David Bartram
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Bartram |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartram |
| SIGNATURE | BARTRAM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9800-3346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Moving the boundaries is not the same as erasing them: A review of Frank Furedi’s Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries
"Moving the boundaries is not the same as erasing them: A review of Frank Furedi’s Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries" published on May 2021 by Bristol University Press
Happiness Is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism
Happiness
Happiness is a form of subjective well‐being; the concept captures how people feel about their lives as a whole. (A closely related concept, life satisfaction, indicates how people cognitively evaluate their lives.) Rather than assuming that happiness follows automatically from enjoying what many would consider favorable objective conditions, researchers investigate happiness empirically (often via surveys), asking individuals to indicate how hap…
Macro-conditions and immigrants' happiness: Is moving to a wealthy country all that matters
"Forced Migration and "Rejected Alternatives: A Conceptual Refinement
The “forced migration” concept can obscure how some people who migrate in this mode exercise a key form of agency. Some refugee flows occur when people reasonably reject options that might obviate the need to flee (e.g., abandoning their religious beliefs). A similar form of agency must be recognized regarding forced migration of other types: people facing severe economic difficulties sometimes become migrants by rejecting options that might secu…
The Political Economy of Human Happiness: How Voters' Choices Determine the Quality of Life
Key Concepts in Migration
"This book provides lucid and intuitive explanations of the most important migration concepts as used in classrooms, among policymakers, and in popular and academic discourse. Arguing that there is a clear need for a better public understanding of migration, it sets out to clarify the field by exploring relevant concepts in a direct and engaging way [...] It is an ideal resource for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying migration in s…
Further validation of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) in the UK veterinary profession: Rasch analysis
Migration, Ethnonationalist Destinations and Social Divisions: Non-Jewish Immigrants in Israel
Immigrants in ethnonationalist destinations who lack shared ethnicity with natives typically encounter difficulties of integration. But analysis of non-Jewish immigrants in Israel shows that lacking shared ethnicity is not an insurmountable obstacle, even in strongly ethnonationalist destinations. Non-Jewish immigrants—including migrant workers—have achieved a degree of membership in Israeli society. Moreover, their presence has exacerbated certa…
Sociology Compass
A significant body of social-science research on happiness has accrued in recent decades, produced mainly by economists and psychologists. Sociologists, however, have made more limited contributions to “happiness studies”. This paper provides an overview of concepts, methods and findings and suggests some questions about happiness that ought to be of substantial interest to sociology. Many sociologists are clearly interested in the well-being of …
The normative foundations of 'policy implications: Reflections on International Labour Migration
Sociologists, when offering suggestions for policy arising from their empirical research, typically do not provide explicit reflection on the values or interests such 'policy implications' are meant to advance. This article illustrates why such reflection can be important, by showing how different normative frameworks lead to different policy suggestions concerning international labour migration. In a conventional neoclassical economics view, lab…
Conspicuous By Their Absence: Why Are There So Few Foreign Workers in Finland
Migration scholars commonly assume that employment of low-wage foreign workers is a universal feature of labour markets in wealthy countries. However, several wealthy countries have very few foreign workers proportional to their labour force. Existing theories of international labour migration are not well equipped to explain these anomalies. This paper summarises the challenge presented by ‘negative cases’ of labour migration and explores an exp…
International Labour Migration: Foreign Workers and Public Policy
Studies of international labour migration typically assume that foreign labour is a universal feature of wealthy economies. Exploitation of foreign workers can contribute significantly to employers' p
International Labor Migration: Foreign Workers and Public Policy
Labor Migration Policy and the Governance of the Construction Industry in Israel and Japan
Significant 'guestworker' immigration occurs when the state lacks the capacity to inhibit rent-seeking by private interests that benefit from imported labor. Policies allowing imported labor result in government subsidies for employers' profits. These subsidies are usefully conceived as rents. A developmentalist state(e.g. Japan) will constrain the creation of such rents, especially because imported labor carries long-term costs not borne by empl…
Foreign Workers, Refugees and Prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
