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Does exposure to books foster a taste for spatial mobility? Home library size in childhood and adult migration intentions Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Zuzanna Brunarska, Artjoms Ivlevs
Does exposure to books in childhood encourage adult migration? We contend that it does—through reading, which provides a simulative experience and arouses readers’ curiosity, as well as raising their openness to new experiences, awareness of opportunities in other places, and confidence in social situations, all of which foster migration intentions. Using data from the Life in Transition-III Survey
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Second-generation immigrants and native attitudes toward immigrants in Europe Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Oscar Barrera-Rodríguez, Isabelle Bensidoun, Anthony Edo
This article investigates the role immigrants and their native-born children play in shaping native attitudes toward immigrants in the European Union. By exploiting the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on immigrant integration, we show that countries with a relatively high share of immigrants are more likely to believe that immigrants are a burden on the welfare system and worsen crime. In contrast, native
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International migration and shifts in subjective well-being: A longitudinal study using German panel data Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Andreas Genoni, Nico Stawarz, Andreas Ette, Heiko Rüger
In many economically advanced countries, a relevant proportion of the population migrates across national boundaries every year. For these individuals, migrating abroad brings benefits (e.g. monetary returns) but also potential pitfalls, as migration is accompanied by profound changes in everyday life. However, there are mainly cross-sectional studies of individuals’ migration experiences that analyse
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Photography and the diasporic condition. A travel in the writer Sabyl Ghoussoub’s family photographs Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sophie Brones
“The contributions in this series explore the migration experience using different kinds of ‘data.’ Our contributors use works of art, novels, songs, and movies to explore many of the same questions they generally ask in their social scientific research. What additional insights come from using arts and culture to think through the issues that concern us? What can images and notes reveal that scholarly
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Neoliberal humanitarianism: Contradictory policy logics and Syrian refugee experiences in Japan Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Gracia Liu-Farrer, Wendy Pearlman, Mohammed Al-Masri
Since the 2011 beginning of the Syrian uprising, more than 800 Syrians have become registered residents of Japan. Japan is an unusual destination for these refugees due not only to its geographical and cultural distance from the Middle East and lack of Arab diasporic communities, but also to what we call neoliberal humanitarianism: an approach by which states adopt policies and programmes to reduce
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Does a tragic event affect different aspects of attitudes toward immigration? Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Odelia Heizler, Osnat Israeli
Dramatic events can evoke feelings of compassion, fear, or threat, and can affect public opinion regarding controversial issues. Such an event was the drowning of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, a Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish shore, and was photographed, producing an iconic image that was seen worldwide. The image evoked empathy and compassion that neuroscience and psychological research associate
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How regional attitudes towards immigration shape the chance to obtain asylum: Evidence from Germany Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Lidwina Gundacker, Yuliya Kosyakova, Gerald Schneider
Asylum recognition rates in advanced democracies differ not only across states but also vary within them, translating into fluctuating individual chances to obtain protection. Existing studies on the determinants of these regional inequities typically rely on aggregate data. Utilizing a German refugee survey and leveraging a quasi-natural experiment arising from state-based allocation rules tied to
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Attitudes towards immigration and unemployment risk cleavages: Untangling the economically rooted group conflict framework Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Elif Naz Kayran
How do increasing economic risk cleavages amongst natives shape growing negativity towards immigration? Group conflict theory suggests that tension between immigrant and native groups arises as a reaction to the actual or perceived loss of economic privilege by the majority group members. Yet, such an economically rooted formation of sentiments towards immigration is widely debated. This article aims
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Immigrants’ subjective well-being in Europe: Variation by regional attitudes towards immigrants Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Michaela Šedovič
Research suggests that migrants’ well-being varies with their lived environment. This variation’s potential but under-researched driver is non-migrants’ attitude towards immigrants (ATI). Using pooled European Social Survey data (2010–18) for twenty-two destination countries, I address the question, ‘Are more positive ATI in regions where migrants live associated with their higher life satisfaction
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Reflexive reciprocity under an ethics of care: Reflections from the field for refugee studies Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Aminath Nisha Zadhy-Çepoğlu
