The immigrant tide
In: European affairs, Band 5, Heft 6, S. 78-82
ISSN: 0921-5778
In: European affairs, Band 5, Heft 6, S. 78-82
ISSN: 0921-5778
World Affairs Online
In: Orient: deutsche Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur des Orients = German journal for politics, economics and culture of the Middle East, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 561-578
ISSN: 0030-5227
World Affairs Online
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 221-256
ISSN: 0022-278X
World Affairs Online
Closing keynote to the Scribani International Conference in Madrid, and European premiere of the documentary "Harvest of Loneliness," a critical reexamination of the bilateral US-Mexico contract labor program instituted in 1942 ostensibly to meet temporary labor shortages in the U.S. during World War II. But the program did not end when the war ended in 1945; at the behest of the corporate growers, it kept being extended by the U.S. Congress until 1964, becoming the largest such "guest worker" program of its kind to date — and one of the largest mass movements of workers in history. The program was presented to the public via newscasts, newspapers, journals and government publications as an ideal program that uplifted the economy of Mexico and satisfied the need for workers in the United States. The reality was much different. The Bracero Program was implemented to ensure accessible, cheap, controlled and disposable labor with little regard for the adverse and irreversible impact it had on Mexican families. During its 22 years no agricultural labor union succeeded in organizing or carrying out a strike — it was not until the end of the Bracero Program, which cut off of the supply of Mexican workers, that saw the emergence of the United Farm Workers. Still, after the Bracero Program ended formally in 1964 it was de facto maintained informally by growing streams of undocumented immigrant labor, leading to the present moment. Practically all of Mexico has been affected: fewer than 4% of Mexico's 2,443 municipalities have no migrants living and working in the U.S. Mexican-born immigrants in the U.S. today number nearly 12 million; over half of them are undocumented. In the U.S. the political vacuum left by the failure of the federal government to pass "comprehensive immigration reform" — given the irreconcilable conflict between those who sought "enforcement" solutions to the presence of millions of migrant workers (from their criminalization and deportation to fencing the southern border) to those who sought to forge paths to their eventual legalization and integration (denigrated as "amnesty" by opponents) — has been filled by hundreds of attempts by state and local governments to assume federal immigration control functions in a growing climate of fear and enforced opprobrium. Yet it is not an American problem but a worldwide issue of vast consequence that will grow in magnitude in the years to come. In looking to the future it is wise to reexamine the experience and lessons of the past — especially given Europe's parallel needs for manual laborers. These new braceros have been dubbed "outcasts of modernity," "irregular" labor migrants, "illegal aliens" — terms which describe an unequal master status affecting every aspect of the life of a subclass of people without rights. They are products of a globalized political and economic system that creates illegality by displacing people and then denying them equal rights to do what they have to do to survive: move to find work. As migration pressures continue to mount as a result of global inequality, so will fear of the foreigner — the xenophobia of what has been called a "society of contempt."
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This book is the third publication out of the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation (AEI) Lab that focuses exclusively on research that empirically investigates crossovers between arts, entrepreneurship and innovation. This volume does so specifically by using the lens of cultural economics. The chapters in this volume have been chosen not only because they have clear implications for policy and practice, but also because they contribute to theories of value creation in the cultural and creative industries. As a whole, this book addresses relationships between arts, entrepreneurship and innovation for workers, firms, and industry to bring clarity to how value is created in the arts. Previously published in Journal of Cultural Economics Volume 45, issue 4, December 2021 Chapters "Direct Memberships in Foreign Copyright Collecting Societies as an Entrepreneurial Opportunity for Music Publishers Needs, Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions" and "Do Museums Foster Innovation Through Engagement with the Cultural and Creative Industries?" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
In: Studies in Canadian military history
Fathers and sons of empire : domesticity, empire, and Canadian participation in the Anglo-Boer War / Amy Shaw -- Daughter in my mother's house, but mistress in my own : questioning Canada's imperial relationship through patriotic work, 1914-18 / Steve Marti -- Postal censorship and Canadian identity in the Second World War / William John Pratt -- Guardians of empire? British imperial officers in Canada, 1874-1914 / Eirik Brazier -- Francophone-Anglophone accommodation in practice : liberal foreign policy and national unity between the wars / Robert J. Talbot -- Claiming Canada's king and queen : Canadians and the 1939 royal tour / Claire L. Halstead -- For king or country? Quebec, the empire, and the First World War / Geoff Keelan -- Anti-fascist strikes and the patriotic shield? Canadian workers and the employment of "enemy aliens" in the Second World War / Mikhail Bjorge -- First Nations and the British connection during the Second World War / R. Scott Sheffield.
