User:Martin Baldwin-Edwards
Martin Baldwin-Edwards is an Editor in Economics, Politics and Sociology on Citizendium. He also served as a member of its first Editorial Council and was Secretary of the second-constituted Council. He is currently Co-Director of the Mediterranean Migration Observatory, Institute for International Relations, Panteion University, Athens, Greece. He recently completed research on migration and labour markets in the GCC countries for the Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics. During 2007-9, he was based in Vienna working with the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) as expert Rapporteur on Greece and Cyprus within the PROMINSTAT statistics project, and also as Scientific Director of a project (REGINE) advising the European Commission on policy for regularization of illegal immigrants across 27 countries. He has authored over 60 publications on international migration, including The Politics of Immigration in Western Europe (ed. with M. Schain, 1994) and Immigrants and the Informal Economy in Southern Europe (ed. with J. Arango, 1999). He has lectured and researched in four UK universities and was Visiting Professor/Jean Monnet Fellow in International Migration at the European University Institute, 1997/8. He was co-founder and has been Co-Director of the Mediterranean Migration Observatory at Panteion University since 1999, and in 2003 was Research Director and subsequently General Director of Antigone, the Greek national focal point for the EUMC-RAXEN network on monitoring of racism and xenophobia.
In recent years, he has served as a consultant or advisor on migration issues to many governmental and international agencies, including: the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, Migrations Committee; the European Consortium on Exiles and Refugees (ECRE); the East-West Institute, Brussels; the ISTAME-Papandreou Foundation, Athens; the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva; the Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM), Geneva; the Migrants in Greece consortium and Lambrakis Foundation, Greece; the Migration Policy Institute, USA, ECRI (Council of Europe), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the governments of Italy, Spain and Greece.
Specializations
academic disciplines: economic sociology, political economy, human geography, comparative public policy
thematic areas: international migration and population statistics, immigration policies, illegal migration, immigration and the labour market, employment and the informal economy, emigration and economic development, visa policies, Schengen Treaty
geographical regions: southern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Balkans, European Union
individual countries: Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Albania, Romania
PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2004
Books
REGINE: Regularisations in Europe, with A. Kraler (eds)(2009), Amsterdam University Press
Migration within the Balkans, with H. Vermeulen (eds) (in preparation)
Ethnicity and Migration: A Greek Story, with H. Vermeulen (eds), revised and expanded version of Migrance 31 (in preparation)
Articles in journals
'How to cut the Gordian knot of Europe's muddled immigration policies', Europe’s World, Spring 2009 [1]
'Towards a theory of illegal migration', Third World Quarterly, 29/7, 2008, pp. 1449-1459 [2]
‘La migración en la región subsahariana y el Magreb', Vanguardia Dossier, Enero/Marzo 2008: África, pp. 95-100 [3]
(with K. Apostolatou) 'Ethnicity and migration: A Greek story', Revue Migrance 31 (Oct. 2008) Guest Editor of journal issue on Greece, published in French and English. Available from http://mmo.gr/pdf/publications/other_publications/migrance31Abd.pdf
'Migration between Greece and Turkey: From the “Exchange of Populations” to non-recognition of borders', South East Europe Review . [4]
‘Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis: Migration policies for a Romania within the European Union’, South East European and Black Sea Studies, 7/1, pp. 5-35. [5]
‘La migración en la región del Mediterráneo’, Vanguardia Dossier, Enero/Marzo 2007: Inmigrantes: El Continente Móvil, pp. 18-26. [6]
‘Balkan migrations and the European Union: Patterns and trends’, The Romanian Journal of European Studies, 4/2005, pp. 31-43. [7]
‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: North Africa as a region of emigration, immigration and transit migration’, Review of African Political Economy, 33/108, pp. 311-324. Also published in Circunstancia, 10. [8]
‘Mediterranean Migrations: regionalisms versus globalisation’, Revista Finisterra, 39/77, Lisboa, pp. 9-20. [9]
‘Albanian Emigration and the Greek Labour Market’, South East Europe Review, 7/1, pp. 51-66. [10]
‘Sustainable Development and Emigration: The Contemporary Balkans and the European Union’, South East Europe Review, 7/1, pp. 9-14. [11]
Chapters in edited books
