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Transnational Students Facing Multiple Crises: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Oaxaca, Mexico International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Marta Rodríguez-Cruz
This article analyzes the impact of multiple crises — economic, educational, and health — generated by the COVID-19 pandemic among transnational students in Oaxaca, Mexico. The article explores the...
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Spatial Segregation in Action? An Empirical Assessment of Population Concentration of Foreigners and Nationals in Italy, 2002–2018 International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Federico Benassi, Massimo Mucciardi, Maria Carella, Alessia Naccarato, Luca Salvati
The spatial concentration of human populations is a dynamic attribute of demographic systems and a multifaceted research dimension intrinsically dependent on settlement patterns and diverging (indi...
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Population Innumeracy and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Case of South Africa International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Daniel Herda
Several studies find links between immigrant population innumeracy and anti-immigrant attitudes. It seems that when people over-estimate the size of foreign-born populations in their country, they ...
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Dreaming of a Remittance House: Understanding Transnational Housing Aspirations International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Carlos Vargas-Silva, Paolo Boccagni
Migrant housing investments in the countries of origin are a demonstration of their transnational engagement and their potential contribution to local development. Yet, these investments remain rel...
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Making a National Program National: The US Resettlement of Displaced Persons After World War II1 International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 David W. Haines
The end of the Second World War in Europe left millions of people out of place, including Jews left in concentration camps, forced laborers in the huge Nazi work camp system, and many Germans as we...
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Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement. Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019 International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Giacomo Solano, Samuel David Schmid, Marc Helbling
Due to a lack of data, quantitative analysis of integration policy trends during the past decade has received limited attention. This research note presents newly collected data from the Migrant In...
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The Making of a “Lost Generation”: Child Labor among Syrian Refugees in Turkey International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Meltem Dayıoğlu, Murat Güray Kırdar, İsmet Koç
Millions of children are forcibly displaced worldwide due to wars, civil conflicts, and natural disasters. Displacement disrupts the lives of children making child labor a serious risk. However, li...
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The Integration Paradox: A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Complex Relationship Between Integration and Reports of Discrimination International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Merlin Schaeffer, Judith Kas
Social science research has produced evidence of an “integration paradox”: immigrants and their descendants who appear to have greater access to mainstream middle-class society, as indicated by the...
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Actors, Ideas, and International Influence: Understanding Migration Policy Change in South America International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Leiza Brumat, Marcia Vera Espinoza
This article analyzes the role of ideas, domestic actors, and international influences in migration policy change (MPCh) in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Building on 67 in-depth interviews with key...
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Immigration and New Firm Formation – Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Germany International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Vera Jahn, Max Friedrich Steinhardt
This paper provides new insights into the economic impact of international migration by analyzing how immigration can affect business formation in the host country. For this purpose, we exploit a p...
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Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Aslan Zorlu, Wouter van Gent
Grandchildren of post-World War II immigrants have started entering the labor market in Western Europe. Are they on a multigenerational path toward full economic assimilation, much like the Europea...
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Heterogeneous Effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on Undocumented College Students’ Educational Outcomes International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Keitaro Okura, Amy Hsin, Sofya Aptekar
We investigate why prior studies examining the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on undocumented youth's college outcomes in the United States have yielded mixed findings...
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Permanent Membership: The Prohibition of Citizenship Renunciation International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Imke Harbers, Abbey Steele
Dual citizenship is often seen as an indication that states are adopting more open membership policies. In some cases, however, dual citizenship is imposed because states lay claim to populations b...
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Internal and International Migration and the Mental Health of “Left-Behind” Older Parents International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Deependra Kaji Thapa, Denis Visentin, Rachel Kornhaber, Michelle Cleary
Despite evidence of the impact of adult children's migration on left-behind older parents, the comparison of left-behind older parents’ mental health and psychological well-being between internal a...
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Papers of the Paperless: Governmentality, Technologies of Freedom, and the Production of Asylum-Seeker Identities International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Taru Salmenkari, Saif Aldawoodi
Refugees become asylum-seekers not only because the receiving country gives them the bureaucratic-legal status but also because they start to identify with the status. This article examines how ref...
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Acculturation Among Finnish Somalis: An Imitation Game Inquiry Into bicultural fluency International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Otto Erik Alexander Segersven, Ilkka Ari Tapani Arminen, Mika Simonen
According to acculturation theories, members of immigrant second-generation minorities hold a broader cultural competence — a bicultural fluency — for living in two cultures, compared to members of...
