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Food security, equitable development and South–South migration: Towards a research agenda International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Sujata Ramachandran, Jonathan Crush
‘The nexus between migration and food security remains a peripheral and much-neglected concern’ (Crush & Caesar, 2017, p. 10). In this Commentary, we reflect on recent policy-related and research moves to connect migration with food security. Food security refers to the condition where individuals, households, and communities have both physical and economic access to an adequate quantity and quality
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Intersecting (im)mobilities in the context of drought, hunger and conflict – Reflections inspired by research in Kenya International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Benjamin Etzold, Marie Müller-Koné
Between late 2020 and early 2023, people in the Horn of Africa experienced the worst drought in more than 40 years, of which the world hardly took notice. By the end of 2022, almost 57 million people across eight countries faced a severe food crisis.1 While Kenya was not the country worst affected in terms of the number of people impacted—the highest level of food insecurity was recorded in Ethiopia
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CARIN' about migrants through news? Linking migrant deservingness to traditional and digital media consumption International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 David De Coninck, Maria Duque, Seth J. Schwartz, Leen d'Haenens
In recent years, public discourse and political actors have increasingly used a deservingness rhetoric to refer to the arrival and permanent settlement of migrant groups. However, scholars have drawn on the concept of deservingness without developing a clear theoretical framework for it. Following our recent work on the migrant deservingness framework, in the present study we use the CARIN criteria
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Change and stability of migration intentions. Evidence from Italy International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Corrado Bonifazi, Livia Elisa Ortensi, Angela Paparusso
Due to a lack of relevant data, very few empirical studies have examined the changes in and stability of secondary migration intentions. We aim to fill this gap by analysing return migration intentions among international migrants in Italy. Data are drawn from the cross-sectional SCIF survey conducted by ISTAT in 2011–2012. Our findings reveal that migration intentions at the beginning of the migratory
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Electoral turnout of foreign-born residents in Chile: an analysis with data from the administrative census and opinion polls International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Mario Herrera, Mauricio Morales
Based on an administrative census of the 267,116 migrants registered for the 2017 presidential elections and a survey applied to 4771 migrants, we conclude that (1) the electoral participation of migrants shows a significant gender gap, with women participating in a higher proportion; (2) migrants who registered earlier in the electoral registers, are more likely to vote compared to the rest; (3) when
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Patriarchal bargains in short-term women's migration from Bangladesh International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Joyce Wu, Patrick Kilby, Syeda Rozana Rashid, Noor Mohammad Sarker
This paper looks at the migration of women from Bangladesh to the Middle East as short-term migrants, mainly for work in the domestic care sector as domestic workers, housekeepers, nannies, cooks, etc. This group accounts for about 15 per cent of the total short-term migration cohort. They face particular challenges around not only the precarity of their employment but also in navigating a series of
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Imperative practices: The political inclusion of diasporas in Poland, Hungary and Lithuania International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Anzhela Popyk, Magdalena Lesińska
This paper aims to present an in-depth comparative analysis of how three states in Central and Eastern Europe—Hungary, Poland and Lithuania—ensure the political inclusion of their diaspora members by providing citizenship and electoral rights. The authors promote a broad understanding of diaspora that includes both emigrants and descendants as well as kin minorities. The analysis is based on a three-dimensional
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Exit is the answer: The political nature of Central American migration International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 José Miguel Cruz, José Félix Colón-Burgos
This article provides evidence that many Central Americans who have joined the migrant caravans to the north manifest a profound discontent with the political institutions of their home countries. It is based on surveys with migrants in refugee centres, compared with similar data from the AmericasBarometer survey, and complemented with contextual qualitative data on the experience of immigrants passing
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Migratory flows and pandemic: An analysis of impacts on immigrants of foreign origin in Spain International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Jordi Bayona-i-Carrasco, Andreu Domingo
Restrictions on mobility as a measure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic meant, in the case of Spain, an abrupt ending to what could be called the second international migratory boom. At the same time, internal migrations underwent considerable change, with cities becoming less attractive as a destination for migrants, and increased flows into rural areas. In this context, our aim is twofold. First,
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Human mobility and environmental degradation: Shaping rural Morocco International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Carla Sofia Ferreira Fernandes, Fátima Alves, João Loureiro
Environmental degradation constitutes a disruptive force in man-made and natural systems. The projected duplication of the frequency and duration of meteorological drought will contribute to a situation of water scarcity, which is expected to negatively impact the agricultural sector. This study focuses on Souss-Massa, Morocco, a leading agricultural region, and it seeks to map how human mobility fits
