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Educational Reception in Rotterdam and Barcelona
This book takes a close look at how schools and educators in Rotterdam and Barcelona handle the reception of new immigrant students, focusing on the dilemmas educators face in attempting to integrate the new students into the school and classroom and the strategies they design as a response. In addition to comparing the two cities' approaches, Mar a Bruquetas-Callejo pays particular attention to how closely actual practices hew to policies.
The Global Old Age Care Industry
This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the “old age care crisis” in richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the multiple levels influencing their activities. Accordingly, it examines the significance of old age care regimes and policies as well as intermediaries and promoters for initiating, shaping and perpetuating old age care arrangements based on migrant labor and the relationships within them. Particular emphasis is placed on the risks and implications of these arrangements for the well-being and the social protection of the different actors involved. The book analyzes these processes and structures from a global perspective including different countries and regions of the world.
Global Migration
This three-volume work exposes myths and debunks misinformation about global migration, an issue generating emotional debate from the highest levels of power to kitchen tables across the United States, Europe, and worldwide. Many don't realize that migration has been a central element of global social change since the 15th century. Unfortunately, misconceptions about the 3 percent of world citizens who do choose to migrate can be destructive. In 2008, riots broke out in South Africa over workers from neighboring countries. Today's rising tensions along the U.S.-Mexican border are inciting political, social, and economic upheaval. In the EU, political fortunes rise and fall on positions regar...
New Policies for New Residents
In recent decades, many countries have experienced both a rapid increase of in-migration of foreign nationals and a large-scale devolution of governance to the local level. The result has been new government policies to promote the social inclusion of recently arrived residents. In New Policies for New Residents, Deborah J. Milly focuses on the intersection of these trends in Japan. Despite the country's history of restrictive immigration policies, some Japanese favor a more accepting approach to immigrants. Policies supportive of foreign residents could help attract immigrants as the country adjusts to labor market conditions and a looming demographic crisis. As well, local citizen engageme...
Migration Policymaking in Europe
Deze studie ontwikkelt een geheel nieuwe benadering van het vraagstuk: Hoe wordt migratie- en integratiebeleid in tien Europese landen gemaakt? Wie is daarbij betrokken? Welke invloed hebben wetenschappers en maatschappelijke partners op de vorming en uitvoering van beleid? De auteurs concluderen dat beleid begrepen moet worden als resultaat van nationale historische verhoudingen en opvattingen binnen nationale contexten enerzijds, en anderzijds ontstaan is onder invloed van wereldwijde en supra-nationale invloeden.
Miedo, inseguridad y control social
El miedo ha dejado de ser exclusivamente una emoción individual para elevarse a la categoría de construcción social, su difusión y propagación se ha convertido en una de las bases del control social actual. En las sociedades occidentales el sentimiento de inseguridad está presente a lo largo y ancho de nuestra vida cotidiana, esta expresión ha pasado de ser una consecuencia afectiva frente a una situación de supuesta peligrosidad para convertirse en uno de los principios integradores que componen la predisposición de los individuos a la hora de tomar sus propias decisiones. El aumento del control y la seguridad injustificada está originando ambientes de tensión propensos a generar...
La discriminación étnica hacia la población inmigrante
La reducción notable del flujo de inmigrantes a partir de 2009, en un contexto de crisis y estancamiento económico, ha hecho que se reduzca notablemente la atención sobre el proceso migratorio que venían prestando la opinión pública, la clase política y los medios de comunicación. Este paso de la cuestión migratoria a un plano más discreto puede tener un efecto positivo si permite un debate más sosegado y ayuda a encauzar el proceso de toma de decisiones por los canales de la racionalidad, del respeto de los derechos humanos y de la solidaridad. Existe el riesgo, sin embargo, de pensar, confundiendo las encuestas de opinión con las necesidades de la sociedad, que la gestión del ...
Majority-Minority Relations in Contemporary Women's Movements
This book examines contemporary relations between ethnic majority and ethnic minority women's movements in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, and women's movements' participation in and influence on public policy that focuses on violence against women.
Becoming Urban: State and Migration in Contemporary China
With China’s sky-rocketing economic growth since the late 1980’s, the mobility of its labor force has increased tremendously. In the early 21st century the number of internal migrants is approaching 300 million, corresponding to more than 20% of the country’s population. This development has become a cause for political concern, highlighting significant issues in the social relations between settled communities and new migrants. This book examines in depth how institutional arrangements, in particular, the Hukou (Household Registration) system, influence the integration of migrants at their destinations. Under this unique Chinese settlement system, migrants are defined by their Hukou l...
Immigration and Perceptions of National Political Systems in Europe
Immigration has become one of the most pressing political issues of the modern day, and public opinion polls indicate that it has been of public concern for some time. This book analyses the impact of immigration on perceptions of national political systems in Europe and contends that public concern about immigration is undermining trust in national political institutions and elites, as well as satisfaction with the way democracy is working. Immigration and Perceptions of National Political Systems in Europe contends that immigration presents more substantial challenges to some national identity constructions, and that while national identity in general can help to bolster support for nation...
