Philip Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5770144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2888-4261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
How Do Those Who Have Served Deserve to Be Treated? Military Veterans in the U.K. Social Security System
Military service has often been a basis for civilian welfare entitlements. If mass wartime service justified collective provision, it is now suggested professional militaries have been co-opted to support reformed welfare models in which entitlement is increasingly conditional on individuals’ commitment, discipline, and responsibility. “Forces Covenants” which explicitly connect the dedication and contribution of service to state assistance, symb…
Building relationships of trust? The experiences of military veterans claiming ‘interface first’ Universal Credit
Trust is a central consideration when understanding the administration of social security benefits and interactions between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and claimants, which is increasingly digitalised. While this can have administrative advantages for the DWP and some claimants, less is known about how this digital shift impacts on the relationship between the DWP and claimants within the context of the DWP’s commitments to restore…
The Cambridge Companion to Byron: Second Edition
Deeply informed and appealingly written, this revised and updated second edition gives fresh life to the enthralling sexual, poetic and political contradictions that make Byron the first literary celebrity. Encompassing his entire oeuvre, the volume both provides an authoritative guide for students, and points to emerging new areas of research, highlighting Byron's ongoing relevance in an increasingly complex world both within academia and beyond…
Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: Young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway
In this article, we present an analysis of young unemployed peoples’ perceptions and experiences with public and third sector support in Norway and the UK. Drawing on data generated through qualitative semi-structured interviews, the analysis shows that street level workers’ approaches towards clients are important in understanding (dis)engagement with various employment support systems. Taking a ‘street-level’ perspective as a lens for understan…
Racialisation, the EU Referendum result and sentiments of belonging in the UK: A consideration of Roma populations
This article reports on a qualitative study with migrant Roma communities in South Yorkshire, UK. The study was undertaken shortly after the 2016 European Union membership referendum in the UK. It finds that while hostility towards the studied Roma population did increase immediately after the resulting Leave vote, their experiences of racialisation can be situated more clearly in how the result engendered a shift in the expressions and understan…
Breaking the Impasse: Rethinking Refugee Integration through the Equality Act 2010 in the United Kingdom
Integration is widely considered to be difficult to define and even harder to facilitate. Whist the integration of migrants to the United Kingdom (UK) remains a ‘hot topic’ in policy, politics and public opinion it is also the subject of numerous attempts to conceptualise and measure it. In this article we draw on empirical research undertaken with a wide range of organisations working between refugees and powerful national organisations which pe…
Homes and health in the Outer Hebrides: A social prescribing framework for addressing fuel poverty and the social determinants of health
So this is not a game” - Brexit as a ‘situation of uncommon precarity’ for migrants of Roma heritage in the UK
The vulnerability of migrants of Roma heritage[1] to insecure, low status, (and sometimes exploitative), employment conditions in the UK has been highlighted by various studies (e.g. Poole & Adamson 2008;, Martin et al 2017, Tileaga et al. 2019). Such patterns of employment have frequently been identified as ‘precarious labour’ across the European Union (e.g. Apostolova et al 2014; Vincze, 2015).Following the 2016 Referendum vote to leave the EU[…
Military Veterans and Welfare Reform: Bridging Two Policy Worlds through Qualitative Longitudinal Research
There has been an increasing focus in the UK on the support provided to the Armed Forces community, with the publication of the Armed Forces Covenant (2011), the Strategy for our Veterans (2018) and the first ever Office for Veterans’ Affairs (2019). There is also an important body of research – including longitudinal research – focusing on transitions from military to civilian life, much of which is quantitative. At the same time, the UK has wit…
When Do Strong Parties “Throw the Bums Out”? Competition and Accountability in South African Candidate Nominations
Labour Market Realism and the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees
The Global Compacts on Migration (GCM) and Refugees (GCR) include policy recommendations that aim to increase opportunities for legal labour migration, improve protections for migrant workers, and provide refugees with ‘complementary pathways’ to enhanced protection via labour mobility. This paper explains why there are large gaps between these policy recommendations and the labour market policies and realities in the countries that host most of …