In: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
In: New horizons in the economics of sport
1. Sports economics and the sports industry: perspectives in economic history / John K. Wilson -- 2. The evolution of professional team sports / Richard Pomfret -- 3. The very short tenure of foreign players in Japanese professional baseball, 1951-2004 / Akihiko Kawaura and Sumner La Croix -- 4. An economic history of the Tour de France, 1903-2015 / Jean-François Mignot -- 5. The relationship between crowd attendance and competitive balance - evidence from the SANFL 1920-83 / John K. Wilson -- 6. Ground sharing between cricket and football in Australia / Lionel Frost, Margaret Lightbody, Abdel K. Halabi, Amanda Carter and Luc Borrowman -- 7. Workers' playtime: developing an explanatory typology of work-associated sport in Britain / Wray Vamplew -- 8. Ethnic inequality in professional sport: a question of discrimination in the National Hockey League draft / John Cranfield, Kris Inwood and J. Andrew Ross -- 9. Epilogue / Richard Pomfret.
In: International political economy of new regionalisms series
The business of cruise tourism in recent years has commanded news media attention especially on issues of environmental pollution, passenger safety and worker rights, yet consumer interest in cruise vacations has not been adversely affected by negative publicity and it continues to grow at an average of 8-9% per annum. This unique mode of business focusing on the production and consumption of pleasure at sea and on land offers us an unprecedented opportunity to analyze the manner in which ongoing economic restructuring processes to bring about free markets in goods, services and labour can and does involve both life on land and at sea. This interdisciplinary analysis elicits an examination of states' relationship to the maritime regulatory structure governing ship ownership, management and operations, cruise lines' business strategies, development of port communities to capture cruise-related revenue, changing leisure consumption patterns and meanings, and the employment of foreign migrant workers as seafarers.
When Daniel Serwer is asked what he does, he often replies, "I make peace. I put it in cans and ship it abroad." That pursuit of peace took him to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, and many places in between during Serwer's forty years in public service. His experiences at the sharp end of foreign policy have shaped his view of the United States' ability to protect itself from today's threats. In Righting the Balance, Serwer focuses on what should be done to protect the United States by offering alternatives that move away from an exclusive reliance on the military. Most fundamentally, Serwer stresses that civilians—diplomats, aid workers, UN officials, humanitarians, police trainers, lawyers, judges, entrepreneurs—can and should be involved in helping bring about peace. Righting the Balance offers a proposal to reform our civilian institutions for the twenty-first century so that they can help deliver real results in the search for peace even when confronting difficult conditions in faraway places. -- Provided by publisher.
In: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context Ser.
Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of liberalization and privatization on employment, labor relations, and working conditions. This book addresses this gap by illustrating the ways in which liberalization has contributed to increasing private and foreign ownership of public services, the decentralization of labor relations has amplified pressure on wages, and decreasing employment numbers and increasing workloads have improved productivity partly at the cost of service quality. Examining diverse public-service sectors including network industries, public transportation, and hospitals, and using international case studies, Privatization of Public Services covers a wide range of aspects of service provision, with particular emphasis on companies and workers. The result is a unique picture of the changes created by the liberalization processes in Europe.
In: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
In: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Ser v.1
Intro -- Instead of an introduction: Conceptual issues in analyzing intercultural communication -- I. Socio-'political contexts of intercultural communication -- Socio-political influences on cross-cultural encounters: Notes towards a framework for the analysis of context -- II. Socio-psychological perspectives of intercultural communication -- Attribution theory and intercultural communication -- Contact between German and Turkish adolescents: A case study -- III. Language choice -- Language choice in multilingual societies: A Singapore case study -- Why speak English? -- IV. Discourse processes -- Keeping the gate: How judgements are made in interethnic interviews -- Foreigner talk, code switching and the concept of trouble -- The man (or woman) in the middle: Discoursal aspects of non-professional interpreting -- V. Selected elements of discourse -- Multiple formulae. Aspects of Turkish migrant workers' German in intercultural communication -- The use of alors in French-Dutch negotiation: A case study -- What interactants do with non-talk across cultures -- About the Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.
