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Reimagining, Repositioning, Rebordering: Intersections of the Biopolitical and Geopolitical in the UK's Post-Brexit Migration Regime (and Why It Matters for Migration Research) International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Michaela Benson, Nando Sigona
This article examines the emergence of a new immigration regime in the United Kingdom, following its exit from the European Union, to uncover the entanglements and intersections of biopolitics, geopolitics and ideology in migration and migration governance. It draws a clear line between Brexit as a political and geopolitical rupture, the ideological project of “Global Britain” that emerged from it
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Protected, Yet Undocumented: The U.S. Case of Growing Liminal Immigration Status and the Theoretical, Advocacy, and Policy Implications for the U.S. and Beyond International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Phillip Connor
Often, undocumented immigrants are considered a population living in the shadows. But living below the radar of U.S. governmental authorities is no longer as accurate. As of the end of 2023, estimates indicate nearly six million, or nearly half, of the undocumented population has some level of liminal or protected status. At the same time, these protections are more temporary than before as most immigration
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Book Review: Forever 17 International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Özlem Ögtem-Young
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Book Review: Ageing at a Crossroads International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Mengwei Tu
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Book Review: Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Zohreh Bayatrizi
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Immigration and the Boundaries of Black Political Subjecthood in Argentina and Chile International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Antonia Mardones Marshall
In the last two decades, the Argentine and Chilean states have passed laws and policies targeting Afro-descendant populations. But while Argentine law has institutionalized Afro-descent through a broad notion of African ancestry and African-based culture, the Chilean state has legally defined Afro-descent in relation to a particular history, culture, and identity connected to a long-standing presence
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Persistent Educational Advantages of Asian Immigrants’ Children, 1940 to 2015–2019 International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 ChangHwan Kim, Andrew Taeho Kim
The educational achievements of Asian American children, especially those from lower backgrounds, are substantially higher than other ethnoracial groups. Hyper-selectivity theory finds the origin of such an advantage in the double selectivity of Asian immigrants after the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act and the formation of cross-class community resources. Utilizing the 1940 linked full-count Census
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Immigrants in the Transnational Far Right: Integration through Racisms and Negotiating White Supremacy in a Migratory Context International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Michal P. Garapich, Anna Jochymek, Rafał Soborski
Despite the historical and contemporary instances of immigrants and their descendants engaging with the far-right, whether through long-distance nationalism or country of residence politics, migration scholarship has surprisingly paid very little attention to this process. In this paper we argue that insufficient engagement with instances of the far-right attracting and mobilizing immigrants and ethnic
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Search for a New Home: Refugee Stock and Google Search International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Ebru Sanliturk, Francesco C. Billari
Following the assumption that trends of online queries may indicate intentions and help to predict human behavior, this study addresses the general issue of analyzing, nowcasting, and predicting migrant decisions through an analysis of Google search patterns in the case of Syrians in Turkey. Aiming to contribute to the literature on predicting migration patterns, we examine the relationship between
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Does Information Improve the Experience of Pursuing Labor Migration? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Daniel Karell, Rabia Malik, Syed Kasim Najam Shah
A large literature on international labor migration explores how to improve low-skilled migrants’ experience of pursuing and obtaining overseas employment. Much of this scholarship focuses on describing and mitigating difficult, and sometimes exploitative, conditions in the host country. Scholars have paid less attention to factors in home countries that may affect aspiring migrants’ experience of
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Subjectivity in Welfare Mobilities: Rethinking Welfare as a Structure, a Process, and an Experience International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Dominique Jolivet
This article reflects on what migration studies have accomplished when researching the role of welfare in migration. It highlights that conventional migration theories do not sufficiently account for how people understand welfare and how they interpret and react to welfare perceptions. The article calls for more attention to the interplay of welfare's subjectivity and migration processes to better
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Externalization Beyond “Immigration Risk”? UK Borderwork Creep in Africa and its Cumulative Rippling Effects International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Nicole Ostrand
