Global Migration and Transnational Politics
Working Paper no. 9
Maria Koinova
October 2009

This working paper has been published based on a ground-breaking project on global diaspora activism at George Mason University in Washington D.C., inaugurated in collaboration with the McArthur Foundation.

Based on extensive research among conflict-generated diasporas - Albanians, Armenians, Lebanese, Serbians, Ukrainians, and Chechens predominantly living in the U.S. - the author argues that academics and policy-makers alike need to revisit the notion that diasporas are not likely agents of moderate transnational politics. Radical and moderate diaspora activities depend on the stages of conflict, on the timing of events relative to developments in the homeland, and on the diaspora initiatives and actions of host-land governments.

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Centre on Migration, Policy & Society - COMPAS
University of Oxford
Alessio Cangiano, Isabel Shutes, Sarah Spencer and George Leeson
June 2009

This report explores the potential impact of an ageing population on the demand for migrant workers to provide social care for older people. It draws on new data to consider the extent to which migrants may be needed to meet an expanding demand for care services and to examine the implications for employers, older people, their families and the migrants themselves.

Focusing on the UK - and in most detail on the situation in England - it reports the findings of one of four country studies conducted in parallel, between Spring 2007 and Spring 2009, in the UK, USA, Canada and the Republic of Ireland.

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Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) - Research Report
Kirisci, Kemal
2009/14

This research paper aims to explore to what extent Turkey has overcome its resistance to recognizing the multicultural reality of Turkish society, and whether the state in Turkey is indeed becoming multicultural and post-national. These aspects have a direct bearing not only in terms of domestic politics but also in terms of immigration.

Over the last couple of years, Turkey has emerged as a country of immigration. It would thus be very important to probe into the immigrants’ status and find out to what extent Turkey’s immigration and citizenship policies reflect and acknowledge multiculturalism or whether they still reflect the priorities and practices of a state and society based on cultural unity and homogeneity.

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IMISCOE-AUP Series 2009, Amsterdam
Karen Kraal, Judith Roosblad and John Wrench
Equal Opportunities and Ethnic Inequality in European Labour Markets by Karen Kraal (Eds)

The need to analyse labour market mechanisms in post-industrial Western societies is urgent. Despite laws and policy measures being developed at the European, national and local levels, job-seeking immigrants and ethnic minorities still suffer unequal access and ethnic discrimination.

This volume endeavours to understand why. Four chapters dealing with discrimination, gender, equity policies and diversity management present a lively discussion of the current scientific debate. Besides providing empirical evidence, the authors recommend methods for conducting further research in the field and evaluate the actual effects of discrimination-combating policies.

One conclusion is that systematic analysis of the labour market and its subsequent equity policies must be supported by hard data, such as statistics. With its state-of-the-art scope and unique thematic exploration, this volume transfers knowledge from social science studies to a more operational realm.

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Migration-Info.de
Migration und Bevölkerung
Newsletter 10/2009 (Dezember)

Mit einem „Integrationsvertrag” sollen sich neue Zuwanderer künftig zu ihrer Integration verpflichten. Die Bundesbeauftragte für Integration Maria Böhmer plant noch für diese Legislaturperiode eine entsprechende Regelung. Demnach müssten sich Zuwanderer zu Werten der Bundesrepublik bekennen, wenn sie in Deutschland bleiben wollen.

Die Absicht, Integrationsverträge einzuführen, ist im Koalitionsvertrag festgeschrieben (vgl. MuB 9/09). Darin soll zukünftig festgelegt werden, was die Zuwanderer an Unterstützung und Hilfe erhalten, aber auch, „was wir von den Zuwanderern erwarten”, sagte die Integrationsbeauftragte der Bundesregierung Maria Böhmer (CDU). „Jeder, der auf Dauer hier leben und arbeiten will, muss ja sagen zu unserem Land. Dazu gehört das Beherrschen der deutschen Sprache, aber auch die Bereitschaft zur Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft.” Werte, zu denen sich Ausländer bekennen müssten, seien u. a. die Meinungs- und Religionsfreiheit, die Gleichberechtigung der Frau sowie die Akzeptanz von Homosexualität. (…)

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Central European Forum for Migration and Population Research
A. Wiśniowski, J. Bijak
Working Paper 02/2009

The paper presents the application of the Delphi survey method for eliciting expert knowledge to be used in forecasting immigration flows to selected European countries. The adopted perspective for the analysis is the one of Bayesian statistics, where the expert knowledge can serve as a basis for formulating prior distributions, which are further combined with the data in order to produce forecasts.

This paper aims at presenting the Delphi technique, the construction of the survey and then the translation of the answers obtained from the experts to prior distributions .

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