In: IMISCOE Research
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Migrants and Markets: Perspectives from Economics and the Other Social Sciences / Kolb, Holger / Egbert, Henrik -- The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market / Lumpe, Christian -- Investigating the Economic Impact of Immigration on the Host Country / Feridun, Mete -- The 'Exit Option' of Labour Migration from East to West Germany / Windzio, Michael -- How Recent Amendments in German Immigration Law Affect Decisions / Fellmer, Simon -- Educational Selectivity and Labour Market Attainment of Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany in the 1990s / Kogan, Irena / Cohen, Yinon -- States as Clubs? / Kolb, Holger -- Chinese Student Migration in Europe / Shen, Wei -- Assessing Interdependencies between Sector Structures and Labour Migration / Hoesch, Kirsten -- Workers' Remittances and International Risk Sharing / Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij -- Skills and Remittances / Vadean, Florin-Petru -- The Impact of Migration on Foreign Trade in Bolivia / Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier Canavire / Ruud, Laura -- List of Contributors
I. Introduction -- II. Why is immigration important? -- The economy and demography of the 21st century -- Immigration and the identity of the country -- Foreign policy and national security -- III. What is wrong with US immigration policy and practice? -- Illegal immigration -- Temporary immigration -- The legal immigration selection system -- Filling a vacuum : state and local roles -- IV. An immigration policy and system for the 21st century -- The current debate -- New assumptions -- V. Attracting the immigrants the United States wants and needs -- Numbers and categories of immigration -- Flexibility in the immigration system : the Standing Commission on Immigration and Labor Markets -- VI. Enforcing the rules -- Employer verification -- Enforcement at US borders -- Immigration enforcement and national security -- Protecting workers -- Other enforcement -- VII. Immigrant integration -- Integration policy challenges -- The unauthorized population -- VIII. Strengthening institutional capacity -- Policy processes and interagency coordination -- Policy information -- Implementing new mandates -- IX. The regional context of immigration -- Economic development -- Migration management
In: International studies, Band 59, Heft 4, S. 364-381
ISSN: 0973-0702, 1939-9987
Regime change and opening of the market brought many opportunities as well as challenges to Romania. In terms of economy, growth stagnated, unemployment increased and a reverse movement of labour took place, from more productive manufacturing and services to agriculture. Need to reskill the workers to attract foreign direct investment was felt. Two multilateral institutions, World Bank and European Union (EU), stepped in. EU, through its Phare programme, played an important role in this reskilling by providing necessary funding and experience for the restructuring of vocational education and training. The article, based on both the primary and secondary sources, examines the role played by the multilateral institutions and argues that although Phare VET programme failed short of what it was intended in many areas because of some planning and operational shortcomings, it was quite a successful programme in terms of initiating curriculum development, introducing modularization, acquainting Romanian VET schools with modern equipment and pedagogy, and planted the seeds of social partnership in the field of VET.
In: https://repository.mruni.eu/handle/007/17568
Personnel policy is closely related to all areas of the organization's economic policy. On the one hand, decision-making in the field of personnel policy occurs in all complex functional subsystems: management of scientific and technical activities, production management, management of economic and foreign economic activities, personnel management of the organization. On the other hand, decisions in the field of personnel policy influence decisions in these complex functional subsystems. Since the task of personnel policy is to provide these functional subsystems of management and production of the organization with the necessary workers, it is obvious that decisions on recruitment, assessment, labour adaptation, incentives and motivation, training, certification, organization of labour and workplaces, the use of personnel, planning of promotion for service, management of the personnel reserve, management of innovations in personnel work, safety and health of employees, release of personnel, determination of the management style strongly influence decision-making in the field of economic policy of the organization, for example: in the areas of scientific and technical, production, economic activity, etc. [3].
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