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Does It Pay Off? Understanding Subjective Employment Mobility of European Physicians in Germany International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Regina Becker
This article investigates the subjective employment mobility, defined as migrants’ evaluation of their employment situation before and after migration, of European physicians in Germany. Analyzing different dimensions of occupation (e.g., income, working conditions, use of skills, career opportunities) of physicians who migrated to Germany from within the European Union (i.e., EU physicians), it examines
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Migrant Remittances and Food Security in Sub-Africa: The Role of Income Classifications International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Iddisah Sulemana, Ebenezer Bugri Anarfo, Louis Doabil
The pervasiveness of food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions has resulted in increased emigration not only to wealthier countries within the continent but also to developed countries elsewhere in the world. A growing body of research has examined the welfare implications of remittances from international migrants for families left behind. A strand of that literature focuses
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The Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions Among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in Norway and Sweden International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Erik Carlsson
Immigrant fertility and the realization of fertility intentions are two topics of considerable interest in contemporary demographic research. Yet very few studies have explored the relationship between intended and actual fertility among immigrants and their children. Using data from the Norwegian and Swedish Generations and Gender Surveys, this article analyzes how both positive and negative short-term
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When Bare Life is Bearable: The Life Projects of Rohingya and Hazara Refugees Living in Malaysia International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Ramesh Sunam
With anti-migrant populism and strict border regimes in many receiving countries, hundreds of thousands of refugees have been entangled in transit situations and face critically vulnerable conditions. While recent research on transit migration has explored “life projects,” including work, studies, and volunteering undertaken by refugees to make their lives more bearable in a context of protracted uncertainty
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“I think I am a very strong woman”: Arabic-Origin Women Mobilizing Values and Claiming Worth in Denmark International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Sandra Angelika P. Al-Jarrah, Kristina Bakkær Simonsen
Across Western European nations, politicians often problematize immigrants’ cultural values and question their fit with majority society. Within this discourse, immigrant women, especially those of Arabic origin, occupy a central place, since they are portrayed as un-agentic victims and reproducers of an oppressive culture that they pass on to their daughters. In this article, we study how, in a climate
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Linguistic Barriers to Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration in Italy International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Daniela Ghio, Massimiliano Bratti, Simona Bignami
This article investigates whether and to what extent poor proficiency in Italian impairs immigrants’ labor market integration in Italy. Using individual-level survey data, we apply instrumental variables methods to leverage presumably exogenous variations in Italian proficiency induced by immigrants’ demo-linguistic characteristics (e.g., age at arrival, linguistic distance between mother tongue and
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Review Essay: Refugees as Economic Agents in Protection Systems International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
The book Refuge: Transforming a broken refugee system (2017) by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier achieved something relatively rare in contemporary refugee and migration studies—namely, instant infamy. The highly critical reviews of Refuge make up a small subliterature in refugee studies in their own right (e.g., Munro 2017; Pascucci 2017; Tazzioli 2018; Webber 2018; White 2019; Grant 2020; Leon-Reyes
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The EU Urban Partnership on Inclusion: Institutionalizing Local–Supranational Integration Governance International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Janina Stürner-Siovitz, Christiane Heimann
In times when immigrant integration is considered both a highly salient political topic and a practical challenge by local, national, and European decision-makers, an analysis of the governance approach developed by the European Union (EU) Urban Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees opens up new opportunities to advance research on migration studies’ “local turn.” In this IMR Dispatch from
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Book Review: Immigration Nation: Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco by Lorena Gazzotti International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Sara Benjelloun
In her book, Lorena Gazzotti focuses on the workings of border power through aid by weaving together insights from the literature on border control, development securitization, humanitarian assistance, and non-state governance. The main argument advanced by the book is that aid is an instrument of slow border control. Gazzotti demonstrates that, contrary to hard power instruments of migration control
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Costa Rica as a Destination for Migrants in Need of International Protection: IMR Country Report International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Abigail Weitzman, Gilbert Brenes Camacho, Arodys Robles, Matthew Blanton, Jeffrey Swindle, Katarina Huss
