scholarly journals Hacia un nuevo modelo de inserción laboral de los inmigrantes

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Hernández Pedreño ◽  
Diego Pascual López Carmona
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dual Perspective ◽  
Regional Labour Markets ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
New Strategies

Introducción: El mercado de trabajo en España ha sufrido significativos cambios como consecuencia de la actual crisis económica. El efecto sobre el colectivo inmigrante se manifiesta desde el lado de la oferta y de la demanda, pues afloran nuevas estrategias en los trabajadores extranjeros y diferentes preferencias de contratación desde el empresariado. Estas pautas sugieren la aparición de un nuevo modelo de inserción laboral de la mano de obra extranjera en el contexto español.Método: A partir de técnicas cuantitativas y cualitativas se analiza en la Región de Murcia y en España la evolución de la situación laboral de los trabajadores inmigrantes. El análisis cuantitativo se fundamenta en la explotación estadística de varias fuentes de información sobre el mercado de trabajo nacional y regional. El análisis cualitativo se ha nutrido de once entrevistas en profundidad en las que se incluye a trabajadores extranjeros y a representantes del mundo empresarial.Resultados: Desde el marco teórico de la segmentación laboral se identifican las nuevas bases en las que se asientan las relaciones laborales tras la crisis económica, ofreciendo desde una doble visión (cuantitativa y cualitativa) las nuevas pautas que configuran la actual inserción laboral de los extranjeros en España. Así, además de verificar la tendencia hacia el cambio de modelo a nivel estadístico, se aportan los discursos de trabajadores inmigrantes y empresarios españoles que lo ratifican.Discusión o Conclusión: El análisis pone de manifiesto la afluencia de nuevas estrategias de inserción laboral según nacionalidad (modelo emergente), caracterizadas por diferentes pautas de competencia, sustitución y complementariedad; derivadas del propio proceso de integración socio-laboral de los inmigrantes y del devenir de la crisis económica, que coloca a los extranjeros en nuevas posiciones sociales. Un modelo alejado en algunos aspectos del modelo inicial (tradicional), donde predominaba la complementariedad laboral entre españoles y extranjeros y, en menor medida, la competencia. Introduction: As a result of the current economic crisis, the Spanish labour market has undergone significant changes. Immigrants have been affected in terms of the supply and demand given that employers are using new strategies and different contracting preferences for foreign workers. These guidelines suggest the emergence of a new model for the insertion of immigrants into the Spanish labour market.Method: Based on both qualitative and quantitative techniques, an analysis of the evolution of the current labour situation of immigrants has been carried out as regards the Region of Murcia and Spain. The quantitative analysis is based on the statistical use of several information resources regarding the national and regional labour markets. For the qualitative analysis, eleven in depth interviews have been held with foreign workers and representatives of the business world.Results: From the theoretical framework of the labour segmentation, the new bases, on which labour relationships are established following the financial crisis, have been identified. These bases offer a dual perspective (quantitative and qualitative) of the new guidelines that establish the current insertion of foreign citizens into the Spanish labour market. Thus, apart from the verification of the trend toward paradigm shift on a statistical level, we include the opinions of immigrant workers and Spanish employers confirming this.Discussion or Conclusion: The analysis reveals the existence of new strategies for insertion into the labour market according to nationality (emerging model) characterised by different patterns of competition, replacement and complementarity. These new guidelines are the result of the social and labour integration process of immigrants and the evolution of the economic crisis which gives foreign workers a new social status. An emerging model which, in some aspects, is far from the original model (traditional) where the labour complementarity between Spanish and foreign citizens was dominant and, to a lesser extent, competition.

scholarly journals (Re)making labour markets and economic crises: The case of Ireland

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enda Murphy ◽  
Julien Mercille
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Regulatory Interventions ◽  
Irish Case

The 2008 economic crisis has had significant impacts on labour markets around the world. In Europe, in particular, the need for internal devaluation within European Union nations in financial difficulty precipitated a wave of labour market reforms alongside the reform of welfare systems struggling to cope with high levels of unemployment. Various analyses have explored the nature of these changes separately for the labour market and welfare systems. Using a conceptual framework rooted in a political economy understanding the social nature of labour, this article takes an inclusive approach to understanding regulatory changes for both employed and unemployed labour. We do this using the case of Ireland, a country that went through a severe economic crisis, was subject to a European Union/European Central Bank/International Monetary Fund bailout in 2010 and witnessed one of the most significant labour market crises in Europe. The Irish case is instructive because it highlights both the range and depth of regulatory interventions utilised by the state during periods of crisis to deal with the social nature of labour and its role under advanced capitalism. JEL codes: J01, J08, J48.

scholarly journals Singapore in its Worst Recession for Years. The Effects of the Current Economic Crisis on the City-State's Economy