Japan and Labor Migration: Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Negative Cases
Migration scholars have frequently emphasized the tremendous increase in international migration in recent years. But several advanced industrial countries – Japan in particular – have relatively small numbers of foreign workers. Most of the literature on labor migration relates only to “positive” cases, i.e., countries that have actually experienced significant inflows of foreign workers. This paper proposes considering Japan as a “negative case…
Japan and Labor Migration: Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Negative Cases
Migration scholars have frequently emphasized the tremendous increase in international migration in recent years. But several advanced industrial countries — Japan in particular — have relatively small numbers of foreign workers. Most of the literature on labor migration relates only to “positive cases,” i.e., countries that have actually experienced significant inflows of foreign workers. This article proposes considering Japan as a “negative ca…
Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn against Immigration
"Forced Migration and "Rejected Alternatives: A Conceptual Refinement
The “forced migration” concept can obscure how some people who migrate in this mode exercise a key form of agency. Some refugee flows occur when people reasonably reject options that might obviate the need to flee (e.g., abandoning their religious beliefs). A similar form of agency must be recognized regarding forced migration of other types: people facing severe economic difficulties sometimes become migrants by rejecting options that might secu…
Japan and Labor Migration: Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Negative Cases
Migration scholars have frequently emphasized the tremendous increase in international migration in recent years. But several advanced industrial countries — Japan in particular — have relatively small numbers of foreign workers. Most of the literature on labor migration relates only to “positive cases,” i.e., countries that have actually experienced significant inflows of foreign workers. This article proposes considering Japan as a “negative ca…
Labor Migration Policy and the Governance of the Construction Industry in Israel and Japan
Significant 'guestworker' immigration occurs when the state lacks the capacity to inhibit rent-seeking by private interests that benefit from imported labor. Policies allowing imported labor result in government subsidies for employers' profits. These subsidies are usefully conceived as rents. A developmentalist state(e.g. Japan) will constrain the creation of such rents, especially because imported labor carries long-term costs not borne by empl…
Sociology Compass
A significant body of social-science research on happiness has accrued in recent decades, produced mainly by economists and psychologists. Sociologists, however, have made more limited contributions to “happiness studies”. This paper provides an overview of concepts, methods and findings and suggests some questions about happiness that ought to be of substantial interest to sociology. Many sociologists are clearly interested in the well-being of …
Macro-conditions and immigrants' happiness: Is moving to a wealthy country all that matters
Japan and Labor Migration: Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Negative Cases
Migration scholars have frequently emphasized the tremendous increase in international migration in recent years. But several advanced industrial countries – Japan in particular – have relatively small numbers of foreign workers. Most of the literature on labor migration relates only to “positive” cases, i.e., countries that have actually experienced significant inflows of foreign workers. This paper proposes considering Japan as a “negative case…
Migration, Ethnonationalist Destinations and Social Divisions: Non-Jewish Immigrants in Israel
Immigrants in ethnonationalist destinations who lack shared ethnicity with natives typically encounter difficulties of integration. But analysis of non-Jewish immigrants in Israel shows that lacking shared ethnicity is not an insurmountable obstacle, even in strongly ethnonationalist destinations. Non-Jewish immigrants—including migrant workers—have achieved a degree of membership in Israeli society. Moreover, their presence has exacerbated certa…
Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn against Immigration
Foreign Workers, Refugees and Prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
Japan and Labor Migration: Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Negative Cases
Migration scholars have frequently emphasized the tremendous increase in international migration in recent years. But several advanced industrial countries – Japan in particular – have relatively small numbers of foreign workers. Most of the literature on labor migration relates only to “positive” cases, i.e., countries that have actually experienced significant inflows of foreign workers. This paper proposes considering Japan as a “negative case…
Japan and Labor Migration: Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Negative Cases
