scholarly journals Intergenerational replacement and migration in the countries and regions of the United Kingdom, 1971–2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Wilson ◽  
Lee Williamson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
And Migration

The Migration-Crime Nexus and the Press in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-181
Author(s):  
Alexander A Caviedes
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Press ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Over Time

This article explores the link between migrants and crime as portrayed in the European press. Examining conservative newspapers from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2016, the study situates the press coverage in each individual country within a comparative perspective that contrasts the frequency of the crime narrative to that of other prominent narratives, as well as to that in the other countries. The article also charts the prevalence of this narrative over time, followed by a discussion of which particular aspects of crime are most commonly referenced in each country. The findings suggest that while there has been no steady increase in the coverage of crime and migration, the press securitizes migration by focusing on crime through a shared emphasis on human trafficking and the non-European background of the perpetrators. However, other frames advanced in these newspapers, such as fraud or organized crime, comprise nationally distinctive characteristics.

scholarly journals THE TASTE OF HOME: THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH COMMENSALITY AMONGST FEMALE MALAY STUDENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 316-334
Author(s):  
Ireena Nasiha Ibnu
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
International Students ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Food And Identity ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Depth Interviews

Background and Purpose: Commensality is an act of eating together among migrant communities as a means of passing down the culture and ethnic identity. There is very limited discussion on commensality that pays attention to food sharing and eating that extends beyond the traditional forms of social relationships, identity, and space among the Malay community abroad. Thus, this article aims to explore the connections of social relationships through food, space and identity amongst female Malay students in the United Kingdom.   Methodology: This research is based on one-year ethnographic fieldwork amongst female Malaysian Muslim students in Manchester and Cardiff.  Thirty in-depth interviews were conducted with both undergraduate and postgraduate students from sciences and social sciences courses. Besides, in-depth interviews, participant observation, conversation and fieldnotes methods were deployed as supplementary for data collection.   Findings: This paper argues that cooking and eating together in a private space is a way for them to maintain social relationships and overcome stress in their studies, and fulfil their desire to create harmony and trust at home. Besides, places such as the kitchen, play an essential space in building the Malay identity and social relationships between female Malay students’ communities in the host country.   Contributions: This study has contributed to an understanding of the meaning of friendship, identity, space, and the discussion on the anthropology of food from international students’ perspectives and migration studies.   Keywords: Food and identity, commensality, Malay students, friendship, international students.   Cite as: Ibnu, I. N. (2022). The taste of home: The construction of social relationships through commensality amongst female Malay students in the United Kingdom. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 7(1), 316-334. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol7iss1pp316-334

Nannies, Migration and Early Childhood Education and Care

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Adamson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Family Day Care ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Standard Work ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
And Migration

Once considered the preserve of the wealthy, nanny care has grown in response to changes in the labour market, including the rising number of mothers with young children, and increases in non-standard work patterns. This book examines the place of in-home childcare, commonly referred to as care by nannies, in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada since the 1970s. In contrast to childminding or family day care provided in the home of the carer, in-home care takes place in the child’s home. The research extends beyond the early childhood education and care domain to consider how migration policy facilitates the provision of childcare in the private home. New empirical research is presented about in-home childcare in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, three countries where governments are pursuing new ways to support the recruitment of in-home childcare workers through funding, regulation and migration. The compelling policy story that emerges illustrates the implications of different mechanisms for facilitating in-home childcare - for families and for care workers. It proposes that these differences are shaped by both structural and normative understandings about appropriate forms of care that cut across gender, class/socioeconomic status and race/migration. Overall, it argues that greater attention needs to be given to the way childcare work in the private home is situated across ECEC and migration policy.

scholarly journals A review of ethnicity, health and nutrition-related diseases in relation to migration in the United Kingdom

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (2b) ◽  
pp. 647-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Landman ◽  
JK Cruickshank
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
General Population ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
East African ◽  
Dietary Practices ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
And Migration

AbstractObjectives:To identify lessons from and gaps in research on diet-disease links among former migrants in the United Kingdom (UK).Results:Migrant status and self-identified ethnicity do not match so these terms mask differences in social, nutritional and health status within and between population groups. Some former migrants differ in causes of death from the general population, e.g.: fewer coronary heart disease deaths among Caribbean-born; fewer cancer deaths among Caribbean, South Asian- and East African-born adults. Irish- and Scottish-born have higher mortality from all causes. Experience of risk factors differ also, e.g.: higher prevalences of hypertension and diabetes in Caribbean- and South Asian-born adults than representative samples of the general population; obesity and raised waist-hip circumference ratios in South Asian, African-Caribbean and some Irish-born adults. Former migrants experience long-term disadvantage, associated with more self-defined illness and lower reported physical activity. Nutrient intake data from the few, recent, small-scale studies must be interpreted with caution due to methodological diversity. However, second generation offspring of former migrants appear to adopt British dietary patterns, increasing fat and reducing vegetable, fruit and pulse consumption compared with first generation migrants.Conclusions:There is insufficient evidence on why some former migrants but not others experience lower specific mortality than the general population. Dietary intake variations provide important clues particularly when examined by age and migration status. Majority ethnic and younger migrant groups could raise and sustain high fruit and vegetable intakes but lower proportions of fat, by adopting many dietary practices from older migrants. Objective measures of physical activity and longitudinal studies of diets among different ethnic groups are needed to explain diversity in health outcomes and provide for evidence-based action.

