MGSoG/UNU-MERIT Migration Seminar

International migration is a key feature of globalization. Yet there is no international migration regime that would support cooperation and governance at the global level. This makes for enduring and worldwide migration crises. This article identifies five distinct patterns of migration governance: (1) national/sovereign migration governance, according to which migration is an issue of state sovereignty; (2) global anti-migrant governance, which posits that cooperation and governance exist in practice, but either to control migration (global forced immobility governance) or to exploit migrant labour (global labour exploitation governance); (3) global rights-based migration governance, grounded in human rights and international norms; (4) managerial/developmental global migration governance, which aims at steering migration flows to optimize their utility; and (5) the free (non)-governance of migration, premised on ethical and utilitarian arguments in favour of free movement. The article discusses the implications of this typology for understanding current and future prospects of migration governance. 

Dr Nicholas R. Micinski, University of Maine 

The first migration seminar of this academic year will take place on Wednesday, September 29th. This seminar is offered jointly by MGSoG/UNU-MERIT in collaboration with MACIMIDE. In this seminar, Dr Toman Barsbai from the University of Bristol will present a study on ‘Reducing Mistreatment of Migrant Domestic Workers.’ The seminar will be held from 15:00 to 16:00 CET on Zoom. More information can be found here. 

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market-oriented immigration to Germany starting in May 2011.

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market-oriented immigration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrants stay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EU immigrants into “new arrivals” and “stayers” drawing on administrative social security data (2005-2017). This novel strategy allows us to separately identify their potentially opposing short- and medium-run effects on labour market outcomes in Germany. We find a transitory negative wage effect among natives, particularly at the bottom of the wage distribution; and a permanent positive effect on native full-time employment. 

Luisa Hammer , Freie Universität 

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market-oriented immigration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrants stay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EU immigrants into “new arrivals” and “stayers” drawing on administrative social security data (2005-2017).

Prof. Emmanuelle Auriol, Toulouse School of Economics 

“Controlling irregular migration: can a market for Temporary Foreign Work Permits help?” by Emmanuelle Auriol,  Alice Mesnard, and Tiffanie Perrault 

Immigration and Welfare State Development in the Long Run 

Dr. Alexandre Afonso, Leiden University 

While South-North migration tends to receive a lot of attention, forced migration within the Global South is seldom placed in the spotlight. This is despite the numbers: 85% of the world’s refugees find refuge in developing countries. In Africa, for instance, Uganda alone counts 1.4 million refugees in its territory. 

Migration and its relationship to culture and identity are among the difficult and intertwined topics on which many are reluctant to write on them for several reasons, the most important of which is that being objective in such research is beset by many difficulties and obstacles, the first of which is the difficulty separating the researcher himself from the context.