New communityPub Date : 1997-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976607
P. Martín
{"title":"Guest worker policies for the twenty-first century.","authors":"P. Martín","doi":"10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976607","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Guest or foreign worker programs exist to add workers to a country's labor force without adding permanent residents to the population. The rationale for guest worker programs has changed, however, from coping with macro or sectoral labor shortages in the 1950s and 1960s, to filling specific job vacancies in the 1990s. This paper reviews the rationale for and evolution of macro guest worker programs in Germany and the US during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the micro guest worker programs developed over the past decade. A widening gap exists between the growing need for detailed and credible labor market information to administer the new micro programs when governments are reducing their presence in labor markets. It may therefore soon become difficult to avoid the traditional problems associated with guest worker programs, such as the distortion of economic sectors which become dependent upon foreign workers, and the settlement of some foreign workers.\u0000","PeriodicalId":83816,"journal":{"name":"New community","volume":"14 1","pages":"483-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976607","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59902136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New communityPub Date : 1997-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976605
W. Seifert
{"title":"Admission policy, patterns of migration and integration: the German and French case compared.","authors":"W. Seifert","doi":"10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976605","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Germany and France differ in their concepts of citizenship and nationality. Those differences have led to different patterns of immigration to the two countries and to different policies on the integration of migrants. The French notion of equality has led to the development and implementation of a migration policy designed to assimilate migrants to mainstream French culture. Citizenship is therefore granted more on the principle of jus soli, with differences in status groups not held to exist. However, Germany's interpretation of citizenship has been based upon descent, and immigration policy has focused upon groups which have German ethnic backgrounds. During the period of economic demand for foreign labor, Germany did not plan to have permanent immigration and considered the employment of foreign labor to be a temporary measure. Yet even when the arrival of immigrants with no German ethnic background is accepted, there are still major differences in the integration of different ethnic groups. While ethnic Germans are privileged because they have the right to citizenship upon arrival to German, and are also entitled to various integration measures, other immigrant groups may often not be granted citizenship, even in the case of second or third generations.\u0000","PeriodicalId":83816,"journal":{"name":"New community","volume":"23 4 1","pages":"441-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976605","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59902070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New communityPub Date : 1997-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976606
K. Groenendijk
{"title":"Regulating ethnic immigration: the case of the Aussiedler.","authors":"K. Groenendijk","doi":"10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976606","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In recent decades, the migration of population from east to west in Europe has mainly been ethnically-based, with migrants having or claiming a common culture, religion, or language, or a common ancestry with the population of a western country moving to that motherland. The largest population movement of this kind has been ethnic Germans from Poland, Romania, and the former Soviet Union migrating to Germany. However, during the late 1980s, the rapid increase in Germany in the number of asylum seekers, family members of migrant workers, Germans from the German Democratic Republic, and ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe led the German government to introduce a series of measures to restrict immigration. This paper describes the efforts of successive German governments to regulate and control the immigration of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe. The effect of those instruments upon the migration movement and the relative effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the policy instruments are explored through comparing migration from Poland, Romania, and the former USSR. Hypotheses upon the limits of governmental efforts to control migration and some typical characteristics of ethnic migration influencing policy-making are discussed.\u0000","PeriodicalId":83816,"journal":{"name":"New community","volume":"23 4 1","pages":"461-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976606","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59902119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New communityPub Date : 1997-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976608
G. Brochmann
{"title":"Bosnian refugees in the Scandinavian countries: a comparative perspective on immigration control in the 1990s.","authors":"G. Brochmann","doi":"10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976608","url":null,"abstract":"\"In all the Nordic countries, a change of direction in refugee policy has taken place in recent years, primarily for similar reasons to those in the rest of Western Europe. These changes have been sparked off by the situation in the former Yugoslavia, but should also be seen as reflecting something more.... The prospect of a continuing influx of refugee groups, and a corresponding strain on national budgets, creates a backdrop for new thinking in all countries. An interesting aspect of this issue in the Nordic region is that, despite being a fairly homogeneous area, these countries have chosen radically different points of departure for their approach to refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina. The article identifies these different national strategies and analyses the subsequent tendency towards convergence of policies that has taken place along the way.\"","PeriodicalId":83816,"journal":{"name":"New community","volume":"23 4 1","pages":"495-510"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976608","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59902175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New communityPub Date : 1997-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976609
Michael Blos, Peter A. Fischer, T. Straubhaar