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Counting Migrants in Russia: The Human Dimension of Administrative Data Production International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Caress Schenk
How do states count migrants? This article engages evidence from Russia to demonstrate how official labor migration data depend on human interactions between state actors and migrants in a Russian ...
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Judicial Framing and Immigration Policymaking: Israel's Policy toward Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Ofir Hadad, Menachem Hofnung
How does the use of judicial framing, a repeated selection of certain features across a large number of related cases, enable courts to be active participants in national immigration policymaking? ...
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Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering: The Securitization of Migration Policy in Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Nicola Montagna
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for bordering, that is, for measures that aim to delineate foreigners’ access to citizenship and membership and to further securitize migration policy...
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Channeling and Wages Among New US Immigrants from Mexico, India, and the Philippines International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Matthew A. Painter, Matthew R. Sanderson, Ronald Kwon
National — and local — conversations about immigration are often centered on immigrants’ integration into the US society. One factor that shapes immigrants’ integration is their pre-migration work ...
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Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar
Transnational city networks (TCNs) focused on international migration and migrant integration are an outcome of cities’ ever-larger role in migration governance beyond city boundaries. Although the...
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Educational Expectation Gaps Between Second-Generation Immigrant and Ethnic Majority Students in a Comparative Perspective: The Moderating Role of Educational Tracking International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Katja Pomianowicz
This paper investigates the influence of educational tracking on immigrant educational expectation gaps in Sweden, England, the Netherlands, and Germany. To account for heterogeneity in immigrant c...
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Is Migration a Way Out from Ascription? The Status Attainment Process of Romanians in Western Europe International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Maria Giulia Montanari, Cinzia Meraviglia
This article assesses the role of social origin for Romanian migrants in Western Europe, compared to stayers in their origin country. We propose a novel theoretical model of status attainment to ac...
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Impact of Syrian Refugees on Male Immigrants’ Labor Market Outcomes in Jordan International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Bilal Malaeb, Jackline Wahba
This article examines whether the Syrian refugee inflow to Jordan has displaced other immigrant workers in the Jordanian Labor Market. Using data from Jordan, before and after the Syrian refugee in...
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Analyzing the Borderlands: A Regional Report on the Colombia–Ecuador Border on Political, Economic, Social, Legal, and Environment Aspects International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Fangbin Zou, Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan, Tiziana Crovella, Annarita Paiano
This regional report critically analyzes the historical Colombia–Ecuador border issues using a PESL (political, economic, social, and legal) lens, extended in PESTLE, considering this a strategic p...
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Divergent Immigrant Health Trajectories: Disparities in Physical Health Using a Multidimensional Conceptualization of Legal Status International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Rachel A Zajdel
Immigrant health research demonstrates that foreign-born individuals generally experience lower morbidity rates relative to native-born individuals. However, this research often overlooks structura...
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Modes of Migration City Network Mobilization in the EU and US Multilevel Institutional Systems: The Neglected Role of Politics International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Tiziana Caponio, Andrea Pettrachin
The existing literature on the multilevel governance of migration in Europe and on migration federalism in the United States tends to assume that the modes of city network (CN) mobilization can be ...
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Unauthorized Mexican-Born Immigrants, Occupational Injuries, and the use of Medical Services in the United States International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Pedro P. Orraca-Romano, Erin R. Hamilton, Eunice D. Vargas-Valle
This article examines how unauthorized immigrant status is associated with the risk of suffering a work-related accident or illness and with the use of medical services after experiencing an injury...
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Happiness in the Daily Socio-Cultural Integration Process: A day Reconstruction Study among American Immigrants in Germany International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Martijn Hendriks, Randall Birnberg
Many immigrants struggle to integrate into host societies, despite the frequent long-term benefits of integration for immigrants and host societies. This article aims to increase understandings of ...
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Communicating Economic Evidence About Immigration Changes Attitudes and Policy Preferences International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 William L. Allen, Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij, Heather Rolfe, Johnny Runge
Existing studies demonstrate that threat perceptions matter for immigration attitudes. However, while these perceptions are potentially sensitive to information about immigrants’ impacts, questions...
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Determinants of Intended Return Migration among Refugees: A Comparison of Syrian Refugees in Germany and Turkey International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Nawras Al Husein, Natascha Wagner
Little is known about whether Syrian refugees intend to return to their origin-country and what affects their return migration intentions. We introduce a theoretical framework for voluntary return,...
