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Migrants' lives beyond the workplace. The experiences of East and Central Europeans in the UK

This research explores the experiences beyond the workplace of migrants from East and Central Europe working in four low-wage occupations in the UK....

4. 6. 07

Online Discussions on Migration and Development

As a preparatory process to the Civil Society Day linked to the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Brussels (July) online discussions are organised...

28. 5. 07

The ability of "world city" theory to explain contemporary patterns and processes of intra-European labour migration

This paper has one main aim, namely to examine the ability of ‘world city’ theory to account for contemporary patterns of intra-European labour migration....

22. 5. 07 Migration and the EU articles

Migrants are not variables: a critique of the migration literature and associated policy developments

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of the migration literature as it has sought to adapt to changing realities, and argues that this adaptation...

22. 5. 07 articles

Interview with Dr. Martin Ruhs

Dr. Martin Ruhs is a Senior Labour Market Economist at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS),
University of Oxford.
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22. 5. 07 Migration and the EU articles

The role of I.T. migrants working in Ireland: the uneasy and unstable relationship between skills shortages and career choices

The stunning success enjoyed by the Irish economy over a sustained period of time has made it a model for other countries to emulate when seeking to develop...

18. 5. 07 Labour Migration articles

Skill shortages, emigration and unemployment in Poland - causes and implications

The paper analyses a constellation of factors concerning, on the one hand, the erosion of skills caused by the systemic transition from communism to...

18. 5. 07 Labour Migration articles

The Czech Penal Code to Criminalise Aid to Undocumented Migrants

The Constitutional and Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament is debating a draft amendment to the Penal Code that would introduce a new...

11. 4. 07 Undocumented Migration and Regularisation articles

Commentaries 2006

Eleven commentaries from seven different countries on the important events and changes which took place in the field of migration last year....

22. 3. 07 articles

(De)constructing European Citizenship - Political mobilization and collective identity formation among immigrants in Sweden and Spain

The political construction of a European citizenship and a “European identity” is a project whose support among the diverse European peoples is uncertain...

19. 3. 07 articles

EPMWR publication on state of ratification of the U.N. Migrant Workers Convention

With this publication, the European Platform for Migrant Workers Rights presents the results of a mapping exercise it undertook in 2006....

16. 3. 07 articles

The Lisbon Agenda and 'Neoliberal Communitarian' Citizenship

This article analyses the European Union’s Lisbon Agenda and its relation to changing conceptions of European citizenship ...

16. 3. 07 Migration and the EU articles

The rural miracle? – The ‘1 Forint estate projects’ and local struggles with population decline and economic deterioration in the Hungarian countryside

The last decade experienced the implementation of a new local initiative by rural places in Hungary to combat population decline and economic deterioration....

1. 3. 07 Alexandra Szöke articles

Ukrainian and Polish Domestic Workers in Naples – A Case of East-South Migration

This paper looks at a recent form of labour migration from East and Central Europe to South Italy....

5. 2. 07 Labour Migration Undocumented Migration and Regularisation articles

The EU’s ‘basic values’ and irregular migrants: Common principles for integration or tool for exclusion?

Drawing on the recent EC Communication on irregular migration and focusing on southern Italian agriculture and its widespread recourse to an undocumented...

30. 1. 07 Migration and the EU Undocumented Migration and Regularisation articles