The GCM and temporary labor migration
East Asian men: Masculinity, Sexuality and Desire
East Asian Men focuses on men’s practices, situations and depictions in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Presented in three parts, the book explores the ways by which men come to oc
Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-First Century
Why have ninety million workers around the globe left their homes for employment in other countries? What can be done to ensure that international labor migration is a force for global betterment? This groundbreaking book presents the most comprehensive analysis of the causes and effects of labor migration available, and it recommends sensible, sustainable migration policies that are fair to migrants and to the countries that open their doors to …
Migration Costs of Returning Workers
This chapter analyzes data on what workers—interviewed as they returned from jobs in Gulf Cooperation Council countries—paid several years earlier at home to get their jobs. The most important finding is the big difference in cost by corridor. The gap between the highest and lowest cost corridor was 9 to 1, reflecting the average $4,400 paid by Pakistanis returning from Saudia Arabia versus the $500 paid by Filipinos returning from Qatar. Earning…
Prologue
Mohammed, a 30-year-old Pakistani farmer with a primary school education, paid $4,000 to get a construction job in Saudi Arabia that paid $400 a month. Mohammed did not have the $4,000 to buy a work visa and pay agent fees and transportation costs, so he mortgaged his land, hoping to repay the loan with some of the $9,600 he expected to earn in Saudi Arabia over two years. With uncertain Pakistani earnings of $100 a month and a wife and four chil…
International Labor Migration
Migration is the exception rather than the rule, but international labor migration is likely to increase because of persisting demographic and economic inequalities at a time when revolutions in communications, transportation, and rights make it ever easier to learn about opportunities abroad, move to them, and stay abroad. When faced with migration crises, the default management tool of governments involves adjusting the rights of migrants, prom…
Employers, Recruiters, and Workers
Low-skilled migrant workers often pay high fees to work abroad, which reduces the remittances they can send to their families and is regressive because low-skilled workers pay more than high-skilled workers. No one knows exactly how much workers pay, justifying more data on this in order to reduce worker-paid costs. Media exposés of workers who paid a year’s foreign earnings to get a two-year contract may leave the impression that all workers pay…
Migration Costs in Destinations
This chapter fills a data void by examining what workers—interviewed where they worked—paid in their countries of origin for their foreign jobs. Workers were interviewed in Korea, Kuwait, and Spain in 2014, and in Malaysia in 2015; it was found that worker-paid migration costs were less than a month’s foreign earnings in Korea and Spain, but more in Malaysia and Kuwait. There were several reasons for these cost differences, including the fact tha…
Migration and Development
There are three factors that persuade a migrant to cross borders: demand-pull in destination areas, supply-push in origin areas, and network factors that connect them. On the basis of this demand-pull, supply-push, and network framework, a distinction can be made between economic migrants who are encouraged to migrate because of a demand for their labor abroad and noneconomic migrants who cross national borders to seek refuge or to join family me…
Merchants of Labor: Recruiters and International Labor Migration
Merchants of labor are the intermediary recruiters between workers in one country and employers in another. They have a checkered history, often associated with trickery or coercion to fill undesirable jobs, from finding soldiers in ancient Rome and sailors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to moving low-skilled workers over borders today. Moving workers over borders is a big business, generating at least $10 billion a year from 10 milli…
The impression of power - memory, affect and ambivalent masculinities in Vietnam
This article reflects on the ways young urban Vietnamese men remember their imaginings while growing up about cultural scripts of masculinity and femininity, the ways such memories contrast with how they feel about their everyday relationships with women and other men, and how those feelings change. In so doing the article draws attention to the practical role(s) that affectivity and ambivalence play in signifying and mystifying for young Vietnam…
Immigration to the U nited S tates
Most Americans have been dissatisfied with US immigration policies since the mid‐1990s due to sometimes long waits for immigrant visas and the presence of almost twelve million unauthorized foreigners among the forty‐two million foreign‐born US residents in 2012. Some believe that the United States, which accepts over a million immigrants and several hundred thousand temporary foreign workers a year, is not getting enough highly skilled immigrant…