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Criminalizing mobilities: Exit restrictions in post-Soviet Central Asia International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Rano Turaeva
Post-Soviet authoritarianisms have seen many faces where mobilities skyrocked (tens of millions of migrants in Russia from Central Asia) and economies collapsed. Mobilities and freedom of mobility became number one topic of political agendas of many post-Soviet countries. Mobilities have been administered, organized, restricted and criminalized to address increased outmigration from Central Asia. Such
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“A lot of work needs to be done”—Service provider perspectives of mental health services available to Croatia- and Bosnia-born migrants International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Gabriella Karakas, Daniel R. du Plooy
Research suggests that migrants have higher rates of mental health disorders but are less likely to access mental health services, which highlights both their vulnerability to mental illness and inequity in service provision. Despite being large and established culturally similar migrant cohorts in Australia, Croatians and Bosnians are invisible in mental health research. This qualitative study collected
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Building bridges of various sorts: Old and new migrant transnationalism among Uruguayans in Spain International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Ana Margheritis
This study explores emigrants' motivations to form associations, their activities and engagement with home politics, and whether diaspora policies impinge on their practices. It focuses on Uruguayans abroad, who are a relevant case of migrant transnationalism. Building upon qualitative methods, it investigates their associational life in a main destination: Spain. The findings contribute to expand
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The role of digital literacy in satisfaction with online migration services in Ghana: A cross-sectional survey International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Hayford Alufar Bokpin, Martin Gameli Akakpo
Like in many other fields of human endeavour, digital literacy is rising in importance. As migration continues unabated, key stages of the process are now possible online. This study investigated the role of digital literacy and migration intent in satisfaction with online migration services. Deploying a cross-sectional survey of 100 students at a Ghanaian university, the study tested the hypotheses
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Subjective well-being of older migrants in the Netherlands: A conceptual and methodological discussion International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Nina Conkova, Tineke Fokkema, Theo G. van Tilburg
Social policy is most effective when evidence-based. In this research, we scrutinise 11 surveys to produce evidence on the subjective well-being (SWB) of older migrants in the Netherlands. The descriptive analysis and literature review revealed that the study of the diversity among older migrants is hindered by several factors, including the inclusion of a limited number of distinct migrant groups
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Has immobility been left behind in migration regulatory infrastructures? International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Asel Murzakulova, Irina Kuznetsova, Roman Mogilevskii
The article brings the concept of the immobile left-behind population into the migration infrastructure debates focusing on countries of migrants' origin. Drawing on an analysis of government's migration policy in Kyrgyzstan and interviews with stakeholders in rural areas, the article concludes that the government relies on a traditional sectoral approach and agriculture in this regard and stands separately
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Perceptions on dynamics and mobilities in the Triple Border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Maria Cecilia Zsögön
This study seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion on border dynamics, mobilities and migration. It focuses on the perceptions around these categories in the Triple Border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, also known as tri-border area or triple frontier. This region is characterized by contrasting elements, including poverty, inequality and abundant natural resources, as well as a significant
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Emancipation really matters: Why family firms might be a preferable choice for Syrian refugees in Egypt? An exploratory study International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Mohamed Mousa, Hala Abdelgaffar
This study explores the relations within the current broader literature on migration and entrepreneurship and specifically investigates the extent to which Syrian refugees in Egypt prefer to establish family businesses and why. A qualitative research method is employed by conducting semi-structured interviews with 45 Syrian partner/managers of micro, small and medium-sized family businesses in Egypt
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Romania's agricultural workers. Return mobilities and modes of food production International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Remus Gabriel Anghel, Lucian Vesalon, Stefánia Toma
This article examines the dynamics of Romanian seasonal migration and its effects on farming and rural areas. We connect labour migration to changes in modes of food production in Western and Eastern Europe. Based on the fieldwork in seven Romanian localities with 40 semi-structured interviews, we interrogate how seasonal work is shaped by regimes of mobility and economic and social inequalities. Studying
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Digital border technologies, techno-racism and logics of exclusion International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Petra Molnar
Border wall between US and Mexico, February 2022, Petra Molnar Like a wound in the landscape, the rusty border wall cuts along Arizona''s El Camino Del Diablo, the Devil's Highway. Once the pride and joy of the Trump Administration, this wall is once again the epicentre of a growing political row. President Biden's May 2023 repeal of the Trump Administration's Covid-era Title 42 regulation comes with
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Drones: Robot eyes on racialized migrant bodies International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Özgün E. Topak
