Labour Markets

Sophie’s journey: Three countries, three stories, same abuse

Emel Coşkun

Paradoxically European: how a spike in xenophobia revalues EU citizenship

Dora-Olivia Vicol

Reforming homelessness policies for migrants: 8 lessons from a working group of European cities

Jonathan Price

The Economic Outcomes of Refugees and Other Migrants in the UK

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Free movement of (overqualified) migrant workers

Szilvia Altorjai

The base: From peasant revolution to labour migration management

Biao Xiang

EU migration and welfare benefits: Is unrestricted labour immigration compatible with an inclusive welfare state?

Martin Ruhs

Sex discrimination and UK immigration law

Catherine Briddick

Twenty years later the refugees are back

Carlos Vargas-Silva

What do we know about the reasons for migration and the social and economic characteristics of migrants in the UK?

Ben Gidley

‘Can’t change one without the other’: Reforming labour immigration and labour markets in the Gulf States

Martin Ruhs

The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration

Martin Ruhs

Global “Body Shopping”: An Indian International Labor System in the Information Technology Industry

Biao Xiang

Background report: Migrant workers in the UK healthcare sector

Hiranthi Jayaweera

Research Report: Workplace integration of migrant health workers in the UK

Hiranthi Jayaweera and Helen McCarthy

The COMPAS Approach

Ben Gidley, Rob McNeil and Emma Newcombe

Towards a Post-2015 Development Agenda: What Role for Migrant Rights and International Labour Migration?

Martin Ruhs

Migrant Rights, Immigration Policy and Human Development

Martin Ruhs

Recession, Vulnerable Workers and Immigration. Background Report

Bridget Anderson,Ali Rogers, Nick Clark

Identifying Skilled Occupations Where Migration Can Sensibly Help to Fill Labour Shortages

Martin Ruhs (Member, Migration Advisory Committee)

Migrant Workers and Vulnerable Employment: A Review of Existing Data

Bridget Anderson and Hiranthi Jayaweera

Transit, Migration and Politics: Trends and Constructions on the Fringes of Europe

Franck Düvell

Forced Labour and Migration to the UK

Bridget Anderson, Ben Rogaly

Migrants’ Lives Beyond the Workplace. The Experiences of Central and East Europeans in the UK

Bridget Anderson,Martin Ruhs,Sarah Spencer, Ben Rogaly

The Market for Migrant Domestic and Sex Workers

Bridget Anderson, Julia O’Connell Davidson

The Market for Migrant Domestic and Sex Workers. Executive Summary

Bridget Anderson, Julia O’Connell Davidson

Changing Status, Changing Lives? Methods, Participants and Lessons Learnt

Bridget Anderson,Martin Ruhs,Sarah Spencer, Ben Rogaly

Fair Enough? Central and East European Migrants in Low-Wage Employment in the UK

Bridget Anderson, Martin Ruhs, Sarah Spencer, Ben Rogaly

Managing Migration in Ireland: A Social and Economic Analysis

Martin Ruhs (author Chapters 3 and 7)

The Contribution of the Voluntary Sector to Migrant Integration in Europe

Sarah Spencer, Sarah Cooke

Designing Viable and Ethical Labour Immigration Policies

Martin Ruhs

Managing the Immigration and Employment of non-EU Nationals in Ireland

Martin Ruhs

Managing the Immigration and Employment of non-EU Nationals in Ireland. Executive Summary

Martin Ruhs

Temporary Foreign Worker Programmes: Policies, Adverse Consequences, and the Need to Make Them Work

Martin Ruhs

Targeting Migration with Limited Control: The Case of the UK and the EU

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Cinzia Rienzo

The Labor Market Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Carlos Vargas-Silva, Isabel Ruiz

The Economics of Forced Migration

Isabel Ruiza and Carlos Vargas-Silva

Swedish Labour Immigration Policy: The Role of Unions, Employers and Political Parties

Frida Boräng & Lucie Cerna

Migrant Britain, Sustainable Germany: Explaining Differences in the International Migration of Health Professionals

Kirsten Hoesch

What Does “The Migrant” Tell Us About the (Good) Citizen?

Bridget Anderson

Openness, Skills and Rights: An Empirical Analysis of Labour Immigration Programmes in 46 High- and Middle-income Countries

Martin Ruhs

Building Demography into Migration Research: Population Change and the Latent Demand for Migration in 21st Century Europe

Alessio Cangiano

For Love and Money: Second-Generation Indian Americans in the Indian Knowledge Economy

Sonali Jain

Labor Shortages and US Immigration Reform: Promises and Perils of an Independent Commission

Martin Ruhs, Philip Martin

“No One Comes Here on Their Own”: The System of Child Labour Migration in Bangladesh

Karin Heissler

Migrant Labour in Kazakhstan: A Cause for Concern?

