If homes can be seen as a microcosm that interfaces with wider political, social and economic (national and transnational) processes, in relation to migration homes are to be considered a crucial site of 'everyday bordering', the separation between migrants and non-migrants which takes place in everyday encounters. In this light, this chapter elaborates on the fact that for migrants the homes in which they live in the host-country often do not correspond to the homes where they live or used to live with their family. In particular, it discusses the fact that migrants, especially women, often live together with the family of their employers for whom they work as nannies, cleaners or caregivers, and thus such homes are both their accommodation and their workplace.
Paid reproductive work, especially in the case of cleaning and home-care for elderly people, is an important sector for foreign women in Italy. For this reason, since the beginning of the current economic crisis, scholars have wondered about the impact of the recession on migrant domestic workers. They have looked particularly at possible competition with Italian women entering the sector for lack of better alternatives. Our paper takes this discussion a step further by assessing the overall changes affecting migrant women in the Italian labour market, 2007-2012. We will look at how their position has been transformed, by taking both an ethnic perspective, in relation to Italian women, and a gender perspective, in relation to migrant men. By way of a conclusion, the argument will be made that there is a substantial lack of competition between Italian and foreign women in the care and domestic sector due to differences in their earnings, hours of work and activities.
This note aims at depicting the conditions of migrants in the labour market of EU15 countries and comparing their situation with that of non-migrants. By adopting a multivariate approach, our analysis finds that labour market insertion's modalities largely differ according to migrant categories, as defined by the intersection of country of birth, country of citizenship, sex and country of residence.
Improving EU and US Immigration Systems' Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges: Learning from experiences ; This paper analyzes emigration from the United States to the European Union. Few empirical studies have been conducted on this topic and theorization on this type of migration is essentially inexistent. In this paper, we tried to fill this gap and to show how migration between advanced economies is crucial in understanding different and under-researched aspects of international migration. Specifically, the magnitude of migration from the US appears "too large" to be explained through classic migration theories but "too small" when compared to the overall movements originating in other developed countries. As to the main results, the lower migration propensity showed by the US born population compared with that of the population born in other advanced economies seems to be related to its historical evolution: the US has never had mass emigration and US colonialism was historically less relevant, at least compared to Europe. Geographical and cultural proximity assume instead a major relevance in explaining US emigration patterns and magnitude. Focusing on the characteristics of US emigration, we found, that the interplay of various specific forces have created over time a composite profile of this population, which – being characterized by specific and various motivations – looks, generally speaking, heterogeneous. More specifically, the profile of US emigrants in the European Union Member States is, we have found, essentially linked to family formation and to economic integration between EU and US society. We conclude that migration between advanced economies is relevant internationally, but largely ignored at a scientific level. The more interactions between economies are destined to augment, the more an understanding of their consequences for origin and destination countries becomes a priority. ; This report was produced for Pilot Projects on Trans-atlantic Methods for Handling Global Challenges in the European Union and the United States, a project funded by the European Commission. The project is conducted jointly by the European University Institute (EUI) and the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.
