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New Europeans on the Move: A preliminary review of the onward migration of refugees within the European Union
Anna Lindley,N. Van Hear +1 more
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The authors reviewed the still limited evidence relating to these movements, focusing on the relocation of Somali and Tamil Sri Lankan Europeans from continental Europe to the UK, and discusses the conceptual and practical issues raised by this mobility, outlining an agenda for future research.Abstract:
The onward movement of new citizens of refugee backgrounds within the European Union is an apparently growing pattern in European mobility which has largely been overlooked. This paper reviews the still limited evidence relating to these movements, focusing on the relocation of Somali and Tamil Sri Lankan Europeans from continental Europe to the UK, and discusses the conceptual and practical issues raised by this mobility, outlining an agenda for future research.read more
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The Early-Morning Phonecall: Remittances from a Refugee Diaspora Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make three contributions, based on analysis of survey and ethnographic evidence on the remittance experiences of Somali refugees in London, and argue that the diaspora perspective is a critical element in understanding remittance processes, and that remitting can have substantial repercussions for migrants.
New issues in refugee research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that significant progress has been made overall in developing a refugee policy in Eurasia (which was defined in this study as the countries comprising the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine/Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; and the Central European countries of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovak Republic and Slovenia).
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Free movement? The onward migration of EU citizens born in Somalia, Iran and Nigeria
TL;DR: In this article, a typology of new EU citizens who onward migrate between member states is proposed, based on relevant statistics and qualitative empirical research carried out with Dutch-Somalis, Swedish-Iranians and German-Nigerians who relocated to the UK.
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South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis
TL;DR: In this paper, the migration of Southern European EU citizens (from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) who move to Northern European Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom) in response to the global economic crisis is examined.
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"And then one day they all moved to Leicester": the relocation of Somalis from the Netherlands to the UK explained.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried to explain the relocation of Somalis from the Netherlands to the UK, based on 33 interviews with Dutch Somalis in London and Leicester, and provided a comparison of the Netherlands and the UK as countries of settlement.
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A model of labor migration and urban unemployment in less developed countries.
TL;DR: In this paper, an economic behavioral model of rural urban migration is formulated which represents a realistic modification and extension of the simple wage differential approach commonly found in the literature and this probablistic approach is incorporated into a rigorous model of the determinants of urban labor demand and supply which when given values for the crucial parameters can be used among other things to estimate the equilibrium proportion of the urban labor force that is not absorbed by the modern industrial economy.
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The new economics of labor migration
Oded Stark,David E. Bloom +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed selected theoretical and empirical developments in the field of labor migration economics and found that the migration behavior of individuals differs in accordance with their perceived relative deprivation; those who were relatively more deprived tend to have stronger incentive to migrate than those who are relatively less deprived, while a reference group characterized by more income inequality is likely to generate more relative deprivation.
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National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees
TL;DR: The authors examines the place of refugees in the national order of things and suggests that the displacement of refugees is constituted differently from other kinds of deterritorialization by those states, organizations, and scholars who are concerned with refugees.
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Family and personal networks in international migration: recent developments and new agendas.
TL;DR: An overview of research findings on the determinants and consequences of personal networks is presented and it calls for greater specification of the role of networks in migration research and for the inclusion of women in future research.
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Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of migration on the place of origin and the dilemmas of current U.S. immigration policy are discussed. But the authors focus on the long-distance migration in the United States.