| 1. |
- Ahlstedt, Sara, 1977-, et al.
(författare)
-
Migration : Suveränitet, gränser och kontroll
- 2013
-
Ingår i: Migrationens och etnicitetens epok. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147099122 ; , s. 54-81
-
Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
|
|
| 2. |
- Böhm, Franziska, 1992-, et al.
(författare)
-
Norms and Values in Refugee Resettlement : A Literature Review of Resettlement to the EU
- 2021
-
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.
|
|
| 3. |
- Camenisch, Aldina, et al.
(författare)
-
European Migrant Professionals in Chinese Global Cities : A Diversified Labour Market Integration
- 2019
-
Ingår i: International migration (Geneva. Print). - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0020-7985 .- 1468-2435. ; 57:3, s. 208-221
-
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.
|
|
| 4. |
|
|
| 5. |
- Jerve Ramsøy, Ingrid, et al.
(författare)
-
Attaining Durability in the European Resettlement Regime : The Role of Norms and Values
- 2021
-
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.
|
|
| 6. |
- Krasniqi, Adam, et al.
(författare)
-
Refugee Resettlement to Europe 1950-2014 : An Overview of Humanitarian Politics and Practices
- 2015
-
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.
|
|
| 7. |
- Kube, Dana, et al.
(författare)
-
Hacking gender in computer‐supported collaborative learning : The experience of being in mixed‐gender teams at a computer science hackathon
- 2023
-
Ingår i: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0266-4909 .- 1365-2729.
-
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.
|
|
| 8. |
- Qvist, Martin, 1981-, et al.
(författare)
-
Migration : Sovereignity, Borders and Control
- 2015
-
Ingår i: International migration and ethnic relations. - London : Routledge. - 9781138788725 - 9781315764979 ; , s. 38-62
-
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.
|
|
| 9. |
-
Resettled and Connected? : Social Networks in the Integration Process of Resettled Refugees
- 2015
-
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.
|
|
| 10. |
- Ryndyk, Oleksandr, et al.
(författare)
-
Welfare and Mobility : Migrants’ Experiences of Social Welfare Protection in Transnational and Translocal Spaces
- 2021
-
Ingår i: Migration to and from Welfare States. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030676148 - 9783030676179 - 9783030676155 ; , s. 1-13
-
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.
|
|
| 11. |
- Scaramuzzino, Roberto, et al.
(författare)
-
Holding course : Civil society organizations’ value expressions in the Swedish legislative consultation system before and after 2015
- 2020
-
Ingår i: Europe and the Refugee Response : A Crisis of Values? - A Crisis of Values?. - 9780429279317
-
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contrary to the general trend in European countries since the 2000s, Sweden has neither restricted its migration policy nor limited the rights of migrants. This changed with the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 when the government introduced policy changes to curb the number of arrivals and impede the granting of residence permits. Civil society organizations are significantly involved in the reception of migrants, in the integration process, and in minority politics. The question is whether, and in what ways, civil society organizations have adapted their norms and values to the government’s new approach. Looking at the claims the organizations make through the Swedish legislative consultation system, this chapter finds that the organizations tend to maintain a common base of values in the policy fields of migration and integration. They uphold a critical stance towards the government’s policy shift by making claims based on humanitarianism, hospitality, inclusion, and solidarity towards the migrants coming to Sweden.
|
|
| 12. |
|
|
| 13. |
|
|
| 14. |
|
|
| 15. |
- Suter, Brigitte, et al.