In this IMR Country Report, we draw attention to Costa Rica as a strategic location for expanding research and theory on migrants in need of protection (MNP), who have migrated abroad primarily to evade an imminent threat to their survival. MNP constitute an increasing share of all international migrants in Costa Rica and worldwide, yet research on these migrants and their migration dynamics remains
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Diasporas and Collective Remittances: From State-Driven to Unofficial Forms of Diaspora Engagement International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Nare Galstyan, Maurizio Ambrosini
This article advances understandings of collective remittances practices by elaborating on the case of the Armenian diaspora in the Netherlands. It argues that the collection, management, and distribution of collective remittances are crucial aspects of how diasporic immigrant groups function. Hence, collective remittances represent a lens through which to analyze a diaspora's internal life, gender
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Does City Size Affect International Migrants and Native-Born Workers Differently? Exploring Inequalities in Unemployment and Occupations Across Spanish Cities International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Jacobo Muñoz-Comet, Fernando Fernández-Monge
The 20th century witnessed populations increasingly concentrated in cities, and this global pattern has persisted into the 21st century. A principal reason for the urban concentration lies in the greater employment advantages offered by bigger metropolises. While this relationship is well documented, few studies have examined whether these benefits differ according to urban dwellers’ birth country
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Book Review: The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism Against Authoritarian Regimes by Dana M. Moss International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Dr. Jannis Julien Grimm
The popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa 2010/2011 were a critical juncture not only for societies and politics in the region but also for intraregional and transregional migration flows. Notably, the early days of the so-called “Arab Spring” were characterized by the return of formerly exiled opposition players as well as second-generation emigrants for whom the protest-driven regimes
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Ethnic Wage Penalty and Human Capital Transferability: A Comparative Study of Recent Migrants in 11 European Countries International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Stefano Cantalini, Raffaele Guetto, Nazareno Panichella
This article examines the ethnic wage penalty among migrants in 11 Western European countries. It aims to extend the literature on the models of migrant occupational inclusion in European labor markets by studying the wage gap and to disentangle whether the gross wage penalty experienced by foreign-born residents can be explained by human capital-related factors and/or by migrants’ occupational segregation
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IMR Country Report – Nigerian Migration to Russia: Accommodation and Discrimination in a Post-Soviet Society International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Isaac Olumayowa Oni
This IMR Country Report examines Nigerian migration to Russia, exploring the changes in this migration stream from a flow driven by educational motivations during the Soviet era to one shaped by economic and family-reunion reasons after the Soviet Union’s dissolution. In doing so, it offers insights into the social realities of Nigerian migrants living in Russia. The research discussed here included
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Book Review: Advanced Introduction to Migration Studies by Skeldon, Ronald International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 David Scott FitzGerald
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Multidimensionality in the Integration of First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Europe: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Veronika Fajth,Laurence Lessard-Phillips
Immigrant integration scholarship increasingly discusses integration as a multidimensional process. Yet there is considerable inconsistency in how that multidimensionality is conceptualized. This article posits that there are two different logical approaches by which multidimensional frameworks of integration tend to outline their dimensions: the “thematic” (or conceptually driven) approach and the
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Sick Days: Logical Versus Survey Identification of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Claire E. Altman,James D. Bachmeier,Cody Spence,Christal Hamilton
The self-reported number of workdays missed due to injury or illness, or sick days, is a reliable measure of health among working-aged adults. Although sick days is a relatively underexplored health-related outcome in migration studies, it can provide a multidimensional understanding of immigrant wellbeing and integration. Current understandings of the association between migration status and sick
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How Homeland Experiences Shape Refugee Belonging: Rethinking Exile, Home, and Integration in the Syrian Case International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Wendy Pearlman
Studies of refugee belonging, as a key facet of integration, primarily focus on post-flight processes. Adopting an approach to integration that is temporally and spatially broader, this article argues that refugees’ varied experiences of belonging or estrangement in origin countries fundamentally condition their subsequent experiences of belonging or estrangement in settlement countries. To explore
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Transnational Social Stratification? Legal Status of Immigrant Parents and the Educational Achievements of Mexican Children International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Kyle E. Waldman
Although there is evidence documenting the impacts of Mexican parents’ migration to the United States on the educational attainment of the children they leave behind, the potential role of parents’ legal status in stratifying their children's educational achievement is poorly understood. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project, I estimate the educational effects of parents’ documentation status
