The Global Mobility Divide: How Visa Policies Have Evolved over Time

Mau, Steffen; Gülzau, Fabian; Laube, Lena; Zaun, Natascha

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2015.1005007

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“…These are usually considered to be the BRIC-countries and the countries in Southeast Asia or in Latin America (EMN 2013, 7). Regarding the visa regime, the African countries were of interest since citizens of African countries have experienced a great loss in mobility rights during the last 40 years (Mau et al 2015). A possible reason for the tightening of mobility rights is the fear, from the part of decision makers, of irregular migration from Africa (ibid.).…”

Section: Methodology and Empirical Datamentioning

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Student-Migrant-Workers: <i>Temporal aspects of precarious work and life in Finland</i>

Maury

2017

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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This article addresses the issue of non-EU student-migrant-workers in Finland drawing on data from in-depth interviews conducted with the sub-Saharan African migrants on student visa. The migrants' experiences of temporal limits in life and at work are examined demonstrating that student-migrantworkers have experiences of a fragmented lived time because of the temporary character of their visa. The article consequently points at the impact of student visa in creating a low-cost labour force in Finland and sheds light on the subject position of the student-migrant-worker that becomes utilisable in contemporary capitalism.

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“…Mau et al (2015) point out that visa policies function as one of the most important ways of controlling and restricting movement across borders. Through the exercise of exterritorial control of potential border-crossers, the states broaden their governance of mobility to the country of departure (ibid.).…”

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Student-Migrant-Workers: <i>Temporal aspects of precarious work and life in Finland</i>

Maury

2017

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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“…Postcolonial globalization is the present period where the internet, global media and popular culture are significant (Barbalet 2014: 200). This 'third era' of globalization is a period of intense cross-border transactions (Mau et al 2015(Mau et al : 1193, where individuals collaborate and compete globally (Hayden and Thompson 2013: 14).…”

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“…There is a clear increase in the mobility of goods, capital, services, information and people (Mau et al 2015(Mau et al : 1193. Capital-accumulating multinational corporations gain technological and managerial capacities by 'going global' (Zipin et al 2013: 2).…”

Section: Globalisation and Privilegementioning

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An investigation into how a globalised lifestyle, international capital and an international schooling experience influence the identities and aspirations of young people

Young

2017

Jnl of Research in Internatl Education

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This research project focussed on the aspirations and identities of students in an international school in Belgium. Aspirations are framed and formed by both macrolevel factors such as social and international capital and schooling and micro-level factors such as well-being, identity, agency, relationships and motivation: in short, via the interaction and interrelationship of self and social context. The originality of this work is in its emphasis on students' own perceptions of the influences on their aspirations, within the geographical space of Belgium and the social sub-culture of a fluid, semi-transient international social context and a local student population. The study explains, from the students' viewpoint, the factors which affect the aspirations of a privileged group of young people. This research indicates convincingly that socioeconomic background and international capital are crucial factors framing and influencing young people's expectations and aspirations. This study also shows us that home is not bound by space and mobility does not limit the participants' sense of selfworth. Also, transience does not threaten nor hinder their stable sense of identity as their relationships with family and friends are strong and bounded by trust. In the worlds of these 'third' and 'fourth' culture young people, identities are not at all 'fragmented', as has been previously claimed. Additionally, the participants are very similar due to their privilege, are not naïve about their own advantage and are not 'blinkered' by their position. These findings could be of great interest to those working in an international school context. This study might help schools maximise on the international experiences of students to reflect on their global citizenship and altruism. This project has the possibility to help international school educators, who are active players in this culturally complex field better support young people in their process of identity formation in a global society.

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The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets

Mast,

Sapena,

Mühlbauer

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Population Space and Place

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Geolocated social media data hold a hitherto untapped potential for exploring the relationship between user mobility and their interests at a large scale. Using geolocated Twitter data from Nigeria, we provide a feasibility study that demonstrates how the linkage of (1) a trajectory analysis of Twitter users' geolocation and (2) natural language processing of Twitter users' text content can reveal information about the interests of migrants. After identifying migrants via a trajectory analysis, we train a language model to automatically detect the topics of the migrants' tweets. Biases of manual labelling are circumvented by learning community‐defined topics from a Nigerian web forum. Results suggest that differences in users' mobility correlate with varying interests in several topics, most notably religion. We find that Twitter data can be a flexible source for exploring the link between users' mobility and interests in large‐scale analyses of urban populations. The joint use of spatial techniques and text analysis enables migration researchers to (a) study migrant perspectives in greater detail than is possible with census data and (b) at a larger scale than is feasible with interviews. Thereby, it provides a valuable complement to interviews, surveys and censuses, and holds a large potential for further research.

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The Global Mobility Divide: How Visa Policies Have Evolved over Time

Cited by 154 publications

References 25 publications

Student-Migrant-Workers: <i>Temporal aspects of precarious work and life in Finland</i>

Student-Migrant-Workers: <i>Temporal aspects of precarious work and life in Finland</i>

An investigation into how a globalised lifestyle, international capital and an international schooling experience influence the identities and aspirations of young people

The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets

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