This article examines UK “borderwork creep” into ever more sites in states across Africa and considers how it is transformed and produced by practitioners on the ground. The aim is to go beyond research focusing on the EU and Northern and Western Africa to show the more expansive and, in some cases, unexpected reach of UK borderwork. Drawing on interviews, documentary research, and freedom of information
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Book Review: Hopelessly Alien International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Marco Moschetti
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African Migration at a Crossroads: The Social and Theoretical Implications of Emerging International Migration Trends International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Kevin J. A. Thomas, Miracle Mara
This study examines international migration trends in Africa since the mid-1960s. It argues that African international migration trends are at a turning point that could significantly affect the future of migration studies. New African immigrant communities are emerging in Asia, South America, and other world regions, while the influence of state and non-state institutions is increasing. Moreover,
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Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration: Revisiting Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Migration State International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Angie Bautista-Chavez, Estefanía Castañeda-Pérez, Stephanie Chan, Ankushi Mitra
Migrants and refugees face hostile publics and organized political interests, and contend with new and evolving forms of surveillance, deportability, and political violence. Researchers show that these political dynamics are fundamentally shaped by the politics of race and ethnicity. Yet, even as this work is increasingly abundant, it has not always been taken up by mainstream accounts of migration
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The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Amina Maharjan, Angel del Valle, Annabel Erulkar, Arabinda Mishra, Catherine Steidl, Chandni Singh, Deepshikha Sharma, Fernando Riosmena, Gabriela Pinillos, Guy Abel, Jack DeWaard, Jasmine Trang Ha, Katharine M. Donato, Nyovani Madise, Raphael Nawrotzki, Rene Nevarez, Robert McLeman, Salma Abou Hussein
For this special issue of the International Migration Review, we develop and provide a comprehensive organizing framework, the Migration Intersections Grid (MIG), to inform and guide migration research in and through the remainder of the twenty-first century. We motivate our work by conducting a high-level scoping review of summaries and syntheses of different directions of travel in migration research
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Overlap and Interrelations Between (Im)mobility Motivations International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Fernando Riosmena
Scholarship in Migration Studies and Forced Migration and Refugee Studies recognizes that migration and immobility can be the result of various, mixed motivations. Empirical work and conceptualizations of forced and “lifestyle” migration consider some of this complexity. Scholarship on immobility has also examined various, mixed motives. Finally, migration theory development has recently begun to incorporate
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Commodifying Passage: Ethnographic Insights into Migration, Markets, and Digital Mediation at the Darién Gap and Mexico–Guatemala Border International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Rodolfo Cruz-Piñeiro, Alberto Hernández Hernández, Carlos S. Ibarra
This paper examines transit migration through the Darién Gap and the Mexico–Guatemala border, focusing on the commodification of migration, the transformative role of digital platforms, and the socio-economic impacts on local economies. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews conducted from 2021 to 2023, we explore how migration has evolved into a commodified journey where services
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Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Jørgen Carling
“Why do people migrate?” is a question that forms the pivot of migration studies, and migration theory in particular. But it has hardly found satisfactory answers. In this article, I reapproach the question from an array of diverse angles and provide eight responses. Some are aligned with recent theoretical developments, others unpack long-standing ideas with evolving significance, and still others
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The Toll of Exclusion on Immigrants’ Health across the Life Course: Research Advances and Future Directions International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Molly Dondero, Claire E. Altman
Health is an integral feature of immigration, providing not only insight into population health but also a critical lens into immigrant integration and the power structure in receiving countries. The goal of this article is to chart the trajectory of scholarship on immigrants’ health, focusing on the formative shift away from dominant individualistic perspectives focused on cultural and behavioral
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Mapping the Future of Migration and Climate Change Science International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Stephanie Nawyn, Linlang He, Jiquan Chen, Mark Axelrod, Furqan Irfan, Fahad S. Ahmed, Mary Anne Walker
The scholarship on migration and climate change has been rapidly developed over recent decades, moving away from apocalyptic predictions of mass displacement toward more nuanced modeling of the complex relationships between climate change and migration. Unfortunately, much of that development has happened in parallel to the core of migration studies and thus our prevailing migration theories do not
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Book Review: Legal Phantoms International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Sophie X. Liu
