Alec Vuijlsteke’s Post

Why does migration research have little impact on policy? 🧐 Migration researchers, policy makers, advocates, do read this article published in the International Migration Review. We need to keep this conversation going. Let us know your thoughts!

Some good thoughts about migration and its effects in economic growth #migration #economics #tomacontroldetudinero #hastaqueeldineronossepare “Boost that demand, especially for younger workers, and you boost productivity and growth, but you also boost migration. If we want migration levels below, say 100,000 a year, the only surefire way of guaranteeing that is to blow up the economy, kill demand for labour, increase unemployment, lower productivity growth and put up walls on the border.”

Why has #migration #research so little #impact? Natalie Welfens and I examine the dynamics of knowledge production and knowledge use in migration policy and migration studies in our new article. Check it out and engage! ➡ https://lnkd.in/dGRhpGaE

Call for Papers for Migrademo Project's final workshop: "We invite papers with novel approaches and/or empirical research on the political impact of migration in countries of origin including (but not limited to) the following themes: - The impact of return migration, as well as financial and social remittances, on political attitudes and behaviour in countries of origin. - The impact of migration on local politics and governance in countries of origin. - Migration, political (re)socialization, and engagement with politics in the country of origin (including the emigrant vote). - Drivers and obstacles to migration-related processes of diffusion in countries of origin." 🗓️ November 21-22, 2024, in Barcelona ⏰ Abstract submission deadline: June 26, 2024. 📍 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gb2rgXaT European Research Council (ERC) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona #Horizon2020 #MigrationStudies #Democracy #CfP

📢 Just published in PSRM: My first single-authored article examines the effects of the announcement of the European–Turkey statement on closing the Balkan route during the 2015/16 European refugee crisis. I test the announcement's immediate and enduring impact on German public sentiment, asylum attitudes, and policy preferences. The study reveals the significant, albeit temporary, influence of political communication on public opinion, enhancing our understanding of communication effects in real-world scenarios and introducing a methodologically sound approach for future research. Available in Open Access! #PoliticalScience #CommunicationEffects #RefugeeCrisis #PublicOpinion #OpenAccess

A Major Achievement for Members of the Croatian Sociological Association (CSA)! Prof. Dr. Karin Doolan and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Valerija Barada from the University of Zadar, in collaboration with Dr. Jaka Primorac (Institute for Development and International Relations IRMO) and Dr. Jelena Puđak (Ivo Pilar Institute), have co-authored an original scientific paper titled "The ‘dark side’ of organizational resilience: The civil society sector in Croatia." The paper was published in the prestigious Journal of Civil Society by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. This significant research is the result of the project IP-CORONA-2020-04-2044 "Resilience of Croatian Society due to the COVID-19 Pandemic - SOCRES" (2020 - 2022, led by Dr. Branko Ančić, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb). The paper provides a detailed analysis of the resilience of civil society organizations in the fields of contemporary art and culture, women's rights, ecology, youth, and education during the COVID-19 pandemic. #Sociology #CivilSociety #Research #COVID19 #Routledge #CSA #WomensRights #Ecology #Youth #Education Learn more about the paper here ⬇

"⚡Newsflash⚡ Find us in the media! Startling new research for @probonoeconomics @RefugeeSurvival into the £4.3m cost to the Home Office of wrong decisions on asylum applications - affecting almost 4,000 asylum seekers each year 👉 https://lnkd.in/ecJZ7PPv The Independent Article: https://lnkd.in/d8ESpscg. #refugees #independent #mentalhealth #survival #war #violence #economy #ethics #ai #statistics #artificialintelligence #datascience #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #consultancy"

Many important insights also for business/management/organizational scholars, as our field is gradually making its way to joining multidisciplinary migration studies. And, of course, the question of #impact!

My new article on the value of Moldovan transnational parcel-sending practices is available online, published by Economy and Sociology!

Abstract Although national self-determination emerged as an international legal norm with the formation of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, its implementation continued to be resisted by European colonial powers for decades after. This raises the following question: how was European colonial rule challenged at the UN? This article contends that existing accounts of decolonization have not fully theorized the processes through which colonialism was contested at the UN. It fills this gap by demonstrating the critical role of argumentation, narrativization and discursive struggles through deploying the crucial “Question of Algeria” that was debated between 1955 and 1961. It demonstrates that the Algerian question yielded two opposing discourses—an anticolonial internationalist discourse and a metrocentric civilizational discourse—with both drawing on distinct ideas about human rights and development. The analysis explains the eventual triumph of the former as states increasingly rallied behind the Algerian cause.