labour & migration

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[InfoMigrants @InfoMigrants]

Migrant deaths more than doubled on the Central Mediterranean and tripled on the Eastern Mediterranean route in the first four months of 2026, even as arrivals to Europe fell sharply.

https://t.co/lytl0mVqhW

[labour & migration @MigrationLabour]

Mixed Embeddedness in Motion: Kurdish and Turkish Entrepreneurship in Germany and the UK - Mehmet Rauf Kesici, Sociologica
https://t.co/IBovjTTm7Y

[EU_Eurostat @EU_Eurostat]

Out now 📖

'Asylum and Migration Overview 2025 – Statistical Annex – 2026 edition'

Read now 👇https://t.co/bMCXz2FpoA

[Race & Class @Race_Class]

📕Labour’s island of strangers: race, class and the politics of immigration in Starmer’s Britain by David Bates

https://t.co/Qy85M7O6hn

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

How Long Is the Work Week in Europe?

🔴 Longest weeks:
🇹🇷 Turkey — 42.4 hrs
🇷🇴 Romania — 40.9 hrs
🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 40.6 hrs
🇬🇷 Greece — 39.6 hrs
🇲🇰 North Macedonia — 39.5 hrs
🇵🇱 Poland — 38.7 hrs
🇨🇾 Cyprus — 38.7 hrs
🇱🇹 Lithuania — 38.4 hrs
🇱🇻 Latvia — 37.9 hrs
🇵🇹 Portugal — 37.4 hrs
🇭🇺 Hungary — 37.6 hrs
🇨🇿 Czechia — 37.5 hrs
🇲🇹 Malta — 37.5 hrs
🇸🇰 Slovakia — 37.5 hrs
🇷🇸 Serbia — 37.7 hrs
🇦🇱 Albania — 37.7 hrs
🇪🇸 Spain — 36.3 hrs
🇸🇮 Slovenia — 38.3 hrs
🇭🇷 Croatia — 37.4 hrs
🇧🇦 Bosnia — 38.2 hrs

🟡 Around the EU average (35.9 hrs):
🇮🇹 Italy — 36.1 hrs
🇫🇷 France — 35.6 hrs
🇧🇪 Belgium — 35.7 hrs
🇦🇹 Austria — 34.0 hrs
🇱�� Liechtenstein — 37.9 hrs
🇮🇪 Ireland — 35.1 hrs
🇫🇮 Finland — 35.4 hrs
🇪🇪 Estonia — 36.2 hrs
🇱🇺 Luxembourg — 33.9 hrs
🇨🇭 Switzerland — 35.9 hrs

🟢 Shortest weeks:
🇸🇪 Sweden — 34.7 hrs
🇩🇰 Denmark — 33.9 hrs
🇳🇴 Norway — 33.9 hrs
🇩🇪 Germany — 34.3 hrs
🇮🇸 Iceland — 35.4 hrs
🇳🇱 Netherlands — 31.9 hrs

EU Average: 35.9 hrs/week

(Actual hours worked, employed people age 20–64)

Source: Eurostat

[International Labour Organization @ilo]

Most workers will not navigate digital change through specialist skills alone. The foundations matter too: digital literacy, critical thinking and social abilities.

New ILO report: https://t.co/05yuB8Loyy

[The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpod]

When will the workforce begin to feel the full effects of AI? Jon welcomes MIT economists @davidautor and @DAcemogluMIT to discuss what the technology will do to work, learning, and our collective economic future. New pod out tomorrow! #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics

[labour & migration @MigrationLabour]

Refugee-Led Organizations in Uganda : Agency, Gender, and Politics of Self- Organizing in Exile
https://t.co/qzONnJS8ue

[MSF Sea @MSF_Sea]

Ten Years of the EU-Türkiye Deal:
The Lasting Impact of the EU–Türkiye Deal on Europe’s Borders.

[InfoMigrants @InfoMigrants]

A new bill introducing "return hubs" in third countries to accelerate deportations was recently approved by a key committee of the European Parliament.

Here's how the new plan would work — and why rights groups warn of the human cost 👇

https://t.co/LnGLiUIpRn

[All About Berlin @aboutberlin]

The Berlin immigration office just made the freelance visa application process digital!

https://t.co/AqFKjWWwKM

[Rosa Luxemburg Foundation @rosaluxglobal]

We’re hiring a full-time Global Web Editor for https://t.co/76qCRfMMDn, based in Brussels at @RosaluxEuropa. Help shape left-wing, internationalist political analysis with our global network. Apply by 8 February: https://t.co/uoTB8eemHK

[European Labour Authority @EU_ELA]

🚆You regularly commute across borders for work?

If you lose your job, claim unemployment benefits where you live.

As other mobile workers, you can receive benefits up to 3 months while searching for a job in another country.

👉https://t.co/eEiZvLACPZ

#EU4SocialSecurity

[European Labour Authority @EU_ELA]

Moving within the EU for a job?

✅ Unemployment, healthcare and pension rights move with you!

🤝 You’re treated like locals.

💼 Your employer must declare your employment and pay contributions where you physically work.

Info?👉 https://t.co/eEiZvLACPZ

#EU4SocialSecurity

[Jeff Crisp @JFCrisp]

Online at last!
A groundbreaking 1986 book that examines the different forms of forced migration & responses to them.
By Nick Van Hear & myself.
ICRC: "llustrated with a wealth of examples. A pleasure to read."
https://t.co/F6HgFZTkxf

[Tineke Strik @Tineke_Strik]

The Mediterranean Pact aims to expand the EU’s geopolitical influence.
In reality, it's a migration deal blueprint, deepening dependence on autocrats by increasing cooperation in exchange for stopping migrants. Unacceptable and a missed opportunity to truly promote human rights.

[Maurice Stierl @MauriceStierl]

My piece for the Guardian on 10 years since Europe’s border crisis: “The burning of an effigy of refugees is what happens after a decade of dehumanisation. Many have implanted a dangerous border fantasy that will continue to divide, hurt and kill.”
https://t.co/5t2vwL1M9A

[labour & migration @MigrationLabour]

Economic Impact of Ethnic and Cultural Identities: The Role of Multiple and Hybrid Identities Among Kurdish and Turkish Migrants and Their Descendants in Germany - Mehmet Rauf Kesici, 2025 https://t.co/mOASSHfnJs