Group work and student presentations on different types of migrants
21 Março 2019, 15:00 • Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho
International Migration and Integration in Europe
Group work
Semester 2, 2019
Lecturers: Jennifer McGarrigle and Amandine Desille
Types of migration:
● Asylum-seekers and refugees
● Labour migrants
● Students
● High-skilled migrants
● Lifestyle migrants (including retirees)
● Investment migrants
● Return migrants
● Undocumented migrants
Guiding questions:
● What are the legal frameworks regulating this migration type? Are there directives and policies at EU level? Or do they vary from member state to member state?
● How has their situation changed/evolved over the last decades? Give key figures and facts.
● Are there differences between intra-EU and extra-EU migrants?
● Summarize the state-of-the-art for this type of migration: what is the debate about? what are the main concepts?
● Describe briefly a case study (a piece of research or a research project) that has inspired you.
References:
● Asylum-seekers and refugees
Ehrkamp, Patricia (2017). Geographies of Migration I: Refugees, Progress in Human Geography, 41 (6), pp. 813-822. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0309132516663061
Kreichauf, René (2018) From forced migration to forced arrival: the campization of refugee accommodation in European cities, Comparative Migration Studies, Vol 6 : 7 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-017-0069-8
● Labour migrants
Castles, Stephen, and Godula Kosack (2010). The function of labour immigration in Western
European capitalism. In Martiniello & Rath (eds.) Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Ostaijen, Mark van, Ursula Reeger, and Karin Zelano. “The Commodification of Mobile Workers in Europe - a Comparative Perspective on Capital and Labour in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden.” Comparative Migration Studies 5, no. 1 (February 14, 2017): 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-017-0048-0.
● Students
King, Russell, and Parvati Raghuram (2013). “International Student Migration: Mapping the Field and New Research Agendas.” Population, Space and Place, 19:2, pp. 127–37. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.1746.
Beech, Suzanne E. “Adapting to Change in the Higher Education System: International Student Mobility as a Migration Industry.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44, no. 4 (March 12, 2018): 610–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1315515.
● High-skilled migrants
Bartolini, Laura and Ruby Gropas, Anna Triandafyllidou (2017) Drivers of highly skilled mobility from Southern Europe: escaping the crisis and emancipating oneself. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43:4, pp. 652-673.
Raghuram, P., & Kofman, E. (2002). The State, Skilled Labour Markets, and Immigration: The Case of Doctors in England. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 34(11), 2071–2089. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3541
● Lifestyle migrants (including retirees)
Benson, M., & O’Reilly, K. (2016). From lifestyle migration to lifestyle in migration: Categories, concepts and ways of thinking. Migration Studies, 4(1), 20–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnv015 Available at: https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/19022/3/Lifestyle%20in%20migration%20FINAL%20accepted%20version.pdf
Huete, R., Mantecon, A., & Estevez, J. (2013). Challenges in lifestyle migration research: Reflections and findings about the Spanish crisis. Mobilities, 8(3), 331–348.
● Investment migrants
Sumption, M., & Hooper, K. (2014). Selling visas and citizenship: Policy questions from the global boom in investor immigration. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/selling-visas-and-citizenship-policy-questions-global-boom-investor-immigration
Short, J. (2016). Attracting wealth: Crafting immigration policy to attract the rich. In I. Hay & J. Beaverstock (Eds.), Handbook on wealth and the super-rich (pp. 363–380). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
● Return migrants
King, Russell, and Anastasia Christou (2011). Of Counter-Diaspora and Reverse Transnationalism: Return Mobilities to and from the Ancestral Homeland. Mobilities 6, no. 4, pp. 451–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2011.603941.
Carling, Jørgen, and Marta Bivand Erdal (2014). Return Migration and Transnationalism: How Are the Two Connected? International Migration 52, no. 6, pp. 2–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12180.
● Undocumented migrants
Koser, Khalid (2009) Dimensions and dynamics of irregular migration, Population, Space and Place, 16 (3), pp. 181-193
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.587
Chauvin, Sébastien, and Blanca Garcés‐Mascareñas. ‘Becoming Less Illegal: Deservingness Frames and Undocumented Migrant Incorporation’. Sociology Compass 8, no. 4 (2014): 422–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12145.
Let’s organise...
- Groups of five students
- Subjects will be decided by lottery
- Presentation on 27-28/04/2019 and 3-4/04/2019 (max. 20 mins presentation + 5-10 mins questions).