Patterns of Social Integration of Western European Migrants

Braun, Michael; Glöckner-Rist, Angelika

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“…language and marriage ceremonies) of their countries of origin (Mondain and Lardoux, 2013). At the individual scale, personal traits such as age at migration (Kalmijn and van Tubergen, 2006), educational attainment, duration of stay at the destination, and previous migration experience are important for acculturation (Braun and Glöckner-Rist, 2012). It has been suggested that the passage of time in the host community enhances the acquisition of knowledge of customs and language required for work and, therefore, hastens the assimilation process (Djamba and Kimuna, 2012).…”

Section: Theoretical Considerations: Migration Acculturation Socialmentioning

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“Togetherness in Difference”: Perceived Personal Discrimination and Acculturation Preferences among Internal Migrants in a Poor Urban Community in Accra

Tutu

Boateng

Ameyaw

et al. 2016

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This paper assesses the relative effects of acculturation preferences (assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization) on migrants' perception of acceptability in James Town, a traditional urban neighborhood in Accra, Ghana. There is a paucity of academic work on the relationship between migrants' acculturation inclinations and their assessment of the hosts' attitude towards them in Ghana. Cognizant of the fluidity of acculturation strategies, the study focuses on individual inclinations towards acculturation. To examine migrants' perception of acceptability by the host, we use perceived personal discrimination. We utilize results from a semistructured questionnaire administered to 301 migrant individuals from different migrant households in James Town. Our findings suggest that migrants with assimilation preferences are less likely to have a higher rating on the extent to which they are discriminated against by the host population. Such an exploratory study is pertinent to understanding relationships (conflicts or "togetherness in difference") in poor multi-ethnic settings.

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Section: Theoretical Considerations: Migration Acculturation Socialmentioning

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“Togetherness in Difference”: Perceived Personal Discrimination and Acculturation Preferences among Internal Migrants in a Poor Urban Community in Accra

Tutu

Boateng

Ameyaw

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Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…Variegation, across economic, social, cultural and political fields, remains an important feature of the European landscape despite the forces of convergence associated with institutionally‐driven processes of regional integration (Braun and Glöckner‐Rist. ) and globalisation (Clift, ; Scholte, ; Wood, ; Hay, ). Brenner and Theodore () point to the importance of advancing our understanding of variegation, which they define as “systemically produced geoinstitutional differentiation” (p.207) in the political economy of capitalism, and consider responsible for the “path‐dependent, unevenly layered and patterned evolution of neoliberalization processes” (p. 211).…”

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“…The number of French nationals in London alone has been suggested to be as high as 300,000 ( Mail Online 24 January 2010), and based on the French Consulate's estimates, 400,000 ( The Economist 24 February 2011). Evidence also points to the fact that the French are the most highly qualified European migrants in the UK (72% having a University education compared to 46.2% of Spanish and 21.3% of Germans) (see Braun and Glöckner‐Rist, ). Although the precise proportion of London's French population working in the financial and business sectors is unknown, they have become symbolically important, as the embodiment of a broader pattern of highly‐skilled French migration to the capital, and intra‐EU highly‐skilled migration more generally.…”

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Doing the Business: Variegation, Opportunity and Intercultural Experience among Intra‐EU Highly‐Skilled Migrants

Mulholland¹,

Ryan²

2013

International Migration

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French highly-skilled migration to London arguably constitutes the largest and most significant manifestation of such mobility within Europe. As such, they represent something of a test case for understanding the dynamics shaping intra-EU highly skilled migration, and beyond this, "elite mobility" more generally. Focussing on the working experiences of French highly-skilled professionals in London"s financial and business sectors, this paper explores the meanings attributed to business praxis, in the capital, by a migrant group motivated in large part by career escalation and accumulation. The paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the nature and effects of ongoing variegation in the national expressions of capitalism (in particular, its manifestation in the cultural dimensions of business practices), and its salience for grasping the motivations and experiences of particular instances of highly-skilled migration. The variegation thesis argues that national expressions of capitalism will endure, despite the forces of globalisation, as the latter will continue to be mediated by nationally-framed ecological, institutional, processual, cultural and behavioural divergences. The ongoing variegated nature of European political economies remains a fundamental explanatory backdrop to understanding both the motivations for, and obstacles to, intra-EU migration for the highly-skilled.In line with such a thesis, the data (derived from one-off, in-depth, semi-structured interviews and a focus group), are indicative of the ongoing influence of nationally-framed, and culturally grounded, business practices, and of the equally nationally-framed manner in which these practices are signified by highly-skilled migrants. The data are also suggestive of the manner in which such variegation may challenge any seamless transferability of businessrelated social and cultural capital in contexts of inter-national migration. The paper explores the nature and signification of such variegation through an exploration of the cultural dimensions of business-related methodologies, language use, and communication praxis. Calling for a greater understanding of the particularities of specific instances of highly-skilled migration, this paper seeks to contribute to a fuller delineation of the specificities of French migratory motivations, experiences and meanings, as these pertain to their emplacement in London.

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“…Despite previous A. Tabuns (*) Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia e-mail: aivars.tabuns@lu.lv studies showing that migrants from Eastern Central Europe sometimes perform better than natives in terms of employment (Huddleston et al 2013), there is still a significant gap with regard to employment conditions and wages, job security and quality and other work-related factors (Eurostat 2011;Pichler 2011;Spreckelsen and Kaiser 2016). In combination with social stigmatisation and 'othering' of Eastern Central European migrants (Gilmartin and Migge 2015;Luthra et al 2014;Söhn 2013), labour market discrimination can exacerbate problems with social integration as well (Bijl and Verweij 2012;Braun and Glöckner-Rist 2012;Shubin and Dickey 2013). The situation of Eastern European migrants in the labour market has been the focus of several studies (Gilmartin and Migge 2015;Johns 2013;Söhn 2013;Spreckelsen and Seeleib-Kaiser 2016), yet information is often incomplete, too general or lacking the perspective of migrants themselves.…”

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Latvian Migrants in Foreign Labour Markets: Job Placement and Discrimination

Tabuns

2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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The majority of migrants from Latvia move abroad intending to work, and so fall into the category of ‘work migrants’. A crucial role in their job placement is played by an increasingly complex network of intermediaries. This includes formal employment agencies, more informal, social network-based mediators and even illegal service providers. Despite the agencies providing job placements abroad being subject to regulations, fraud and the mistreatment of jobseekers has emerged as a cause for concern. Even when there is no ill will from the intermediaries, immigrant workers often suffer discrimination from their employers, sometimes leading to a re-evaluation of their return migration plans. This chapter explores the employment conditions of Latvian migrant workers. It analyses the operation of private employment agencies offering employment abroad and, in more general terms, sheds light from the Latvian migrant workers’ perspective on their treatment by employers. In doing so, this analysis demonstrates that almost a fifth of those respondents who used the services of private employment agencies had experienced unfair treatment. Moreover, at least one in three Latvian migrant workers encountered some form of discrimination at work, and around one in six were in a precarious and vulnerable position due to the nature of their employment contract. The chapter concludes with recommendations for further studies and policy development.

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Patterns of Social Integration of Western European Migrants

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

“Togetherness in Difference”: Perceived Personal Discrimination and Acculturation Preferences among Internal Migrants in a Poor Urban Community in Accra

“Togetherness in Difference”: Perceived Personal Discrimination and Acculturation Preferences among Internal Migrants in a Poor Urban Community in Accra

Doing the Business: Variegation, Opportunity and Intercultural Experience among Intra‐EU Highly‐Skilled Migrants

Latvian Migrants in Foreign Labour Markets: Job Placement and Discrimination

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