Rights of the EU citizens in the context of no deal Brexit scenario

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 434-446
Author(s):  
Marta Sobiecka ◽  
Mikołaj Ślęzak
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

The United Kingdom joined the EU in 1973. Just two years later it was on the verge of leaving. There was a first referendum held but 67% of the British citizens voted to remain in the EU. Second referendum on the same issue was held in February 2016. Turnout was 71.8% - more than 30 million people cast their votes and by a slim 51.9% to 48.1% margin voted to leave. There were stark differences across the UK – both geographically and demographically. Also many argued that “leave” campaign was controversial and not related to the EU as a legal entity – more to its recent problems like eurozone and migration crises. Taking into account that there are only couple of days left to the Brexit day of April 12, 2019 (prolonged from original Brexit day of March 30, 2019), the most probable of all Brexit scenarios is no deal as the UK Parliament so far failed to agree on any option. On March 14, 2019 the House of Commons voted to take no deal option off the table, but the UK forgot that this is a default solution that will take place anyway in the absence of any agreement between the UK and the EU – it’s simply not UK’s internal choice to make. What did lead to the second Brexit referendum? Why did the UK question its presence in the EU? What will happen to the rights of EU citizens in no deal scenario that seems to be the most plausible at the moment? These questions will be answered in due course.

Active Industrial Citizenship of Domestic Workers: Lessons Learned from Unionizing Attempts in Israel and the United Kingdom

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Einat Albin ◽  
Virginia Mantouvalou
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
And Migration

In this Article we offer a new conceptualization of industrial citizenship, which is sensitive to gender and migration status. Our conceptualization builds on the theoretical distinction between active and passive citizenship and the analyses of active industrial citizenship. We suggest that active industrial citizenship should be detached from the old and influential tradition of trade unionism that is connected with the public/private divide. Our proposed conceptualization leads to attaching value to activities related to ethics of care and to the pursuit of legal status, which should be seen as forms of activism. The discussion focuses on organizing domestic workers. We argue that this new conceptualization of active industrial citizenship leads to the recognition of domestic workers as active industrial citizens, rather than passive victims of abuse. It also transforms the way we view organizational forms within the labor market, making it possible to appreciate on an equal basis membership in trade unions and participation in NGOs and other civil society organizations, thereby building cooperation as well as taking part in other aspects of public life. We ground our argument on theoretical literature as well as a qualitative study, a series of interviews with key trade union and NGO actors with expertise in organizing and supporting domestic workers in Israel and the United Kingdom.

Settlement and Migration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catriona Elder
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
Colonization Event ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Spatial Focusing ◽  
Policies And Practices

Beginning with the colonization event in 1788 and then moving through the arrival of free settlers in the nineteenth century, this chapter considers how the British and then colonial governments sutured themselves into the space that became Australia. It explores key cultural and political events that created a sense of belonging for non-Indigenous peoples at this time. The chapter then explains how policies and practices that marked out the limits of migrant belonging have worked, focusing on the migration of groups who were understood as marginal to the nation. Again, emphasis is placed on the range of ideas, events, demands, and desires about migration that complicated policies and practices that clearly sought to produce a white Australia. Lastly, the analysis in this chapter locates migration in relation to the spatial, focusing on how migration and settlement practices were shaped in terms of political and everyday understandings of Australia in relation to: first, other countries in the region, especially Asia; second, the ‘mother country’, the United Kingdom; and finally, the Indigenous peoples within the country.

Incapacity and debility among Pakistani migrants and minorities in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
pp. 347-370
Author(s):  
Kaveri Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Post War ◽  
And Migration

In light of demography’s situation as the disciplinary handmaiden to the economization of human life, this chapter draws out a crucial and obvious extension of anthropological demographic approaches to health: incapacity, namely the inability to work associated with sickness or disability. The chapter develops a recent analysis of incapacity, which has highlighted the political creation, and even the expediency, of incapacity as a labour market and social security category particularly in the United Kingdom. To date, this analysis has centred primarily on regional, class, and educational inequalities as drivers of incapacity, which emerges as a local response to policies of deindustrialization and economic restructuring. However, the analysis of incapacity is becoming more nuanced, investigating intersectional inequalities associated with gender, age, racial/ethnic locations, and migration. This chapter applies conjunctural thinking to understanding these patterns in incapacity by examining the biographical contingency of chronic illness and disability among Pakistani migrants and minorities in the United Kingdom. The chapter highlights the morphology that structures the distribution of incapacity in society, and the resources people have to respond to this conjuncture. Countering the flat sociological picture of how people manage impairment in relation to work, the chapter argues that more attention needs to be given to the social relations of workplaces. The particular vulnerability of impaired British Pakistanis to labour market ejection reflects the occupational segregation of first-generation post-War Pakistani migrants in unskilled, declining industrial occupations, and the reproduction of labour market precarities in the so-called second generation.

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