International Labor Migration in the Pacific Rim
Asia included 60 percent of the world’s people but less than 30 percent of the world’s international migrants in 2010. The major migrant-receiving countries represent migration extremes. Japan has very few migrant workers, while Gulf oil-exporting countries rely on migrants to fill over 90 percent of private sector jobs. Singapore is most similar to non-Asian industrial countries, welcoming skilled foreigners to settle but rotating low-skilled fo…
Mining codes in Africa: Emergence of a ‘fourth’ generation
A burgeoning interest among academics, policy-makers and civil society groups has developed concerning Africa's extractive sector and particularly its mining codes, which are now at the centre of a wider policy debate over natural resource governance and economic development on the continent. This article reviews the evolution of Africa's regulatory codes in the mining sector, which has undergone what Bonnie Campbell describes as ‘three generatio…
Numbers vs. Rights: Trade-Offs and Guest Worker Programs
This paper examines the relationship between the number and rights of low-skilled migrant workers in high-income countries. It identifies a trade-off: Countries with large numbers of low-skilled migrant workers offer them relatively few rights, while smaller numbers of migrants are typically associated with more rights. We discuss the number-vs.-rights trade-off in theory and practice as an example of competing goods, raising the question of whet…
Recession and Migration: A New Era for Labor Migration
The current recession, the worst in a half century, is likely to affect international migration differently than past recessions. In 1973–1974 and 1981–1982, rising oil prices led to recessions in oil-importing countries and economic booms in oil-exporting countries, enabling some migrants to shift from bust to boom areas, as from Europe to the Middle East. The 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis did not spread globally, and was followed by a relati…
Mining codes in Africa: Emergence of a ‘fourth’ generation
A burgeoning interest among academics, policy-makers and civil society groups has developed concerning Africa's extractive sector and particularly its mining codes, which are now at the centre of a wider policy debate over natural resource governance and economic development on the continent. This article reviews the evolution of Africa's regulatory codes in the mining sector, which has undergone what Bonnie Campbell describes as ‘three generatio…
High‐level Dialogue on Migration and Development
Mexican Workers and U.S. Agriculture: The Revolving Door
Western U.S. agriculture is an industry that has shaped and been shaped by a peculiar labor policy: seasonal workers were outsiders who looked to agriculture for jobs, not careers. They did not plan to remain farm workers, and the industry and community in which they worked and lived did not see them as long-term settlers. The immigration and integration policy, in effect, was to recruit new workers willing to accommodate themselves to seasonal e…
Proposition 187 in California
Philip Martin, Proposition 187 in California, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, Special Issue: Diversity and Comparability: International Migrants in Host Countries on Four Continents (Spring, 1995), pp. 255-263
Coming Together: Power-Sharing and the Durability of Negotiated Peace Settlements
This article investigates the relationship between power-sharing institutions and the durability of peace after negotiated settlements, employing statistical analyses on a large N data-set of peace agreements signed between 1989 and 2008. In contrast to recent studies which rely on a singular measure of ‘political’ power-sharing, post-settlement government institutions are empirically evaluated in terms of five key dimensions – executive-level co…
Best Practices to Manage Migration: The Philippines
The Cooperative Efforts to Manage Emigration (CEME) project examines ways in which countries of origin, transit, and destination can cooperate to better manage migration. The project focuses on source countries of migration that are in transition to market economies and democratic systems of governance, developments that promise to reduce unwanted migration, and uses study visits to seek best practices for organizing the three Rs – recruitment, r…
Best Practices to Reduce Migration Pressures
Are there best practices to foster economic development, reduce population growth, and protect the environment in source countries of unauthorized migration, in a manner that reduces emigration pressures and redirects migration towards legal channels? This paper outlines cooperative actions that can be undertaken by both source and receiving countries to better manage the movements of people over national borders. There are two broad approaches t…
Proposition 187 in California