A joint Border Forensics and Human Rights Watch investigation revealed that the Libyan Coast Guard (LCG) pull-backs are facilitated by plane and drone surveillance provided by the Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard Agency) to the LCG about migrant boats (Sunderland & Pezzani, 2022). Migrants who are returned to Libya are enslaved, extorted, tortured, raped and killed (UNHRC, 2023); among
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The rise of the border apps International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Philippe M. Frowd, Benjamin J. Muller, Can E. Mutlu
People on the move make extensive use of digital devices and tools. States also rely on these tools to control and channel mobility, making software an essential feature of mobility and borders. Various types of software are at the heart of maintaining traveller databases, deploying risk management tools and expediting identity checks, and migrants' use of smartphones is an increasingly salient area
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Controlling borders: A note on ordinary technologies of power International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 William Walters
When scholars of migration and borders investigate technologies, it is often very contemporary technologies that capture their attention. This is understandable: there are some very good ethical, legal, political and economic reasons why we should carefully scrutinise emergent technologies, asking how the phenomena known as “artificial intelligence” (see Aradau, this issue), “drones” (see Topak, this
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Introduction: Environmental (im)mobilities: Improving the evidence base for effective policy making International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Susan F. Martin, Jonas Bergmann
Despite the converging agreement on the linkages between climate and broader environmental change and human (im)mobilities, evidence gaps persist that often relate to data challenges. It remains necessary to improve knowledge and data to better map, understand, project, and address environmental migration, displacement, planned relocation, and immobilities. Analyses of continuing data gaps and strategies
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How does post-study employment policy for international students create “skilled” migrants? The case of Japan International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Yusuke Mazumi
The recent literature on skilled migration has addressed the socially constructed nature of the notion and category of “skilled” migrants, revealing the roles of the host state and its admission policy in shaping these migrants. This article adds to the literature by examining how the host state can also socially (or politically) create “skilled” migrants through policy that facilitates the post-study
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Rethinking interculturalism, deconstructing discrimination in Italian schools International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Mariagrazia Santagati, Rita Bertozzi
Despite the public favour gained in Europe, interculturalism is often reduced to its theoretical abstractions or local implementations. There is scarce evidence to suggest that interculturalism mitigates the systemic discrimination of immigrant-origin people. Looking at the Italian case, the paper analyses the coexistence of interculturalism and discrimination into multicultural schools, examining
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A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Robert Oakes, Kees Van der Geest, Benjamin Schraven, Stephen Adaawen, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Alexander de Sherbinin, Benjamin Etzold, Juliane Groth, Kathleen Hermanns, Silvana Lakeman, Raphael Nawrotzki, Christina Rademacher-Schulz, Clemens Romankiewic, Diogo Serraglio, Harald Sterly, Lisa Thalheimer, Charlotte Wiederkehr, David Williams
In the past 15 years, research activities focusing on the interlinkages between climate change and human mobility have intensified. At the same time, an increasing number of actors and processes have sought to address human mobility in the context of climate change from a policy perspective. Hitherto, research has been limited in terms of geographical preferences as well as conceptual and methodological
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International marriage migration: The predicament of culture and its negotiations International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 A. K. M. Ahsan Ullah, Diotima Chattoraj
Marriage-led migration or migration-led marriage was rarely discussed in public or private realms just over two decades ago. However, international marriage migration (IMM) has become a norm in today's globalised world. While a substantial body of literature deals with this growing practice, existing literature does not adequately address the role that ethnicity plays in the context of IMM. The purpose
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Dislocation after disaster: What does ‘returning home’ mean? International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Louise K. Comfort
The shock and disruption of an extreme event – an earthquake that shattered apartment buildings, shops, schools and hospitals, or a tsunami that virtually obliterates a city, or a flood that has washed away roadways, bridges and infrastructure – leaves an unforgettable impact on the affected community. With their homes ripped away, basic services like water, power and gas distribution systems damaged
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Double displacement of refugees in the context of the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Eda Sevinin, Didem Danış, Deniz Sert
This commentary is based on our observations during our fieldwork in the earthquake region in Turkey that took place in February 6, 2023 in 11 provinces where 49% of the entire Syrian population in Turkey live. In this commentary, we focus on the case of Syrians, who have been subject to what we call double displacement. Syrian refugees who were already displaced due to the war and faced with many
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Philippine's housing commitment as a preventive resettlement strategy for informal settler families International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Melissa Quetulio-Navarra
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT No competing interests were disclosed.