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Investment Banks ◽  
Stock Exchanges ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Holding Companies ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Due to the current economic downturn, Singapore has experienced one of its most severe recessions since independence. The financial crisis, which caused a fall in prices at most of the world's leading stock exchanges and a sharp decline in industrial production, has also had a negative impact on the city-state's export-dependent economy. The analysis outlines the economic downturn and the decline of Singapore's export economy since the beginning of the crisis in late 2008. Central to the analysis are questions regarding the social consequences of the current economic crisis and the amount of losses Singapore's state-owned holding companies, Temasek and GIC, experienced when some of the world's biggest investment banks, such as Merrill Lynch, went into bankruptcy.

scholarly journals Migration Processes in the Western Regions of Kazakhstan: Potential Government Measures to Mitigate Negative Consequences of the Current Economic Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Erjan Akhmedov
Keyword(s):  
Local Population ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Real Gdp ◽  
Foreign Labor ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Migration Dynamics

The migration situation in Kazakhstan is one of the most complex ones in the World. The current oil price plunge, which started in mid-2014, has seriously affected the oil-dependent Kazakh economy as well as the social sphere in general and the migration situation in particular. This article starts with a general overview of the migration situation in the country, studies the correlation between changes in real GDP and balance of migration and then addresses the migration processes in the Western oil-producing regions of the country. The paper specifically addresses these regions because they are more attractive, as half of all foreign labor force officially working in the country is employed hereas well as most of the illegal and in-country migrants. Alsowe should not omit one very important factor – in the oil producing regions of the country the relations between the local population and labor migrants are traditionally strained. Over the last 30 years there were many cases of social unrests and clashes between Kazakh and foreign workers. These facts show how important this problem is and that neglecting it by businesses, government entities and the local population can provoke further social problems. The article analyzes potential consequences of the current oil plunge on migration dynamics and recommends actions to be taken by government entities to mitigate the resulting negative consequences.

scholarly journals From Catholic Church dominance to social partnership promise and now economic crisis, little changes in Irish social policy

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Moran
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
Secondary Role ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The Social

This article examines the way the Irish state has pursued its social policy orientations. It discusses the state’s relationship with the two major power blocs which provided legitimation from 1922 until the current economic crisis, the Catholic Church and social partnership, but focuses primarily on the latter. It is argued that social policy played an unfulfilled secondary role in the social partnership relationship, where economic competitiveness was the primary thrust of government policy throughout the partnership era. The article highlights a number of flaws in social partnership which have led to this conclusion. Government is now left without an influential internal partner and must turn to powerful external institutions for its legitimising discourse.

Exploring the Social and Solidarity Economy Sector in Greece, Spain, and Switzerland in Times of Crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 856-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Kalogeraki ◽  
Marina Papadaki ◽  
Marina Pera Ros
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Management Structure ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Distinct Features

In the context of the recent economic crisis and rising inequality, interest in the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) as a viable alternative economic model has gathered pace in Europe. This article, based on an innovative content analysis approach of organizations’ websites from the LIVEWHAT project, provides a snapshot of the SSE sectors’ main features in three European countries, namely Greece, Spain, and Switzerland, to understand how the SSE is practiced in varying contexts, uniquely affected by the current economic crisis, as well as within diverse SSE origins. The findings shed some light on distinct features and similarities indicating that the Swiss SSE sector, in line with its interrelations with the Swiss market economy, shows a greater degree of formalization and professionalization that defines its management structure, main activities, types of beneficiaries, goals, and means to achieve them. On the contrary, the relatively recent expansion of the Greek SSE sector is intertwined with the economic crisis, which has left a critical imprint on the SSE’s management structure, activities, aims, and means of accomplishing them. The Spanish SSE sector’s main features, on the other hand, lie in-between the Greek and the Swiss ones, providing an amalgam of various features.

Online memories of 1980s–2000s lifestyle and consumption politics in Greece during the current economic crisis (2009–2015)

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Zestanakis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Cultural Convergence ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The Social

Lifestyle media very successfully promoted (conspicuous) consumption as a major referent in the social and cultural convergence between Greece and Western Europe between the mid-1980s and the late 2000s. Perceiving the Internet as a crucial component of the contemporary public sphere where testimonial cultures abound, this article explores how during the current economic crisis particular communities of web users dealt with the breakdown of previous consumer certainties, placing emphasis on the downfall of the lifestyle media industry and on how and why publisher Petros Kostopoulos is discussed as a metonym of this media field. Using comments published below articles about the collapse of lifestyle in popular media and posts in a popular men’s forum, the article examines the uses  of contemporary history in the construction of arguments about the origins of the current crisis and explores how the dismantlement of recent consumer utopias echoed questions of Europeanization and often carried traumatic loads.

