Projekt

Daten zum Projekt

Vorstudie "Irregular migration in times of global economic crisis - perceptions and realities in Europe, Africa, Latin-America and Asia"

Initiative: Zukunftsfragen der Gesellschaft (beendet)
Ausschreibung: Europe and Gobal Challenges
Bewilligung: 26.10.2009
Laufzeit: 7 Monate

Projektinformationen

Migration policies are guided more by fears than by facts. Many fears are rooted in economic arguments. In receiving regions, e.g., natives fear that immigrants will take their jobs. In sending regions, there is the fear of losing the migration option and of decreasing remittances due to the economic crisis. The research group seeks to investigate into perceptions and realities in selected migrant-sending and receiving countries. It will compare perceptions and realities as reflected in data, media and public discourses, which are obstructing the creation and sharing of knowledge. With the planning grant, the project team aims at elaborating a comparative theoretical and methodological approach suitable for the study of the perceptions and realities of irregular migration in times of global economic crisis. Reports about the state of art will focus on China, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Nigeria, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Projektbeteiligte

  • Gunnar Geyer

    Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut
    gemeinnützige GmbH (HWWI)
    Hamburg

  • Dr. Dita Vogel

    Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut
    gemeinnützige GmbH (HWWI)
    Hamburg