By bringing reflexivity and reciprocity into conceptual dialogue in a discussion about the ethical framework of care in research, this article discusses how ‘reflexive reciprocity’ can be a research tool in migration studies. Taking reciprocity—the dynamics of giving and receiving—as an aspect contextually bound to the refugee experience, I propose that a relationship of giving and receiving helps
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Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Terje Toomistu, Ave Lauren, Aet Annist, Rein Murakas
Since Estonia joined the European Union in 2004, there has been a steady growth in transnational mobility for work or study among Estonian young adults, a phenomenon further boosted by the economic recession of 2008–09. This article analyses the factors that have influenced or would potentially influence their return to Estonia, following an online survey of over 2,000 participants from Estonia aged
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Exploring urban co-presence and migrant integration on Beirut’s seafront Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Nadine Khayat, Clare Rishbeth
This article focuses on investigating how uses and users of Beirut’s seafront spaces reflect city demographics and how these may offer specific affordances to migrant communities. The article documents co-presence and experiences of recreation and interactions to explore whether these can be meaningfully described as integrated leisure spaces. Beirut is a post-conflict, high migration city, and the
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Claiming a postcolonial differential citizenship. Contestation of family migration rights in the Netherlands in the wake of Suriname’s independence Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 E (Eline) Westra, S A (Saskia) Bonjour, F F (Floris) Vermeulen
Political struggles over national belonging often involve ideas on what a ‘proper’ family looks like. This article connects this important insight from the field of family migration politics to the study of postcolonial citizenship. Rather than focusing on dominant (State) perspectives, we ask: how do citizens from formerly colonised territories themselves conceptualise ‘the family’ and ‘the nation’
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Trapped in Ceuta: Reflexive tactics and methods in Participatory Filmmaking among cross-border women Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Irene Gutiérrez Torres
Recent scholarship has promoted reflexivity in migration research using visual participatory methods. However, the perspectives of cross-border workers living as undocumented migrants in borderlands have been understudied using these methods. Adopting a reflexive approach to Participatory Filmmaking (PF), this article critically engages with the co-production of knowledge amongst thirteen Moroccan
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Reevaluating the role of information in transit migration: the case of Central American migrants crossing Mexico Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Tuur Ghys, Beatriz Inzunza-Acedo
The idea that information campaigns can stop migrants from engaging in troublesome journeys has been criticized in recent years on the basis that migrants are aware of the risks of their travel. This article intervenes in the discussion on the relevance of information by arguing for a more nuanced view that looks at what information migrants have, how they understand risks, and what types of information
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Migration aspirations in forced transnational families: the case of Syrians in Turkey Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 David Schiefer, Franck Düvell, Ali Zafer Sağıroğlu
Increasingly high numbers of migrants around the globe have led migration scholars attempting to understand determinants of migration aspirations for many years. This study specifically looks at migration aspirations from two angles, (1) migration under conditions of a continuum of crises, in this case the (civil) war in Syria and precarious lives in Turkey, highlighting uncertainty and temporality
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Exploring temporal and topical dynamics of research on climate/environment–migration nexus: A critical comparative perspective Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Ahmet İçduygu, Hacer Gören
Research on climate/environmental change and human migration have undergone significant transformations since the early 1990s. Attention by migration-related journals and environment/climate-oriented journals has been uneven. What is absent is a critical comparative approach to this unevenness and the evolving dynamics of the nexus in a continuum. We conducted a critical comparative analysis of six
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Building social capital in a new home country. A closer look into the predictors of bonding and bridging relationships of migrant populations at different education levels Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Minna Tuominen, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Regina García Velázquez, Anu Castaneda, Hannamaria Kuusio
This article explores the factors that may facilitate or hinder the development of migrant social capital in a settlement country. We build on Robert Putnam’s dyad of bonding and bridging social capital, which are here combined into a single categorical dependent variable. As earlier research shows that higher educated migrants tend to form more extensive social relationships, we explore whether they
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Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 James Dennison
Emotions are regularly cited as vital components of effective strategic communication. However, there is relatively little guidance about how emotions should be used. Eliciting emotions is key to persuasion because attitudes have a cognitive and emotive component, with predictable physiological outcomes that make messages more resonant and impactful on behaviour, supporting policy objectives. This