(författare)
-
Introduction
- 2020
-
Ingår i: Contemporary European Emigration: Situating Integration in New Destinations. - : Routledge. - 9780367193751
-
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
|
|
| 16. |
- Suter, Brigitte
(författare)
-
Migration and the formation of transnational economic networks between Africa and Turkey : the socio-economic establishment of migrants in situ and in mobility
- 2017
-
Ingår i: African and Black Diaspora. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1752-8631 .- 1752-864X. ; 10:3, s. 313-326
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Turkey is often perceived as a transit place for migrants and refugees from the African continent. While many indeed continue to other countries and the country still precludes official local integration, the past decade has witnessed a growing number of African migrants settling in Istanbul. This article draws attention to the opportunity structures that enable this type of settlement. The article presents the argument that it is the presence of small-scale transnationally embedded traders from the same countries that enable the socio-economic stability of their co-nationals both locally as well as transnationally. The concept that is able to account for this development is establishment in situ and establishment in mobility, which is seen as exactly the definitional barrier between transit and settlement.
|
|
| 17. |
- Suter, Brigitte
(författare)
-
Migration as Adventure : Swedish corporate families’ experience of liminality in Shanghai
- 2019
-
Ingår i: Journal of Transient Migration. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2397-7140. ; 3:3, s. 45-58
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The post-reform era in China has seen a steady increase in foreign migrants to the country. Swedish intra-corporate families are ambivalent about the move to China, as this causes the family dynamic to shift from a dual-career model to that of a single-career model. Although structural conditions are important in the decision to migrate, the more subjective part of the motivation to engage in mobility is the main focus of this article. Many assert that wanting to ‘have an adventure’ was a decisive aspect of the decision to migrate. By disentangling this ultimately relational concept, the article analyses the construction of difference in the way China is both imagined and experienced. The article contributes by providing insight into the family dynamics and decision-making involved in taking on an international assignment.
|
|
| 18. |
|
|
| 19. |
- Suter, Brigitte
(författare)
-
Perceptions, contestations and negotiations on race, ethnicity and gender : the case of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Istanbul
- 2013
-
Ingår i: SBF Journal. - : Ankara Universitesi, Ankara Universitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi. - 1309-1034. ; 68:1, s. 59-81
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing from ethnographic material collected during fieldwork in Istanbul between 2007 and 2009, this article departs from the increased presence of nationals from Sub-Saharan African countries in Turkey, and in three sections looks at how ethnic relations, conceptualised as processes of boundary-making, play out between these migrants and the Turkish majority population. Grounded in a constructivist paradigm and applying an intersectional perspective, the first section looks at how the discourse of the Other in the mainstream is perceived, internalised, made sense of and to some part resisted. The second section ‘returns the gaze’ and gives room for my interlocutor’s’ perception of the mainstream’s ethnicity, while the last section looks at how whiteness is perceived when it becomes gendered. Apart from race, ethnicity and gender, research participants also regarded religion and legal status as dominant markers of identity and difference in the Turkish context.
|
|
| 20. |
- Suter, Brigitte, et al.
(författare)
-
Reciprocity as a Value in Integration : Integration Workers' Reflections On the Role of Gift-Giving For the Process of Integration
- 2024
-
Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Migration Research. - : Helsinki University Press. - 1799-649X. ; 14:3
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article makes a case for the usefulness of the concept of reciprocity for studying integration. Conceptually, the article draws on a wide disciplinary specter of theories on reciprocity and gift-giving. Concerned with the individual and societal effects of the mutual acts of giving, receiving, and reciprocating, such theories allow to visibilize the value(s) that is created and exchanged through reciprocal relations, and highlight the social and cultural embeddedness of reciprocal norms. Empirically, the article draws on fieldwork inquiries into the value landscape of the integration sector in Sweden. Aside from explicit values, such as gender equality, democracy, or nondiscrimination, the importance of acts of giving, receiving, and reciprocating has manifested itself as a strong, albeit implicit value in the material. Prompted by this insight, this article highlights the ideas and expectations of reciprocal relations that the integration workers reflected on. With these insights, this article adds to the small but increasingly important body of literature that places reciprocity at the heart of integration processes.
