WP5: The Effect of Asylum Seekers’ Concentration in Space in Times of Crisis
Looking at Labour Markets, Welfare, Education and Environment Governance Across Europe
Large migration movements as any population movements are often associated with change in socioeconomic structures, markets and environment. Against this backdrop, this Work Package will argue that to understand the uneven geography of migration crises, one has to look beyond political agendas. It involves studying broader socio-economic phenomena ranging from access to labor market, housing, welfare, education and environment. By contributing to the fieldwork and identifying some of the particularities of different local economic contexts and, moreover, of different ethnic backgrounds of asylum seekers and refugees, we will shed light on the way in which human agency (the particular characteristics of individuals) and structural constraints (the particular characteristics of a socio-economic local context, and of the organizational, political and diasporic contexts of the newcomers) interact to facilitate or hinder the integration of these newcomers on the one hand and, reversely, to influence/or not some transformations in the local labor market and the political reigning environment on the other.
Partners Involved: University of Bratislava (Lead), University of Liège, Lund University, University of Milan, University of Macedonia, SOAS University of London.
Deliverables
D5.1 Maps of Asylum Seekers’ Sites
This deliverable by Paula Puškárová, Michaela Čiefová, Martin Lábaj and Natália Zagoršeková (University of Bratislava - EUBA) is an initial output of WP5 addressing data gaps in mapping refugees’ and asylum seekers’ concentrations. The compilation of available data on capacities, facility types and coordinates of asylum seekers’ sites allows detecting concentration hotspots across the EU and analysing these hotspots further in Task 2 and 3 within the WP5. The detection and analysis of these hotspots are crucial for the project since they represent potential challenges for governance of refugee integration and by comparing different success and failure stories of concentration governance we plan to draw policy recommendations for successful migration governance and contribute to the discussion on redistribution quota. The data was compiled with the help of national authorities (immigration offices, ministries) amongst the EU member states and project partners and are available in an open access mode following the Datawrapper links in the Annex. The size of the dots in the maps represents the capacities – the bigger the dot, the more asylum seekers are located in the facility. Different colours indicate different facility types.
D5.3 Minutes of the Workshop in Bratislava
This deliverable prepared by Michaela Čiefová presents the minutes of the MAGYCxEUBA workshop done at the University of Bratislava September 25, 2020.
D5.5 Joint policy brief: Integration of Kurdish Refugees in Europe: A Diasporic Perspective
In this policy brief, which is based on over 200 interviews with Kurdish refugees and established diaspora members, Fiona B. Adamson and Veysi Dag (SOAS University of London) outline the unique challenges facing Kurds in Europe, and suggest some possible policy options.
D5.6 Submission of six peer reviewed journal articles
The presented deliverable consists of six separate manuscripts produced by three MAGYC Consortium partners involved in Work Package 5, namely the University of Economics in Bratislava, University of Milan, and SOAS University of London. Three papers have been produced and submitted by the EUBA team, two by UNIMI and one by SOAS. These papers shed light on the way in which human agency (the particular characteristics of the individuals) and structural constraints interact to ease/difficult the integration of these newcomers on the one hand and, reversely, to influence/or not some transformations in the local labor market and the political reigning environment on the other.
D5.6.1 Peer reviewed journal article: The Returns to Language Skills of Immigrants in Europe
In this paper, Matej Vitáloš (University of Bratislava) estimates the returns to language skills for immigrants in 13 Western European countries.
D5.6.2 Peer reviewed journal article: Possible Changes Over Time: Poverty Among Migrants and Asylum Seekers in the European Union
In this paper, Mykhaylo Kunychka and Leonid Raneta (University of Bratislava) investigate the determinants of income poverty among migrants and refugees.
D5.6.3 Peer reviewed journal article: Central European Leaders’ Attitude Towards the Migration and the Migration Crisis
In this article, Peter Csanyi and Rudolf Kucharčík (University of Bratislava) examine the national policy discourse and government policies on migration in the four countries of the Visegrad group consisting of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.
D5.6.4 Peer reviewed journal article: Constrained to be (im)mobile? Refugees’ and Asylum seekers’ practices to integrate in restrictive socio-economic urban contexts in Northern Italy
In this article, Iraklis Dimitriadis (University of Milan) comparatively examines forms of (im)mobility of refugees and asylum seekers (RAS) to cope with dispersal process, restrictive migration policies and local socio-economic characteristics in three cities of Northern Italy.
D5.6.5 Peer reviewed journal article: Refugees and asylum seekers in informal and precarious jobs: the role of temporalities in the early labour market insertion from the professionals’ and volunteers’ perspectives
In this article, Iraklis Dimitriadis (University of Bratislava) examines the engagement of refugees and asylum seekers (RAS) in informal and precarious jobs from a civil society actors’ perspective.
D5.6.6 Toward a Multi-Scalar Understanding of Integration: Kurdish Refugees between State, Diaspora and Geopolitics
In this article, Fiona B. Adamson, Veysi Dag and Catherine Craven (SOAS University of London) draw attention to how transnational factors – including trans-state diaspora networks and geopolitical relations between European states and Kurdish refugee “homelands” -- have direct impacts on the integration possibilities and trajectories for newly-arrived Kurdish refugees in Europe.
