Paul Boyle, Maarten van Ham, Vernon Gayle, Robin Flowerdew, James Raymer, Beata Nowok
 

This project will use a combination of quantitative and qualitative data to analyse a range of non-labour market outcomes of family migration for women and their children. Using longitudinal data we will investigate the effects of family migration on psychological well-being, happiness, having friends, self-reported physical and mental health status, the desire to move, fertility, and the well-being of children and their educational achievements. The qualitative component of this study will provide a more in-depth understanding of the various negotiations which underpin migration behaviour. This will involve the development of a survey of men and women involved in work-related potential relocations.

 

 

Subproject: International labour mobility and its impact on family and household formation among Polish migrants living in England and Scotland
Derek McGhee, Sue Heath, Paulina Trevena
 

This sub-project is a qualitative study which will consist of fieldwork with Polish migrants in four case study areas (Southampton, Glasgow, rural Dorset and Highland Perthshire). This sub-project will focus largely on patterns of household formation, change and dissolution amongst this migrant population.

 

Subproject: International labour mobility – the changing patterns of recruitment and employment of Central and E. European migrants working in England and Scotland

Allan Findlay, David McCollum

 

This sub-project will consist of fieldwork with Central and Eastern European migrants in four proposed case study areas (two in England and two in Scotland). This sub-project will focus largely on changing recruitment patterns and employment practices/conditions amongst migrants workers engaged in two sectors of the economy. It will focus on a survey of recruiters/employers and will compliment other work in the ‘Migration, mobility and its impact on socio-demographic processes’ strand in investigating how employment practices influence the options available to migrants and migrant households.

 

Vernon Gayle, Paul Boyle, Elspeth Graham
 

This project will investigate gendered differences in the links between social and spatial mobility. More specifically, it will test whether women who move ‘up and on’ are less likely than other women to be partnered or to have children. Similarly, are men who move up and on more likely than other men to be partnered or to have children? This will be a quantitative project using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the England and Wales and Scottish Longitudinal Studies.