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Rethinking encounter through parochial meaning-making on the urban margins in South Africa Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Tamlyn Monson
Originating in normative interventions aiming to remedy segregation through contact with difference, the notion of ‘meaningful encounter’ has become a portmanteau for contact that results in greater respect and tolerance. This article questions the epistemic justice of such a value-laden concept by presenting four examples of parochial meaning-making around encounters in a South African informal settlement
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Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Jisu Kim, Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, Kiran Garimella, André Grow, Ingmar Weber, Emilio Zagheni
As online social activities have become increasingly important for people’s lives, understanding how migrants integrate into online spaces is crucial for providing a more complete picture of integration processes. We curate a high-quality data set to quantify patterns of new online social connections among immigrants in the United States. Specifically, we focus on Twitter and leverage the unique features
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Creative (en)counterspaces: Engineering valuable contact for young refugees via solidarity arts workshops in Thessaloniki, Greece Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Lucy Hunt
This article explores the role of non-formal arts education in Thessaloniki, Greece for fostering contact considered valuable by the young refugee community. Drawing on accounts of their daily life, gathered over eight months of ethnographic fieldwork for a project on their post-15 educational participation, the article details how around the city, young refugees (aged 15–25 years) experience conflicted
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State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Justyna Bell, Anne Balke Staver, Ida Tolgensbakk
Transnational family living refers to the situation of maintaining relationships across national borders. It is dependent on a certain degree of flexibility from the state. As part of the crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this flexibility was revoked. As a result, existing mobility inequalities became more visible than ever: while travel restrictions came as a shock to many, they created an
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Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Isabell Schierenbeck, Andrea Spehar, Tareq Naseef
The article examines how newly arrived Syrian refugees experience and navigate their encounters with street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) in three urban settings: Adana, Turkey; Gothenburg, Sweden; and Irbid, Jordan. The encounters took place in the context of local government institutions responsible for assisting refugees upon their arrival in the host society. The broader question examined is how refugees
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Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis. Immobilisation, mobilisation, and normalisation? Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Laura Odasso
In France, the COVID-19 pandemic was experienced as a cascading crisis, with its effects rippling out beyond its initial health domain. Due to the lockdown and ban on travel, the closure of borders, and the slowdown of administrative services, the pandemic had an unanticipated effect on transnational French/foreign couples lacking formal legal relationship status, causing separation and uncertainty
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Walking the Elephant: Drawing as enactment of community Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Luise Vormittag
The Elephant and Castle neighbourhood in London is well known as a centre for the Latin American community in the UK. The drastic demolition of the site threatens their continued presence. This article chronicles my work as an illustrator on a project that sought to represent this migrant community, their vibrancy, and vitality on the cusp of the site’s erasure. Through a series of participatory, creative
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Structures of abandonment: Gender, statuslessness, and bare life Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Ruth Preser, Ayala Olier
This article asks the question: What does the term status mean with regard to women without legal status in Israel? Ostensibly, status represents a sovereign state’s formal classification system. In practice, however—according to the accounts of statusless women, civil society activists, and welfare and health officials, as analyzed in this article—status, or its lack thereof, is not a one-off, absolute
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Migration and urban space in a small town in Catalonia: the contested neighbourhood Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Martin Lundsteen
While much contemporary analysis of social problems in disadvantaged neighbourhoods have ignored the deep connections between everyday interactions in space and the structural tensions due to ethnic, racial, class, and gender inequalities that underlie them, this article offers a critical analysis of the groupings put into practice locally in relation to space. Through an ethnography carried out in
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Kept apart: Routine family separation in the UK family immigration system as times of crises Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Katharine Charsley, Helena Wray
The UK’s family immigration regime involves the routine separation of partners from their families. Most obviously, it keeps apart those who are unable to meet the income and other requirements for family (re)unification, and those refused visas. But separation for at least several months, and sometimes much longer, is the norm even for those whose applications are eventually successful. This article
