KnowMig - Expanding the Knowledge Base of European Labour Migration Policies

Tim Elrick
(né Fallenbacher)

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The University of Edinburgh
School of Social and Political Studies

Crystal Macmillan Building
15A George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LD
United Kingdom

Education

Professional Experience

Teaching

Memberships

Publications

Selected Presentations

Research Foci:

social networks / social capital
(ethnic / immigrant) entrepreneurship
labour migration
social in- / exclusion

Education
at present	PhD candidate in Socio-Economic Geography, Free University of Berlin Thesis (working title): "Which ethnic business? Comparing pratices of 'ethnic' and 'non-ethnic' entrepreneurs in Germany and the UK" (supervisor: Prof. Kreutzmann)
2001	M.A. in Geography, Political Economy & Business Administration, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Teacher's degree (1. Staatsexamen) in Geography & Economics/Law, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1994 - 2001	Studies in Geography, Economics & Business Administration, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Awards/Fellowships
2002 - 2004	PhD scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Munich, Germany
2001	Prize awarded for an outstanding M.A. thesis by the Franconian Geographical Society (Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft FGG), Erlangen

Professional Experience
2004-2008	Research fellow in the EU Marie Curie Excellence Grant Project KNOWMIG
2004 - 2006	Researcher at the HWWA-Migration Research Group
2002 - 2003	Researcher in a Bavarian pilot scheme related to the Agenda 21 concerning the "Situation of Women in the Administrative District of Ansbach". The project was financed by the European Social Fonds and the Government of Bavaria
2001 - 2002	Consultant in GIS-based social research projects commissioned by the Protestant church of Bavaria
1998/99	Researcher in a German Research Foundation (DFG) project entitled "Tropical mountain forests in Southern Ecuador" on the social part of the project in Southern Ecuador

Teaching
Winter Term 2008/09	Methods of empirical regional research, B.A. course, Department of Geography, University of Hamburg, Germany
Winter Term 2006/07	Socialgeographical migration research and regional development, M.A. course in Migration and Integration (IMIB), Department of Geography / IMIS, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Summer Term 2006	Migration, sociogeographical change and ethnic conflicts, M.A. course in Migration and Integration (IMIB), Department of Geography / IMIS, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Winter Term 2005/06	Europe and International Migration, MA course in Peace Research, IFSH, Hamburg, Germany (part time)

Memberships
since 2005	Network of Excellence in the domain of International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE)
since 2001	Association of Geographers at German Universities (VGDH)

Other Functions
Since 2007	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Student Journal for Politics and Society 360°

Publications
forthcoming 2009	Migration Networks and Policy Impacts: Insights from Romanian-Spanish Migrations (with Oana Ciobanu) In: Global Networks 9(1).
forthcoming 2009	Changing patterns of Polish labour migration after UK's opening of the labour market? Insights from rural case studies in the voidvodship Opolskie and Swietokrzyskie. (with Emilia Lewandowska) In: Kathy Burrell (ed.): Polish Migration to the UK in the 'New' European Union: After 2004, Ashgate.
forthcoming 2008	Politici de migratie si strategii ale migrantilor transnationali între România si Spania. In: Anghel, Remus and Istvan Horvath (eds.): Sociologia Migratiei: Cazul Romanesc. Polirom. (with Oana Ciobanu) [Translated title: Migration policies and strategies of transnational migrants between Romania and Spain]
2008	The Influence of Migration on Origin Communities: Insights from Polish Migrations to the West. In: Europe Asia Studies 60(9): 1505-1519.
2008	Policy Brief: Migration Networks and Their Influence on Migration Policies. In: focusMigration. Hamburg/Berlin.
2008	Rezension (Review): "Goeke, Pascal 2007: Transnationale Migrationen. Post-jugoslawische Biografien in der Weltgesellschaft. Bielefeld. " In: Geographische Revue 10(1): 71-77.
2008	Matching and Making Labour Demand and Supply: Agents in Polish Migrant Networks of Domestic Elderly Care in Germany and Italy (with Emilia Lewandowska) In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 34(5): 717-734.
2008	The New Face of East-West Migration in Europe, special edition of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 34:5, guest edited with Adrian Favell.
2007	Der Einfluss von Migration auf die Herkunftsgemeinden. Fallstudien polnisch-deutscher Migrationen. In: Nowicka, Magda (Hg.): Von Polen nach Deutschland und zurück. Die Arbeitsmigration und ihre Herausforderungen für Europa. transcript Publishers: pp. 249-270. (with Emilia Lewandowska) [Translated title: The influence of migration on the origin communities. Case studies Polish-German migrations]
2005	State of the Art: Migration Decision Making and Social Networks (KnowMig Working Paper, February 2005)
2001	"Ethnic Business" in Nürnberg: Fallstudie Dönerkebap. In: Mitteilungen der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft 48: pp. 247-272. (Ethnic business in Nuremberg: case study on the donar kebap trade).

Selected Presentations
Jan 2008	"Temporary Migration and Community Cohesion: the Nature and Impact of Migration from East-Central to Western Europe", Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, UK; Topic: The influence of migration on the origin communities. Insights from rural Poland
Oct 2007	Biannual Conference of the German Geographers (Deutscher Geographentag), 2007, Bayreuth, Germany; Topic: Are "ethnic" entrepreneurs different entrepreneurs?
Sept 2007	IMISCOE Annual conference 2007 at University of Sussex, UK; Topic: Evaluating the Impact of Migration Policy Changes on Migration Strategies. Insights from Romanian-Spanish migrations (with Oana Ciobanu)
Aug 2007	Royal Geographic Society-Institute of British Geographers RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2007 in London, UK; Topic: Being an ethnic entrepreneur or just being entrepreneurial?
Apr 2007	Conference "Three Years On: EU Accession and East European Migration to the UK and Ireland", Leicester, DeMontfort University, Presentation on "Changing Patterns of Polish Migration after May 2004? Insights from Rural Migration to the UK" (with Emilia Lewandowska)
July 2006	International Migration Conference, Migrinter, University of Poitiers, France Topic: Are Ethnic Entrepreneurs Different Entrepreneurs? A Study about Social Capital of Pakistani and German Businessmen.
Nov 2005	Association of Geographers at German Universities (VGDH), AK "Industriegeographie", Eschwege, Germany Topic: Ethnic Entrepreneurship - Different Behaviour?