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By Katarina Mozetič and Larissa Kokonowskyj When we talk about refugees, we often imagine a sharp break: one life left behind, another slowly built somewhere new. But for some refugees, that is not what displacement looks like. Life does not simply cease in the country… Read More »Logging in from displacement: Remote work and lives stretched between Germany and Ukraine

By Nilay Kılınç Over the years, the Standing Committee on Migration, Migrants, and Labour Markets (IILME) has sought to advance research on migrant labour and labour markets across a wide range of European and transnational contexts. IILME’s work has engaged with questions concerning migrant workers… Read More »IILME’s renewed agenda and special workshop: Participatory and activist approaches to migrant labour, precarity and resistance

By Gregor Schäfer, University of Bath, and Miguel Morillas, Comillas Pontifical University As global labour markets continue to hunger for talent, the cross-border migration of highly skilled migrant professionals (MPs) has become an increasingly familiar phenomenon. Yet despite their elevated qualifications, international experience, and preferential… Read More »What defines the well-being of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments in Denmark?

By Toni Ahvenainen and  Markku Mattila As the war prolongs, the employment of Ukrainians has become an increasingly central and multifaceted issue in the countries that have received them. European Union’s Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) gives a broad framework to all EU countries how to… Read More »Challenges of Ukrainian Labour Market Integration in Finland

By Rinus Penninx, Emeritus Professor in Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Amsterdam, founder of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES, 1993) at the University of Amsterdam, and founder of IMISCOE (2004). The significance of international migration and migrant workers International migrants are… Read More »International Migration and Employment: a brief survey of the IILME-domain of studies

By Ksenija Ivanović  When the discipline of Economics first dabbled in the study of migration, it was quickly established that workers – assumed to have all the information and opportunities, of course –  move to earn more elsewhere. This simplistic view was challenged from both within… Read More »Migration aspirations in the Western Balkans: do skills shortages matter and what should policymakers do about them?