|
|
| 21. |
|
|
| 22. |
- Suter, Brigitte
(författare)
-
Social Networks and Mobility in Time and Space : Integration Processes of Burmese Karen Resettled Refugees in Sweden
- 2021
-
Ingår i: The Journal of Refugee Studies. - : Oxford University Press. - 0951-6328 .- 1471-6925. ; 34:1, s. 700-717
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although there are exceptions, refugees from protracted refugee situations generally experience an overall slower integration process into the new country than other refugees and immigrants. Often the circumstances in the refugee camps, including lacking education and social networks, are used to explain this. This article looks at the post-resettlement integration process of Burmese Karen refugees in Sweden through a capital approach. Consequently, the analysis is concerned with the accumulation of resources-such as social networks-both in the pre- and post-resettlement contexts. Mobility is acknowledged as a decisive factor in this process and, as such, mobility practices from both before and after resettlement are highlighted to better understand the refugees' social, cultural and economic embeddedness. As this article argues, social and cultural capital acquired before resettlement is of crucial importance to create social networks after resettlement and hence to the overall integration process in Sweden.
|
|
| 23. |
- Suter, Brigitte
(författare)
-
Tales of transit : Sub-Saharan african migrants' experiences in Istanbul
- 2012
-
Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna avhandling presenterar transit erfarenheter av människor ifrån Söder om Sahara som befinner sig i Istanbul. Migranternas berättelser är i fokus, men avhandlingen tar också hänsyn till de makrostrukturella villkoren som präglar dessa människors livssituation. Målen med avhandlingen är att genom etnografiskt fältarbete och med en utforskande design/ansats, kritiskt närma sig och diskutera begreppet transit utifrån migranternas perspektiv. Social nätverksanalys samt teoretiska perspektiv på migration och mobilitet används för att analysera situationen. Transit etappen – som tidigare forskning tämligen lämnat obeaktad – belyses och undersöks genom att fokusera på migranternas erfarenheter av mobilitet och sociala nätverk. Osäkerhet, ovisshet och en allomfattande prekär situation/vardag visar sig vara grundläggande i transit skedet. Avhandlingen uppmärksammar det specifika i transit skedet för det vardagliga livet och framhävar den processuella karaktären av både mobilitets- och immobilitetsstrategier. Konceptualiserad som lokal kunskap med en specifik fokus på erfarenheten av att vara migrant, pekar avhandlingen på migrantkapital som en viktig förklaringsaspekt av immobilitet i transit. Tillsammans med immobilitet och legal status bildar/skapar migrant kapital ett mönster av social stratifiering. Argumentet är att denna stratifiering är producerad av transit rörelsen som i sin tur är reproducerad av denna stratifiering. Detta är relaterad till presentationen av Istanbul som den socioekonomiska kontexten som erbjuder villkor för både en lokal etablering och en etablering i mobilitet.
|
|
| 24. |
- Suter, Brigitte
(författare)
-
Tales to Transit : Sub-Saharan African Migrants’ Experiences in Istanbul
- 2012
-
Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation presents the transit experiences of migrants from Sub-Saharan African countries in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. Although the narratives of the individuals met in the course of fieldwork in Istanbul are the primary focus, the thesis also outlines the larger macro-structural conditions faced. The overarching goal of this thesis is thus, through the experiences of the migrants themselves, to critically approach and discuss the concept of transit with the aid of the theoretical perspectives of social networks analysis and mobility.Based on ethnographic fieldwork and an explorative design, this thesis investigates the ‘black-box’ that the state of transit has hitherto often represented in the literature by focusing on migrants’ experiences of mobility, immobility and social networks. Insecurity, uncertainty, and an overall precariousness constitute the state of transit. Light is shed on questions relating to the peculiarities of a state of transit and its impact on everyday life. The thesis highlights the processual nature of mobility and immobility strategies. The issue of migrant capital (conceptualised as local knowledge, with a particular focus on the migrant experience) is found to be a crucial aspect of immobility in transit. The thesis further identifies a pattern of social stratification based on immobility intersected with legal status and migrant capital, and argues that this stratification is produced by transit movements and, in turn, reproduces transit movements. Related to social stratification is the presentation of Istanbul as the socio-economic context that offers prerequisites for establishment in situ and establishment in mobility.
