Documents de recerca, en accés obert, com ara working papers, informes de recerca, memòries tècniques, etc., del Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials de la UPF.
This article builds upon the premise that the Home Office holds the most significant power over constructing policy truthsabout unaccompanied children in the UK. This discursive creation of policy truthsconveys a ...
What place is given to foreigners and migrants in the cities of the Mediterranean basin? At a time of radicalism and withdrawal, rethinking common values on the different shores is becoming an urgent necessity. In this ...
This policy brief is based upon the results of our project AGREP which we implemented in collaboration with FAGIC (The Federation of Roma Associations in Catalonia), with the support of the OND (Barcelona City Council’s ...
This working paper tackles border control policies in Egypt, focusing on Rafah border, possibly one of the most complex in the region and also in the entire world. Furthermore, I analyze the possible relation between the ...
Workers Remittances represent an important source of financing for recipient countries to the extent that it exceeds sometimes foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. International remittances flowing into developing economies ...
This paper aims to analyse the circulation of welcoming values between local institutions and the civil society, regarding asylum seekers and refugees’ reception between 2015 and 2020. What values are promoted by the ...
This Policy Paper summarizes the Tunisia National workshop held online on 11 November 2020. The purpose of this workshop was to analyze the migration policies applied by North African third countries to nationals of other ...
Social science commonly studies relationships among variables by employing survey questions. Answers to these questions will contain some degree of measurement error, distorting the relationships of interest. Such distortions ...
Staying within the debate, which links border studies and migration studies, my purpose is to conceptualise a focus that connects two heuristic approaches: ontological security and urban resilience. I will follow the ...
This paper takes the case of Catalonia to inquire into how ethnic diversity is represented in the public institutions, considering both pro-diversity agendas and the actual presence of people from diverse origins in different ...
Buhr, Franz; Desille, Amandine; Fonseca, Maria Lucinda(2021-05)
This policy paper results from the presentations and discussions, which took place at the third EUMedMi National Workshop organised by the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, ...
This research project examines how immigrants of diverse ethnic origins perceive their integration, or incorporation, in two European multi-ethnic societies, Sweden and Spain, and cities, Stockholm and Barcelona. A central ...
The main objective of this project, which combines qualitative research with
practical implementation, was to establish constructive and lasting channels of
communication between Roma families and schools in four ...
The main objective of the REPCAT project was to examine how diversity is represented, and what barriers there are for the participation of immigrants and ethnic minorities, in Catalan public institutions. ...
It is well documented that Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are the countries accepting the highest number of Syrian refugees in the world. Syrians have helped to increase the growth rate of economies and create jobs but concerns ...
Metered data (also called "web log data" or "web-tracking data") is a type of data obtained from a meter willingly installed by participants on their devices. A meter refers to a heterogeneous group of technologies that ...