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- Göransson, Markus Balázs, Assistant Professor, 1984-, et al.
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‘The phone means everything.’ : Mobile phones, livelihoods and social capital among Syrian refugees in informal tented settlements in Lebanon
- 2020
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Ingår i: Migration and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2163-2324 .- 2163-2332. ; 9:3, s. 331-351
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores the role of mobile phones in livelihood creation among Syrian refugees in informal tented settlements in Akkar Governorate and the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Drawing on forty-five interviews with Syrian refugees and ten interviews with aid workers, the study highlights the importance of mobile phones in reviving, maintaining and leveraging social capital for the purpose of securing livelihoods in a context of precarity and restricted movement. We find that mobile phones offer important means for reviving social networks in exile, managing supportive relationships that have been established in Lebanon and liaising with employers. As such, they constitute important tools for coping with a context shaped by legal exclusion, restricted movement, police harassment, decentralised aid provision and a geographical dispersal of support networks, even as they remain a costly investment with uncertain returns.
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- Lidén, Gustav, 1983-, et al.
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Reception of refugees in Swedish municipalities : evidences from comparative case studies
- 2015
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Ingår i: Migration and Development. - : Routledge. - 2163-2332 .- 2163-2324. ; 4:1, s. 55-71
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By focusing on the Swedish municipality level, we provide an intensive examination of how several Swedish municipalities design their local refugee policy, according to which they either accept or do not accept refugees. This can vary because of either instrumental or symbolic reasons. Combining this local perspective with actor-oriented theory, we derive from rationalistic premises concerning how political leaders and bureaucrats act to maximize their interests. By selecting municipalities that share important characteristics except their attitude towards the reception of refugees, we can, through analysing interviews and documents, show how a pragmatic view and internal constraints often shape local decision-making in terms of shaping refugee policy. Rationalistic perspectives do not prevail completely, though implying that other factors influence decision-making in this area.
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- Sobis, Iwona, 1954, et al.
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Polish plumbers and Romanian strawberry pickers: how the populist framing of EU migration impacts national policies
- 2015
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Ingår i: Migration and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2163-2324 .- 2163-2332. ; 5:3, s. 431-454
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 that effectively increased migration from the EU’s new member states to its old ones, or the EU-15, has prompted debate in several countries regarding policies aimed at countering worker migration. In response, we here investigate the controversy by focusing on Poles and Romanians as the figures of such migration, which in old member states has spurred xenophobic attitudes. Specifically, we examine how many Poles and Romanians actually migrated, to which countries, and the reasons behind their migration, as well as scrutinise the development of xenophobic attitudes toward Polish and Romanian immigrants and how such intolerance impacts national policies in old member states? In conclusion, we argue that the debate concerning migration within the EU not only exaggerates actual migration, but also promotes myths meant to protect national interests, thereby suggesting that policies aimed at countering worker migration require evidence-based research.
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