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Climate, floods, and migration in Pakistan International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Ahsan Kamal
This commentary offers a glimpse into the complex landscape of climate-induced migration in rural Pakistan. By shedding light on the interplay between gradual ecological shifts and rapid climate shocks, it exposes the misalignment between climate policies and the mobility strategies of marginalized communities. The vulnerabilities of rural Pakistanis facing climate and ecological shocks, like the 2022
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What is in a number? Some reflections on disaster displacement modelling International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Halvard Buhaug
The rise in global displacement has inspired a wave of quantitative comparative research in recent years. While deeper systematic knowledge on contextual determinants of disaster-related mobility and associated risks is in high demand, quantitative modelling of human displacement should be exercised with care. In this commentary, I reflect on three central challenges related to the quality of available
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Making Refugees in IndiaBy Ria Kapoor, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1st Edition. 2002 International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Sangbida Lahiri
Ria Kapoor's book, Making Refugees in India, explores the history of refugees in India, tracing the way the figure of ‘refugee’ makes its appearance in the subcontinent since colonial times. The motivation for the book stems from the Citizen Amendment Act passed in the Indian Parliament in 2019, and through the book, Kapoor explores the past histories and the struggles of refugees in independent India
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A multi-scalar critical analysis of return migration policies in Mexico International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Higinio Fernández-Sánchez, Jordana Salma, Sara Dorow, Bukola Salami
Services and resources for migrants returning to Mexico are necessary to ease their transition and “re-integration” into home communities. Policies that do not have a holistic approach can result in serious implications for the social, political, cultural, and health of returnees, receiving families, and communities. This research critically analyses return migration policies in Mexico drawing from
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Violence, life aspirations and displacement trajectories in civil war International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Lea Müller-Funk
Drawing on qualitative data from the civil wars in Syria and Libya since 2011, this paper seeks to build a better understanding of immobility and of displacement trajectories within conflict countries and towards neighbouring countries. The paper shows that different types of violent experiences—personal threats, generalized violence, an increasing hopelessness relating to the absence of violence in
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Diaspora alumni networks as transnational governance actors International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Margaret Walton-Roberts, Neil Amber Judge
Diasporas are increasingly seen as an economic resource and new agents in sending state development regimes. The nature of these state-diaspora relationships are matters of increasing interest to scholars. In this paper we examine the case of India and the current government's engagement with diaspora groups, especially alumni networks of Indian Institutes of Technology and Management. Alumni networks
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Lost in data translation: A critical review of datasets on refugees International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Şevin Gülfer Sağnıç
Quantitative data are the backbone of the international refugee regime. Academic researchers and international organizations have been drawing attention to the problems of refugee data that obscure refugee vulnerabilities. Despite these efforts, the limitations of quantitative refugee data, particularly with regard to gendered aspects of refugee vulnerabilities, have often been overlooked. This article
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Infrastructuring repatriation: The Philippine sending state and the return of migrant workers caught in disruptions International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Karen Anne S. Liao
Recent crises signal a timely consideration of how sending state regimes can be understood in their complexity beyond the dominant themes of labour brokerage and export in existing literature. This article calls for an expanded analysis of sending states by attending to their understudied role in disruption-induced returns, particularly in repatriation. Examining the case of the Philippines, it argues
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A positive psychology intervention to foster economic integration of Syrian refugees in the Netherlands International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 José Muller-Dugic, Pascal J. Beckers, Mario H. Braakman
Research shows that the labour market integration of refugees is often problematic. Little is known about what kind of measures are effective to help them integrate into the labour market. In the Netherlands, a positive psychology intervention “Mosaic” for Syrian refugees was developed to support their economic participation. This study aims to assess the effect of “Mosaic” on the economic participation
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Nigerian women seeking asylum in England on grounds of sexual violence International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Chinyere Elsie Ajayi
This study aims to give voice to the experiences of Nigerian women seeking asylum in the UK on the grounds of sexual violence. It draws upon in-depth narrative interviews with 10 Nigerian women, aged between 27 and 46, seeking asylum on the grounds of sexual violence. Women's accounts were analysed thematically, and the contextual factors that influenced the outcome of their asylum claims were explored
