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Temporary labor migration patterns: costs of temporality for individual migrants
EU migration regimes: principle of utilitarian approach to labor migration
“Better” and “worse” migrants: encouraging “high-skilled” migration while controlling “low-skilled” migratory flowsSlide2
Principles of temporality: “providing temporary labor for permanent labor demand” (Castles 2006)
Circular migration is international, temporary, repeated migration for economic reasons (METOIKOS 2010). Migrants who simply visit relatives back home for a long time and do not pursue economic goal do not qualify as circular migrants.
“temporary” or “circular”: can we speak of circularity in case of migration of the 3rd country nationals to the EU? Slide3
Case-study: migration of Ukrainian nationals to CzR and Italy
Framework: “Costs and benefits of temporary and circular migration between the Eastern Partnership Countries and the European Union”.
Question:
What are the practical costs of temporality for individual migrants’ occupational trajectories, access to social benefits and opportunities for mobility. Slide4
Main findings
Circularity, as a privilege
Employment, as a key to a possibility for return
Pension and health system contributions as a price for legalitySlide5
Who’s win: brief conclusions
Receiving state: cheap and easily disposable labor force
Sending
state: shifting the social risks from the deteriorating state social system to the individual and household level
(education, care, unemployment risks, health)
Migrants
: reconfigured relation with t
he
states in which provisions are not granted on the basis of rights but are available for sale.Slide6
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