This study examines the influence of patients’ immigration background and residence permit status on physicians’ willingness to treat patients in due time. A factorial survey was conducted among 352 ...general practitioners with a background in internal medicine in a German-speaking region in Switzerland. Participants expressed their self-rating (SR) as well as the expected colleague-rating (CR) to provide immediate treatment to 12 fictive vignette patients. The effects of the vignette variables were analysed using random-effects models. The results show that SR as well as CR was not only influenced by the medical condition or the physicians’ time pressure, but also by social factors such as the ethnicity and migration history, the residence permit status, and the economic condition of the patients. Our findings can be useful for the development of adequate, practically relevant teaching and training materials with the ultimate aim to reduce unjustified discrimination or social rationing in health care.
•A factorial survey is used to examine physicians’ willingness to provide treatment.•Focus of the study is equitable health care for minorities.•Treatment is influenced by patients’ origin and the residence permit status.•Treatment is influenced by the patients’ economic condition.•Findings can be used for the development of teaching and training materials.
Drawing on interviews with young refugees, 20–30 years old, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, we discuss the effects that temporary residence permits have on their ability to build a life in Sweden. ...The article includes both unaccompanied and accompanied youth that at some point had been given temporary residence permits. These permits could later be renewed or turned into permanent permits if the youth fulfilled certain tough requirements. Through rich empirical data, we show how these temporal techniques of border control keep young refugees in a state where they fear deportation, which have detrimental effects for their ability to build a life in Sweden. They are not able to plan ahead and they feel forced to work although they would have preferred to study, which puts them out of sync with other young people around them, challenges their sense of agency and increases their vulnerability. Temporary residence permits severely limit the life opportunities of young refugees in Sweden, and thus hamper their ability to achieve the “migrant integration” that is expected of them.
In diesem Artikel werden Moralisierungen, die anhand beruflicher Fallerzählungen rekonstruiert wurden, als habitualisierte Werthaltungen diskutiert. Datengrundlage für die theoretischen Überlegungen ...sind Interviews mit Mitarbeiter*innen der deutschen Bundespolizei, Ausländerbehörden und Aufenthaltsberatungsstellen. Aus Erzählungen über die berufliche Fallarbeit konnten drei berufstypische Erzählmodi rekonstruiert werden. Die Erzählmodi verweisen auf berufliche Erfahrungen und Handlungen in Situationen, in denen Interaktionspartner*innen sich anders als erwartet bzw. erwünscht verhielten. Die drei Erzählmodi werden vor dem Hintergrund praxeologischer Konzepte als situierte, sinngenerierende Moralisierungen verstanden und stehen darin dem Konzept der Werthaltung nah. Im Anschluss an die methodologische Diskussion der Analyseergebnisse werden die Befunde der Studie im Lichte gegenstandstheoretischer Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Organisationen, beruflichem Wissen und Moral reflektiert.
This article is centred on the tendency to align education for newly arrived students with migration policy. Drawing on an in-depth analysis of interviews with four adult migrant students, we aim to ...investigate how the participants’ experiences of studying and how they imagine their future intersect with their immigration status. The interviews were conducted when they were first studying a language introduction programme, and then three years later. We focus on the participants’ narratives about transitions within the education system and later into the labour market. Using Sara Ahmed’s approach to the orientation of subjects in time and space, the analysis shows that all students expressed a desire to “be in line,” meaning finishing their studies and finding employment. Students with temporary and conditional residence permits were directed towards specific vocational tracks and sectors of the labour market. Migrant students are a heterogenous group and, based on the findings presented, we argue that immigration status constitutes a crucial part of this heterogeneity, influencing how students imagine their future in a new society.
La Autorización de Residencia para Inversores (ARI) o visado dorado en su denominación coloquial es una iniciativa que posibilita la adquisición del estatuto de residente a cambio de una inversión en ...el país de acogida. Portugal, desde 2012, y España, desde 2013, ofrecen este programa a quien lo desee y reúna las condiciones exigidas. El objetivo de este artículo es desarrollar un análisis comparado de los visados dorados en los dos países concretado en cuatro momentos diferentes. Inicialmente se ofrece una caracterización de la medida y sus requisitos y se describe su evolución. A continuación, se aborda su conceptualización sociológica a través de la noción de migraciones de capital y más concretamente como un fenómeno a medio camino entre la migración de negocios y la inversión externa extranjera. Después analizamos la racionalidad política que estructura este tipo de inversiones a partir del enfoque neofoucaltiano de la gubernamentalidad. Por último, abordamos las implicaciones cívicas y científicas de los visados dorados.
Purpose
The aim of the present study is to explore institutional design strategies that promote compliance by regulating peculiar sorts of agents, namely, human trafficking victims, starting from the ...point of view that institutions assume addressee virtue, but instead should consider the hypothesis of non-compliance or that the measures adopted reveal their inefficiency to satisfy the goals they were thought for, or that they are applied to obtain scopes, which are different from the ones they were conceived for.
Design/methodology/approach
Different methodological approaches, both deductive and inductive, are combined in the present paper, together with comparative and philosophical insights on national court decisions, scholarly writings, national and international entities’ official reports and statistics.
Findings
Because EU member states’ experts are discussing about common guidelines, policies and standards to manage migration fluxes and EU integration process, this study highlights some critical points arising from the specific condition of a peculiar human trafficking victim: a migrant.
Originality/value
The study offers insights into the possible answers in terms of awarding prize to and humanitarian protection of victims to fight human trafficking and smuggling in a constructive way, emphasising that these instruments (awarding and humanitarian) are not mutually exclusive and can be mixed together.
There is a wide range of factors - political, economic, legal, etc., which either limit or promote international real property transactions. It is considered that real property alienation to ...foreigners enhances foreign investment and economic development, however, some countries tend to limit such transactions. The current research provides a scientific view to reveal the reasons why certain countries impose different kinds of restrictions on international real property transactions. The objectives of this publication are: 1) to find out and analyse the existing arguments and reasons for limiting international real property transactions; 2) to determine the number and volume of international real property transactions in Latvia; 3) to identify the main argumentation for the current step and significant decline of international real property transactions in Latvia. Empirical analysis based on the review of scientific publications, statistical and comparative analysis of real property transactions are the main methods employed for this research.
There exists sharp competition amongst nations regarding the increasing foreign investments; therefore, nations are willing to offer foreign investors and their families some type of political bonus, ...such as temporary residence permit, permanent residence permit, or even citizenship. The simplest way to entice investors is to offer them and their family members temporary residence permits in exchange for investments - simply by purchasing real property (via the so-called “Golden Visa” program). Such a program was launched in Latvia in 2010; however, significant limitations were placed on it in 2014. This research (1) compares the “Golden Visa” programs in different countries in the world, (2) determines the impact of the program on the real property market of Latvia, and (3) searches for the main reason why limitations were applied to the temporary residence permit program in 2014, which resulted in a significant decrease in the international investments in Latvia (this part of the paper is based on the results of the following research: Viesturs, J., Auziņš, A., & Štaube, T. (2017). Arguments Used for Restricting International Real Property Transactions: Case Study of Latvia).
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