{"title":"The impact of migration policy on the labour market performance of migrants: a comparative case study.","authors":"Michael Blos, Peter A. Fischer, T. Straubhaar","doi":"10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976609","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Some anticipated differences were found between the labor market performance of migrant groups in Sweden and Switzerland. However, contrary to the results of studies in other countries, the authors' data suggest that migration policy has had only a small impact upon migrants' labor market performance. In their examination of the impact of migration policy upon the labor market performance of migrants in Sweden and Switzerland, the authors focus upon the income and employment of groups of foreign residents relative to natives and explore sociodemographic characteristics and educational policies. The Swedish and Swiss migration policies differ in their approaches to achieving desired ends. Swiss policy has been economically oriented, considering migrants as merely temporary guests and lacking any explicit integration policy. In contrast, however, Swedish policy stressed humanitarian and political aspects, rejecting migration for economic labor reasons and striving for the long-term integration of foreigners admitted to the country. Relative income performance differences between migrant groups and natives in the two countries were small in 1991, and migrants' performance in the two labor markets appears to have been determined especially by the interplay of microeconomic characteristics of migrants and the microeconomic state and transition of the host country's economy.\u0000","PeriodicalId":83816,"journal":{"name":"New community","volume":"23 4 1","pages":"511-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976609","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59902229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New communityPub Date : 1997-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976610
U. Wenzel, M. Bos
{"title":"Immigration and the modern welfare state: the case of USA and Germany.","authors":"U. Wenzel, M. Bos","doi":"10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976610","url":null,"abstract":"\"This article presents a comparison of the inclusion of migrants into welfare programmes in the USA and in Germany. In the first part of the article a brief overview is provided of immigration categories in both countries in order to demonstrate the relevance of these administrative regulations for the opportunities of individual migrants to participate in the welfare system. In the second part we elaborate in more detail on how welfare programmes have developed as basic mechanisms to include or exclude migrants. Our findings illustrate an increasing differentiation of membership statuses parallel to the expansion of modern welfare systems. In both the USA and Germany, the territorial principle and participation in the labour market are of prime importance to the access to social rights. In both cases all migrants may profit from contributory programmes.\"","PeriodicalId":83816,"journal":{"name":"New community","volume":"23 4 1","pages":"537-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976610","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59902243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New communityPub Date : 1997-01-01DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976578
I. Molnar
{"title":"The sociology of migration from the former Yugoslavia.","authors":"I. Molnar","doi":"10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976578","url":null,"abstract":"This is a general review of migration, including both international and internal migration, in the former Yugoslavia before its breakdown into constituent countries in the early 1990s. The author examines such topics as labor migration, the distribution of migrants from Yugoslavia in host countries, the characteristics of migrants from Serbia, the assimilation of immigrants, the economic effects of emigration on places of origin, and return migration.","PeriodicalId":83816,"journal":{"name":"New community","volume":"23 1 1","pages":"109-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976578","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59901743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New communityPub Date : 1997-01-01DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976579
YM Chan, Christine Chan
{"title":"The Chinese in Britain.","authors":"YM Chan, Christine Chan","doi":"10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976579","url":null,"abstract":"\"This research note offers a brief historical perspective on the relationship between Hong Kong and Britain and describes the demographic profile of the Chinese community in Britain...[using] information obtained from the 1991 [UK] Census.... The data analysis shows that the Chinese population is widely dispersed and increasing rapidly, and is characterised by a high child-bearing capacity and a low rate of unemployment.\"","PeriodicalId":83816,"journal":{"name":"New community","volume":"23 1 1","pages":"123-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976579","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59901758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New communityPub Date : 1996-10-01DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1996.9976561
S. Sassen
{"title":"New employment regimes in cities: the impact on immigrant workers.","authors":"S. Sassen","doi":"10.1080/1369183X.1996.9976561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.1996.9976561","url":null,"abstract":"\"The major cities of highly developed countries exhibit marked changes in job supplies and employment relations. It is frequently held that post-industrial societies require plentiful supplies of highly educated workers and will hold no openings for the low skilled. It is this latter category of jobs that immigrants have tended to fill in recent decades. Empirical data on major cities in advanced economies negate this supposition, revealing that there is an ongoing demand for immigrant labour and a continuing stream of employment opportunities which do not require high educational levels and which pay low wages. The article examines whether this job supply is merely a residue, to some extent augmented by the supply of low wage workers themselves, or whether it is a feature of a reconfigured labour market in advanced urban economies, i.e. a systemic development.\"","PeriodicalId":83816,"journal":{"name":"New community","volume":"22 4 1","pages":"579-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1369183X.1996.9976561","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59901282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New communityPub Date : 1996-04-01DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1996.9976540
F. E. Kulluk
{"title":"The political discourse on quota immigration in Germany.","authors":"F. E. Kulluk","doi":"10.1080/1369183X.1996.9976540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.1996.9976540","url":null,"abstract":"\"Since the late 1980s many professional politicians and social interest associations/organisations have been arguing for the creation of an immigration law which would allow and organise limited and legal new immigration to Germany on the basis of annual or two-three year quotas. This political discourse on immigration policy contains proposals which go beyond pure self-interest and aim to contribute to the stated goals of ¿citizenship in Europe' and ¿open, transnational citizenship'. This position is so far only held by a minority. More dominant are the proponents of quota immigration policy and of political asylum and civil refugee policies, directly or indirectly exclusionist in relation to ¿old' and/or ¿new' immigrants and refugees. This article presents the argument for rethinking and restructuring the notion of quota immigration rather than rejecting it altogether.\"","PeriodicalId":83816,"journal":{"name":"New community","volume":"22 2 1","pages":"301-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1369183X.1996.9976540","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59901266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}