scholarly journals Envisaging post-Brexit immobility: Polish migrants’ care intentions concerning their elderly parents

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-494
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna ◽  
Weronika Kloc-Nowak ◽  
Anna Rosińska
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Care ◽  
Direct Care ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Depth Interviews

The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union will end the European Freedom of Movement and the privileged migration status of EU Citizens in the UK, which will likely affect ‘Brexit families’ and their transnational care arrangements. This is a case study of the biggest migrant group in the UK, namely Poles. Before the Brexit referendum, the first wave of the in-depth interviews identified several types of migrants’ intentions concerning elderly care for their parents who remained in Poland. The research approached intentions as discursive strategies: declarations of care commitment and statements provided to explain the absence of care intentions. The second wave was conducted after the UK had decided to exit the EU and new policies concerning EU citizens were being developed. Brexit’s influence on elderly care intentions is twofold. First, it brings higher uncertainty about future migration regulations and disorientates migrants about the possibilities regarding reunification with their parents in the UK. Second, Brexit appears in the interviews as a discursive construction to alleviate a migrant’s involvement in direct care provision, where they still deem it normatively appropriate to enact this cultural norm, but do not intend to in fact do so.

The Regional Consequences of the Japanese Second Wave: A Case Study

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Munday
Keyword(s):  
Local Economy ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Second Wave

Outline This paper examines the Japanese “second wave” sector in the local economy. Following an examination of the development of the second wave Japanese-owned supplier sector in the UK, the paper assesses the role of this sector in the local economy, and questions the policy rationale of attracting this particular type of inward investment.

scholarly journals Data-Driven Campaigning in the 2015 United Kingdom General Election

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Anstead
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Election ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews

While we know something of data-driven campaigning practices in the United States, we know much less about the role of data in other national contexts. The 2015 United Kingdom General Election offers an important case study of how such practices are evolving and being deployed in a different setting. This article draws on thirty-one in-depth interviews with political practitioners involved in the use of data for six major UK parties and electoral regulators. These interviews are employed to explore the perceived importance of data in contemporary British campaigns, to understand the data-based campaign techniques being used by UK parties, and to assess how data-driven practices are interacting with the preexisting institutional context of British politics. Going beyond the specifics of the UK case, this study raises questions about the comparative, theoretical, and normative dimensions of data-driven politics.

scholarly journals The Community Empowerment Act and localism under devolution in Scotland

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Charles Elliott ◽  
Violetta Fejszes ◽  
Mariola Tàrrega
Keyword(s):  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Local Councillors ◽  
Service Managers ◽  
Depth Interviews

PurposeIn Scotland, the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act represents a significant development towards greater localism in the way public services are designed and delivered in Scotland. This also represents a different approach to that adopted in the rest of the UK. The purpose of this paper is to explore the stakeholder perceptions of localism within a council ward.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is based on an in-depth exploratory case study of a single council ward in East Scotland. The fieldwork involved 61 in-depth interviews with multiple stakeholders including local councillors, public service managers and residents.FindingsThe findings highlight that, whilst the discourse of community empowerment represents policy divergence, there remain some significant structural and social barriers to meaningful community empowerment in practice. Finally, it is argued that there are three key factors to consider when developing community empowerment: a shared strategy, shared resources and shared accountability.Originality/valueThe research draws on extensive data from an in-depth case study to explore the realities of community empowerment within a single local authority ward. In doing so, it provides a rich contextual narrative of how the rhetoric of community empowerment is perceived within a council ward setting.

scholarly journals Migrant worker policies and national privilege: A UK case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-36
Author(s):  
Pier-Luc Dupont
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Seasonal Workers ◽  
Iris Marion Young ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Uk

After a long period of decline in the Global North, migrant worker policies are making a comeback on the agenda of the European Union and several of its member states. Inspired by Iris Marion Young and Nancy Fraser’s accounts of structural injustice, this article argues that such policies cannot be reconciled with the principle of equality between migrant and national workers enshrined in international legal instruments such as the Convention on Migrant Workers and the EU Seasonal Workers Directive. To make this point it draws on a selection of UK based empirical literature as well as primary data from a recent study on domestic workers admitted to the UK under temporary visas since 1998. Results suggest that such visas tend to push migrants’ working conditions downwards (exploitation); prevent them from changing employer, enforcing rights in court or mobilising in unions (domination); and ultimately exacerbate racial conflict and stereotyping (stigmatisation). Received: 10 February 2021Accepted: 14 May 2021

Transition Leadership in a Shifting Policy Environment

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Goldring ◽  
Robert Crowson ◽  
David Laird ◽  
Robert Berk
Keyword(s):  
Middle School Principals ◽  
School Change ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Unitary Status ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Elementary And Middle School ◽  
Depth Interviews