Bridget Anderson, Blanka Hancilova

“Illegal Immigrant”: Victim or Villain?

Bridget Anderson

The Paper Market: “Borrowing” and “Renting” of Identity Documents

Ellie Vasta

“London the Leveller”: Ghanaian Work Strategies and Community Solidarity

Ellie Vasta, Leander Kandilige

Are You Being Served? Employer Demand for Migrant Labour in the UK’s Hospitality Sector

Martin Ruhs, Gareth Matthews

Battles in Time: The Relation Between Global and Labour Mobilities

Bridget Anderson

Differentiating Irregularity and Solidarity: Turkish Immigrants at Work in London

Ellie Vasta, Aykan Erdemir

Legality and Labour: Chinese Migration, Neoliberalism and the State in the UK and China

Biao Xiang and Frank Pieke

A Very Private Business: Migration and Domestic Work

Bridget Anderson

Greasing the Wheels of the Flexible Labour Market: East European Labour Immigration in the UK

Martin Ruhs

Numbers vs. Rights: Trade-offs and Guest Worker Programmes

Martin Ruhs, Philip Martin

The Origins and Functions of Illegality in Migrant Labour Markets: An Analysis of Migrants, Employers and the State in the UK

Bridget Anderson and Martin Ruhs

“No Pizza without Migrants”: Between the Politics of Identity and Transnationalism: Second-Generation Italians in Switzerland

Susanne Wessendorf

Deserving of Decent Work: The Complications of Organizing Irregular Workers Without Legal Rights

Nicole Silverman

Informal Employment and Immigrant Networks: A Review Paper

Ellie Vasta

Skilled Health Professionals’ Migration and its Impact on Health Delivery in Zimbabwe

Abel Chikanda

Online report

Emigration Trends and Policies in China: Movement of the Wealthy and Highly Skilled

Biao Xiang

Policy Brief

Consistent Support and Mutual Learning Required

Helen McCarthy and Hiranthi Jayaweera

Global Exchange briefings

What works in building common ground and shared values?

Vidhya Ramalingam

A need for migrant labour? Labour shortages, immigration and public policy

Bridget Anderson and Martin Ruhs | October 2007 – October 2009

Begging, Work and Citizenship

Bridget Anderson, Jonathan Price and Sarah Walker | May 2015 - April 2016

Changing status, changing lives? The socio-economic impact of EU Enlargement on low wage migrant labour in the UK

Bridget Anderson, Martin Ruhs and Sarah Spencer | March 2004 – May 2005

Cohesion, integration, migration: urbanism, city change, and the future of multiculturalism

Michael Keith | 2009

Emigration Dynamism and Social Transformation in Northeast China

Biao Xiang | 2005

Forced Labour and Immigration in the UK

Bridget Anderson | February 2004 – November 2004

Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks: London-Turkey-Ghana

Ellie Vasta | 2007 - 2009

Immigrants and Employment Discrimination

Madeleine Sumption, Martin Ruhs and Yvonni Markaki | March – April 2015

Migrant workers and vulnerable employment: a review of existing data

Bridget Anderson and Hiranthi Jayaweera | February 2008 – July 2008

Migration and Poverty in the UK

Martin Ruhs, Carlos Vargas-Silva, Madeleine Sumption and Yvonni Markaki | February – April 2015

Precarious workers, troubled nation – the reconfiguration of national attachment through precarious work. A case study of Romanian migrants in London

Dora-Olivia Vicol | October 2013 - December 2016

Recession, Vulnerable Workers and Immigration

Ali Rogers and Bridget Anderson | January 2009 – April 2009

The Economics and Politics of Migrant Rights

Martin Ruhs | 2008 – 2014

The employment and working conditions of migrant domestic workers in South East Asia

Bridget Anderson and Emma Newcombe | August 2015 - June 2016

The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration (LAMFOR)

Carlos Vargas-Silva | June 2013 – December 2015

The Market for Migrant Domestic and Sex Workers

Bridget Anderson | July 2002 – December 2006

The return of the guest worker? Temporary migration programmes in theory and practice

Martin Ruhs | 2006

Urbanization from Below

Bridget Anderson | 2013 – 2016

WORK>INT: Assessing and enhancing integration in workplaces

Hiranthi Jayaweera and Helen McCarthy | January 2014 – June 2015