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• Prekäre Arbeit

  14. Oktober 2008, von Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Berlin
  The study shows a growing proportion of non-standard jobs in both parts of Germany. Although the various types of precarious labour are different in each part of the german society, both eastern and western average rates rise yet up to 29%.

• The External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs: Tools, Processes, Outcomes

  6 October 2008, by Balzacq Thierry
  This working document offers a conceptual framework for understanding the processes underpinning the external dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs (ED-JHA). Practically, it defines how the export of JHA principles and norms inform the geopolitical ambitions of the EU, i.e. the use of space for political purposes, or the control and management of people, objects and movement. The author begins by investigating how the ENP reconfigures the ED-JHA, and then goes on to discuss various conceptual stances on governance, specifically institutionalism, constructivism, and policy instruments.

• Institutionalizing precarious immigration status in Canada

  23 September 2008, by Ceris
  The paper examines the canadian situation, defined by several catagories, such as temporary immigrants, refugees and visitors, and it tries to show the irregular and illegal aspects of these migration phenomena, produced by the State policy.

• Precariousness at the menu : Restaurant work and labour mobility within the low wage industry

  23 September 2008, by Denstedt Mark James
  The Master diploma (Queens University of Ontario) shows how restaurant work demonstrates a range of precarious forms of employement and reveals the complexity of issues that such jobs raise in the frame of a flexible labour market and its submarkets. The research underlines the strong impact of the new forms on the lived experience of workers.

• Seminar on Multilevel protection of Fundamental Rights in the EU

  23 September 2008, by European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
  On 19 September FRA, the Committee of the Regions and Reggio Emilia held a seminar on Multi-level protection of fundamental rights in the EU in Reggio Emilia

• Social Protection and Social Inclusion in the Republic of Serbia

  23 September 2008, by Bajec Jurij, Krstić Gorana, Pejin-Stokić Ljiljana, Penev Goran
  This study forms part of a series of studies on social protection and social inclusion in the countries of Western Balkans prepared with the aim to inform the process of the accession perspective of these countries to the European Union.

• EC position on fingerprinting of Roma in Italy

  23 September 2008, by European Roma Rights Centre, Open Society Justice Initiative
  In a letter to European Commissioner Jacques Barrot, the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) expressed concern that the EC was endorsing Italy’s plan to forcibly fingerprint all Roma living in the country. The groups noted that such fingerprinting would be a form of discrimination because it targets people based solely on their ethnicity.

• The French Presidency’s European Pact on Immigration and Asylum: Intergovernmentalism vs Europeanisation? Security vs Rights?

  16 September 2008, by Carrera Sergio , Guild Elspeth
  The intersection between the Commission Communication on a Common Immigration Policy for Europe, another on a Policy Plan on Asylum and the various drafts of the French Presidency’s European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, raises a number of questions: First, what are the nature, context and key issues of the Pact? Does it present anything really new to the current state of affairs in EU law and policy? Second, does the EU really need a pact on immigration and asylum, given the already ongoing processes of Europeanisation surrounding these policy domains?

• Atypische Beschäftigung auf dem Arbeismarkt

  16. September 2008, von Statistisches Bundesamt
  The part of precarious forms of labour, the so called «bad jobs», increased rapidly in Germany during the last ten years, from 15% to 26% of all jobs. While the number of employed persons grew (mostly due to a high number of pensioners), it appears in the same time that bad jobs replaced traditionnal, stable jobs.

• Discrimination in the European Union - Analytical report

  16 September 2008, by EOS Gallup Europe
  This Flash Eurobarometer survey on discrimination in the EU was carried out on the request of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities – Unit G 4. The survey measured the awareness on the 2007- European Year of Equal Opportunities for All

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