On November 8, 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187, the Save Our State (SOS) initiative, 59 to 41 percent. If implemented Propo? sition 187 would create a state-run system to verify the legal status of all persons seeking public education, health care and other public benefits, and add public education to the list of services for which unauthorized aliens are ineligible. As of March 1995, the only sections of Proposition 187 in effec…
When Do Strong Parties “Throw the Bums Out”? Competition and Accountability in South African Candidate Nominations
Managing Labor Migration in the 21st Century
Best Practice Options: Mali
Mali, a poor country that embraced democracy in 1991, is considered a democratic role model for francophone Africa. It is grappling with several migration issues, including well–established networks that move thousands of Malians abroad, often with false documents, for $2,000 to $3,000; the dependence of the Kayes region, with 1.5 million residents, on emigration, particularly the remittances sent by its workers abroad; and the migration of Mali …
Managing Migration: The Role of Economic Instruments
This paper reviews economic policies and instruments available to the developed countries to reduce unwanted migration from developing countries, not all of which is irregular migration. Countries generally welcome legal immigrants and visitors, try to make it unnecessary for people to become refugees and asylum seekers, and try to discourage, detect, and remove irregular foreigners. There are three major themes: 1. There are as many reasons for …
Labor Shortages and U.S. Immigration Reform: Promises and Perils of an Independent Commission
Comprehensive U.S. immigration reform proposals have three major elements: improved border and workplace controls, dealing with the 11 million unauthorized foreigners in the U.S., and managing “future flows” of foreign workers requested by U.S. employers. Improved controls and dealing with unauthorized foreigners were discussed extensively in the U.S. Senate in 2006 and 2007. Future flows were not. This article reviews the decisions governments f…
Migration and Development: Mexico and Turkey
Mexico and Turkey are among the world's leading labor-sending nations, with about 11 million Mexican-born and 3.5 million Turkish-born persons abroad in 2006. After two decades of uneven growth and job creation as well as persisting poverty and inequality, there are debates within both countries asking whether economic reforms have gone far enough to put the economy on a stable footing for sustained and equitable growth, or whether emigration (pr…
Best Practices to Manage Migration: Morocco-Spain
Migration and Development: Whither the Dominican Republic and Haiti
The 10th Migration Dialogue seminar was held March 7-9, 2002 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Migration Dialogue seminars provide a setting for 40 opinion leaders from Europe and North America to learn about and discuss the major migration management issues of the twenty-first century. Seminars include day-long field trips that enable participants to observe real-world migration issues, and to discuss them with government officials, employer…
Labour Market Realism and the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees
The Global Compacts on Migration (GCM) and Refugees (GCR) include policy recommendations that aim to increase opportunities for legal labour migration, improve protections for migrant workers, and provide refugees with ‘complementary pathways’ to enhanced protection via labour mobility. This paper explains why there are large gaps between these policy recommendations and the labour market policies and realities in the countries that host most of …
High-Skilled Migrants: S&E Workers in the United States
Universities and employers want easier access to foreign science and engineering (S&E) students and workers. Most U.S. residents with degrees in S&E fields are U.S.-born citizens, and there are far more U.S. citizens with S&E degrees, about 15 million, than are employed in S&E occupations, about 5 million. Foreign students and workers in S&E occupations are concentrated in computer-related jobs, and their presence raises trade-offs for U.S. stude…
Best Practice Options: Turkey
At the ninth Migration Dialogue seminar, held 29–31 March 2001 in Istanbul, Turkey, opinion leaders discussed the major immigration and integration issues facing emigration, transit, and immigration countries. Several major issues regarding Turkey were discussed. First, the effect of the Turkish Government’s modernization effort, which began in the 1920s. In the 1960s the government began to promote the export of surplus labour, with the hope tha…
The GCM and temporary labor migration
The impression of power - memory, affect and ambivalent masculinities in Vietnam
This article reflects on the ways young urban Vietnamese men remember their imaginings while growing up about cultural scripts of masculinity and femininity, the ways such memories contrast with how they feel about their everyday relationships with women and other men, and how those feelings change. In so doing the article draws attention to the practical role(s) that affectivity and ambivalence play in signifying and mystifying for young Vietnam…
Gcim: A New Global Migration Facility
AgJobs: New Solution or New Problem