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Book Review: Lived Refuge International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Alexander J. Blenkinsopp
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The Exodus of Moldova: Understanding the Migration Dilemma International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Ludmila Bogdan
This paper explores Moldovas unique context within migration studies, highlighting its potential to enhance theoretical frameworks on migration. Despite its small size, Moldova has a significant portion of its population working abroad, offering insights into both migration and immobility. The study examines Moldova's dual migratory flows toward the European Union (EU) and Russia, influenced by cultural
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Challenges for Diaspora Women to Rebuild Their Homeland: The Case of Somalia International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Stefan Gröschl
Through financial and nonfinancial remittances such as intellectual capital, social capital, advocacy, political capital and voluntarism, diaspora women provide lifelines for their families and support to community development in their homelands. However, their contributions in humanitarian and development actions are poorly documented and reported, and their potential has not been fully harnessed
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How Does Overeducation Depend on Immigrants’ Admission Class? International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen
This study offers new insights into the phenomenon of overeducation by showing that the overeducation rates among immigrants and the wage returns of overeducated immigrants are closely linked to their admission classes. The overeducation rate in Denmark is highest among immigrants from countries that became members of the EU after 2003, 61% of whom are overeducated as compared to 24% of natives. Controlling
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Book Review: Waiting for the Revolution to End International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Lea Müller-Funk
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Book Review: An Address in Paris International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Lisa Marie Borrelli
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Book Review: Reclaiming Diasporic Identity International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Violetta Ravagnoli
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Witnessing the Recovery: Storytelling and Family Building, from Belsen to Ireland International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Mary Fraser Kirsh
This article will explore three individuals (nurse Muriel Knox Doherty, pediatrician William Robert Fitzgerald Collis, and administrator Olga Eppel) who took on the role of caretakers but who were also, as James Young would call them, “eyewitness scribes”: those who aspire both “to represent the sense of discontinuity and disorientation in catastrophic events and to preserve [their] personal link to
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Assessing Timely Migration Trends Through Digital Traces: A Case Study of the UK Before Brexit International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Francesco Rampazzo, Jakub Bijak, Agnese Vitali, Ingmar Weber, Emilio Zagheni
Digital trace data presents an opportunity for promptly monitoring shifts in migrant populations. This contribution aims to determine whether the number of European migrants in the United Kingdom (UK) declined between March 2019 and March 2020, using weekly estimates derived from the Facebook Advertising Platform. The collected data is disaggregated according to age, level of education, and country
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Integrating Traditional and Social Media Data to Predict Bilateral Migrant Stocks in the European Union International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Dilek Yildiz, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Guy J. Abel, Ingmar Weber, Emilio Zagheni, Cloé Gendronneau, Stijn Hoorens
Although up-to-date information on the nature and extent of migration within the European Union (EU) is important for policymaking, timely and reliable statistics on the number of EU citizens residing in or moving across other member states are difficult to obtain. In this paper, we develop a statistical model that integrates data on EU migrant stocks using traditional sources such as census, population
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Unaccompanied Migrant Children in US Government Custody: 2014–2023 International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Melissa Alcaraz, Hayley Pierce, Jane Lilly López, Kif Augustine-Adams
Between October 1, 2014, and March 1, 2023, the US Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) took custody of 568,890 unaccompanied migrant children. Drawing on a unique dataset that ORR produced in response to Freedom of Information Act requests and litigation, we provide the first comprehensive, long-term demographic study of the population of unaccompanied migrant children while in ORR custody. Our analysis
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Book Review: The Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Fiona B. Adamson
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Border Externalization and the Geography of Negative Views Toward Transit Migrants in Honduras International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Jesse Acevedo, Mariah Richards
Transit migration through Honduras has grown at a time of increasing US border externalization, which raises barriers to mobility through Central America. This research note presents a descriptive analysis of how Hondurans view transit migrants traveling across the country. Honduras is a major migrant-sending country, one that has become an important transit country for migrants of different backgrounds