While transformational leadership has received much attention in recent years, the purpose of this article is to explicate the concept of transition leadership and its centrality to understanding policy implementation and school change through a case study of one district and its school principals, transitioning from court-ordered desegregation to unitary status. The article begins with a discussion of the concept of transition leadership and then examines school principals’ transitional leadership, that is, the process of helping to guide an organization’s response to a very significant change in citywide policy. Data reported in this article are based on a series of open-ended, in-depth interviews with a sample of the district’s elementary and middle school principals. Analyses suggest that transition leadership entails an unmaking of past policy while simultaneously remaking new policies and a heavy reliance on establishing a social fabric and sense of community. The conclusion calls for added attention to the balancing of continuity and change that may be necessary to the leadership of a policy transition.

scholarly journals Cross-state mobility of European naturalised third-country nationals

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sarpong ◽  
Mairi Maclean ◽  
Joseph Ebot Eyong
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
African Origin ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Primary Determinant ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Third Country Nationals

Drawing on a framework that integrates discursive practices and relationalism, we explore the relevance of relational ties for the cross-state mobility of naturalised third-country nationals (NTCNs) within the European Union, examining how relational ties facilitate their mobility to the UK. Our data derive from in-depth interviews with NTCNs of West African origin living and working in the UK. Emphasising how co-ethnic diaspora-based networks produce (un)planned cross-state mobility outcomes, we identify five stages in the mobility process: sensemaking of an imperfect structural incorporation in the naturalised country; co-ethnic diaspora conversations; squaring circles; reconnaissance visits; and taking the plunge. Our study reveals how shared collective identities are replicated in transnational networks to inform mobility decisions. Although West African NTCNs may lack the social and cultural capital needed to exploit opportunities in industrialised societies, relationally they are well endowed. The geographically extended relational capital they bring with them, and the access to opportunities this affords, we suggest, helps compensate for deficits in situated social capital and constitutes a primary determinant of success in cross-state mobility.

scholarly journals Grandmothers migrating, working and caring: Latvian women between survival and self-realisation

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell King ◽  
Aija Lulle
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThis paper describes the circumstances surrounding the migration of older Latvian women and their multi-dimensional lives as economic migrants and as distant carers and supporters of diverse family members who remain in Latvia. In post-Soviet Latvia, especially since the 2008 financial crisis and the austerity measures which took away hope for a decent old-age pension, older women migrate abroad in order to salvage their economic wellbeing and support their multi-generation families, which can run to four generations – their children and grandchildren plus, often, their elderly parents. Migration enables these women to maintain multidirectional flows of care and also to achieve economic and psychosocial independence. Therefore, care practices that reach four generations put the figure of the grandmother at the core of transnational care relations. Research evidence for this paper comprises 50 in-depth interviews with older Latvian migrant women aged from their mid-40s to their late 60s in the UK and elsewhere. The paper demonstrates the complexity and richness of these women’s working lives, built around enhanced economic wellbeing, multiple and transnational caring responsibilities, and a new sense of self-worth and empowerment.

scholarly journals Rewriting Universes: Post-Brexit Futures in Dave Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe Quartet

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Hadas Elber-Aviram
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
European Identity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
British Fiction ◽  
The Uk ◽  
English Nationalism ◽  
Hans Georg Gadamer

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a new strand of British fiction that grapples with the causes and consequences of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union. Building on Kristian Shaw’s pioneering work in this new literary field, this article shifts the focus from literary fiction to science fiction. It analyzes Dave Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe quartet—comprised of Europe in Autumn (pub. 2014), Europe at Midnight (pub. 2015), Europe in Winter (pub. 2016) and Europe at Dawn (pub. 2018)—as a case study in British science fiction’s response to the recent nationalistic turn in the UK. This article draws on a bespoke interview with Hutchinson and frames its discussion within a range of theories and studies, especially the European hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. It argues that the Fractured Europe quartet deploys science fiction topoi to interrogate and criticize the recent rise of English nationalism. It further contends that the Fractured Europe books respond to this nationalistic turn by setting forth an estranged vision of Europe and offering alternative modalities of European identity through the mediation of photography and the redemptive possibilities of cooking.

Knowledge Exchange between Universities and the Creative Industries in the UK

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morag Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Modes Of Engagement ◽  
Depth Interviews

The importance to the economy of knowledge exchange between universities and industry has long been recognized, and in the UK a number of initiatives are in place to support such activities. These initiatives have helped to stimulate engagement between universities and the creative industries, a sector of increasing importance to the UK economy. However, in contrast to other sectors, such as science and engineering, little has been published about the ways universities and the creative economy interact. In this paper a study designed to determine the characteristics of the modes of engagement which best support knowledge exchange between GCU and partners in the creative industries is described. A qualitative case study approach is employed, in which data are gathered through in-depth interviews with key stakeholders. The literature suggests that the culture of an institution, based on mission and history, and the communication networks which are in place to support engagement are likely to be important factors. The issues identified in the literature are explored in this study and interview responses are used to determine the practices that support and encourage successful engagement.

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