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Spatial Incorporation of Multiple Immigrant Groups in Gateway Cities: Comparative Analysis of Sydney, Barcelona, and Prague International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Jiří Hasman, Ivana Křížková
Immigrant incorporation in cities is often explained using the theories of spatial and segmented assimilation, which differ, among other things, in their approach to the spatial aspects of incorporation. However, empirical evidence about immigrant spatial incorporation from both theories is ambiguous, since most case studies focus on a single location and a limited number of immigrant groups, which
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Spatial Assimilation at a Halt? Intergenerational Persistence in Neighborhood Contexts among Immigrant Minorities in Norway International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Are Skeie Hermansen, Pål Oskar Hundebo, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund
Spatial assimilation theory claims that immigrants’ acculturation and socioeconomic progress will lead to converging neighborhood attainment relative to non-migrant natives. Recently, it has been argued that equalization of local services and life chances across neighborhoods in egalitarian welfare states may delay spatial assimilation by reducing immigrants’ incentives to move out of low-income areas
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New year, new plans for IMR’s book review section International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-02-25
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Time to Mainstream the Environment into Migration Theory? International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Lori M. Hunter, Daniel H. Simon
As with all social processes, human migration is a dynamic process that requires regular theoretical reflection. This article offers such reflection as related to the role of the natural environment in contemporary migration research and theory. A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental contexts, as shifting social and ecological realities, are consequential to migration theory. In this
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Book Reviews: Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia by Rustamjon Urinboyev International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Olga Tkach
Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes by Rustamjon Urinboyev continues the recent series of monographs (see Kubal, 2019; Schenk, 2018) that introduce the Russian case of immigration policy and governance to global migration studies. The book focuses on visa-free labor migration from Uzbekistan to Russia and analyses migrants’ legal adaptation in the context of Russia's hybrid political regime. The
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Health-Care Utilization of Refugees: Evidence from Austria International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Thomas Schober, Katrin Zocher
European countries have experienced significant inflows of migrants in the past decade, including many refugees from regions engaged in armed conflicts. Although previous research on migrant health has largely focused on economic migration, empirical evidence on refugee health is sparse. This article uses administrative data from Austria to differentiate between economic migrants and refugees and to
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Gendered and Stratified Family Formation Trajectories in the Context of Latin American Migration, 1950 to 2000 International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Andrés F. Castro Torres, Edith Y. Gutierrez-Vazquez
The interdependence of migration and family formation has been studied extensively, but studies that consider the embeddedness of this interdependence within gender and class relations are less common. Most existing research on family and migration treats gender and social class as separate determinants of family events or transitions, instead of analyzing how the intersections of both shape full family
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Badante or Bride? Patterns of Female Migration in Italy, Japan, Korea, and Spain International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Margarita Estévez-Abe, Tiziana Caponio
This article investigates the intersection of care and migration regimes by comparing four carefully matched familialist countries—Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Spain. These four countries, while sharing a similar familialist culture and welfare regime, responded to the problem of eldercare deficits differently in the 1990s and the 2000s. Italy and Spain developed a ‘migrant-in-the-family model,’
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National Cultural Frames and Muslims’ Economic Incorporation: A Comparison of France and Canada International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Jeffrey G. Reitz, Emily Laxer, Patrick Simon
This article shows that differences in the economic incorporation of Muslims and other immigrant minorities in France and in Canada are mainly related to immigrant selectivity, labor market structures, and welfare transfers. Differences in ethno-specific penalties due to national cultural frames — related to multiculturalism in Canada and secular republicanism in France — are small, affect only the
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The Tradeoff of Temporariness: Economic and Social Impacts of H-2A Status on Mexican Migrant Men International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Shelby O'Neill
As the H-2A visa program expands to become a core component of contemporary Mexican migration to the United States, questions emerge about the tradeoffs migrants face between temporary and undocumented statuses. This article employs propensity score matching of participants in the Mexican Migration Project—an extensive binational survey of Mexican migrants and their families—to compare economic and
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Immigration, Identity, and Anonymity: Intentionally Masked Intolerance in Ireland International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Mathew J. Creighton, Éamonn Fahey, Frances McGinnity