Wage labourers in the fragmented labour market of the Gezira, Sudan

Africa ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Abdelkarim
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Wage Labour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transition To Capitalism ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThe Gezira scheme has been the focus of considerable attention in the literature of development in tropical Africa, especially during the colonial period. This was because the scheme represented one of the largest agricultural projects initiated by a colonial government. Views on the scheme have been divergent: Gaitskell (1959) describes it as a ‘story of development’ while Barnett (1977) calls it an ‘illusion of development'. The focus of the studies, which are extensive compared to other Sudanese studies, has largely concentrated on the relationship (or so-called partnership) between tenants and government, production requirements and output, as well as occasionally on various aspects of the tenants’ lives and activities. Wage labour, which is the main form of labour, has only been given scant consideration. Even so, the focus has been on its contribution to the total labour requisite and its supply and demand patterns. The social relations of wage labour, and especially relations between tenants and wage labourers as the essential core of production relations in the scheme, have been awarded very little attention. This is the main concern of this article. Compared with most labour-market studies, my intention is to go beyond a mere study of factors affecting supply and demand. In conditions of transition to capitalism and fragmented labour markets, the perception of the social and cultural aspects of labour is indispensable for an adequate understanding of the internal mechanisms of the labour market.

scholarly journals Crise econômica hodierna como crise do poder: Algumas considerações/Current economic crisis as power crisis: some considerations

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Leno Francisco Danner
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Democratic Management ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Liberal Modernity

Defendo, neste artigo, que a atual crise econômica não pode ser entendida nem apreendida consistentemente apenas a partir de sua redução a um déficit interno à estrutura produtivo-financeira, em termos de queda nos padrões de acumulação; na verdade, essa crise é originada de uma crise do poder diretivo em termos de sociedade, que acirra a separação entre as esferas econômica, política e social, a partir da defesa de uma autorreferencialidade do âmbito econômico em relação aos demais, que, por causa disso, são enquadrados pelos imperativos econômicos, tendo solapada sua especificidade normativa (no caso do social) e diretiva da evolução da sociedade (no caso do político). Essa crise econômica, assim, agudizou os problemas oriundos da modernização liberal, que efetivamente foi marcada por essa blindagem das esferas econômica, política e social umas em relação às outras. Como consequência, a superação da modernidade liberal, modernidade essa retomada pelo neoliberalismo, somente pode ser feita no momento em que se reafirma o social enquanto horizonte normativo, o político enquanto instância diretiva da evolução social e o econômico enquanto esfera de controle público-estatal e de gestão democrática da produção e da distribuição da riqueza, que o modelo do Estado de bem-estar social representou e representa de maneira exemplar, em termos de ligação e de complementaridade entre tais esferas.Abstract: the paper argues that current economic crisis cannot be understood or conceived consistently just since its reduction to an internal deficit into productive-financial structure, as a drop in the standards of accumulation; indeed, this crisis is originated from a crisis in the directive power of society, that intensifies the separation between economic, political and social spheres, since the defense of a self-referentiality of economic scope related with others (social and political), which, because that, are framed by economic imperatives, having undermined the normativity (social sphere) and the evolutionary direction of society (political sphere). So, economic crisis exacerbated the problems legated by liberal modernity, that was characterized by the shielding of economic, political and social spheres to each other. Consequently, overcoming of liberal modernity, that was resumption by Neoliberalism, only can be done when we reiterate the social as horizon of normativity, the political as directive instance of social evolution, and the economical as a sphere of public and state-owned control and democratic management of production and distribution of the wealth, that the model of Welfare State represented and represents exemplarily with its complementarity of those spheres. Keywords: Economic Crisis; Power Crisis; Welfare State; Liberal Modernity.

scholarly journals Crisis, Childhood and Children’s Rights: A Modern Sociological Approach

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimosthenis Daskalakis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Theoretical Evolution

Discussions around the current economic crisis have primarily focused on how it affects children’s well-being, ignoring its consequences on the conception of childhood. Following the modern sociological approach to childhood, which argues that it is not just a biological fact of life but a product of the social context and that children have to be seen as social agents, it is examined how the current socio-economic situation affects the construction of childhood and whether this hinders children from being active subjects of social structures and processes. Similarly, taking into account the close relation between conceptions of childhood and perceptions on children’s rights, this paper also examines the consequences of the economic crisis on the contemporary theoretical evolution of children’s rights, which is mainly specified by the ascription of autonomy rights to children. The conclusion common to both the sociology of childhood and children’s rights is that modern social reality fails to meet the expectations that have been raised by recent developments in the above fields, as crucial concepts, such as dependency, agency and capacity, are undergoing complex transformations.

Migrant associations as alternative jobs providers: Experience of Turkish and sub-Saharan communities in Belgium

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Altay Manco ◽  
Andrea Gerstnerova
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Economic Landscape ◽  
Migrant Associations

It can be said that Belgian labour market has been challenged since the 1970s due to changing economic landscape. The two major drivers for change were the deindustrialization and globalization. For some, these two drivers have brought a perceptible deterioration of working conditions and pay. In general, foreign workers are among the first to be affected from such changes. Their temporary residence status, unrecognized qualifications, limited language skills and lack of access to the social networks of the native-born Belgians make them particularly disadvantaged in the labour market. In order to overcome these obstacles, migrant communities have developed various, more or less effective, measures. This paper discusses the role of migrant associations in economic integration among the Turkish and the sub-Saharan communities residing in Belgium. Particular emphasis is made on the contribution of the community’s social capital in the process of transferring knowledge, financial and material means and professional networks.

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