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Voor mensen bij het COA en beleidsmedewerkers op Justitie en bij Sociale Zaken The current EPRS- analysis “Work and social welfare for asylum-seekers and refugees: selected EU Member States” looks at the conditions for access to work and to social welfare for asylum-seekers and beneficiaries of international protection in eight EU Member States: Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden. Analysis shows that asylum-seekers are granted the right to work in six months after the registration of the asylum application in the Netherlands, Poland and Spain, three months in Bulgaria and Germany, two months in Italy, and immediately upon registration of the asylum application in Sweden The level of benefits provided to asylum-seekers also differs from Member State to Member State. Subsistence allowances depend on whether the asylum-seeker is in a reception centre, whether that reception centre provides food or not, etc. For instance, the month...

About the Book The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies offers a comprehensive and unique study of the multi-disciplinary field of international migration and asylum studies. Utilising contemporary information and analysis, this innovative Handbook provides an in depth examination of legal migration management in the labour market and its affect upon families in relation to wider issues of migrant integration and citizenship. With a comprehensive collection of essays written by leading contributors from a broad range of disciplines including sociology of migration, human geography, legal studies, political sciences and economics, the Handbook is a truly multi-disciplinary book approaching the critical questions of: Migration and the labour market Integration and citizenship Migration, families and welfare Irregular migration smuggling and trafficking in human beings asylum and forced migration. Organised into short thematic and geographica...

Research Officer, Mobile Welfare Project - International Migration Institute (IMI) Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford Grade 7: £30,434 - £37,394 p.a. The International Migration Institute seeks to recruit a Research Officer to work on a research project on ‘Mobile Welfare’. The Mobile Welfare project is funded by NORFACE and is coordinated by the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) in the Netherlands. Working in collaboration with the IMI team and other project partners, the postholder will coordinate the ‘work package’ related to the way how perceptions of access to welfare arrangements in origin and destination countries shape migration aspirations and decisions. The successful candidate will prepare literature reviews and scoping studies, conduct qualitative data collection, the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data and disseminate the project findings through academic publications (joint ...

Irregular immigrants and persons with weak immigration status are often excluded from the formal social security arrangements in their countries of work and residence. This raises a growing number of legal, practical and political issues. This conference seeks to analyse these issues and bring together academics, policy advisers, practitioners, international organisations, NGO’s and representatives of migrant interest groups to explore alternative approaches to social protection and migration. Conference goals To present the research findings of the Cross-border Welfare research group. To initiate further research on alternative approaches to social protection and migration. Invited key-note speakers Dr. Ryszard Cholewinski, Migration Policy Specialist at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Dr. Kay Hailbronner, Professor of Law at the University of Konstanz Dr. Loïc Wacquant, Researcher, Centre de sociologie européenne et de science politique, Paris / Professor of Socio...