Newcomers to Ireland confront a context of reception shaped by large-scale historical emigration and more recent immigration defined by an increasingly diverse set of origin contexts, both within and outside the European Union (EU). How has the Irish population responded to these groups, and how openly do Irish residents express their views toward different immigrant groups? We test this response using
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Does Aid Drive Migration? Evidence from a Shift-Share Instrument∗ International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Hamish Fitchett, Dennis Wesselbaum
Foreign aid payments have been a key policy response by Global North countries to reduce increased migration flows from the Global South. In this article, we contribute to the literature on the relationship between aid and international migration flows and estimate the contemporaneous effect of bilateral aid payments on bilateral, international migration flows. The fundamental problem in analyzing
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Book Reviews: Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa by Jonatan Kurzwelly and Luis Escobedo International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Dr Amanuel Isak Tewolde
Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers, edited by Jonatan Kurzwelly and Luis Escobedo, uses the concept of "life story' as its overarching methodological framework to tell the stories of migrants coming from various backgrounds and living in the town of Bloemfontein, South Africa. The book is positioned largely within scholarship on international migration and identity formation. Since much of the migration
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Trajectories of Spatial Assimilation or Place Stratification? A Typology of Residence and Workplace Histories of Newly Arrived Migrants in Sweden International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Guilherme Kenji Chihaya, Szymon Marcińczak, Magnus Strömgren, Urban Lindgren, Tiit Tammaru
In most societies, resources and opportunities are concentrated in neighborhoods and workplaces occupied by the host population. The spatial assimilation and place stratification theories propose trajectories (the sequences of events) leading to minority and migrant access to or exclusion from these advantageous places. However, most previous research on these theories did not ask whether such theorized
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Point of Reference: A Multisited Exploration of African Migration and Fertility in France International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Julia A. Behrman, Abigail Weitzman
A considerable literature explores whether the fertility of migrants from high-fertility contexts converges with that of women in lower fertility destinations. Nonetheless, much of this research compares migrants’ reproductive outcomes to those of native-born women in destination countries. Drawing on research emphasizing the importance of transnational perspectives, we standardize and integrate data
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Exclusionary Contexts Frustrate Cultural Integration: Migrant Acculturation Into Support for Gender Equality in the Labor Market in Western Europe International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Saskia Glas
Countering linear acculturation theories, the adoption of Western European gender customs over time differs across migrant groups. This diversity implies that acculturation into support for gender equality is context dependent. However, little quantitative scholarship has identified what sort of contexts strengthen or impede acculturation. This article investigates one source of context-dependent acculturation:
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Transnational Parenthood and Migrant Subjective Well-Being in Italy International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Francesca Tosi, Roberto Impicciatore
Transnational parents are migrant mothers and fathers who have at least one child left behind in the home country. Despite their non-negligible prevalence in many destination countries, scarcity of data on the topic has caused a lack of attention to this phenomenon in both policy and scholarship. In particular, little is known about how the interplay between migration and family relations at a distance
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Components of Context: Respecifying the Role of Context in Migration Research International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-27 Francisco Lara-García
For a century, scholars have studied immigrant integration in a range of destinations. Yet, the precise role of context in shaping integration outcomes remains poorly understood. Drawing from an analysis of an original database of articles and books in migration studies, I argue that this knowledge gap may be due to two closely related tendencies in the scholarship. First, case selection has relied
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Does Personality Matter? Noncognitive Skills and the Male Migrant Wage Gap in Germany International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Marie-Christine Laible, Hanna Brenzel
Wage gaps between migrants and natives persist in Germany, and traditional human capital endowments or work environments only partially explain these gaps. This article investigates whether noncognitive skills contribute to explaining male migrant wage gaps in Germany. While the economics literature shows that noncognitive skills affect educational and occupational outcomes, such as gender wage gaps
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Implications of the Rohingya Relocation from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, Bangladesh International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Md. Didarul Islam, Ayesha Siddika
This IMR Dispatch attempts to elucidate the different concerns of human right groups and international communities over the relocation of the Rohingyas, a forcefully displaced ethnic minority of Myanmar, from the Cox's Bazar refugee camps, in mainland Bangladesh, to a newly developed island, Bhasan Char, in the Bay of Bengal. Of the nearly 1 million Rohingyas currently living in Cox's Bazar camps,