INTERACT - Researching Third Country Nationals' Integration as a Three-way Process - Immigrants, Countries of Emigration and Countries of Immigration as Actors of Integration ; The fulltext pdfs are available upon request to migration@EUI.eu during the embargo period (until 6 October 2019) ; In this study we examine the integration of immigrants born in selected non-EU countries (China, Ecuador, India, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine) living in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The units of analysis are the so-called migrant corridors, i.e. a migrant community x in a destination country y. A multidimensional perspective is adopted by focusing on their integration in the following three domains: labour market, education and access to citizenship. Our aim is to compare the level of integration of migrant corridors by dimension. Drawing on relevant micro-datasets, a set of basic integration indicators were identified for each dimension. Using the Principal Component Analysis technique, these basic indicators were synthesized into composite indicators, thus allowing for ranking migrant corridors both in terms of their absolute performances and compared with native outcomes. ; INTERACT is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union
INTERACT - Researching Third Country Nationals? Integration as a Three-way Process - Immigrants, Countries of Emigration and Countries of Immigration as Actors of Integration ; The fulltext pdfs are available upon request to migration@EUI.eu during the embargo period (until 6 October 2019) ; The present report looks at the integration of Moroccan and Ukrainian migrants living in Italy. Beyond being quantitatively important in the Italian context, these two groups differ largely in terms of demographic characteristics, migration patterns and insertion modalities but also with respect to emigration and diaspora policies. Two core aspects of integration are emphasized in this report. First, integration processes are evaluated from a multi-dimensional perspective. Second, the role played by origin (and destination) country determinants in facilitating or constraining integration is investigated. Origin determinants include the ties between migrants and their country of origin, country-fixed characteristics, diaspora and emigration policies at origin and the engagement and role of non-state organisations. To this aim, three sets of data have been employed, making this report largely multidisciplinary: an in-depth analytical description of the legal and political frameworks at origin and destination, a quantitative analysis and an explorative qualitative survey. This report finds evidence that integration levels, determinants and, specifically, the role of origin factors vary largely across dimensions. In the labour market, both Moroccan and Ukrainian migrants living in Italy show high levels of integration. These extremely positive performances seem due more to destination than origin factors - namely Italy's labour market specificities and migration history. Conversely, origin determinants presumably have a lower impact. In addition, the role played by NGOs appears relevant in helping migrants find employment - not good employment or well-remunerated employment but just employment. In the education dimension, things differ. At an international level, Ukrainians living in Italy show good levels of integration once controlled for natives' performance. Origin determinants - in terms of conditions at home - thus seem to prevail here. Not surprisingly, the degree of integration in the 'access to citizenship' dimension is connected to the degree of openness/restrictiveness of host citizenship laws and, accordingly, to the length of presence in the country. Our results confirm that Italy is still one of the countries where getting citizenship is one of the main constraints for migrants in both recent communities (Ukrainians) and well-established ones (Moroccans). Finally, cultural integration is a main obstacle to Moroccan integration, while Ukrainians are also found to be in a difficult position with respect to social and political integration. In terms of ties between migrants and their country of origin, a micro-level analysis confirms a very clear pattern: the lower the (cultural, economic, political, social) ties, the higher the level of integration. This applies - to a different extent - to all dimensions and types of ties. ; INTERACT is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union.
Written on the basis of CARIM database and publications ; Ecrit à partir de la base de données du CARIM et de ses publications ; Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) ; CARIM is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union ; CARIM est co-financé par l'Institut Universitaire Européen et l'Union Européenne
Written on the basis of CARIM database and publications ; Ecrit à partir de la base de données du CARIM et de ses publications ; Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) ; CARIM is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union ; CARIM est co-financé par l'Institut Universitaire Européen et l'Union Européenne
Written on the basis of CARIM database and publications ; Ecrit à partir de la base de données du CARIM et de ses publications ; Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) ; CARIM is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union ; CARIM est co-financé par l'Institut Universitaire Européen et l'Union Européenne
Written on the basis of CARIM database and publications ; Ecrit à partir de la base de données du CARIM et de ses publications ; Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) ; CARIM is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union ; CARIM est co-financé par l'Institut Universitaire Européen et l'Union Européenne
Written on the basis of CARIM database and publications ; Ecrit à partir de la base de données du CARIM et de ses publications ; Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) ; CARIM is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union ; CARIM est co-financé par l'Institut Universitaire Européen et l'Union Européenne
Written on the basis of CARIM database and publications ; Ecrit à partir de la base de données du CARIM et de ses publications ; Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) ; CARIM is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union ; CARIM est co-financé par l'Institut Universitaire Européen et l'Union Européenne
Written on the basis of CARIM database and publications ; Ecrit à partir de la base de données du CARIM et de ses publications ; Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) ; CARIM is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union ; CARIM est co-financé par l'Institut Universitaire Européen et l'Union Européenne
Written on the basis of CARIM database and publications ; Ecrit à partir de la base de données du CARIM et de ses publications ; Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) ; CARIM is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union ; CARIM est co-financé par l'Institut Universitaire Européen et l'Union Européenne