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Bureaucratic Migration Politics in West Africa: Opportunities and Dependencies Created by EU Funding International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Christof Roos, Florian Trauner, Ilke Adam
This article delves into the role of bureaucrats and administrations in the development of national migration policies in West Africa. Based upon 87 interviews conducted in Accra, Dakar, and Brusse...
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Social Status and Gendered Pathways to Citizenship International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Jeannette Money, Sara Kazemian, Audie Klotz, Marisella Rodriguez
Despite decades of research on naturalization, the relationship between gender and the decision to naturalize is under-theorized. Given that women's lived experiences of migration are distinctive f...
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Labor Recruitment and Human Trafficking: Analysis of a Global Trafficking Survivor Database International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Camilla Fabbri, Heidi Stöckl, Cathy Zimmerman, Katharine Jones, Harry Cook, Claire Galez-Davis, Naomi Grant, Yuki Lo
Over the past decade, third-party labor recruiters who facilitate employment for migrant workers across low- and middle-income countries have often been considered by the counter-trafficking commun...
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“All the World's a Stage?” A Role Theory Analysis of City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Janina Stürner-Siovitz
In 2018, cities from Africa, Europe, North, and South America officially submitted input to the state-led negotiations of the Global Compact for Migration. In the same year, the Mayors Mechanism wa...
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Public Attitudes to Immigration in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Little Change in Policy Preferences, Big Drops in Issue Salience International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 James Dennison, Alexander Kustov, Andrew Geddes
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected public attitudes toward immigration? Long-term evidence in Europe and the United States suggests attitudes to immigration are relatively stable and, in some c...
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Does Time Since Arrival have an Effect on Immigrants’ Preferences for Vocational Education and Training Programs in Switzerland? International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Thomas Bolli, Ladina Rageth
In many European countries, immigrants tend to view vocational education and training (VET) programs as less desirable for themselves and their children. Students with migration background, therefo...
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Intergroup Encounters in Urban Public Spaces: Everyday Strategies of Host Community Members Following a Refugee Influx International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Ezgi Irgil
Some host community members (HCMs) develop positive attitudes toward refugees, while others do not. The current literature on perceptions of refugees offers different explanations for these varied ...
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The Migration Response to Food Insecurity and Household Shocks in Southwestern Ethiopia, 2005–2008 International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 David P. Lindstrom, Heather F. Randell, Tefera Belachew
This article examines how severe food insecurity and other shocks impact internal and international migration in southwestern Ethiopia using longitudinal survey data collected between 2005 and 2008...
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Do Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) Support Self-Reliance among Urban Refugees? Evidence from Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Charles Martin-Shields, Katrina Munir-Asen
Organizations working with refugees are increasingly using information communication technologies (ICTs) in their work. While there is a rich literature in the field of media and communications stu...
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Generational Perspectives on Homeland-Oriented Diasporic Humanitarianism: Coptic, Assyrian, and Iraqi Christian Charities in the United Kingdom International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Fiona McCallum Guiney
This article explores generational perspectives on homeland-oriented diasporic humanitarianism by minority diasporas. Through a case study of Coptic, Assyrian, and Iraqi Christian charities in the ...
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Immigrants’ Life Satisfaction in Intermarriages with Natives: A Family Life Course Perspective International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Annegret Gawron, Sarah Carol
What role do intermarriages (i.e., interethnic marriages) play in immigrants’ life satisfaction? Only a few studies have addressed this question. While intermarriages are associated with upward mob...
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Socialization Disrupted: The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Engagement in Immigrant Families International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Magda Borkowska, Renee Luthra
In this article, we examine the political socialization process in immigrant families based on the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). We find that international migration disrupts the interge...
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The Gender Employment Gap among Refugees and the Role of Employer Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from the German, Swedish and Austrian Labor Markets International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Flavia Fossati, Carlo Knotz, Fabienne Liechti, Ihssane Otmani
Compared to their male counterparts, refugee women exhibit low employment rates in many countries. Discrimination by recruiters could possibly explain this phenomenon, but thus far, there is little...
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Does Residential Context Matter? Neighborhood Migrant Concentration and Citizenship Acquisition in the Netherlands International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Christophe Leclerc, Maarten Vink, Hans Schmeets
Existing studies analyzing the relation between immigrants’ residential environment and their propensity to naturalize produce contradictory findings. These results are difficult to interpret, as s...
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Next Stop: Europe? Aspirations for Secondary Migration Among Syrian Refugees in Jordan International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Guri Tyldum, Huafeng Zhuang
Refugees who seek protection in neighboring countries (first safe countries of refuge) often have weak economic ties to their current place of residence. Refugees in these first safe countries also...
