“Moving on” with gendered aspirations: Sudanese migrants navigating controlling welfare states, labour markets and migration regimes in the Netherlands and the UK

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Ester Serra Mingot
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Regimes

Domestic-Sector Work in the UK: Locating Men in the Configuration of Gendered Care and Migration Regimes

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majella Kilkey
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Work ◽  
Household Work ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Domestic Outsourcing ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Regimes ◽  
Sector Work

Research on the processes underpinning the contemporary growth in the commoditisation of domestic labour focuses on feminised areas of work, such as cleaning and care. Yet research examining trends in domestic outsourcing highlights how men's, as well as women's, household work is subject to increased commoditisation. Through a qualitative enquiry of households which outsource stereotypically male domestic chores – essentially, household and garden repair and maintenance – and men who do such work for pay, we seek to understand the processes underpinning its outsourcing. In doing so, we adopt a framework which treats the paid domestic-work sector as a critical nexus at which gendered care and migration regimes intersect. The focus on male domestic chores, however, requires that we broaden that framework in ways which can more fully illuminate men's positions within it.

Migrant illegality, slavery and exploitative work

2019 ◽  
pp. 219-242
Author(s):  
Hannah Lewis ◽  
Louise Waite
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Labour Exploitation ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk

This chapter considers the position of migrants in the UK who experience severe labour exploitation. It addresses how — or whether — the emerging ‘modern slavery complex’ can adequately respond to the production and continuation of unfree labour relationships that produce conditions now grouped under the umbrella of ‘modern slavery’. It starts from the point of understanding severe labour exploitation as emerging within a set of multidimensional processes embedded in the operation of labour markets and economies. This includes employer relationships with employees, migrants' work and migration trajectories, and socio-economic and family status. For migrant workers, the backdrop of hostile immigration policies and politics is an important framer.

scholarly journals Citizenship in a Post-Colonial Context: Comparing Portugal and Netherlands

2011 ◽  
pp. 109-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Jerónimo ◽  
Maarten Peter Vink
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Regimes

This paper analyses citizenship and migration regimes in an postcolonial context and presents a focused comparison of the experiences in Portugal and the Netherlands. While colonial regimes in both cases were largely exclusionary, and only towards the end of the regimes hesitantly extended citizenship to the native population, the postcolonial experiences display significant differences. While Portugal is more nostalgic about the colonial affair, cherishing the idea of cultural ties within a Lusophone community, the change was more abrupt in the Netherlands, after an initial transition period. The comparison in this paper highlights how these two countries dealt with the loss of empire.

scholarly journals Moving for Employment Reasons

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip S Morrison ◽  
William A.V. Clark ◽  
Kirsten Nissen ◽  
Robert Didham
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Local Labour Markets ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Working Age ◽  
The Usa ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk

While most models of population migration assume that members of the labour force migrate to enhance returns to their labour, major surveys in the USA (PSID and CPS), in the UK (BHPS) and Australia (HILDA) all show that only around 10 percent of all individuals who change residence are motivated primarily by employment reasons. Of those moving between local labour markets only about 30 percent say they are motivated by employment reasons. We explore this apparent paradox by drawing on evidence from the Dynamics of Motivation and Migration Survey (DMM), which recorded the reasons people of working age, changed their permanent residence in New Zealand over the two-year period 2005 and 2006. The need to solve the employment problem before moving means that reasons offered retrospectively for moving usually reflect a wish to adjust consumption even in the case of those moving between local labour markets. For most people of working age employment remains a necessary condition rather than sufficient reason for moving and this is why the pattern of net flows among local markets appear to support theories of migration change even though few people say they move for employment reasons.

scholarly journals Inter-agency Co-operation in Activation: Comparing Experiences in Three Vanguard ‘Active’ Welfare States

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Lindsay ◽  
Ronald W. McQuaid
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Effective Partnership ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Shared Ownership

New forms of inter-agency co-operation have gained increasing prominence in the development and delivery of activation strategies. This article compares different models of inter-agency co-operation, drawing on case study research in Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK. The different models have reported variations in performance when delivering on the key benefits often attributed to effective inter-agency co-operation. The article raises concerns that the process of contracting-out in activation has at times conflicted with attempts to improve co-operation between agencies, while the increasing dominance of purchaser–provider relations can undermine progress towards ‘shared ownership’ of activation policies and effective partnership-working.

