Omschrijving
By looking at case studies from around Europe, this book focuses on the impact of the expected labour market security on migration decision-making and will prove invaluable for researchers, leaders and policy makers in the field of politics and migration studies.
The result of the research project "In Search of Labour Market Security. Migration to and from Poland and the Attractiveness of the Polish Labour Market," this book consists of five essays that consider why people migrate. Contributors working in migration research, psychology, political science and international studies, and sociology in Poland explore whether or not labor market security is a factor behind migrants' decisions to leave their country of origin and whether or not it impacts the choice of destination countries. They draw on interviews with migration specialists, a social survey (Paper and Pen Personal Interview), and qualitative interviews with Polish and Ukrainian labor migrants employed in the UK, Germany, and Poland. They describe theoretical and methodological assumptions in the project; labor markets in Poland, the UK, Germany, and Ukraine, with a focus on labor market security; the attitudes of Poles working in Germany and the UK in terms of labor market security; and the shaping of migration policies in specific countries.
Maciej Duszczyk is Vice-Rector for Research, University of Warsaw, Poland, member of the Board of Centre of Migration Research. In 2008-2011 he was member of the Board of Strategic Advisers to the Prime Minister of Poland; in 2011-2013, Head of Task Force for Migration Policy in the Chancellery of the President of Poland; in 2014-2015, Visiting Professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. He is also member of the Transatlantic Forum on Migration and Integration. He got research grants e.g. from Polish-German Foundation of Science, National Science Centre and European Commission.