Migration scholars have frequently emphasized the tremendous increase in international migration in recent years. But several advanced industrial countries — Japan in particular — have relatively small numbers of foreign workers. Most of the literature on labor migration relates only to “positive cases,” i.e., countries that have actually experienced significant inflows of foreign workers. This article proposes considering Japan as a “negative ca…
Labor Migration Policy and the Governance of the Construction Industry in Israel and Japan
Significant 'guestworker' immigration occurs when the state lacks the capacity to inhibit rent-seeking by private interests that benefit from imported labor. Policies allowing imported labor result in government subsidies for employers' profits. These subsidies are usefully conceived as rents. A developmentalist state(e.g. Japan) will constrain the creation of such rents, especially because imported labor carries long-term costs not borne by empl…
International Labour Migration: Foreign Workers and Public Policy
Studies of international labour migration typically assume that foreign labour is a universal feature of wealthy economies. Exploitation of foreign workers can contribute significantly to employers' p
International Labor Migration: Foreign Workers and Public Policy
Conspicuous By Their Absence: Why Are There So Few Foreign Workers in Finland
Migration scholars commonly assume that employment of low-wage foreign workers is a universal feature of labour markets in wealthy countries. However, several wealthy countries have very few foreign workers proportional to their labour force. Existing theories of international labour migration are not well equipped to explain these anomalies. This paper summarises the challenge presented by ‘negative cases’ of labour migration and explores an exp…
Sociology Compass
A significant body of social-science research on happiness has accrued in recent decades, produced mainly by economists and psychologists. Sociologists, however, have made more limited contributions to “happiness studies”. This paper provides an overview of concepts, methods and findings and suggests some questions about happiness that ought to be of substantial interest to sociology. Many sociologists are clearly interested in the well-being of …
The normative foundations of 'policy implications: Reflections on International Labour Migration
Sociologists, when offering suggestions for policy arising from their empirical research, typically do not provide explicit reflection on the values or interests such 'policy implications' are meant to advance. This article illustrates why such reflection can be important, by showing how different normative frameworks lead to different policy suggestions concerning international labour migration. In a conventional neoclassical economics view, lab…
Migration, Ethnonationalist Destinations and Social Divisions: Non-Jewish Immigrants in Israel
Immigrants in ethnonationalist destinations who lack shared ethnicity with natives typically encounter difficulties of integration. But analysis of non-Jewish immigrants in Israel shows that lacking shared ethnicity is not an insurmountable obstacle, even in strongly ethnonationalist destinations. Non-Jewish immigrants—including migrant workers—have achieved a degree of membership in Israeli society. Moreover, their presence has exacerbated certa…
Further validation of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) in the UK veterinary profession: Rasch analysis
Key Concepts in Migration
"This book provides lucid and intuitive explanations of the most important migration concepts as used in classrooms, among policymakers, and in popular and academic discourse. Arguing that there is a clear need for a better public understanding of migration, it sets out to clarify the field by exploring relevant concepts in a direct and engaging way [...] It is an ideal resource for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying migration in s…
"Forced Migration and "Rejected Alternatives: A Conceptual Refinement
The “forced migration” concept can obscure how some people who migrate in this mode exercise a key form of agency. Some refugee flows occur when people reasonably reject options that might obviate the need to flee (e.g., abandoning their religious beliefs). A similar form of agency must be recognized regarding forced migration of other types: people facing severe economic difficulties sometimes become migrants by rejecting options that might secu…
The Political Economy of Human Happiness: How Voters' Choices Determine the Quality of Life
Happiness
Happiness is a form of subjective well‐being; the concept captures how people feel about their lives as a whole. (A closely related concept, life satisfaction, indicates how people cognitively evaluate their lives.) Rather than assuming that happiness follows automatically from enjoying what many would consider favorable objective conditions, researchers investigate happiness empirically (often via surveys), asking individuals to indicate how hap…
Macro-conditions and immigrants' happiness: Is moving to a wealthy country all that matters
Happiness Is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism
Moving the boundaries is not the same as erasing them: A review of Frank Furedi’s Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries
"Moving the boundaries is not the same as erasing them: A review of Frank Furedi’s Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries" published on May 2021 by Bristol University Press
Economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Happiness (5 works) · Immigration (4 works)