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Understanding aspirations to stay: Relative endowment within a time–space perspective Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Simona Vezzoli
This article explores the factors and mechanisms that underpin aspirations to stay in situations where migration could be beneficial. To do so, this article proposes a spatial–temporal comparative framework and explains aspirations to stay through the notion of relative endowment, which reveals a positive assessment of what people have, despite the awareness of social inequalities. Empirically, the
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Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Liliana V Rodriguez
Drawing on 24 months of participant observation and interviews with adolescent arrivals in the central coast region of California, this study examines how recently arrived immigrant teens create spaces of belonging. This immigrant population is simultaneously undergoing two life-changing transitions—adolescence and immigration. These two, life-altering transitions, greatly shape the trajectories of
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A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Mira Burmeister-Rudolph
The migration process raises a set of migration-related risks and vulnerabilities, yet recognizing these as collective problems is paramount to formulating public policy responses. As one of the first subnational states globally, the South Indian state Kerala has institutionalized various social protection policies toward emigrants and returned migrants under the department of Non-Resident Keralites’
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Infrastructures of migration and the ordering of privilege in mobility Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Sophie Cranston, Karine Duplan
This article explores privilege in migration. Rather than focus on practices of privilege at micro-scales, the article examines how privilege in migration is ordered and disciplined through meso- and macro-level infrastructures (transnational organisations, higher education institutes, and governmental visa policies). The article questions where a pervasive discourse of mobility as achievement comes
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International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Maria Koinova, Franck Düvell, Foteini Kalantzi, Sara de Jong, Christian Kaunert, Marianne H Marchand
A much-anticipated end of the COVID-19 pandemic is on the horizon. It is important to reflect on the ways in which the pandemic has impacted the international politics of migration and especially on the migration-security nexus, which is still little understood but affecting policies and population movements with future implications. How the pandemic has shaped tradeoffs between securitization of migration
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The impact of migration on wages in Costa Rica Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Adriana R Cardozo Silva, Luis R Díaz Pavez, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso
In recent years, Costa Rica has experienced greater international migration from neighboring countries due to political, economic, and social reasons, raising discussions on the impact of migration on wages of native Costa Rican workers. This article is the first that disentangles the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Ricans from the impact for settled immigrants by analyzing the effect
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Safe-zone schools and the academic performance of children in mixed-status households: Evidence from the ‘between the lines’ study Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, José R Bucheli, Ana P Martinez-Donate
In response to the intensification of immigration enforcement in the interior of the USA, some school districts have implemented ‘safe-zone’ policies to protect students’ academic progression and well-being. Using primary data from a sample of US-born children of unauthorized migrants, we document the detrimental effect of stricter immigration enforcement on children’s educational outcomes and the
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Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Bukola Salami, Mia Tulli, Dominic A Alaazi, Jessica Juen, Nariya Khasanova, Jason Foster, Helen Vallianatos
In this article, we explore temporary foreign workers’ (TFWs) access to and experiences with formal and informal supports in Canada. Our study utilized a participatory action research design and four overlapping phases of data collection: individual interviews with current and former TFWs, focus groups, individual interviews with settlement service agencies, and a cross-sectional survey with current
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How can Mexican migrants reduce the risk of being abandoned by smugglers while clandestinely crossing the US–Mexico border? Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Carlos Hernández Campos, Eduardo Torre Cantalapiedra
This article analyzes the abandonments of Mexican migrants by their smugglers while crossing clandestinely the US–Mexico border. Drawing on the Emif-Norte survey, we examine the diversity of forms of abandonments and their adverse impacts to migrants while crossing the border; we discuss the agency capacity of migrants to anticipate and control the migration process in order to manage the risks of
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The ethics of migration policy dilemmas Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Rainer Bauböck, Julia Mourão Permoser, Martin Ruhs
This article proposes a new approach to the political theory of migration: the ethics of migration policy dilemmas. The core of this new approach lies in identifying specific policy dilemmas of central relevance to policy makers and other stakeholders in the field, and then submitting these dilemmas to systematic theoretical analysis. We conceptualize policy dilemmas as involving hard choices between
