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- Ahlstedt, Sara, 1977-, et al.
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Migration : Suveränitet, gränser och kontroll
- 2013
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Ingår i: Migrationens och etnicitetens epok. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147099122 ; , s. 54-81
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Böhm, Franziska, 1992-, et al.
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Norms and Values in Refugee Resettlement : A Literature Review of Resettlement to the EU
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As a result of the refugee reception crisis in 2015 the advocacy for increasing resettlement numbers in the overall refugee protection framework has gained momentum, as has research on resettlement to the EU. While the UNHCR purports resettlement as a durable solution for the international protection of refugees, resettlement programmes to the European Union are seen as a pillar of the external dimension of the EU’s asylum and migration policies and management. This paper presents and discusses the literature regarding the value transmissions taking place within these programmes. It reviews literature on the European resettlement process – ranging from the selection of refugees to be resettled, the information and training they receive prior to travelling to their new country of residence, their reception upon arrival, their placement and dispersal in the receiving state, as well as programs of private and community sponsorship. The literature shows that even if resettlement can be considered an external dimension of European migration policy, this process does not end at the border. Rather, resettlement entails particular forms of reception, placement and dispersal as well as integration practices that refugees are confronted with once they arrive in their resettlement country. These practices should thus be understood in the context of the resettlement regime as a whole.In this paper we map out where and how values (here understood as ideas about how something should be) and norms (expectations or rules that are socially enforced) are transmitted within this regime. ‘Value transmission’ is here understood in a broad sense, taking into account the values that are directly transmitted through information and education programmes, as well as those informing practices and actors’ decisions. Identifying how norms and values figure in the resettlement regime aid us in further understanding decision making processes, policy making, and the on-the-ground work of practitioners that influence refugees’ lives. An important finding in this literature review is that vulnerability is a central notion in international refugee protection, and even more so in resettlement. Ideas and practices regarding vulnerability are, throughout the resettlement regime, in continuous tension with those of security, integration, and of refugees’ own agency. The literature review and our discussion serve as a point of departure for developing further investigations into the external dimension of value transmission, which in turn can add insights into the role of norms and values in the making and un-making of (external) boundaries/borders.
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- Camenisch, Aldina, et al.
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European Migrant Professionals in Chinese Global Cities : A Diversified Labour Market Integration
- 2019
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Ingår i: International migration (Geneva. Print). - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0020-7985 .- 1468-2435. ; 57:3, s. 208-221
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the early 2000s, Chinese metropolises have been emerging as hubs for the national and global economy. They attract increasing numbers of foreigners with diverse socio-economic and educational backgrounds who tend to immigrate independently of the Chinese initiatives focused on "foreign talents". Our analysis contributes to the understanding of these migrants' integration into the labour market. Through a Bourdieusian capital lens, this article unpacks the access to the labour market and occupational positions of Swiss and Swedish migrant professionals in mainland China. Differentiated by how they can capitalize upon their educational, occupational, social and cultural resources in this specific context, the article distinguishes between three categories: corporarate expatriates, local hires and entrepreneurs and concludes with policy recommendations to stabilize their residence conditions.
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- Jerve Ramsøy, Ingrid, et al.
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Attaining Durability in the European Resettlement Regime : The Role of Norms and Values
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Resettlement is a tool for the international protection of refugees which has received increased attention by the EU and member states in the wake of the 2015 refugee reception crisis. This report asks how to best ensure that resettlement functions as a durable solution for refugee protection, as is intended by the UNHCR. Here we consider ideas, practices, and actors within the European resettlement regime – from selection in first countries of asylum to the reception of resettlement beneficiaries and their integration in receiving municipalities. Our analysis is based on interviews and participant observation with actors involved in all steps of resettlement to Germany and Sweden, and from local and international organizations in countries of first asylum (Lebanon and Turkey), as well as comparative insights from the USA. Based on the best practices observed in our research material we provide recommendations that we deem conducive to a more holistic and humanitarian approach to resettlement. This includes facilitating spaces for resettlement beneficiaries’ agency throughout the regime, for ‘eye-level’ encounters of mutual respect between the actors involved, and for thinking long-term and holistically about integration as an intrinsic part of resettlement. Ultimately, we argue that centring durability in the different processes of resettlement can serve as a way for the EU to commit to the humanitarian values at the core of international refugee protection.
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- Krasniqi, Adam, et al.
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Refugee Resettlement to Europe 1950-2014 : An Overview of Humanitarian Politics and Practices
- 2015
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents developments in the field of refugee resettlement from a European perspective. The paper starts out with a historical overview on refugee resettlement in the European continent since World War I and shows that Europe has historically been more of a source of refugee resettlement than a host. The paper then pays attention to the evolution of resettlement at an EU level and sheds light on factors that have contributed to its (re)prioritization in the past 15 years. Indeed, there is an increased manifestation of resettlement on the EU policy agenda, culminating in the adoption of a Joint EU Resettlement Program in 2012. However, as a policy field it has not been part of the binding harmonization process, and while the number of EU resettlement countries doubled in the past decade, the EU lags still far behind other traditional resettlement countries in terms of actual resettlement places. Finally, after shedding light on debates in the European Parliament on the matter of resettlement, the paper presents a number of essential concerns and challenges regarding the future of resettlement programs in the EU. It concludes by pointing at the difficulties of reaching any significant increase in the number of refugees resettled in the EU.
