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- Cook, Matthew, et al.
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Agents of memorialization : Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine and the individual (re-)creation of a Holocaust landscape in Berlin
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Historical Geography. - : Elsevier BV. - 0305-7488 .- 1095-8614. ; 43, s. 138-147
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In their studies of the memorialization process and its outcomes, geographers have traditionally focused on state-driven commemoration. This is true for studies of Holocaust memorials in Berlin, which have mostly investigated the roles of the state in the creation of state-sanctioned memorials. It is also important to focus on non-state actors who are engaged in the creation of memorials to better understand how individuals interpret and shape a cultural landscape. In this paper we use a case study of German artist Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine (stumbling stones), which are small memorial stones that commemorate individual victims of the Holocaust at their former homes and businesses. Individuals, families, and school groups conduct historical research and finance the emplacement of these memorial stones in sidewalks in Berlin and other cities. The research findings are based on participant observations at ten installation ceremonies in Berlin in May 2011, interviews with Demnig's assistants and participants in the ceremonies, and media accounts of the Stolpersteine. Responding to recent calls for the inclusion of agency in the memorialization literature, we study how individuals shape a cultural landscape. These agents of memorialization negotiate meanings of the Holocaust with city and federal governments, thereby (re-)creating a cultural landscape for current and future generations. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Ernst, Kathleen M., et al.
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Climate change scenario planning in Alaska's National Parks : Stakeholder involvement in the decision-making process
- 2013
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Ingår i: Applied Geography. - : Elsevier BV. - 0143-6228 .- 1873-7730. ; 45, s. 22-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article studies the participation of stakeholders in climate change decision-making in Alaska's National Parks. We place stakeholder participation within literatures on environmental and climate change decision-making. We conducted participant observation and interviews in two planning workshops to investigate the decision-making process, and our findings are three-fold. First, the inclusion of diverse stakeholders expanded climate change decision-making beyond National Park Service (NPS) institutional constraints. Second, workshops of the Climate Change Scenario Planning Project (CCSPP) enhanced institutional understandings of participants' attitudes towards climate change and climate change decision-making. Third, the geographical context of climate change influences the decision-making process. As the first regional approach to climate change decision-making within the NPS, the CCSPP serves as a model for future climate change planning in public land agencies. This study shows how the participation of stakeholders can contribute to robust decisions, may move climate change decision-making beyond institutional barriers, and can provide information about attitudes towards climate change decision-making. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- van Riemsdijk, Micheline
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Everyday Geopolitics, the Valuation of Labour and the Socio-Political Hierarchies of Skill : Polish Nurses in Norway
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of ethnic and migration studies. - 1369-183X .- 1469-9451. ; 39:3, s. 373-390
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although researchers have paid much attention to the global migration of skilled labour and its geographical specificities, relatively few studies have examined the social and political production of labour value in specific historical and social contexts. Most studies of skilled migration have examined movements at the international scale, while feminist scholars have called for building explicit linkages between global processes and finer-grained scales of analysis. This article brings these two bodies of work together through a case study of interactions between Polish and Norwegian nurses in Norwegian nursing homes. I focus on the historical production of Polish labour value in Europe and its reproduction through everyday interactions between Polish nurses and their Norwegian co-workers. In these conversations, existing international inequalities and the devaluation of Polish nursing labour are reproduced, but I also find moments in which Polish nurses question and challenge the devaluation of their skills. In conclusion, I argue that attention to these moments in which longstanding inequalities are challenged can provide opportunities for change.
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- van Riemsdijk, Micheline
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Neoliberal reforms in elder care in Norway : Roles of the state, Norwegian employers, and Polish nurses
- 2010
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 41:6, s. 930-939
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After a worldwide financial crisis in the early 1980s, many states decided to implement new public management strategies. These strategies consist of private sector management practices that aim to reduce the cost of public services. The US and the UK first adopted the new public management model and other states soon followed. The Norwegian state was initially reluctant to adopt private management practices, but it eventually implemented modified reforms that suited the Norwegian socio-political context. This article investigates the ways in which the Norwegian state and Norwegian employers shape the labor force in Norwegian nursing homes through new public management strategies, and the tools that foreign-born nurses use to challenge these structures. The Norwegian state shapes the labor force through labor market policies and the rescaling of public services to local governments, and Norwegian employers reinforce the neoliberal values of the state in their hiring practices and daily operations in the workplace. In particular, this article analyzes the interweaving neoliberal institutional and personal factors that influence the working experiences of Polish nurses in a semi-private nursing home in Oslo. The city of Oslo created a unique public-private partnership with a city-owned company that manages three nursing homes in Oslo. The findings of this study indicate that Polish nurses in one of these nursing homes were negatively affected by the new public management strategies. They improved some of their working conditions over time but structural barriers still persist despite high demand for their skills. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- van Riemsdijk, Micheline
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Obstacles to the Free Movement of Professionals : Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications in the European Union
- 2013
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Ingår i: European journal of migration and law. - : Brill. - 1388-364X .- 1571-8166. ; 15:1, s. 47-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- European states are experiencing a shortage of healthcare workers, and hiring managers are increasingly looking for foreign-trained health professionals to fill care shortages. However, these workers often experience difficulties with the transfer of their professional qualifications across national borders. This article investigates the recognition of Polish nursing qualifications in the EU, studying the directives for mutual recognition of nursing qualifications, negotiations over Poland's Accession Treaty, and efforts by the Polish Chamber of Nurses and Midwives to reverse its discriminatory conditions. It is argued that the exclusion of the Polish nursing unions from the accession negotiations constitutes a democratic deficit, and that the creation of a single European market is not yet achieved. The findings are placed in a larger discussion about the Europeanization of healthcare delivery, the harmonization of curricula in higher education, and the consequences of these developments for the free movement of skilled workers within the EU.
