This article tests the relation between immigration and Portuguese bilateral trade, considering the twenty-seven European partners (EU27). Using a static and dynamic panel data analysis, the results ...show that the stock of immigrants has a positive effect on Portuguese exports, imports and bilateral intra-industry trade (IIT). These results suggest that immigration affects all types of trade in a positive way. The findings also suggest that the increase of immigrant entrepreneurs reinforce the positive effect on exports and on liT. The dynamic results confirm the positive effect of the immigration stock on horizontal and vertical liT.
In the early 1990s, and especially after the accession to the European Union, southern European countries were faced with an increased influx of immigration, particularly by third country citizens. ...The majority of migration flows refers to illegal migration. In this paper, the integration of new immigrant groups in the labour market has been analysed by using the theory of the segmented labour market. A high degree of labour market segmentation and irregularities in the analyzed countries is particularly present in the construction, agricultural and service sectors (households, hotels and catering). Illegal recruitment is an important attractive factor for illegal migrants, and encourages the development of illegal migration. Frequent implementation of control programmes solves the problem of illegal migrants only partially while, at the same time, an increasing number of new immigrants is being “attracted”. Due to special features of more recent migration flows in southern European countries, it is possible to apply the “South European immigration model” by King and Ribas-Mateos, portraying these flows triangularly. In this model the mass influx of immigration is connected to a high level of irregularities in the economic sector and a weak welfare state. The uneven economic development of sending and receiving countries, as well as the perception of new immigrants (third country citizens) exclusively through the prism of homo economicus, does not inspire too much optimism that their position in the labour market and in society will significantly improve in the foreseeable future. On behalf of more equitable treatment of new immigrant groups, their greater recognition should be demanded from receiving countries’ governments as well as the regulation of their position by introducing new and different norms and standards, based in the first place on universal human rights.
Diskografska industrija brzo je rasla između 1900. i 1914. Iako je proizvodnja ploča bila koncentrirana u najvećim industrijaliziranim zemljama, tvrtke su krenule u stvaranje globalnog tržišta ...snimanjem pjesama na svim dominantnim jezicima. Uobičajeno je bilo da tvrtke šalju svoje inženjere na ekspedicije koje bi ih odvele u velike europske gradove. Snimali su s lokalnim izvođačima koje su odabrali lokalni predstavnici tvrtke. Matrice snimaka otpremale su se u tvornicu na obradu, a gotovi otisci slali su se natrag lokalnim prodavačima.
Rad potanko govori o djelatnosti tvrtke Gramophone Company (UK), koja je između 1902. i 1913. godine u Zagrebu i Osijeku napravila najmanje 500 snimaka. Tvrtka je imala nekoliko konkurenata, medu kojima su njemačka grupa Lindström (Odeon, Beka, Parlophon) i Pathé u Francuskoj, a u radu su se razmatrale i njihove aktivnosti. Svjetski rat uzrokovao je prekid u snimanju, no nakon Rata diskografske su se tvrtke vratile. Gramophone se vratio u Zagreb 1924. godine, a za njim su došli i Nijemci. Novi vrhunac u globalnoj prodaji ploča dosegnut je 1929. godine. U međuvremenu, američke diskografske kuće, posebice Victor i Columbia, izradile su velike kataloge ploča na »stranom jeziku« za imigrante, uključujući i Hrvate u Americi. Za američko tržište izdavale su i materijale koje su snimili njihovi europski suradnici, poput Gramophone Co.
Prvom diskografskom industrijom dominirao je malen broj multinacionalnih kompanija koje su držale temeljne patente na tehnologiju snimanja. Nakon Prvog svjetskog rata na tržište su ušla i lokalna poduzeća jer su u manjim zemljama kao što su Švedska (Sonora), Latvija (Bellaccord), Cehoslovacka (Esta) i Jugoslavija (Edison Bell Penkala) pokrenute nezavisne diskografske kuće. Taj je razvoj ubrzala nova gospodarska politika 1930-ih, koja je stvorila carinske barijere i pogodovala lokalnoj proizvodnji.
The closing of the “Golden Gate” to the promised land, the United States of America, after the First World War triggered a new wave of migration to the developed countries of Europe, primarily ...France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. This was the time of the first Yugoslavia, officially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Part of these migrations included Slovene emigrants and their children. The interwar period was marked by a major economic crisis and intensified ideological and political pressures. The Catholic Church was a strong presence with regard to the emigrants. The book ('Slovene emigrants and Western Europe during the time of the first Yugoslavia') describes and analyses the emigrants’ everyday lives, the work of emigrant societies, the publication of emigrant newsletters, the work of emigrant teachers and priests, the work of consular offices, the organisation of contacts with the homeland, the organisation of children’s holiday camps, and the children’s pen-pal contacts all over the world. It discusses emigrant activities, the zeitgeist, creativity and contacts with the new environments. We also find numerous simple literary highlights in the emigrant contacts. Singing, acting and music were always and everywhere present among the emigrants, both during joyful celebrations and solemn occasions. The book gives us a deep insight into the world of the emigrants during the period between the two world wars.
Using Kosovo as a case study, the book illuminates the interplay of some of the most controversial concepts in postcolonial times, including humanitarian intervention, peacebuilding, nation-state ...building, and doing development in war torn states. A special focus is on development professionals, mandated to build peace and implement development projects in war-torn or failed states. The book seeks to uncover the complex nature of doing good for others, especially when development efforts are serving the political and economic interests of donor states and when the social status attained by the expatriate development workers tends to improve upon migrating to and working in war-torn states.
Imigracija je postala jedna od najvažnijih tema u političkoj debati u javnim medijima tijekom prošlog desetljeća. Ovo istraživanje analizira termine koje mediji koriste u opisu fenomena imigracije i ...imigranata. Osnovna je namjera ovoga rada proučavanje konceptualnih metafora injihove realizacije u vodećim britanskim, američkim i hrvatskim novinama. Ovim se radom nastoji upozoriti na važnost promišljene upotrebe konceptualnih metafora kojima se oblikuje kontekst diskursa vezanog uz fenomen imigracije. Kognitivna teorija čini teoretsku podlogu ovoga rada (vidi Lakoff & Johnson 1980, Kövecses 2002, Goatly 2007, Barcelona 2000, Croft et al. 2004) i primijenjena je u analizi medijskog diskursa i njihove percepcije immigranata (vidi Wodak 2015; van Dijk, 2000; Cunningham-Parmeter, 2012; Musolff, 2015, Drulak 2006, etc.). Rezultati analize reprezentativnog korpusa metafora vezanih uz imigrante pokazuju da ograničeni broj ‘konceptualnih okvira’ definira percepciju imigranata. Identificirano je nekoliko temeljnih modela: imigrant=stranac; imigracija=voda, poplava; imigracija=kretanje, putovanje, itd. Ove se metafore koriste u različitim diskursima kojima se nastoji dublje promišljati o konceptu imigracije. Empirijsko istraživanje pokazuje kako mediji definiraju svoje viđenje imigranata. U ovome radu koristili smo interdisciplinarni pristup, kombinirajući kvalitativne i kvantitativne istraživačke metode, uključujući socio-političke i lingvističke poglede na ovu problematiku. Ishod istraživanja može poslužiti kao mogući izvor informacija za buduća istraživanja kako bi se bolje definirala uloga medija u oblikovanju i definiranju javnog mišljenja o problemima imigracije.
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