Harris, C., Moran, D. and Bryson, J.R. (2012) EU Accession Migration: National Insurance Number Allocations and the Geographies of Polish Labour Immigration to the UK. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 103 (2). 209 - 221. ISSN 0040-747X
Abstract
This paper addresses the challenge of measuring the extent of immigration to the UK following EU Accession in 2004, and argues that the most commonly used databases (UK Census, Labour Force Survey and Worker Registration Scheme) can be supplemented by the National Insurance Number (NINo) Allocations database, and demonstrates the utility of this data for future research by outlining the geography of immigration derived from NINo. The paper makes three important contributions through the thorough analysis of a data source currently underexploited in migration studies; first that the NINo, when used as a indicator of migration per se offers some interesting insights into migration in the UK, and secondly that as a tool for comprehensively measuring the registration of migrants working legally in the UK, it offers a means of constructing a internal geography of (legal) labour migration, as the paper demonstrates. Third, the analysis also identifies self-employment as a potentially important missing driver behind EU Accession Migration.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2011 The Authors. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie © 2011 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. Uploaded according to the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | UK; migration; National Insurance Number (NINo) registrations; Accession Countries; New Member States (NMS); Polish migrants |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Nov 2014 10:20 |
Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2018 06:57 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.2011.00682.x |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2011.00682.x |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81350 |