Migrating skills, skilled migrants and migration skills: The influence of contexts on the validation of migrants’ skills

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Nowicka
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Regimes

Notions of skill are geographically and historically specific; migration regimes, professional regulations and national policies influence possibilities of effective validation of migrant knowledge abroad. Migration scholars convincingly demonstrate how migrants actively circumvent national requirements to fit into the dominant culture of the society of residence while preserving their own identities. Yet, without exception, social inequalities research exclusively addresses the integration of migrants into the receiving context, taking skills as a fixed attribute migrants simply ‘bring with them’. I argue that the context of origin of migrants for skill acquisition and validation during the migration process needs to be considered as well. The way skills are defined, acquired and valorised in the country of origin has an influence on how migrants mobilise them in the receiving society and on how they perceive their chances for negotiating strong positions in the labour market of the host country. The article draws on a study of Polish migrants to the UK with secondary and tertiary educational certificates who work in routine or semi-routine occupations.

Thai transgender women in Europe: Migration, gender and binational relationships

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-101
Author(s):  
Jutathorn Pravattiyagul
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Male To Female

The article identifies subtle structural and socio-political issues behind kathoeys’ (Thai male-to-female transgender) migration decisions and categorizes the structural aspirations of their migrations to Europe and their goals to be in binational relationships in their search for a “better life.” The research was conducted in Thailand, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and Denmark. The article also reveals kathoeys’ irregular migration and outlines relevant literature in the light of gender, sexuality and migration, as well as their sentimental dynamic and feminine identity formation validated by their binational relationships under crypto-colonized cultural ideologies.

scholarly journals Securing Old-Age Pensions Across Borders: Sudanese Transnational Families Across the Netherlands, the UK and Sudan

2021 ◽  
pp. 219-235
Author(s):  
Ester Serra Mingot
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
The Social ◽  
Old Age Pensions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Generous Welfare

AbstractThis chapter explores the social-protection domain of old-age pensions for Sudanese transnational families. The chapter is based on data collected during 14 months of multi-sited and partly matched-sample ethnographic fieldwork (2015–2017) with 21 Sudanese migrants in the Netherlands, 22 in the UK and 19 of their families in Sudan. Drawing on the life stories of members of different Sudanese families, this contribution addresses the question of what kinds of consideration underlie the decisions of Sudanese migrants when moving to certain places to secure their old-age pension. The chapter shows that the different mobilities in which Sudanese migrants engage have the double aim of both providing for their elderly parents back home now and securing their own pension in the future. The findings question the idea of ‘welfare shopping’ and show that migrants’ decision to move is not based so much on more or less generous welfare states but on the possibilities to arrange their own and their families’ social protection in a manner that is deemed better in the family’s understanding of social protection, which is strongly embedded in practices of generalised reciprocity.

Asylum-seekers falsely implicating themselves in international crimes: Should they be informed of the existence of Article 1F of the Refugee Convention?

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Brian Moore ◽  
Joris van Wijk
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Refugee Claim ◽  
The Uk ◽  
National Governments

Case studies in the Netherlands and the UK of asylum applicants excluded or under consideration of exclusion pursuant to Article 1Fa of the Refugee Convention reveal that some applicants falsely implicated themselves in serious crimes or behaviours in order to enhance their refugee claim. This may have serious consequences for the excluded persons themselves, as well as for national governments dealing with them. For this reason we suggest immigration authorities could consider forewarning asylum applicants i.e. before their interview, about the existence, purpose and possible consequences of exclusion on the basis of Article 1F.

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