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Discrimination toward migrants during crises Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc, Sandra Viviana Rozo
How do crises shape native attitudes towards migrants? A common threat could produce an empathy channel among natives, but the perception of competition for scarce economic resources could just as easily spark prejudice through a resentment channel. Totally, 3,400 Colombian citizens were surveyed and randomly primed to consider the economic consequences of COVID-19 before eliciting their attitudes
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The elusive triple win: addressing temporary labour migration dilemmas through fair representation Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Rainer Bauböck, Martin Ruhs
Temporary Labour Migration Programmes (TLMPs) are controversial because they are caught in a dilemma between global and domestic justice. From a global justice perspective, TLMPs expand opportunities for workers in poor countries to access labour markets of rich countries and they improve the situation of origin countries through remittances. From a domestic justice perspective, TLMPs violate principles
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From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Fandi Akhmad, Ariane Utomo, Wolfram Dressler
This article examines the migration motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migrants residing in the regional town of Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara—a relatively resource-poor province in Eastern Indonesia. These migrants had generally worked in agriculture in their hometowns in Java but have engaged in and/or set up informal businesses since their arrival in Kupang. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach (household
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Remapping onward migration through the trajectories of Colombian parents in London Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Domiziana Turcatti
Onward migration is generally defined as the process whereby people leave the country of origin, settle in a second country, and then migrate to a third country when circumstances change. This study advances the conceptualisation of onward migration by exploring the trajectories of 51 Colombian parents who settled in Spain in the early 2000s and then onward migrated to London after the 2008 crisis
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Serial migrant mothers and permanent temporariness in Dubai Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 May Al-Dabbagh
Based on a five-year urban ethnography, this article explores the subjectivities of permanent temporariness that characterize the experience of serial migrant mothers in Dubai. By going beyond approaches that select middle class participants based on fixed category classifications such as ethnicity or citizenship, this article uses a processual lens and sheds light on a sociologically unmarked category
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Germany, year 2020. The tension between asylum right, border control, and economy, through the imperative of deservingness Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Elena Fontanari
This article discusses the new asylum laws implemented in Germany from 2015 to 2020 and places them in the wider context of the bordering process developed in Europe to control migrants’ mobility since the year 2011. ‘Asylum packages’ and the Integration Act combine a restriction of asylum rights with measures to quickly channel refugees into the German labor market. Focusing on a specific regulation
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Welcome in my back yard? Explaining cross-municipal opposition to refugees through outgroup size, outgroup proximity, and economic conditions Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 David De Coninck,Bart Meuleman
Abstract This study explores contextual sources of attitudes towards refugees by investigating the impact of outgroup size, outgroup proximity (or the presence of an asylum seekers centre), economic conditions, and their interaction on individuals’ attitudes. We analyse data from a cross-sectional survey of the Belgian adult population in October 2017, enriched with municipality-level indicators of
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Floating sanctuaries: The ethics of search and rescue at sea Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Itamar Mann,Julia Mourão Permoser
Abstract Search-and-Rescue NGOs in the Mediterranean have been increasingly criminalized. This criminalization has chilled conversation about the ethical dilemmas practitioners face. What, if any, can be the adverse byproducts of rescuing life at sea? In this article, we concentrate on the dilemmas involved in search and rescue (SAR) as rescuers have described them. Our aim is two-fold. The first is
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From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Michaela Benson,Nando Sigona,Elena Zambelli,Catherine Craven
Abstract What has Brexit meant for migration and migrants? How has the geopolitical repositioning of the UK in consequence of the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) impacted on the experiences of long-established migrant communities and newly arrived migrants? In what ways are the impacts of Brexit differentially experienced across migrant communities according to, inter alia, class, gender, age
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Digital emotivescapes: Everyday media practices of Sahrawi refugee diasporic women in Spain and Mauritania Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Silvia Almenara-Niebla