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What Shapes Attitudes Toward Homosexuality among European Muslims? The Role of Religiosity and Destination Hostility International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Antje Röder, Niels Spierings
Muslim migrants and their descendants in Western Europe have consistently been shown to hold more negative attitudes toward homosexuality, the more religious they are. In this article, we go beyond this mono-dimensional view of religiosity and develop a theoretical framework that combines (a) the role of different dimensions of religiosity in anchoring cultural attitudes and (b) the potential impact
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Book Reviews: Migration and Political Theory by Gillian Brock International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Matthew R. Joseph
Gillian Brock‘s Migration and Political Theory is a deep dive into the contemporary immigration debates in analytic political philosophy. These debates are diverse and interrelated, with disputes in one domain frequently turning on claims made in others. For example, the extent to which states have responsibilities to receive asylum seekers is related to the grounding conditions for states’ authority
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Ireland's White Paper to End Direct Provision (2021): Migrant Accommodation and Control International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Liam Coakley, Piaras MacEinri
This IMR Dispatch engages with Ireland's White Paper to End Direct Provision (2021) - the Government of Ireland's most recent policy statement on the provision of settlement services for migrants seeking asylum in Ireland. The actions outlined in the White Paper promise to reorder the provision of accommodation and support for such migrants. A range of positive inputs are included, the most significant
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The Effect of Immigrant Integration Policies on Public Immigration Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the United Kingdom International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Michael Neureiter
Drawing on intergroup threat theory, this article argues that immigrant integration policies can improve public attitudes toward immigrants and, particularly, toward refugees and asylum-seekers. Examining evidence from an original survey experiment conducted in the United Kingdom, I find that support for admitting asylum-seekers increases when respondents are made aware that prospective asylum-seekers
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Possible Citizens: Migration Enforcement as the Performance of Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Noora Lori
While most boundary-making studies examine native-born citizens’ opposition to immigration, this article explains why immigrants develop anti-immigrant attitudes. Under what conditions do previous generations of immigrants develop solidarity with newcomers? When might immigrants, instead, police national boundaries and oppose further immigration or naturalization? I argue that under uncertain citizenship
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Book Reviews: The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea During the Great Irish Famine by Lindsay Janssen International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Lindsay Janssen
The coffin ship constitutes a core element of both the popular and scholarly imaginations concerning Irish emigration during and after the Great Irish Famine (1845–50). As a symbol of the potentially deadly outcome of the overseas voyage, it has appeared as a staple feature in histories of Irish emigration and inspired creative expressions from songs by Primordial and The Pogues to Brendan Behan's
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Book Reviews: Migration Studies and Colonialism by Mayblin, Lucy and Turner, Joe International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Jessica Stallone
Migration Studies and Colonialism is a long-overdue call to make the analysis of colonialism central to migration studies. Even though contemporary migration is often rooted in histories of colonial expansion, core texts in the field of migration studies, Mayblin and Turner (2021) argue, have rarely mentioned colonialism, postcolonial racism, or decolonization. The authors critically characterize migration
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Book Review: What Do We Owe to Refugees? International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-12-05 Mirjam A. Twigt
In What do we owe to refugees?, David Owen questions how refugee protection can be (re)considered as a shared responsibility. This accessible and thought-provoking book explores, from a political philosophic level, what states and their citizens owe refugees. Addressing this question is an urgent matter and a complex journey, and studies like this one are crucial to reflect on how to do better for
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Book Review: The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks & Migrant Human Security by Pugh, Jeffrey D International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Maria-Jose Rivera
From the very beginning of Pugh's book, the reader will discover the author's empathy with the people who are subjected to “the invisibility bargain”, namely migrants and refugees who—to access protection and rights—have to meet the host society's dual expectation of both contributing to the economy and remaining invisible in social and political life. The close examination of the integration and protection
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Book Review: Development, (Dual) Citizenship and its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia by Pailey, Robtel Neajai International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Thabani Mutambasere
In this book, Pailey presents a fascinating and comprehensive overview of contestations over dual citizenship and the political economy of belonging in Liberia. The book broadens our understanding of citizenship and identity in the Liberian state as well as Africa more broadly through tracing the history of citizenship and displacement in Liberia as well as the tensions between what the author regards