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Challenging transitions? Assessing the occupational mobility patterns of US immigrants by gender International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Annie S. Lee, William M. Rodgers, Sebastien Breau
This article uses the New Immigrant Survey to assess the occupational mobility of US immigrants. Estimates from OLS and Heckman selection models show the occupational mobility of immigrants follows a U-shaped pattern: immigrants arriving in the United States see their occupational status decline before it gradually improves. However, even 9 years after coming to the United States, the occupational
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Competing policies within the sending state: Labour export and the provision of primary healthcare in the Philippines International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Romeo Luis A. Macabasag, Yasmin Y. Ortiga
In framing nations as places that either send or receive migrants, there is a danger in defining migrant-sending nations as monolithic entities driven by a single mandate of exporting labour to a global economy. Using the concept of viscosity, we argue that sending states comprise multiple state agencies with varying interests, which can either impede, slow, or facilitate labour emigration. We demonstrate
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Post-2015 refugees in Germany: “Culture of welcome”, solidarity or exclusion? International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Zeynep Yanaşmayan
INTRODUCTION This special issue project was conceived at a time when Germany has prominently come to the fore during the “summer of migration” in 2015 assuming a leading role in European asylum reception system. The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) registered more than one million asylum applications in 2015 and 2016 (BAMF, 2019:5) when Dublin regulations were temporarily lifted
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A right to research? International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Kate Reed, Marcia C. Schenck
Gerawork Teferra, a colleague and collaborator of ours who lives in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, observed on taking a course about global history that refugees were only marginally present as historical actors and that no refugee scholars figured as authors of the course texts. The absence of (especially encamped) refugees as historians is an extreme version of a by now well-documented phenomenon:
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Labour market integration of newcomers to Canada: The perspectives of newcomers in a smaller urban centre International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Needal Ghadi, Charles Gyan, Daniel Kikulwe, Christine Massing, Crystal J. Giesbrecht
In Canada, newcomers are often faced with many challenges when integrating into the labour market. This study examined the labour market integration experiences of newcomers in Regina, Saskatchewan. Data were collected using a structured survey which was made available in several languages. A total of 305 (n = 305) newcomers participated in this study. It was found that length of stay in Regina, level
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Probationary precarity? Differential inclusion among post-graduation work permit-holders in Canada International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Leah F. Vosko
In high-income receiving states, educational visa-holders are routinely cast as beneficiaries of immigration systems prioritizing well-trained workers. Promising pathways to permanent residency, Canada's Post-Graduation Work Permit Program (PGWPP), an expanding stream of its new International Mobility Program, is a case in point. Yet there is a dearth of scholarly analysis of program design and its
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Immigrant voter turnout and time: Does period of arrival matter more than length of stay? International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Stephen E. White
Research shows that the longer immigrants have been in their settlement country, the more likely they are to vote. This study examines whether when immigrants arrived, rather than how long they have resided, is the critical determinant of their electoral participation. Using Canadian data covering a 45-year time span, this study demonstrates that the apparent relationship between immigrants' length
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Migration aspirations and the perceptions of the political, economic and social environment in Africa International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Marc Helbling, Sandra Morgenstern
While much research has investigated how objective pull factors in the destination countries affect migration movements, and how subjective push factors affect migration aspirations, we know little about the interrelationship between subjective and objective factors. This paper therefore examines how people's perceptions of their political, economic and social structural environment affect their migration
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Traces in the shadow: Occupational outcomes of previously undocumented migrants in Italy International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Rocco Molinari, Roberto Impicciatore, Livia Elisa Ortensi
Using a representative sample of currently legal third-country immigrants in Italy, obtained from the Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens survey, this article examines the long-term labour market consequences of previous undocumented spells. First, formerly undocumented immigrants are identified using retrospective information on respondents' legal status. Second, immigrants are classified
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Penalties and payoffs: The short-term economic consequences of human capital acquisition for resettled refugees in the United States International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Ryan Allen, Kimberly M. Horner, Jung Ho Choi