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The True, the Good, the Spiteful: An Auto(bio)psy of Bosnian Refugee Experience in Sweden International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Adnan Mahmutović
This article employs the Bosnian notion of “inat,” often translated as spite, to perform auto(bio)psy of my writing about refugee lives in Sweden. Methodologically speaking, I begin with an assertion that the hybrid form of auto(bio)psy, a method that entangles creative and critical reflection, helps capture what it means to live with the traumas of war, especially in the face of genocide denial and
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Author Conversation: Sofya Aptekar and Cristina Dragomir International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Cristina-Ioana Dragomir, Sofya Aptekar
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Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 2021 International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Eileen Díaz McConnell, Lisa M. Martinez
Extensive scholarship traces the development and impacts of the U.S. immigration and deportation system on Latino immigrants and U.S. born Latinos, alike. However, relatively little quantitative research has investigated the worries that Latinos express about deportation, explored the temporal dynamics in such concerns, or identified which factors predict shifts in deportation-related concerns over
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Assessing the Differentiated Impacts of COVID-19 on the Immigration Flows to Europe International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Miguel González-Leonardo, Francisco Rowe, Michaela Potančoková, Anne Goujon
The immediate effects of COVID-19 on mortality, fertility, and internal and international migration have been widely studied. Particularly, immigration to high-income countries declined in 2020. However, the persistence of these declines and the extent to which they have impacted different migration flows are yet to be established. Drawing on immigration flows from Eurostat and Autoregressive Integrated
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Book Review: Mobility Economies in Europe's Borderlands International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Josef Neubauer
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Childbearing Across Immigrants and Their Descendants in Sweden: The Role of Generation and Gender International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Andreas Höhn, Hill Kulu, Gunnar Andersson, Brad Campbell
Immigrants and their descendants increasingly shape fertility patterns in European societies. While childbearing among immigrants is well explored, less is known with respect to their descendants. Using Swedish register data, we studied differences in fertility outcomes between first- and second-generation individuals in Sweden and compared with the native Swedish population. We studied men and women
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Book Review: The Opportunity Trap International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Melissa V. Abad
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Voice Through Votes and Remittances: Diaspora Efforts to Influence Elections International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Beth Elise Whitaker, Elizabeth Iams Wellman
The increasing political inclusion of diaspora populations around the world has raised questions about their influence on electoral outcomes back home. In Kenya, emigrants have advocated for direct influence through external voting rights, while less attention has been given to the ways in which they may also indirectly influence elections through economic remittances. In this research note, we explore
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The Politics of Believing and Belonging: Increasing Diversity Among Muslim Immigrants in Germany International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Gülay Türkmen
While the arrival of large numbers of migrants from Syria has transformed the German Muslim scene in recent years, we still know very little about “how” and “to what degree.” Equally lacking is information on how existing Muslim-majority communities have experienced this transformation and what kind of relations they have established (if at all) with the “newcomers.” In search for answers to these
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Book Review: Border Abolitionism International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Andrew Fallone
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Book Review: On Transits and Transitions International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Karma R. Chávez
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Beyond Borders: Understanding Afghanistan's International Migration Dynamics and Global Implications International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Shapoor Hamid
Afghanistan, a landlocked nation with a turbulent history of conflict and natural disasters, has experienced the evolution of migration as a strategic response to a range of challenges. Over time, Afghans have developed a resilient transnational network, using mobility as a way to cope and as a proactive strategy. This article explores the dynamics of Afghan migration, examining the intersections of
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How Social Networks Shape Refugee Movements in Wartime: Evidence from the Russian Attack on Ukraine International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 María Hierro, Adolfo Maza
This article analyzes the key factors guiding the destination choice of Ukrainian refugees in the EU between March and December 2022 in the framework of the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive. To this end, it specifies a migration model, computed for the whole period and two subperiods (March–May and June–December), that captures the influence of social networks. Furthermore, our migration
