Eastern European Immigrants in the Spanish Crisis Novel: Crematorio by Rafael Chirbes and La carne by Rosa Montero

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
OLGA BEZHANOVA
Keyword(s):  
Eastern European ◽  
Rosa Montero ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
Eastern European Immigrants

Eastern European immigrants in the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Rosso
Keyword(s):  
Wage Gap ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Defining Moment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Before And After ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Eastern European Immigrants

PurposeThe paper aims at examining wage developments among Eastern European immigrants vs UK natives before and after the 2004 enlargement by measuring the extent to which inter-group wage differentials are explainable by these groups' changing attributes or by differences in returns to these characteristics. The enlargement has been a defining moment in British recent history and may have contributed to the unfolding of the events that have culminated in Brexit.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses a quantitative analysis of the immigrant–native wage gap across the entire distribution by applying the methodology known as the unconditional quantile regression. The analysis is performed before and after the 2004 European Union enlargement to Eastern countries. The data used is the British Labour Force Survey (UK LFS) from 1998 to 2008.FindingsAt all distribution points, a major role is played by occupational downgrading, which increases over time. The results further suggest that the decreased wage levels at the top of the distribution stem mainly from low transferability of skills acquired in the source country.Research limitations/implicationsThe UK LFS does not allow to follow individuals for a long period of time. For this reason, the main limitation of the study is the impossibility to measure for individual-level trajectories in their labour market integration and to account for return migration.Originality/valueThe analysis provides a detailed picture of the wage differences between Eastern European immigrants and natives along the whole wage distribution. The paper also identifies possible causes of the wage gap decrease for EU8 immigrant workers after 2008.

Eastern European Immigrants

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Marzanna A. Farnicka ◽  
Hanna Liberska ◽  
Iwona Grzegorzewska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern European ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
Eastern European Immigrants

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Deborah E. Kanter
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latino Studies ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
Catholic History ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
Eastern European Immigrants

This chapter explains the book’s origins. Visits to Chicago’s Mexican churches suggested a complex, multiethnic history that required learning about Chicago’s eastern European immigrants. Mexican immigrants and their children shared memories of the communities they encountered, reshaped, and made anew in Chicago. The ability to carry out Catholic devotions and to join parishes proved essential for most Mexicans and the communities that they built in the United States. The chapter considers relevant scholarship in Latino studies, which lacks attention to religion. US Catholic history, meanwhile, sorely needs more work on Latino communities and religious life. This book underlines religion’s critical role in urban adjustment and racial politics while recasting the Eurocentric assumptions of immigration history narratives.

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