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- van Riemsdijk, Micheline
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(Re)scaling Governance of Skilled Migration in Europe : Divergence, Harmonisation, and Contestation
- 2012
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Ingår i: Population, Space and Place. - : Wiley. - 1544-8444 .- 1544-8452. ; 18:3, s. 344-358
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The European Commission has attempted to create a common European migration policy since the mid-1980s. It has made progress in the harmonisation of asylum and family law, and the Schengen agreement has opened internal borders within the European Union (EU). But the commission's attempts to establish common admission standards for non-EU labour migrants met with considerable opposition from member states. This paper investigates the construction, negotiations, and contestations of scales of decision-making power in Europe, especially regarding skilled migrants. The paper first provides a short historical overview of initiatives of the European Commission to streamline migration policies across the EU, followed by a case study of the (re)scaling of the European Blue Card. The European Commission designed this initiative to attract more skilled workers to the EU. Several EU member states rejected the initial proposal to safeguard their sovereign decision-making power. The findings of this case study indicate that the scale of the nation state remains powerful in the admission of non-EU workers and that institutions at higher geographical scales do not necessarily dominate lower scales. The findings also show that overlapping and intertwining scales of decision-making power hamper efforts to create a common European skilled migration policy. The newly adopted Lisbon Treaty may supersede these scales and facilitate more far-reaching skilled migration policies. The findings of this paper contribute to debates about the rescaling of decision-making power in the EU and the changing roles of nation states, institutions, and supranational organisations in the governance of skilled migration. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- van Riemsdijk, Micheline
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Talent acquisition in the IT industry in Bangalore : A multi-level study
- 2013
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Ingår i: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. - : Wiley. - 0040-747X .- 1467-9663. ; 104:4, s. 478-490
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Multinational corporations have established research and development centres in India to take advantage of low-cost labour and sophisticated science and technology facilities. India is becoming a global competitor in innovation, and its knowledge-intensive firms increasingly need skilled workers. This article investigates talent acquisition in the information technology (IT) industry in Bangalore, also known as India's Silicon Valley. In particular, the paper studies the local supply and demand of human capital, which is critical for innovation and competition in the global knowledge economy. The author argues for a multi-level study to better understand labour needs in emerging economies. In conclusion, the article addresses local and national institutional obstacles to talent acquisition and discusses future labour challenges in India's IT industry.
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- van Riemsdijk, Micheline
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Variegated privileges of whiteness : Lived experiences of Polish nurses in Norway
- 2010
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Ingår i: Social & cultural geography (Print). - : Informa UK Limited. - 1464-9365 .- 1470-1197. ; 11:2, s. 117-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The recent eastward enlargement of the European Union in 2004 and in 2007 has increased the cultural diversity within the borders of the union, and these expansions have spurred a rethinking about who belongs in Europe and how this belonging is defined. This study examines the ambivalent and partial incorporation of Polish nurses into the Norwegian nation. The analysis is based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews and participant observation during twelve months of fieldwork research in Oslo and Baerum and three months in Warsaw, as well as an analysis of Norwegian migration policies, statistics, and nurse recruitment documents. This article argues that whiteness studies, whose history is based in the USA and Britain, needs to take more thorough and specific account of the national and ethnic specificities on which its general claims have been based. The findings suggest that notions of variegated whiteness can be a valuable tool to investigate differential inclusion into the nation, and that Europeanness and Norwegianness are constructed in complex, shifting forms in relation to changing notions of whiteness. In addition, the partial inclusion of certain migrants more fully excludes migrants of color who are not able to benefit from white privilege.
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