The following full text is an author's version which may differ from the publisher's ve... more The following full text is an author's version which may differ from the publisher's version. For additional information about this publication click this link.
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
PurposeWith a focus on the position of EU mobile workers in the Dutch meat industry, this article... more PurposeWith a focus on the position of EU mobile workers in the Dutch meat industry, this article discusses the multi-level State efforts to enhance protection of workers who experienced limited protection of existing State and private enforcement institutions. The COVID-19 pandemic, with virus outbreaks at Dutch meat plants, fuelled public and political will to structurally improve these workers' precarious work and living conditions. Yet, the process of policy change is slow. The authors show it is the gradual transformation in the institutional environment that the State needs to counter to become more protective for EU mobile workers.Design/methodology/approachUsing the gradual institutional change approach and the concept of State ignorance, the authors examine State responses drawing on interviews with expert stakeholders in the public and private domain, public administration records and newspaper articles.FindingsThrough knowledge creation, boosted social dialogue mechan...
Het doel van dit onderzoek is nagaan of het instellen van een Geschillencommissie Advocatuur en d... more Het doel van dit onderzoek is nagaan of het instellen van een Geschillencommissie Advocatuur en de invoering van een klachtenregeling per kantoor leidt tot een kwaliteitsverbetering van de klachtenafhandeling tussen advocatenkantoren en hun clienten en of er een neveneffect optreedt tot vermindering van het aantal tuchtzaken.
Transnational Aging Current Insights and Future Challenges Edited by Cornelia Schweppe and Vincen... more Transnational Aging Current Insights and Future Challenges Edited by Cornelia Schweppe and Vincent Horn
Care arrangements in which older people are cared for by live-in migrant care workers (LIMC) in p... more Care arrangements in which older people are cared for by live-in migrant care workers (LIMC) in private households are a growing phenomenon in many European and North American countries. This paper explores the role of money in the emergence and functioning of these arrangements. Comparing the cases of Germany and the Netherlands, it combines a governance approach and a coping strategies approach to shed light on the part played by money and financial considerations at different levels. The paper examines first how laws and policies aimed at ensuring the financial sustainability of longterm care systems have provided incentives and opportunities for the employment of migrant carers in both countries although to different degrees. The emergence of LIMC arrangements may be an unforeseen and unintended effect of such policies, but policymakers may also tacitly accept the often semi-legal nature of these arrangements as it helps to solve care deficit problems at a low cost for the
In 2007, both Germany and the Netherlands set up a regularisation scheme for asylum applicants wh... more In 2007, both Germany and the Netherlands set up a regularisation scheme for asylum applicants whose asylum procedures had dragged on for years, or who had received a negative decision but could not be expelled. This paper compares how the two schemes came about, what requirements applicants had to meet in order to be regularised, how the schemes were implemented, and what they achieved. Special attention is paid to implementation problems and their role in both the coming about and the implementation of the schemes.
This paper analyses the social working of migration law. The Netherlands have had restrictive imm... more This paper analyses the social working of migration law. The Netherlands have had restrictive immigration policies for decades. Most types of immigration are considered undesirable. In this paper, we first investigate what actors and factors play a role in the creation and implementation of Dutch migration law. Is the state losing control? Secondly, we examine the discourses that are produced in immigration policies about ‘desired’ and ‘undesired’ immigrants, and the effects of these discourses. Thirdly, we look at migration law from a bottom-up perspective, i.e., from the perspective of migrants and their ‘significant others’. What role do migrants themselves play in immigration procedures, and what impact does migration law have on their daily lives?
The following full text is an author's version which may differ from the publisher's ve... more The following full text is an author's version which may differ from the publisher's version. For additional information about this publication click this link.
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
PurposeWith a focus on the position of EU mobile workers in the Dutch meat industry, this article... more PurposeWith a focus on the position of EU mobile workers in the Dutch meat industry, this article discusses the multi-level State efforts to enhance protection of workers who experienced limited protection of existing State and private enforcement institutions. The COVID-19 pandemic, with virus outbreaks at Dutch meat plants, fuelled public and political will to structurally improve these workers' precarious work and living conditions. Yet, the process of policy change is slow. The authors show it is the gradual transformation in the institutional environment that the State needs to counter to become more protective for EU mobile workers.Design/methodology/approachUsing the gradual institutional change approach and the concept of State ignorance, the authors examine State responses drawing on interviews with expert stakeholders in the public and private domain, public administration records and newspaper articles.FindingsThrough knowledge creation, boosted social dialogue mechan...
Het doel van dit onderzoek is nagaan of het instellen van een Geschillencommissie Advocatuur en d... more Het doel van dit onderzoek is nagaan of het instellen van een Geschillencommissie Advocatuur en de invoering van een klachtenregeling per kantoor leidt tot een kwaliteitsverbetering van de klachtenafhandeling tussen advocatenkantoren en hun clienten en of er een neveneffect optreedt tot vermindering van het aantal tuchtzaken.
Transnational Aging Current Insights and Future Challenges Edited by Cornelia Schweppe and Vincen... more Transnational Aging Current Insights and Future Challenges Edited by Cornelia Schweppe and Vincent Horn
Care arrangements in which older people are cared for by live-in migrant care workers (LIMC) in p... more Care arrangements in which older people are cared for by live-in migrant care workers (LIMC) in private households are a growing phenomenon in many European and North American countries. This paper explores the role of money in the emergence and functioning of these arrangements. Comparing the cases of Germany and the Netherlands, it combines a governance approach and a coping strategies approach to shed light on the part played by money and financial considerations at different levels. The paper examines first how laws and policies aimed at ensuring the financial sustainability of longterm care systems have provided incentives and opportunities for the employment of migrant carers in both countries although to different degrees. The emergence of LIMC arrangements may be an unforeseen and unintended effect of such policies, but policymakers may also tacitly accept the often semi-legal nature of these arrangements as it helps to solve care deficit problems at a low cost for the
In 2007, both Germany and the Netherlands set up a regularisation scheme for asylum applicants wh... more In 2007, both Germany and the Netherlands set up a regularisation scheme for asylum applicants whose asylum procedures had dragged on for years, or who had received a negative decision but could not be expelled. This paper compares how the two schemes came about, what requirements applicants had to meet in order to be regularised, how the schemes were implemented, and what they achieved. Special attention is paid to implementation problems and their role in both the coming about and the implementation of the schemes.
This paper analyses the social working of migration law. The Netherlands have had restrictive imm... more This paper analyses the social working of migration law. The Netherlands have had restrictive immigration policies for decades. Most types of immigration are considered undesirable. In this paper, we first investigate what actors and factors play a role in the creation and implementation of Dutch migration law. Is the state losing control? Secondly, we examine the discourses that are produced in immigration policies about ‘desired’ and ‘undesired’ immigrants, and the effects of these discourses. Thirdly, we look at migration law from a bottom-up perspective, i.e., from the perspective of migrants and their ‘significant others’. What role do migrants themselves play in immigration procedures, and what impact does migration law have on their daily lives?
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