'The southern European "model of immigration": a sceptical view', in M. Okolski (ed), Europe: the continent of immigrants. Trends, structures and policy implications, Amsterdam UP (in press)
'Greece', in Baldwin-Edwards & Kraler (2009)
'Cyprus', in Baldwin-Edwards & Kraler (2009)
(with K. Apostolatou) 'Statistics and Reality: Greece', in H. Fassmann, U. Reeger, W. Sievers (eds)(2009): Statistics and Reality: concepts and measurements of migration in Europe, Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP. Available from: http://dare.uva.nl/document/138908
'Illegal migration in the Mediterranean', 5th International Seminar on Security and Defence in the Mediterranean, Barcelona: CIDOB Foundation. Available online from: http://www.cidob.org/en/content/download/6340/63769/file/15_baldwin_eng.pdf
‘Migration in the Mediterranean and Middle East’, in B. Marshall (ed)(2006), The Politics of Migration: A Survey, Routledge, pp. 172-191
‘Immigration, Immigrants and Socialisation in Southern Europe: patterns, problems and contradistinctions’, in C. Inglessi, A. Lyberaki, H. Vermeulen and G. J. van Wijngaarden (eds)(2004): Immigration and Integration in Northern versus Southern Europe, Athens: Netherlands Institute in Athens, pp. 11-24
‘Immigrants and the Welfare State in Europe’, in D. Massey and J. Edward Taylor (eds)(2004): International Migration - Prospects and Policies in a Global Market, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 318-334
Official Reports
PROMINSTAT country report for Greece (migration statistics) (May 2010) Greece
PROMINSTAT country report for Cyprus (migration statistics) (May 2010) Cyprus
REGINE: Regularisations in Europe, (with A. Kraler), Report in 4 volumes prepared for DG JLS, European Commission. Presented to and accepted by the EU 27 governments, December 2008. Available from: http://research.icmpd.org/1184.html
Statistics and Reality: Greece, (with K. Apostolatou), Report prepared for the IMISCOE network, Working Group 1, Task 3: Structural Aspects of International Migration. Available from: http://dare.uva.nl/document/138908
Visa Policies in South Eastern Europe: a hindrance or a stepping stone to European integration? Policy brief prepared for the East-West Institute, Center for Border Studies, Brussels. Available from: http://www.ewi.info/tempPDF/VisapoliciesinSee.pdf
Migration in the Middle East and Mediterranean, Regional study prepared for the UN Global Commission on International Migration, Geneva, 2005. 44 pp. On web at: http://www.gcim.org/attachements/RS5.pdf and http://www.mmo.gr/pdf/news/Migration_in_the_Middle_East_and_Mediterranean.pdf
Statistical Data on Immigrants in Greece: an analytic study of available data and recommendations for conformity with EU standards, IMEPO, Ministry of Interior, Greece, October 2004. In English (100 pp) and Greek (105 pp). On web at: http://www.mmo.gr/pdf/general/IMEPO_Final_Report_English.pdf and http://www.imepo.gr
The Integration of Immigrants in Athens: developing indicators and statistical measures, Lambrakis Foundation and EQUAL consortium: Migrants in Greece, 2004. 69 pp. (in English and Greek) . On web at: http://www.migrants.gr/observatory.asp?categ=1&sub=1
The Changing Mosaic of Mediterranean Migrations. Feature Story, 1 June 2004, commissioned by Migration Information Source, Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC. On web at: http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=230
Immigration into Greece, 1990-2003, United Nations, European Population Forum 2004, UNECE, Geneva, 12-14 January. Plenary Speaker in session “International Migration: Promoting Management and Integration”. 29 pp. Available at: http://www.unece.org/ead/pau/epf/present/ts4/baldwinedwards.pdf
Working Papers
‘Immigrants in Greece: Characteristics and Issues of Regional Distribution’, Working Paper No. 10, Mediterranean Migration Observatory, UEHR, Panteion University. Available at: http://www.mmo.gr/pdf/publications/mmo_working_papers/mmo_wp10.pdf
‘Patterns of migration in the Balkans’, Working Paper No. 9, Mediterranean Migration Observatory, UEHR, Panteion University. Available at: http://www.mmo.gr/pdf/publications/mmo_working_papers/mmo_wp9.pdf
‘Implementing the EU Anti-discrimination Directives in Greece: Between “marketisation” and social exclusion’, Working Paper No. 8, Mediterranean Migration Observatory, UEHR, Panteion University. Available at: http://www.mmo.gr/pdf/publications/mmo_working_papers/MMO_WP8.pdf
‘Migration into southern Europe: non-legality and labour markets in the region’, Working Paper No. 6, Mediterranean Migration Observatory, UEHR, Panteion University. Available at: http://www.mmo.gr/pdf/publications/mmo_working_papers/MMO_WP6.pdf
RECENT UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT
- "The Political Economy of International Migration", MA degree, Panteion University, 2007/8, 2009/10
- "Introduction to Social Sciences", undergraduate, The Open University, 2000-09
- "Economics and Changing Economies", The Open University, 2002