Over half of the workers employed on U.S. farms are not authorized to work in the United States. An historic compromise between employer and worker advocates in September 2003 would legalize some currently unauthorized workers and make it easier for farmers to obtain guest workers, but is unlikely to change the farm labor market, so that the percentage of unauthorized workers is likely to climb again
Byron: A Poet before His Public
Across the Fields: Fiddle Tunes and Button Accordion Melodies; Traditional Norwegian-American Melodies from Wisconsin
A.D. Hope, Nonconformist
Migration and Development
Migration and Development
An English Martyr
Proposition 187 in California
On November 8, 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187, the Save Our State (SOS) initiative, 59 to 41 percent. If implemented Propo? sition 187 would create a state-run system to verify the legal status of all persons seeking public education, health care and other public benefits, and add public education to the list of services for which unauthorized aliens are ineligible. As of March 1995, the only sections of Proposition 187 in effec…
The Work of Strangers: A Survey of International Labour Migration
Proposition 187 in California
Philip Martin, Proposition 187 in California, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, Special Issue: Diversity and Comparability: International Migrants in Host Countries on Four Continents (Spring, 1995), pp. 255-263
Immigration to the United Nations: Journey to Incertain Destination
Labor Contractors: A Conceptual Overview
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of labor brokering or contracting that helps to explain why employers turn to foreign workers to fill certain vacant jobs, and how the presence of foreign workers brought to a country by labor contractors can affect the size and duration of migration flows. The major conclusion is that East Asian policies that aim to avoid the settlement of unskilled foreign workers also make labor brokering a p…
Working Poor: Farmworkers in the United States. David Griffith , Ed Kissam
Promises to Keep: Collective Bargaining in California Agriculture
An analysis of the history of labour in California agriculture. It covers the growth of farmworker unions, labour law and collective bargaining, and immigration history, policy and reform. It concludes that the cost of reducing poverty in the farm-labour market is relatively modest
The Economic Sociology of Immigration
The Economics of Labor Migration
Employing Foreign Workers: A Manual on Policies and Procedures of Special Interest to Middle- and Low-Income Countries
Health and Social Services among International Labor Migrants: A Comparative Perspective
The contributors to this volume, representing a wide variety of disciplines (including medicine, social work, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and biology), are in agreement that the health and human services offered in industrial nations are generally monocultural, and not well suited for migrants from other cultures. One article even arrives at the disquieting conclusion that the mental health services offered to immigran…
Strangers among Us: How Lattino Immigration is Transforming America
Migration and Development: A Global Perspective
1. Introduction: Myths and Movements 2. Theories and Approaches 3. Systems and Boundaries 4. The Old Core 5. The New Core 6. Core Extensions and Potential Cores 7. The Labour Frontier 8. The Resource Niche 9. Conclusion: The System and the Future
Global Meltdown. Immigration, Multiculturalism, and National Breakdown in the New World Disorder
Smuggling and Trafficking: A Conference Report
is an estimated $5 to $10 billion annual business, based on estimates that at least one million migrants a year pay an average $5,000 to $10,000 each to be taken unlawfully across borders. Brunson McKinley, the director general of the International Organization for Migration, notes that smuggling people from one nation to another, the dark side of globalization, is a large and grow? ing business: penalties are far less severe than for drugs, the …
Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy
Smuggling and Trafficking: A Conference Report
Migration and Development: Focus on Turkey
During March 29-31 2001 the 9th Migration Dialogue seminar was held in Istanbul Turkey. It provided an opportunity for 40-45 opinion leaders to discuss the major immigration and integration issues facing emigration transit and immigration countries. It is noted that in the 60s the Turkish government began to export surplus labor in the hopes that sending workers abroad from less-developed parts of the country would hasten the country’s process of…
Migration, Development and US Labor Markets: The Mexican-US Case
This paper explores economic and technological changes and the evolution of labor markets in sending and receiving countries, with an emphasis on developments in a major emigration country, Mexico, and the impacts of migrants from Mexico and Latin America on the labor markets of Canada and the US. There are four major conclusions. Firstly, while immigrant workers are important in many industries, occupations, and areas, no major US industry or oc…
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