Political Battles at Home and in Brussels: Labor Migration and Asylum Policy in Established Countries of Immigration: France, the United Kingdom, and Germany

2008 ◽  
pp. 125-190
Author(s):  
Georg Menz
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Asylum Policy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
At Home

Keyworkers for Elderly People in the Community: Case Managers and Care Co-ordinators

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Dant ◽  
Brian Gearing
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Social Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Case Managers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Frail Elderly People ◽  
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ABSTRACTIn the United Kingdom a range of services for elderly people in the community has developed that is delivered by a variety of professionals and administered within different organisations. This has resulted in a problem of co-ordinating services to meet the individual needs of the most frail elderly people. In the United States ‘case management’ has been introduced as a way of improving the co-ordination of care. Despite structural differences in the provision of health and social services between the United States and the United Kingdom, the concept of case management has influenced the design of a number of innovatory schemes in the United Kingdom, including the Gloucester Care for Elderly People at Home project (CEPH). These innovatory schemes have demonstrated the need for a ‘keyworker’ and clarified the tasks that are involved in taking responsibility for co-ordinating services to meet the needs of elderly people at risk of failing to cope at home. There is, however, a danger of proliferating the complexity of service provision by creating a new breed of professional; an alternative might be to alter the responsibilities, attitudes and team orientation of existing professional workers so as to include taking on the key worker role for some of their clients.

scholarly journals Predictive Modeling on the Number of Covid-19 Death Toll in the United States Considering the Effects of Coronavirus-Related Changes and Covid-19 Recovered Cases

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1140-1155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Pham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Death Toll ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
First Case ◽  
Staying At Home ◽  
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COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Many countries around the world implemented their own policies and restrictions designed to limit the spread of Covid-19 in recent months. Businesses and schools transitioned into working and learning remotely. In the United States, many states were under strict orders to stay home at least in the month of April. In recent weeks, there are some significant changes related restrictions include social-distancing, reopening states, and staying-at-home orders. The United States surpassed 2 million coronavirus cases on Monday, June 15, 2020 less than five months after the first case was confirmed in the country. The virus has killed at least 115,000 people in the United States as of Monday, June 15, 2020, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. With the recent easing of coronavirus-related restrictions and changes on business and social activity such as stay-at-home, social distancing since late May 2020 hoping to restore economic and business activities, new Covid-19 outbreaks are on the rise in many states across the country. Some researchers expressed concern that the process of easing restrictions and relaxing stay-at-home orders too soon could quickly surge the number of infected Covid-19 cases as well as the death toll in the United States. Some of these increases, however, could be due to more testing sites in the communities while others may be are the results of easing restrictions due to recent reopening and changed policies, though the number of daily death toll does not appear to be going down in recent days due to Covid-19 in the U.S. This raises the challenging question: • How can policy decision-makers and community leaders make the decision to implement public policies and restrictions and keep or lift staying-at-home orders of ongoing Covid-19 pandemic for their communities in a scientific way? In this study, we aim to develop models addressing the effects of recent Covid-19 related changes in the communities such as reopening states, practicing social-distancing, and staying-at-home orders. Our models account for the fact that changes to these policies which can lead to a surge of coronavirus cases and deaths, especially in the United States. Specifically, in this paper we develop a novel generalized mathematical model and several explicit models considering the effects of recent reopening states, staying-at-home orders and social-distancing practice of different communities along with a set of selected indicators such as the total number of coronavirus recovered and new cases that can estimate the daily death toll and total number of deaths in the United States related to Covid-19 virus. We compare the modeling results among the developed models based on several existing criteria. The model also can be used to predict the number of death toll in Italy and the United Kingdom (UK). The results show very encouraging predictability for the proposed models in this study. The model predicts that 128,500 to 140,100 people in the United States will have died of Covid-19 by July 4, 2020. The model also predicts that between 137,900 and 154,000 people will have died of Covid-19 by July 31, and 148,500 to 169,700 will have died by the end of August 2020, as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19 based on the Covid-19 death data available on June 13, 2020. The model also predicts that 34,900 to 37,200 people in Italy will have died of Covid-19 by July 4, and 36,900 to 40,400 people will have died by the end of August based on the data available on June 13, 2020. The model also predicts that between 43,500 and 46,700 people in the United Kingdom will have died of Covid-19 by July 4, and 48,700 to 51,900 people will have died by the end of August, as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19 based on the data available on June 13, 2020. The model can serve as a framework to help policy makers a scientific approach in quantifying decision-makings related to Covid-19 affairs.

scholarly journals Transnationalism and Development: The Impact of Remittances to Timor-Leste

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Brigida Brites Soares
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Main Question ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
The Impact ◽  
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<p>The aim of this thesis is to Explorer the impact of remittances, sent from Timorese workers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, South Korea and Australia, on the Development of Timor-Leste.  The research in this study is from three different perspectives. Firstly, the migration processes and the remittance service providers, which are involved in managing the transfer of remittances from Timorese workers overseas to their families at home. Secondly, the remittance is used by recipient familieson the consumption (durable and non durable goods). Finally, the remittance is used on human capital invest-ment and business investment. From these three perspectives, this thesis examines how remittances con tribute to the development of Timor-Leste. Using a qualitative method, the study addresses one main question: What is the impact of remittances to Timor-Leste?  The study was underpinned by qualitative research conducted in Timor-Leste, which has a total popula-tion of 1.1 million. I administered the field research in 7 locations to 30 participants. These included 10 remittance receiving households in the urban district of Dili and 10 from the rural areas of Baucau, Lospa-los, Viqueque, Ainaro, Covalima and Oecusse. Another 10 interviewees were migrant workers domiciled in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, South Korea and Australia. The interviews also conducted with relevant Government institutions regarding the process of emigration to work in United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, South Korea and Australia. Also, bank and non-bank institusions as the channel used to transfers remittances from the host countries of the migrants to their families at home.  In adopting a combination of theoretical approaches, especially the New Economy of Labour Migration, I argue that remittances have a positive contribution to the development of household participants‟ welfare, the development of human capital and they enable remitters and their families in Timor-Leste to start small and medium businesses. The study also found that the ultimate use of remittances is variously in-vested in productive and unproductive sectors. I further argue that the positive impact of remittances on peoples‟ lives significantly increases the numbers of overseas migrants, which attracts a greater flow of remittances into the country and that urgent government policies are needed to facilitate these more easily.</p>

