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Intersections of care work and ecological sustainability IN HOW FAR CAN TIME BE A COMMON CURRENCY?
(2018)
The following paper is a comparative study of labour market policies and strategies of two welfare states, Germany and the United Kingdom (the UK), aiming to smooth the transition of the labour force to the industry 4.0. The fourth industrial revolution arises number of challenges for the labour market, therefore one should be seeing certain changes in production and employment regimes of the given countries. This study tries to find an evidence of changes in employment and production regimes, described by Duncan Gallie (2007) in “Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work”. The study answers the guiding research questions:
-Can any changes in production and employment regimes be seen?
-What kind of solutions do welfare states, belonging to different types types of employment and production regimes offer for addressing the various challenges that has emerged in the current revolution? (The challenges will be identified in the chapter 3.)
The following hypothesis is tested: under conditions of such rapid technological advancement, the production and employment regimes in Germany and the United kingdom are becoming more and more similar.
The study analyzed Gallie’s Employment and Production regimes (2007), identified main characteristics of each regime and recreated some of the statistical tables of the theoretical framework by using renewed statistical data. The study concludes that changes in production
regimes are indeed happening, and based on new statistical data both countries have strong initial and weak continual educational schemes, whilst there is no significant change in terms of employment regimes.
Common European Asylum System European Union’s response to the refugee inflows from 2013 onwards
(2018)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the EU’s response to the refugee inflows from 2013 onwards. It will be argued that during the management of the challenge, the member states was far cry from adopting a collective response to the challenge. This commitment-compliance will be attributed to EU’s historically failure to make a clear distinction between market regulation and core state powers in which domestic conflicts and politicization has become considerably relevant. The content of the paper is divided into six chapters. In the first chapter, the scope of the thesis will be explained by touching upon the rationale of the paper and basic terminologies in migration studies. Second chapter will concentrate on theoretical framework explaining the concept of ‘core state powers’ in CEAS, together with its features, problems and consequences in the face of refugee inflows from 2013 onwards. The third chapter will give practical inputs in line with 2015 European Agenda on Migration to show how regulatory integration on core state powers led to a growing commitment compliance gap (Relocation Plan) and externalization practices by the EU. (Hotspot mechanism and Re-admission Agreement).
The present master thesis analyzes the impact of the influx of asylum seekers during 2015/2016 on the asylum framework of the EU and the domestic asylum policy of the member states. The thesis argues that the refugee crisis has contributed significantly to the exposure of the numerous shortcomings of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) one of which is the ignorance of the persistent heterogeneity of the member states that hinders the harmonization of the asylum policies and reception conditions. The first part of the research deals with the baseline of the CEAS and the role of the supranational shaping of the asylum policy field during the current crisis. Following aspects will be here under scrutiny: persistent focus on the external border security arising from the Schengen Agreement, the problem of the burden-sharing under the Dublin Regulation as well as the achieving the goal of tempering the refugee influx by externalization of the issue through the Deal with Turkey. The empirical part focuses on the various EU member states, namely Germany, Greece, and Hungary. The research touches upon historical roots of the asylum policy of the respective member states, legislative developments happening during 2015/2016 and reception conditions. The thesis concludes that the lack of the legitimacy of the regulations coming from the supranational level along with the absence of the profound ideational basis for the elaboration of the common asylum policy facilitated by the deep-rooted diverse historical and institutional context hinders the EU member states to act sufficiently under the critical circumstances and provide an adequate and human-rights oriented response to the massive migratory inflows.