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In Memoriam International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Father Lydio F. Tomasi, C.S
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Traces of Kinship Care: Preliminary Findings From Nansen Passport Holders’ Documents in the League of Nations and Arolsen Archives International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ismee Tames
This article offers a new perspective on a body of literature that has been growing since the modern concept of “statelessness” became a pressing concern of diplomats and the displaced alike more than a century ago: it studies the “voices” of the stateless as captured in the archival documents of the organizations designed to deal with refugees through the lens of family and kinship care. This will
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Why do Citizens Criminalize Migrants? Experimental Evidence from a Multi-Role Country, Mexico International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 María del Pilar Fuerte-Celis, Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga
Every year, millions of immigrants arrive in countries that play multiple roles: they expel them, receive them, or shelter them. Sometimes, citizens welcome immigrants with open arms. Other times, they perceive them as potential criminals. Surprisingly, there is little research on the determinants of criminalization in multi-role countries. In this article, we analyze the results from a nationally
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Book Review: Dying Abroad International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Mirjam Twigt
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Book Review: Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Sofia Aouani
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The Entanglement Between Tangible and Intangible Factors in Shaping Hadiya Migration Aspirations to South Africa International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Dereje Feyissa Dori, Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Caterina Mazzilli
This article expands scholarly knowledge on migration decision-making drawing on the case of Hadiya (Southern Ethiopia) migration to South Africa. We propose a conceptual framework where intangible factors (religious beliefs, imaginations, norms, and emotions, and feelings) are placed at the core of decision-making, alongside more tangible factors, such as livelihood opportunities. Even though we differentiate
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The Real Consequences of Symbolic Social Policies: The Public Charge Rule and Benefits Use among Noncitizen Immigrants International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Felipe Dias, Joseph Chance
This article examines the impact of the 2018 announcement of changes to the public charge rules on the benefits use of noncitizen immigrant households. Using data from the American Community Survey and difference-in-difference models, as well as an event-study approach, we document a decrease in Medicaid use in 2019 by members of low-income households with noncitizens compared to low-income households
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Understanding the Dynamics of Refugee Impact on Employment: Evidence from Northern Uganda International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Joseph Musasizi, Dharma Arunachalam, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Uganda hosts the largest refugee population on the African continent and the third highest worldwide. The country also has one of the world's most progressive refugee policies. Refugees are allowed to work and operate businesses anywhere in the country, which is uncommon in other African countries and beyond. Despite the large refugee population, their impact on employment and the associated dynamics
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Unwelcome Immigrants Knocking on the Door: Demographic Features of Immigrants and Populist Attitudes Rising in South American Countries International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Jeongnam Hwang, Jeongho Choi
Previous studies examining the link between immigration and populism have found mixed empirical results. By focusing on the populist attitude among native citizens, this article revisits the question of how immigration affects populism. In addition, we investigate this relationship in South America where immigrants are more educated, and skilled and have similar cultural or historical roots to native
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Making Single Mothers Matter: Reflections on the Vulnerability and Agency of Displaced Persons in Postwar Occupied Austria and Beyond International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Franziska Maria Lamp
This article explores the experiences of displaced women and their children in occupied postwar Austria by focusing both on the assistance provided to them by relief workers in displaced persons (DP) camps and on the displaced women's role as persons in charge of planning their own and their children's futures. In doing so, it sheds light on the care infrastructure for a particularly vulnerable group
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Men's Migration and Women's Health in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Migration's Economic Returns and Spousal Communication International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Natalie Jansen, Victor Agadjanian
In this study, we investigate the association between men's labor migration and changes in their non-migrating wives’ self-rated health (SRH) over time using longitudinal data from rural Mozambique. In addition to comparing wives of non-migrants and wives of migrants, we account for variation in the economic impact of migration and in migrants’ phone communication with their spouses. We find that migrants’