From today, care workers can’t bring their partners or kids to UK. Does it matter? What will be the impacts?

Here are five potential impacts - on numbers, costs, employers, worker wellbeing & public finances
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NEWS SPOTLIGHT:
#InclusiveCities COMPAS and Coventry City Council held a two-day national event in Coventry, looking at the ways cities work together to support migration and diversity. A thread🧵...

📰Read the article: coventry.gov.uk/news/article/4…

👉🏽JOB CALL 🚨 Postdoc at the EqualStrength Horizon EU project based at COMPAS University of Oxford with the great Sanne van Oosten & I. Duration: 15 months. About you: interested in discrimination, ethnic inequalities and experimental research designs. Flexible working conditions

Available from tomorrow! “Collecting data and using it properly is hard, but we have to try to do better. Doing nothing is not a neutral option. It has a cost”. (Sturge, 2022).

London is one of the most diverse cities: based on the Census 2021 in England and Wales, 41% (3.5m) of Londoners were born overseas. Of those, 45% were British citizens, which means that many of the non-UK born Londoners were long-term residents who acquired British citizenship.

So, what just happened?... Here's our press release on the latest migration statistics:
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/press/ons-revi…

*Everything* you ever wanted to know about AT! EU Rights and Brexit Hub blog on the Court of Appeal ruling that: ppl w pre-settled status are entitled to Charter protection; the right to dignity means something; and theoretical protection 'in principle' is NOT enough: eurightshub.york.ac.uk/blog/court-of-…

HOSTILE ECOSYSTEM: Immigration and social security laws/policies interact to create and deepen poverty. See EU Rights and Brexit Hub evidence *and case studies* submitted to the Joint Inquiry by APPGs on Poverty and Migration on how punitive measures interact here: eurightshub.york.ac.uk/blog/eurbh-res…

Enjoyed working on this with Denis Kierans! We explore how cities have the scope to go beyond national agendas & how approaching climate migration is a potential pathway to greater inclusivity in our urban landscapes 🏡🌆

The 2023 International Migration Outlook is out!
There's a lot in the report but this is a short thread with some of the most notable findings on migration flows and policies and on integration of migrants
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NEW: How do the net fiscal effects of EU migrants vary across European countries with different welfare state regimes? Not much, we find.

Great 2 work on this with ⁦Marcus Österman⁩ + J Palme.

Read (open access) in Politics & Society ⬇️ ⁦Migration Policy Centre⁩
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

A fantasy journey to move to the US via Cato Inst's Green Card Game. You can play too... if you dare thegreencardgame.com/factor/welcome

Most people are familiar with Louis Wain's anthropomorphic cat illustrations, but he worked in a variety of other styles and mediums as well. Here is a beautiful painting of a black cat prowling at night. 1914. prints-online.com/new-images-jul…

What are the impacts of tightening refugees’ eligibility criteria for permanent residency?

Christian Dustmann, Jacob Arendt & Hyejin Ku UCL Economics The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin analyse a reform in Denmark 🇩🇰 aimed at incentivizing labor market attachment and acquisition of language skills 1/3

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#ClimateChange is already forcing people to migrate, but migrants & #diasporas are also part of the solution. Join our #LCAW event w/Marta Foresti soumyadeep banerjee Indira Saleemul Huq Denis Kierans & Victor Neequaye Kotey.

#Diaspora4ClimateAction

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