This article evaluates the concept of ‘emotivescapes’ as a way of addressing digitally emotional processes of belonging among conflict-generated diasporas. It examines the empirical potential of the concept based on the Sahrawi refugee diaspora in Spain and Mauritania and the connection of its members with their ‘home-camps’ in Algeria. To this end, the article explores everyday digital media practices
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‘Making sense’ of Turkey’s refugee policy: The case of the Directorate General of Migration Management Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 İbrahim Efe,Tim Jacoby
Abstract Based on interview data gathered in 2019 and 2020, this article considers the various approaches through which employees of Turkey’s Directorate General of Migration Management have interpreted and implemented state policy towards the country’s Syrian refugees. It uses the work of Dvora Yanow as a vantage point from which to understand initially how civil servants based in three cities have
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The role of migration in enhancing resilience to climate change Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Han Entzinger,Peter Scholten
Abstract Migration out of areas affected by climate change has long been considered a common adaptation strategy. More recent studies, however, claim that migration should not exclusively be seen as an escape from areas under threat, but that it can also be understood as a powerful strategy towards change and innovation in those areas. This article examines the relationship between environmental stress
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Slavery, lived realities, and the decolonisation of forced migration histories: An interview with Dr Portia Owusu Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Estella Carpi, Portia Owusu
Academic institutions in the global North have historically claimed leadership in the production of high-quality scholarship. As such, it is their work that often informs pedagogical materials in secondary and tertiary education worldwide. This dominance has serious cultural impacts. At the very least, it positions Western academics as ‘custodians’ of knowledge with the ability to influence what is
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Power (im)balances in ‘conversation triads’ within qualitative research projects in the field of (forced) migration: Chances and challenges in conversations between interpreter, (forced) migrant and researcher Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Jana Tempes, Andrea Rumpel
Qualitative research in the field of (forced) migration is confronted with language diversity in conversations. The integration of interpreters within these conversations changes the setting profoundly. While methodological reflections on the relationship between researcher and (forced) migrant have already led to new research methods that are sensitive to the (re)production of power (im)balances,
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Overseas immigration liaison officers: ‘Knowledge brokers’ and transnational spaces of mid-level negotiations shaping extraterritorial migration control practices Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Nicole Ostrand
A significant yet overlooked aspect in many states’ extraterritorial migration control efforts is their immigration liaison officers (ILOs) posted to foreign jurisdictions, who make decisions and take actions abroad to support their country’s immigration goals. Importantly, this occurs within an interconnected system of nation-states, requiring mid-level officials from multiple states to co-operate
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An Open Invitation—Depicting Immigration: What Can Words, Images, and Notes Do? Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Levitt P, Paoletti E.
In 2018, the film “Crazy Rich Asians” became an instant global hit. The first major Hollywood movie that featured an all Asian and Asian-American cast in 25 years grossed $237 million worldwide and became the highest-earning romantic comedy in a decade (Abad-Santos 2018). Supporters heralded the film as a turning point for Asian American representation in film. Others criticized it for playing into
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‘Art doesn’t just reflect the world—it engages with it’1 Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Levitt P.
“The contributions in this series explore the migration experience using different kinds of “data.” Our contributors use works of art, novels, songs, and movies to explore many of the same questions they generally ask in their social scientific research. What additional insights come from using arts and culture to think through the issues that concern us? What can images and notes reveal that scholarly
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‘Silence is golden’: Vladimir Vertlib’s literary explorations of silence in migration Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Wiebke Sievers
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Erratum to: Was it all worth it? The consequences of parental migration decisions for the life satisfaction of their descendants Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2021-11-28 Randy Stache,Antje Röder
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Shared immigration process, different perspectives: The impact of immigration-related gaps on couple relationships Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2021-11-17 Maylys Rapaport, Marina M Doucerain
Improving couples’ immigration experience requires characterizing aspects of the immigration process that affect couple relationships. Past research has set forth that post-immigration gaps between partners (discrepancies in their respective cultural adaptation) represent a key aspect. Accordingly, the present research investigated what kind of post-immigration gaps impact migrants’ couple relationship
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Erratum to: Identity or interests? Religious conservatives’ attitudes toward Syrian refugees in Turkey Migration Studies (IF 2.774) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Kerem Morgül,Osman Savaşkan