Introduction: Feedback in Migration Processes

Bakewell, Oliver; Kubal, Agnieszka; Pereira, Sónia

doi:10.1057/9781137539212_1

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“…Debt free departure: The idea of debt-free departure is also an incentive as the total cost of the departure process is being taken care through the payment received from the prospective sponsor. Previous experience: FMDW's choices and consequences of their past decisions and behaviour (Bakewell et al, 2016) coupled with the previous experience of their occupation also an important factor in the decision making process. Familiarity with destination: Most of the circular migrant FMDWs have developed a bi-localized (Orsella, 2008) identity.…”

Section: Upfront Paymentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Personal networks: Most of the return migrants keep alive their informal personal networks (Horinuki, 2020; Bakewell et al, 2016), through social media and personal communication media such as Face Book, IMO and WhatsUp groups. In the GCC, migrant workers create subaltern networks while constantly checking the forms of networking that are permitted within the strict controls of the host governments.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…If the government of Sri Lanka wants to effectively use the remittance increase model, then they have either to expand the unskilled-high earning sector and skilled workers by a minimum of fifty per cent to substitute the FMDW earnings. The GCC recruiters are of the view that Sri Lanka cannot provide the sufficient numbers and the skill levels of male workers that they seek (7). The Arabization and 'nationalization' processes of the destination countries in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic have also cut down both skilled/unskilled male recruitments, but interestingly, this has not affected the domestic sector.…”

Section: Departures Of Fmdwsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sri Lanka – GCC temporary economic migration corridor and the circular migration of Female Domestic Workers

Wickramarachchi¹

2020

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Sri Lanka-GCC temporary economic migration corridor which boomed in the early 1980s quickly became feminized with increasing number of women moving back and forth as Female Domestic Workers. The recruitment process of Female Domestic Workers in Sri Lanka presents several peculiarities. Apart from well-established push and pull factors of economics, there are a number of mooring factors which forms the migration decision especially in the Female Domestic Workers who follows a circular migration pattern. A survey conducted in 2019 in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia sheds some light on these mooring factors. It provides that monetary gain is the main push and pull factor and factors such as debt free departure, psychosocial assurance through upfront payments, familiarity with destination, personal networks, escapism, socio-cultural traits and negative stereotyping are operate as mooring factors in migration decision. The study underlines that some of the established ideas on female migrant domestic workers cannot be applied in toto to circular Female Domestic Migrant Workers.

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2020

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“…17 Here, a migration industry, made of hospitality structures, money transfer operators, travel agencies and forged identity papers brokers, develops. 18 Recent works on displacement economies 19 and refugee economies 20 have shown how social capital and access to financial resources allow some groups of migrants not only to better cope with volatility, but also to turn crises into sources of opportunities. There are thus processes of social stratification at work in migrant networks, which, although understudied, are key to understand mobility patterns and decision making.…”

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Shelter from the storm: Somali migrant networks in Uganda between international business and regional geopolitics

Iazzolino

Hersi

2019

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the Somali population in Uganda. This spike reflects a new development in the history of Somali mobility in East Africa, shaped both by crises and by opportunities, from which sophisticated transnational and translocal strategies have emerged. In this article, we draw attention to these strategies to understand continuity and change in Somali migrant networks in Kampala, highlighting the dual significance of Uganda both as a safe haven and as a stepping stone for upward social mobility and business expansion across the region and beyond. By describing the entanglement of needs and aspirations driving the mobility and livelihood strategies of Somali refugees, students and entrepreneurs, we argue that the historical trajectory of the Somali community in Uganda over the past 30 years has been shaped by the interaction of pre-existing linkages and an institutional framework defined by a mix of donor-oriented policies and presidential patronage. We identify three moments in which Museveni's ability to 'manage donors' perceptions' has had implications for the economic, demographic and political configuration of the Somali diaspora in Uganda: the economic liberalisation of the 1990s; the 2006 Refugee Act; and the 2007 deployment of UPDF in Uganda.

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“…Moreover, based on countries’ migration histories and trends in international migration, migration corridors can be characterised by specific, historically determined, relations, for example, colonial relationships, labour migration connections, or similarities because of geographical proximity (Bakewell et al, 2016; De Haas, 2010). In the context of football migration, and following Taylor (2006: 30), ‘much of the movement of footballers across national and continental borders .…”

Section: Migration Corridorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The diversification of national football teams: Using the idea of migration corridors to explore the underlying structures of nationality changes amongst foreign-born players at the football World Cup

Campenhout

Sterkenburg

2019

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The inclusion of foreign-born sportspeople in national sports teams has become increasingly common. At the same time, the assumed increase in diversity within national football teams has turned into a major subject of (inter)national controversy and debate. This applies, in particular, to the football World Cup, as the assumed increase in foreign-born players in national football teams detracts from the (homogeneous) nation-state basis of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) international football competitions. However, the actual dynamics and complexities of the presence of foreign-born players in national football teams within this context have remained under-researched. In this paper, we use the idea of ‘migration corridors’ to examine the underlying structures that contribute to the diversification of national football teams, in particular during the World Cup. We do so from both an immigration and emigration perspective. By connecting our foreign-born player data to three types of migration corridors, we discuss the bidirectionality of player movements and nationality choices. Our outcomes indicate that the selection of foreign-born footballers within national football teams in the World Cup can mainly be considered as an echo and/or reversal of preceding migration flows between pairs of countries, indicating that historically embedded migration corridors sustain or are rediscovered in this process.

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Introduction: Feedback in Migration Processes

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

Sri Lanka – GCC temporary economic migration corridor and the circular migration of Female Domestic Workers

Sri Lanka – GCC temporary economic migration corridor and the circular migration of Female Domestic Workers

Shelter from the storm: Somali migrant networks in Uganda between international business and regional geopolitics

The diversification of national football teams: Using the idea of migration corridors to explore the underlying structures of nationality changes amongst foreign-born players at the football World Cup

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