Refugees, Recent Migrants and Employment: Challenging Barriers and Exploring Pathways

ISBN-13: 9780415988773 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 270 str.

McKay Sonia

Opis

This collection examines the problems faced by refugees and recent migrants in accessing employment as well as the policy frameworks that address the labour market rights of refugees and economic migrants.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.  Introduction.  Part I: Concepts and Methodologies  1. The Commonalities of Experience – Refugees and Recent Migrants  Sonia McKay  2. Employability and International Migration: Theoretical Perspectives  Allan M. Williams  3. Methodological Challenges in Researching the Working Experiences of Refugees and Recent Migrants  Sonia McKay and Paula Snyder  Part II: State Policies in Relation to Migrants and Refugees  4. Legal Frameworks Regulating the Employment of Refugees and Recent Migrants  Tessa Wright and Sonia McKay  5. The ‘Visibly Different’ Refugees in the Australian Labour Market: Settlement Policies and Employment Realities  Val Colic-Peisker  6. Migrants’ Paths in the Italian Labour Market and in the Migrant Regulatory Frameworks: Precariousness as a Constant Factor  Giovanni Mottura and Matteo Rinaldini  7. Citizenship and the Disciplining of (Im)migrant Workers in the United States  Nandita Sharma  8. Trade Unions, Migration and Racism in France  Steve Jefferys  Part III: Structural Discrimination and Strategies of Response  9. Barriers to the Labour Market: Refugees in Britain  Alice Bloch  10. Immigration and Labour Market Integration  Anne E. Green  11. Looking for Work – Exploring the Job Search Methods of Recent Refugees and Migrants  Sonia McKay  12. Employability Initiatives for Refugees in the EU: Building on Good Practice  Jenny Phillimore  13. The Future of Work for Recent Migrants and Refugees  Sonia McKay.  Contributors.  Selected Bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

Sonia McKay is a Comparative Discrimination Senior Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University