|
|
| 25. |
- Suter, Brigitte
(författare)
-
The condition of being in transit : decision making, vulnerabilities and long-term implications for integration
- 2017
-
Ingår i: International Journal of Border Security and Immigration Policy. - : InderScience Publishers. - 1755-2419 .- 1755-2427. ; 3:2/3, s. 228-234
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aspasia Papadopoulou was one of the first scholars to engage with transit migration. Her book Transit Migration - The Missing Link Between Emigration and Settlement which appeared almost a decade ago was the first academic book on the topic. In this interview, she reflects on her findings, and discusses their relevance today both for policy making and for academic research. The interview includes a specific focus on the so-called refugee crisis of autumn 2015, and the emergence of 'new' transit countries in South-Eastern Europe. The central argument of this article is that transit is a condition, rather than a category, and that the way migrants experience transit directly impact on the terms on which to establish a new life in a third country.
|
|
| 26. |
|
|
| 27. |
- Suter, Brigitte
(författare)
-
The logics of transit : the anticipation of onward mobility and its consequences for social and economic relations in Istanbul
- 2017
-
Ingår i: International Journal of Border Security and Immigration Policy. - : InderScience Publishers. - 1755-2419 .- 1755-2427. ; 3:2/3, s. 158-173
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article departs from Istanbul as a transit location experiencing a constant inflow and outflow of (African) migrants, and the strong narrative among African migrants that Istanbul has nothing to offer and should be transited as fast as possible. As a consequence of this, the article identifies migrants' constant anticipation of each other's potential leaving - the logic of transit - as a useful concept to understand social and economic migrant relations in a situation of transit. Thus it offers an analysis of how this logic permeates the formation and maintenance of social networks and, consequently, impacts on trajectories of mobility. Developed through in-depth analysis of the migrants' lived experiences, it offers a new angle on transit movements and the condition of transit in general.
|
|
| 28. |
- Suter, Brigitte, et al.
(författare)
-
The National Policy Frame for the Integration of Newcomers : The Swedish Case
- 2011
-
Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- While integration policies as such are not new, and in some countries date back to the 1980s and beyond, there have been important shifts in the debates on integration and in related re-configurations of integration policymaking in the past decade or so. One of the main recent trends is the linkage of integration policy with admission policy and the related focus on recent immigrants. A second trend is the increasing use of obligatory integration measures and integration conditions in admission policy, and third, integration policymaking is increasingly influenced by European developments, both through vertical (more or less binding regulations, directives etc.) and through horizontal processes (policy learning between states) of policy convergence.An increasing number of EU Member States have, in fact, adopted integration related measures as part of their admission policy, while the impact of such measures on integration processes of immigrants is far less clear. In addition, Member States' policies follow different, partly contradictory logics, in integration policy shifts by conceptualising (1) integration as rights based inclusion, (2) as a prerequisite for admission residence rights, with rights interpreted as conditional, and (3) integration as commitment to values and certain cultural traits of the host society.The objective of PROSINT is to evaluate the impact of admission related integration policies on the integration of newcomers, to analyse the different logics underlying integration policymaking and to investigate the main target groups of compulsory and voluntary integration measures.The project investigated different aspects of these questions along five distinct workpackages,. These analysed (1) the European policy framework on migrant integration (WP1), (2) the different national policy frameworks for the integration of newcomers in the 9 countries covered by the research (WP2), the admissionintegration nexus at the local level in studied in 13 localities across the 9 countries covered by the research (WP3), the perception and impacts of mandatory prearrival measures in four of the nine countries covered (WP4) and a methodologically oriented study of the impact of admission related integration measures (WP5).The countries covered by the project were Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Apart from individual cases project reports generally cover the period until end of 2010.
|
|
| 29. |
- Suter, Brigitte, et al.
