Quo vadis, Migration Studies? The Quest for a Migratory Epistemology

This article starts by sketching the links between changing mobility and migration patterns, processes of social transformation, corresponding migration control policies, and related perceptions of social problems. It acknowledges that since the 1980s in the US and the 1990s in Europe, migration studies have come of age, bringing about a plethora of typologies, concepts, and theories. However, the knowledge production of migration studies is haunted by a range of frustrations, including unconvincing definitions, lack of data, reductionism, short-range theories, often biased research funding practices, usually negative public and political discourse, and an underlying dominant perspective of the nation-state and thus an omnipresent sedentary bias. In contrast, this article offers some cornerstones of reflexive migration studies and drafts a migratory epistemology that takes inspiration from feminist and postcolonial epistemologies, resting on complexity thinking and acknowledging key intersectionalities while being rooted in thorough ethical reflections so as to contemplate the (re)politization of research. Wie weiter mit der Migrationsforschung? Auf der Suche nach einer migratorischen Erkenntnistheorie Dieser Artikel beginnt mit einer Skizze des Zusammenhangs von Mobilitäts und Migrationsmustern, Prozessen sozialen Wandels sowie damit verbundenen Migrationskontrollpolitiken und Wahrnehmungen sozialer Probleme. Er würdigt, dass die Migrationsforschung seit den 1980er Jahren in den USA und seit den 1990er Jahren in Europa erwachsen geworden ist und zahlreiche Typologien, Konzepte und Theorien hervorgebracht hat. Dennoch ist die Wissensproduktion gekennzeichnet durch eine frustrierende Reihe von wenig überzeugenden Definitionen, einen Mangel an Daten, zu kurz greifende Theorien, oftmals voreingenommene Forschungsförderpraktiken, meist negativ konnotierte öffentliche und politische Diskursen, eine den Betrachtungen zugrunde liegende Fokussierung auf den Nationalstaat sowie die allgegenwärtige Vorstellung von der Sesshaftigkeit als gesellschaftlicher Normalität. Alternativ dazu greift dieser Beitrag einige Kernideen reflexiver Migrationsstudien auf und skizziert eine migratorische Erkenntnistheorie, welche Anregungen aus feministischen und postkolonialen Erkenntnistheorien aufgreift, auf ›complexity thinking‹ beruht sowie wesentliche Intersektionalitäten anerkennt. Sie ist zugleich ethisch grundiert und berücksichtigt auch die (Re)Politisierung von Forschung

Erwerbskräftepotenzial von Personen im partnerschaftlichen Familiennachzug aus dem EU-Ausland und aus Drittstaaten

ERWERBSKRÄFTEPOTENZIAL VON PERSONEN IM PARTNERSCHAFTLICHEN FAMILIENNACHZUG AUS DEM EU-AUSLAND UND AUS DRITTSTAATEN Erwerbskräftepotenzial von Personen im partnerschaftlichen Familiennachzug aus dem EU-Ausland und aus Drittstaaten / Borowsky, Christine (Rights reserved) ( -

Migration, education & development : databases, additional information and a selected bibliography. Annex G.

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EU Accession Migration: National Insurance Number Allocations and the Geographies of Polish Labour Immigration to the UK

This paper addresses the challenge of measuring the extent of immigration to the UK following EU Accession in 2004, and argues that the most commonly used databases (UK Census, Labour Force Survey and Worker Registration Scheme) can be supplemented by the National Insurance Number (NINo) Allocations database, and demonstrates the utility of this data for future research by outlining the geography of immigration derived from NINo. The paper makes three important contributions through the thorough analysis of a data source currently underexploited in migration studies; first that the NINo, when used as a indicator of migration per se offers some interesting insights into migration in the UK, and secondly that as a tool for comprehensively measuring the registration of migrants working legally in the UK, it offers a means of constructing a internal geography of (legal) labour migration, as the paper demonstrates. Third, the analysis also identifies self-employment as a potentially important missing driver behind EU Accession Migration

Transnational activities and aspirations of irregular migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands

The literature on immigrant transnationalism and on irregular immigration suggests irregular migrants engage relatively little in transnational activities because of the obstacles associated with their legal and economic statuses. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews with a diverse population of irregular migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands, however, I shall demonstrate in this article that irregular migrants do indeed engage in various transnational activities. Moreover, I argue that a focus on aspirations helps to understand why irregular migrants either do or do not engage in specific transnational activities. Distinguishing between investment, settlement and legalization aspirations, I analyse whether and for what reasons irregular migrants carry out economic, social and political transnational activities. I conclude that future research on transnationalism and on the incorporation of irregular and regular migrants alike could benefit from contextualizing the agency of migrants by taking their aspirations into account

Mental health care for irregular migrants in Europe: Barriers and how they are overcome

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False self-employment:The case of Ukrainian migrants in London’s construction sector

This article, presenting qualitative accounts of Ukrainian fake business owners, highlights how migrants engage in bogus self-employment in the UK. Their experiences problematise notions of legality and binary depictions of migrant workers as “victims or villains”, demonstrating that migrants see their illegal status as a transient stage before gaining legal status