International Migrants' Ethnicity
and Its Impact on Labour Markets of the Receiving Countries
International Migrants' Ethnicity and Its Impact on Labour Markets of the Receiving Countries
A Comparative Study among China, Netherland, Germany, France and UK
A CO-REACH (Co-ordination of Research between Europe and China) Project
About the Project
Labour markets as institutionalised frameworks of specific norms and mechanisms of qualification, recruitment, mobility and compensation of labour developed and were studied mainly at the national level. Facing increasing international migration as well as globalisation and Europeanisation, the national container approach is not sufficient anymore. Specific sectors (like nursery, automobile or building) and basic structures (like regional collective bargaining agreements) of national labour markets are challenged by massive in and outflows of regular and irregular labour migration.
Besides education and age, ethnicity and origin of labour migrants have been proven to be important factors for explaining their labour market entry patterns, sectors/niches and performance(e.g. Asian versus Latin American migrants in the US; Turkish versus Moroccan versus Polish migrants in the EU; Han People versus about 55 minorities versus foreign migrants e.g. from South Korea in China). At the same time, these personal factors are interrelated with the migration regimes of the receiving countries or regions (e.g. Turkish migrants in Germany versus Netherlands versus UK; EU internal versus EU external migration; Taiwanese migrants in Shanghai versus South Korean migrants in Peking and Qingdao versus Filipino migrants in Hong Kong).
There is a lack of comparative knowledge about the systematic impacts of migrants ethnicity on the labour market as compared to other important (individual and structural) factors. Whereas for the macro region of the USA there are some systematic studies, there are less systematic overviews for the macro region of China and the macro region of the EU, and there is no systematic comparison of China and (selected countries of) the EU.
The project aims to address the aformentioned research gaps through a series of jointly organized workshops in China and in the EU. and to facilitate the development of joint research proposals from Chinese and European colleagues.
Principle Investigators
Prof. Dr. Hao Shiyuan, Chinese Accademy of Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Duration
01.08.2009 - 01.07.2011
Sponsorship in Germany