Music in Cananda

Tempo ◽  
1956 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Boyd Neel
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
To Come ◽  
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It seems to come as a complete surprise to many people, especially in the United Kingdom, that Canada has a vital musical life of its own, both as regards performance and creative activity. That this should be so is due chiefly to Canadians themselves, who are the most backward of all people in spreading abroad the facts of their cultural life. Apart from this, they are ill-served by their own musicians, who arrive in large numbers in the United Kingdom telling everybody that they have come because there is nothing for them to do in Canada. I myself was also a victim of this widespread impression until I had the good fortune to take the Boyd Neel Orchestra on tour in the Dominion in 1952. Imagine my astonishment when I found enormous audiences of an extremely enlightened nature and a musical life boiling with activity and lacking only one thing—sufficient players to meet the demand. I then realised the ludicrous situation that obtained with so many Canadians pouring into the already overcrowded musical world of the United Kingdom, while their confrères, who remained at home, were all working twenty-four hours a day to try to keep the pot boiling. I found the same conditions when I visited Australia and New Zealand some eight years ago. The cry was always ‘Why can't we get anything going here?’ The answer was obvious—that as long as all the best musical talent went immediately to England, nothing would ever get started in the Dominions.

scholarly journals Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of smart energy technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 102021
Author(s):  
Alexa Spence ◽  
Caroline Leygue ◽  
Laura Wickes ◽  
Lucien Withers ◽  
Murray Goulden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals Using Smartphones and Wearable Devices to Monitor Behavioral Changes During COVID-19 (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaoxiong Sun ◽  
Amos A Folarin ◽  
Yatharth Ranjan ◽  
Zulqarnain Rashid ◽  
Pauline Conde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Low Bmi ◽  
The Impact ◽  
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BACKGROUND In the absence of a vaccine or effective treatment for COVID-19, countries have adopted nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing and full lockdown. An objective and quantitative means of passively monitoring the impact and response of these interventions at a local level is needed. OBJECTIVE We aim to explore the utility of the recently developed open-source mobile health platform Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse (RADAR)–base as a toolbox to rapidly test the effect and response to NPIs intended to limit the spread of COVID-19. METHODS We analyzed data extracted from smartphone and wearable devices, and managed by the RADAR-base from 1062 participants recruited in Italy, Spain, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. We derived nine features on a daily basis including time spent at home, maximum distance travelled from home, the maximum number of Bluetooth-enabled nearby devices (as a proxy for physical distancing), step count, average heart rate, sleep duration, bedtime, phone unlock duration, and social app use duration. We performed Kruskal-Wallis tests followed by post hoc Dunn tests to assess differences in these features among baseline, prelockdown, and during lockdown periods. We also studied behavioral differences by age, gender, BMI, and educational background. RESULTS We were able to quantify expected changes in time spent at home, distance travelled, and the number of nearby Bluetooth-enabled devices between prelockdown and during lockdown periods (<i>P</i>&lt;.001 for all five countries). We saw reduced sociality as measured through mobility features and increased virtual sociality through phone use. People were more active on their phones (<i>P</i>&lt;.001 for Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom), spending more time using social media apps (<i>P</i>&lt;.001 for Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands), particularly around major news events. Furthermore, participants had a lower heart rate (<i>P</i>&lt;.001 for Italy and Spain; <i>P</i>=.02 for Denmark), went to bed later (<i>P</i>&lt;.001 for Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands), and slept more (<i>P</i>&lt;.001 for Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom). We also found that young people had longer homestay than older people during the lockdown and fewer daily steps. Although there was no significant difference between the high and low BMI groups in time spent at home, the low BMI group walked more. CONCLUSIONS RADAR-base, a freely deployable data collection platform leveraging data from wearables and mobile technologies, can be used to rapidly quantify and provide a holistic view of behavioral changes in response to public health interventions as a result of infectious outbreaks such as COVID-19. RADAR-base may be a viable approach to implementing an early warning system for passively assessing the local compliance to interventions in epidemics and pandemics, and could help countries ease out of lockdown.

scholarly journals Households, bubbles and hugging grandparents: Caring and lockdown rules during COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-339
Author(s):  
Jackie Gulland
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
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AbstractEfforts to combat the COVID-19 crisis brought mountains of legislation and guidance to coerce or encourage people to stay at home and reduce the spread of the virus. During peak lockdown in the United Kingdom (UK) regulations defined when people could or could not leave their homes. Meanwhile guidance on social distancing advised people to stay within ‘households’. This paper explores the legislation under lockdowns in the UK from March to October 2020 and the implications for women’s gendered caring roles. The regulations and guidance assumed that households were separate units and ignored the interdependencies which exist between households and between individuals and wider society. The continuing focus in the lockdown regulations has been on households as autonomous, safe, adequate and secure. This overlooks the interdependency of human life, gendered aspects of caring and the inequalities of housing and living conditions, highlighted by feminist scholarship.

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