(författare)
-
Time and family on the move : 'Accompanying partners' in geographical mobility
- 2020
-
Ingår i: Time & Society. - : Sage Publications. - 0961-463X .- 1461-7463. ; 29:3
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Under conditions of global economy, geographical mobility becomes an important aspect of the working lives for a wider range of professionals. At times, these people move with their families. The relocation to a new country can entail changes for the whole family, in particular for the partner, who can experience a more pronounced alteration of work-family relations. Especially for dual career couples, with both partners employed before migration, the change in the experience of time can be very profound for the accompanying partner who can move from being a full-time professional to being a full-time homemaker. Based on two studies conducted respectively in China and Switzerland with mobile families, we explore how accompanying partners experience and practice time in the context of migration with the family. We discuss how, while time for the contracted partner can still be structured by work, a more ambivalent mixture of personal desire, family relations, cultural values and social expectations seem to affect the subjective experience of time for the accompanying partner.
|
|
| 30. |
- Suter, Brigitte, et al.
(författare)
-
Train and Retain : National and Regional Policies to Promote the Settlement of Foreign Graduates in Knowledge Economies
- 2008
-
Ingår i: Journal of International Migration and Integration. - : Springer. - 1488-3473 .- 1874-6365. ; 9:4, s. 401-418
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last decades, a rapid internationalization of higher education has taken place, while simultaneously many countries have started to promote immigration of the highly skilled to their economies. Increasingly, these two developments have become linked as foreign students are widely seen as the ideal highly skilled immigration candidates to retain. This paper provides a comparative analysis of admission and retention policies towards foreign students in selected industrialized countries, with a specific focus on the regional level, where such policies have only recently evolved. Finally, we ask the question to what extent countries and regions have been successful in retaining foreign graduates for their labor markets and where they have encountered problems.
|
|
| 31. |
|
|
| 32. |
- Suter, Brigitte, et al.
(författare)
-
Valuing Gender Equality: Ideas, Practices and Actors in Everyday Integration Work : Integration and the Value of Gender Equality in Germany, Hungary, Poland and Sweden
- 2020
-
Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Following the refugee reception crisis of 2015, migration and integration have continuously beenplaced in the media and political spotlight in Europe. Part of the attention has been on how new residentsin the European Union might best be enabled to take part in society, and how to mediate potentialconflicts between the newly arrived immigrants and the autochthonous population. Some of theseconflicts have been framed as value conflicts, and particular attention has been paid to issues of gender equality and gender relations. Gender equality as a value is one of the core founding values of the European Union and as such incorporated into the legislations of almost all member states.This report investigates how the value of gender equality is understood and conveyed in integrationwork in Europe. In this context, we approach gender equality not as a fixed concept, but through theideas, practices and actors involved in the value transmission processes related to integration work.Integration work includes a multitude of actions and actors differing across national contexts. Theseinclude state organised civic education courses, language courses, facilitating meeting points, NGO andvolunteering work, bridge builders and many more. This report explores which role values play in everyday integration work in Germany, Hungary, Poland and Sweden, especially after the increase in stateand non‐state initiatives to integrate newcomers.Gender equality allows for a variety of interpretations depending on local, regional, and national context.Important to consider is that the four countries considered in this report have very different experienceswith migration and integration, and, while they have all incorporated to gender equality intheir national legislation), the social practices and norms pertaining to gender equality look very different.The ideas, the practices, and the actors of gender equality evolve over time and throughout differentnational and local contexts. Norms and values continuously transform within and beyond integrationwork, both in individuals and in societies. Their meaning is contested and constantly (re‐)negotiated.Time and trust, and tools to create awareness of one’s own values are essential for the value of gender equality to make a meaningful impact in integration work.
|
|