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“I Will Return Strong”: The Role of Life Aspirations in Refugees’ Return Aspirations International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Lea Müeller-Funk, Sonja Fransen
This article studies how return migration aspirations are formed and realized in the context of protracted displacement. Drawing on a mixed-methods study that included survey research and in-depth ...
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Refugee Belonging: How Values and Value Consensus Between Refugees and German Citizens Are Associated with Feeling Welcome and Spending Time Together International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Lukas M. Fuchs, Christian von Scheve
This article expands on the discussion of social and cultural factors for refugees’ feelings of belonging in the receiving society and assesses democratic, civic, and moral values as predictors of ...
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Importance of Personality Traits for Destination-Language Acquisition: Evidence for Refugees in Germany International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Yuliya Kosyakova, Marie-Christine Laible
We analyze the role of personality traits in destination-language proficiency among recent refugees in Germany. While personality traits have been shown to predict educational outcomes, they have b...
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Detecting Imperfect Substitution between Comparably Skilled Immigrants and Natives: A Machine Learning Approach International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Yunhe Lu
Immigration economists often disagree about whether comparably skilled immigrants and natives are perfect substitutes in the United States and other developed countries, leading these scholars to d...
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Restricting Human Movement During the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Research Avenues in the Study of Mobility, Migration, and Citizenship International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Lorenzo Piccoli, Jelena Dzankic, Didier Ruedin, Timothy Jacob-Owens
Every government in the world introduced restrictions to human mobility – that is, the movement of persons across and within state borders – in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such restrictions ...
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Where Would Ukrainian Refugees Go if They Could Go Anywhere? International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Mikael Elinder, Oscar Erixson, Olle Hammar
We present estimates of the number of refugees expected to flee Ukraine and to which countries they are expected to migrate based on migration preferences data from the Gallup World Poll (GWP). Thi...
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The Polarizing Effect of Anti-Immigrant Violence on Radical Right Sympathies in Germany International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Maureen A. Eger, Susan Olzak
While radical right parties championing anti-immigrant platforms have made electoral gains throughout Europe, anti-immigrant sentiment—a key indicator of radical right support—has not dramatically ...
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Journey Effects? Waiting Periods in European Transit Countries and Subsequent Economic Integration of Refugees in Switzerland International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Eroll Kuhn
Refugees face difficult journeys to receiving countries. These journeys often include waiting periods in transit countries, as refugees plan and collect resources for the next leg of transit. Socio...
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Cumulative Experiences of Immigration Enforcement Policy and the Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Asian and Latinx Immigrants in the United States International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Lei Chen, May Sudhinaraset, Altaf Saadi, Kathryn G. Kietzman, Steven P. Wallace
Immigration enforcement policies in the United States and other nations have long been enacted and implemented as intentional tools of racial control. There is mounting evidence that immigration ra...
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Embedding Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Solidarity Contexts: A Cross-European Study International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Bogdan Voicu, Horațiu Rusu, Mircea Comșa
This article aims to retrospectively investigate the embeddedness of attitudes toward immigrants (ATI) in cultures of solidarity seen as general orientations toward solidarity measured at a country...
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With Time We Learn to Trust Others? Long-Standing Ethnic Diversity, Recent Immigration, and Out-Group Trust in Russia International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Zuzanna Brunarska, Sabina Toruńczyk-Ruiz
This article examines the relationship between ethnic diversity and out-group trust in contemporary Russia, while distinguishing between long-standing ethnic diversity and recent immigration. In co...
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Of Rice and Men: Rice Consumption-Based Estimates of Undocumented Persons in Malaysia International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Stewart Nixon
Quantifying undocumented populations is a persistent challenge globally. A shortage of reliable estimates limits analysis of unauthorized migrations, effective policy responses, and measures to cou...
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Open-Population Inference: An Investigation of the Underrepresentation of the Second Generation in Research on Intergenerational Income Mobility International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Arthur Sakamoto, Deirdre Bloome, Ernesto Amaral, Davis Daumler, Shih-Keng Yen
Studies about intergenerational income mobility are increasingly popular across the social sciences. These studies require individuals’ own incomes and their parents’ incomes to be observed prospec...
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Immigrant Legal Status among Essential Frontline Workers in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic Era International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Ryan Allen, Jose D. Pacas, Zoe Martens
Emerging evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has extracted a substantial toll on immigrant communities in the United States, due in part to increased potential risk of exposure for immigra...