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Migrants
Globalisation and transnational migrant workers in the Dublin labour market.
The Research
The main goal of the project, entitled 'Globalisation and transnational migrant workers in the Dublin labour market', is to generate findings about migrant workers in the Irish software industry. This is a crucial issue area for Ireland, given its change from a country of emigration to immigration, and the importance of the software sector for the economy's performance.
Through our literature review it is clear that the nexus of four inter-linked issues of migration, software, career paths of the highly skilled and citizenship are strongly connected with each other. However, the literature often isolates some of these rather than adopting a more holistic approach. For example, if, as many argue, career paths of the highly skilled are boundaryless, and that these workers are rarely in one country for long, then this has implications for the organisation of work at the company level and the concept of citizenship at the national level.
Accordingly, the approach to the research is also holistic. Ian Bruff is presently interviewing a range of people, from government agency representatives to human resource managers of HR firms, and from experts in one or more aspects of the nexus to the migrant workers themselves. It is expected that at least two articles will be generated by the project by the end of 2005.
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Partners
The project lapsed for several months owing to the departure of firstly Lidia Greco and then Gerry Boucher, and it is as yet unclear whether the project will re-engage with the University of Bari and the Centre for Ethnic Research and Nationalism at the University of Helsinki.
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Publications and Reports
A working paper was finished in July 2005, outlining the theoretical basis for the research design. This, along with the data generated by the interviews, formed the basis for two recent conference presentations which are available for download.
Ian Bruff and James Wickham (2005) 'The implications of new forms of immigration for government
socio-economic strategies and welfare state design: The case of Ireland'. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Network for European Social Policy Analysis
conference, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 22-24 September 2005
(PDF, 189KB, ESPAnet2005.pdf)
Ian Bruff and James Wickham (2005) 'The implications of new forms of immigration for the organisation of work, citizenship, and government
socio-economic strategies: Ireland close up', Paper presented at the 7th European Sociological Association conference, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, 9-12 September 2005
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News
Ian Bruff has been asked to comment on a draft report by the SMIAM (Skilled Migrants Integration Assessment Model) project, which is located within the framework of the INTI programme. It aims to facilitate the integration of non-EU citizens in EU member states (http://www.smiam.org/).
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ERC Team
ERC researchers working on Migrants are:
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