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Book Review: Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean by Caterina Giusa International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Caterina Giusa
In Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean, anthropologist Megan A. Carney draws on rich, in-depth ethnographic material collected in Sicily between 2014 and 2019 to explore “the lived experiences of the citizens and non-citizens who have been performing various aspects of migrant solidarity work at the front lines of Europe's ‘migration crisis’” (p.2). The author provides us
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Book Review: Jungle Passports: Fence, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border by Md Azmeary Ferdoush International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Md Azmeary Ferdoush
Jungle Passports by Malini Sur starts with a fresh approach to the northeast India-Bangladesh border by portraying it not primarily as a disruptor but as an “assembly of life forces” (p. 8)—a border that does not stop, but instead animates daily activities. Through a reading of ecologies, infrastructures, exchanges, and mobility, Sur zooms into the heart of borderland communities in Bangladesh and
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Discrimination of Black and Muslim Minority Groups in Western Societies: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Lex Thijssen, Frank van Tubergen, Marcel Coenders, Robert Hellpap, Suzanne Jak
This article examines discrimination against black and Muslim minority groups in 20 Western labor markets. We analyze the outcomes of 94 field experiments, conducted between 1973 and 2016 and representing ∼240,000 fictitious job applications. Using meta-analysis, we find that black minority groups are more strongly discriminated against than non-black minority groups. The degree of discrimination of
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Refugee Status, Settlement Assistance, and the Educational Integration of Migrants’ Children in the United States International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Thoa V. Khuu, Frank D. Bean
Initial relations between the host society and migrants are likely to influence whether and to what degree migrants receive tangible and intangible settlement support that might affect their children's educational integration. As part of the 1980 Refugee Act, the United States officially began to provide settlement support to one group of migrants - refugees, thus institutionalizing more favorable
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The Life Course Origins of the Immigrant Advantage? Parental Nativity, Parental Education, and Academic Achievement Gaps From Kindergarten to High School in the United States International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-10 Tate Kihara
In the United States, there is a wide academic achievement gap, beginning in early childhood, between children with more and less educated parents. However, we know little about the differences in size and trajectories of achievement gaps associated with parental education and nativity. Drawing on two US education datasets that enable me to follow a cohort of children from kindergarten to high school
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Immigration, Sanctuary Policies, and Public Safety International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Thitima Puttitanun, Mary Lopez
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers—the requests from ICE to a state or local law enforcement agency to hold someone until the person can be taken into immigration custody—have been instrumental in supporting the growing number of deportations from the United States. However, as migrant detentions expanded after 9/11, law enforcement agencies have been increasingly reluctant to comply
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Book Review: Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws 1882–1965 by Maddalena Marinari International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Sarah H. Salter
Maddalena Marinari's Unwanted appears at a perfect—which is to say, pointed—moment for US immigration policy, as the 100-year-old deliberations about immigration priorities feel irredeemably and tragically present. Marinari knows this as well as readers of her book and students in her classes: her conclusion describes a student who “could no longer tell whether we were studying the history of US immigration
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Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Mary Gilmartin
“Could asylum actually disappear?” (p. 234), Alison Mountz asks, in the final chapter of her provocative new book. The evidence she marshals to address this question suggests a disturbing answer. Inspired by Judith Butler, Mountz argues that we are witnessing the death of asylum, evident in three interlinked ways. The first is physical death. In two chapters, we learn about the legal and political
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Book Review: The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco by Alice Elliot International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Lorena Gazzotti
The Outside: Migration as life in Morocco, by Alice Elliot, is a rich, deep, and nuanced ethnographic account of the transformations that migration generates in sending communities in the Tadla plain in central Morocco. The book is a thought-provoking account of migration where migrants are not the center of the attention. Instead, building on long-term fieldwork in both urban and rural Morocco, Elliot
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Collectivized Discretion: Seeking Explanations for Decreased Asylum Recognition Rates in Finland After Europe's 2015 “Refugee Crisis” International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Johanna Vanto, Elsa Saarikkomäki, Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi, Nea Lepinkäinen, Elina Pirjatanniemi, Juha Lavapuro
In 2015, during the so-called “refugee crisis” in Europe, Finland was among the European countries receiving exceptionally large numbers of asylum applications. As the volume of asylum applications surged, however, the percentage of positive asylum decisions in Finland declined substantially. In this article, we explore reasons for this dramatic drop in recognitions rates and examine Finnish immigration