The relationship between refugee investments in human capital and short-run economic outcomes may influence the extent to which refugees invest in human capital that is associated with positive future economic mobility. Using data from the Annual Survey of Refugees from 2016 and 2017 we assess the relationship between recent investments in human capital and hourly wages for employed refugees in the
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Robbery victimization of Mexican migrants while crossing the border International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Eduardo Torre Cantalapiedra, Carlos Manuel Hernández Campos
We analyse the factors associated with Mexican migrants being victims of robbery or assault while crossing the US–Mexico border, based on an analytical model of the victimization of migration in transit. Drawing on Emif Norte survey, we analyse the prevalence of victimization of robbery or assault to migrants according to migrant's sociodemographic characteristics as well as the journey characteristics
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Re-spatialising migration governance: From ‘multi-level’ to ‘entangled’ International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Fiona B. Adamson
Policy actors engaged in migration governance operate in complex environments characterised by spatial entanglements that bring together different levels and jurisdictions. While “levels-of-analysis” and multi-level governance (MLG) frameworks capture some of this complexity, they undertheorise the extent to which migration and mobility are both causes and consequences of other forms of spatial entanglement
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A capital theory approach to migrants' views and engagement with climate adaptation in the region of origin: A qualitative study in Belgium International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Lore Van Praag
Combining insights from migration and climate adaptation studies, this study examines how migrants living in Belgium contribute to climate adaptation in their region of origin, based on 29 qualitative interviews with migrants in Belgium. The findings varied considerably, depending on the region of origin, the main driver of migration and the possibility of returning. The results show that both the
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Unfolding intersecting forms of socio-spatial exclusion: Accommodation centres at the height of the “refugee reception crisis” in Germany International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Shahd Seethaler-Wari, Zeynep Yanasmayan
At the height of the “refugee reception crisis” in 2015, a large number of forced migrants had to be accommodated in Germany, which led to the transformation of old infrastructures and building of new centres. Based on extensive fieldwork in three centres in the same city, this article seeks to highlight the intersecting forms of socio-spatial exclusion in refugee accommodations in Germany. First,
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Back for business: The link between foreign experience and entrepreneurship in Latvia International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Zane Vārpiņa, Marija Krūmiņa, Kata Fredheim, Anders Paalzow
Research shows that return migrants have a higher propensity to set up an entrepreneurial activity or be self-employed compared to non-migrants. We take a multidisciplinary approach and empirically study the case of Latvia as a migration donor country to learn how re-migrants participate in entrepreneurship back at home. We are interested if return migrants can be seen as a vehicle for entrepreneurship
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Real estate in the home country: Why Polish migrants keep properties in Poland International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Barbara Jancewicz
Real estate is often the most visible contribution that emigrants add to their home country's landscape. Such properties serve different functions, from rental investments, through migrant families' homes, to holiday homes or empty spaces. Economists often view real estate through financial lens, frowning upon vacant houses. I argue that keeping vacant houses is often caused by social and emotional
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In search of children's best interest International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Luigi Achilli
The peak of the ‘Europe migrant crisis’ has witnessed a record number of unaccompanied and separated children crossing the Mediterranean Sea (UNICEF, 2017). It has been estimated that over hundred thousand minors from Asia and Africa have arrived in Europe in 2016 alone (Eurostat, 2016). A third of them were classified by the relevant authorities as unaccompanied or separated children, generally young
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The stories behind stories: Reflections on the role of voice in research with unaccompanied refugee youth International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Annika Lems
In the summer of 2015, when I started to conduct research with unaccompanied refugee youth in Switzerland, I was struck by the scarce guidance the refugee and migration literature offered in terms of the ethical and practical challenges of working with this highly vulnerable group of young people (Rousseau, 1993; Vervliet et al., 2015). Despite the increased public and academic attention that refugee
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The new grounds for deportation of European Union citizens in the United Kingdom International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna, Olayinka Lewis
Politicians often mention immigration enforcement, and deportation in particular, as a means to assert state sovereignty. This article looks at deportation through exiting the European Union, an event that was interpreted as regaining sovereignty from the supra-national organisation. New immigration regulations in the United Kingdom were meant to end the EU Freedom of Movement and equalise the statuses