
Post‐war immigration has produced new ethnic and cultural diversity in European societies. The issues of multiculturalism and interculturalism have also gradually entered the agendas of local and national cultural policy makers. In this article, we explore the development of the relationships between cultural diversity, immigration policy, and cultural policy in Finland. Special attention is given to the capital city of Helsinki. The analysis of policy documents, institutional arrangements and interviews carried out with key actors reveal discrepancies between official intentions and practical solutions. Neither is the incorporation of the diversity into the traditional minority policy unam…
Ķīna un ķīniešu migrācija ārzemēs
2019
Migrācija kā viena no globalizācijas procesa izpausmēm ir kļuvusi par nozīmīgu parādību divdesmitajā gadsimtā. Ta ietekmē dažādu pasaules valstu politisko, sociālekonomisko un demogrāfisko attīstību, starpvalstu mijiedarbības un integrācijas procesus starptautiskajā sabiedrībā. Tajā pašā laikā migrācijas pieaugums izraisa drošības un noziedzības problēmu pasliktināšanas nelegālās migrācijas, cilvēku tirdzniecības, ksenofobijas un terorisma veidā. Tas viss pievērš lielu uzmanību starptautiskajām organizācijām, valstu valdībām, zinātnieku aprindām un plašai sabiedrībai. Ķīnas migrācijai kā nozīmīgai demogrāfiskajai parādībai ir ietekme uz saņēmējvalstīm, ieviešot izmaiņas dzimumu un demogrāfi…
EU Migration policy to the test of fundamental rights
2021
The emergence of a common migration policy is recent, as the European Union tackles the issue of migration only belatedly. Common actions to regulate migration issues were implemented gradually from the 1970s, within a purely intergovernmental framework, then gradually within a common framework. This policy covers aspects relating to the entry and stay of third-country nationals on the territory of the European Union, the fight against irregular immigration and the control of external borders.The process of Europeanization of immigration and asylum rules has been a long and laborious one, and it remains unfinished due to states' attachment to their sovereignty. This is why the European Unio…
U.S. Expansionism, Mexican Undocumented Migration, and American Obligations
2011
In his compelling piece, “Living in a Promiseland? Mexican Immigration and American Obligations,” Rogers Smith argues that the greater the degree to which the U.S. has coercively constituted the identities of non-citizens in ways that have made having certain relationships to America fundamental to their capacities to lead free and meaningful lives, the greater the obligations the U.S. has to facilitate those relationships. Over the last hundred years, many rural communities in Mexico have been constituted more by U.S. immigration policy and the labor demands of U.S. employers than by similar policies and economic factors in Mexico. According to Smith, this means that Mexicans may be owed “…
La herida original de las políticas de inmigración : A propósito del lugar de los derechos humanos en las políticas de inmigración
2002
El artículo plantea algunas condiciones que permitan superar las dos posiciones en las que parece alternativamente preso el debate actual sobre la inmigración: la visión instrumental, torpemente pragmática, y la «humanitaria», anclada en la conmiseración o la piedad. Para alcanzar la dimensión política es preciso superar un análisis de los flujos migratorios erróneo, el que está en la base de ambas posiciones. Y si se supera esa visión, se superarán los actuales instrumentos jurídicos de política de inmigración, que no son acordes con el reconocimiento pleno y la garantía de los derechos humanos fundamentales, pero tampoco con el necesario reconocimiento de la condición de sujeto del espaci…
Norms matter! The role of international norms in EU policies on asylum and immigration
2014
Abstract This Article investigates how international norms impact on eu asylum and immigration policy. To this end we scrutinize the assumption that the robustness of international norms indicates the quality of eu integration. Drawing on international norms literature we argue that four characters define an international norms’ robustness: specificity in definition, binding force, coherence with domestic law and international law, and concordant understanding among actors. Our analysis covers three eu policy areas, asylum policy, family reunification policy, and labour migration policy. Across the three areas international norms had varying degrees of robustness at the time of eu negotiat…