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- Kube, Dana, et al.
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Hacking gender in computer‐supported collaborative learning : The experience of being in mixed‐gender teams at a computer science hackathon
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0266-4909 .- 1365-2729.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Gender stereotypes about women and men are prevalent in computer science (CS). The study's goal was to investigate the role of gender bias in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) in a CS context by elaborating on gendered experiences in the perception of individual and team performance in mixed-gender teams in a hackathon.Dataset: The dataset of this study was collected at a 3-day CSCL hackathon aimed at gaining knowledge on designing educational games. We assigned the 28 participants of the hackathon to mixed-gender groups and asked them to fill out a questionnaire, including collective self-esteem scales, before the start. During the hackathon, we again asked the participants to complete team progress evaluation surveys individually after each workday. Lastly, we interviewed 11 participants to elaborate on the quantitative findings with qualitative data.Methodology: We applied an exploratory mixed-method approach using quantitative survey data at several time points during the hackathon, which was analysed with clustering and descriptive statistics and complemented with qualitative coding of interviews with participants.Results: The results demonstrate that social and psychological aspects of gender are important for understanding the outcomes and perceptions of gender in a CS hackathon. The analysis further suggests that collective self-esteem can be used as a key variable to assess gender differences in CSCL studies, providing explanatory benefits. More broadly, results gave reason to believe that CSCL in the CS domain currently severely fails to account for gender representation. Interviewed participants raised substantial concerns about the underlying gender stereotypes prevalent in communication, team roles, and work division. We provide recommendations for practitioners seeking to create gender-inclusive and counter-stereotypical CSCL and wider, critical proposals for how we, as researchers, can assess gender with appropriate methodologies and interventions in computer science education.
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- Qvist, Martin, 1981-, et al.
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Migration : Sovereignity, Borders and Control
- 2015
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Ingår i: International migration and ethnic relations. - London : Routledge. - 9781138788725 - 9781315764979 ; , s. 38-62
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter approaches racism first as a historical phenomenon and then discusses how racism has been understood in social theory. Scientific racism or 'racial science', which divides human beings into races in accordance with alleged biological differences and places the white race at the top of the hierarchy, it may be shown that it is deeply rooted in the rational scientific paradigm and moral philosophy of the modern West. Then the chapter explains about the present world and suggests how racism functions today and how it may be analysed. Acts of racism and processes of racialization generate inequalities and hierarchies of super-ordination and subordination. Finally the chapter offers a synthetic perspective on racism, racist discourse and processes of racialization as a changing yet persistent social dynamic and proposes a possible synthesis that explains the different components of the discourse of racism and the process of racialization and at the same time clarifies their wider social, political and economic ramifications.
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Resettled and Connected? : Social Networks in the Integration Process of Resettled Refugees
- 2015
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Resettlement constitutes a durable solution to international refugee protection. However, for it to be sustainable, the integration process of the post-resettlement phase is crucial. This volume, which is the outcome of the project “Before and After – New Perspectives on Resettled Refugees’ Integration Process”, sheds light on the integration process from a broader perspective. After briefly addressing the labour-market integration of resettled refugee groups in Sweden, the volume’s main and longest chapter addresses the role of social networks in the integration process of resettled refugees. Social networks are analysed in relation to time and space, and hence attention is paid both to the time before – spent in refugee camps – and to the patterns of mobility pre- and post-resettlement. The following two chapters move away from Sweden and focus on the situation in Australia – with an investigation into the role of ethnic social networks – and Japan, with a focus on the recent development of the country’s resettlement programme. The final chapter brings the focus back to Sweden and enriches the volume by looking at one particular aspect of the resettlement process – the Cultural Orientation Programme – from a postcolonial perspective.
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- Ryndyk, Oleksandr, et al.
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Welfare and Mobility : Migrants’ Experiences of Social Welfare Protection in Transnational and Translocal Spaces
- 2021
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Ingår i: Migration to and from Welfare States. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030676148 - 9783030676179 - 9783030676155 ; , s. 1-13
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As migrants throughout the world make important contributions to their families’ social welfare, migration often implies changes in the ways in which individual’s and families’ needs for economic and social-welfare protection are met. This book contributes to the existing literature on transnational mobility and social protection by bringing in empirical evidence from across the globe which illustrates the multitude of mechanisms in which welfare concerns shape individual and family decisions about mobility and vice versa. By focusing on individuals, households and families rather than on nation states, the book’s contributors distance themselves from the macro and nation-state level of analysis in the field of migration and welfare research. Despite the emphasis on migrants’ subjective rationalities, the book’s chapters often highlight the political nature of many dilemmas faced by migrants and their families and expose national-welfare systems’ inherent sedentary bias. This book is designed for a broad range of audiences, from established scholars and policy-makers to graduate students of Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology and Human Geography who are interested in transnational mobility and social protection. We hope that the readers will find the contributions to this book insightful and valuable for their understanding of migrants’ experiences of social-welfare protection in a globalised world.
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