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Exploring attitudinal shifts: analyzing discrimination against people with foreign-sounding names in Polish amateur football in the context of the war in Ukraine Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Cornel Nesseler, Michał Marcin Kobierecki
There is ample evidence that foreigners suffer from discrimination when trying to integrate. Extreme situations, however, can alter the population’s attitude towards foreigners. One example of such...
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Experiencing forced migration: challenges of arriving after displacement from Ukraine Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Ana Mijić, Michael Parzer, Olena Tkalich, Yelyzaveta Zolotarova
The paper focuses on the experiences of displaced Ukrainians who arrived in Austria following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. We draw on the concept of ‘arrival’ as proposed by Ludge...
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Processing payments, enacting alterity: financial technology in the everyday lives of asylum seekers Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Sophie Bennani-Taylor, Nasar Meer
This article examines how the Asylum Support Enablement (ASPEN) card – a prepayment card provided to UK asylum seekers – enacts their alterity in ways that problematise the techno-optimist narrativ...
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Neoliberal nationalism and immigration policy Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Christian Joppke
Contemporary nationalism in the West tends to be understood in ethnic terms and associated with a bottom-up reaction to disliked effects of globalization, in particular migration. But there is also...
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Understanding ethnic prejudice in Canada: insights into status anxiety and middle-class nation-building through immigration Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Mathieu Lizotte
This paper uses the concept of ethnic prejudice to examine the extent to which fears and anxieties related to immigration and ethnic diversity constitute obstacles to middle-class nation-building i...
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Middle-class youth fleeing Nigeria: rethinking African survival migration through the Japa phenomenon Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Jing Jing Liu
Migration for survival is commonly associated with refugees and asylum seekers who flee persecution, wars, and natural calamities. Yet, in Nigeria, university-educated, gainfully employed middle-cl...
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Confronting or incorporating middle-class nation-building? Right-wing responses in the pan-Canadian context Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Efe Peker, Elke Winter
Canada is often praised for successfully integrating ethnically diverse immigrants into its multicultural nation, so successful indeed that the country has been considered an exception to the twent...
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Middle class nation building through immigration? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Elke Winter
This special issue examines the increase in scale and intensity of merit-based (im)migration policies as a means to revive aging populations and boost national economies in countries around the wor...
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Migration as a building bloc of middle-class nation-building? The growing rift between Germany’s centre-right and right-wing parties Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Oliver Schmidtke
Over the past twenty-five years, Germany has seen substantial shifts towards more robust and expansive migration and integration policies addressing immigration primarily as a socio-economic resour...
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Overcoming origin-based preferences by selecting skilled immigrants? Preferences in immigrants’ national origin and social class in Quebec Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Antoine Bilodeau, Audrey Gagnon
Although most liberal democracies have abandoned preferences for national origins in immigrant selection policies, large segments of the local populations continue to prefer immigrants that they pe...
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Middle class by effort? Immigration, nation, and class from a transnational and intersectional perspective Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Magdalena Nowicka
This article examines how highly skilled immigrants from Poland become middle-class in Germany through a transnational and intersectional lens. Hence, it asks what is the middle-class, and who and ...
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Highly skilled and highly skeptical? How education and origin shape newcomers’ relationship with their new home Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Claudia Diehl, Sabine Trittler
This article explores how level of education and region of origin (EU versus non-EU) shape newcomers’ perceptions of being welcome and treated fairly upon arrival, as well as their feelings of clos...
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Temporary migration and middle class nation building in Canada Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 David Cook-Martín
This article explores the relationship between temporary labor migration programs (TLMPs) in the post-war era and middle-class nation-building. The analysis centers on Canada, an exemplary case of ...
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Middle class nation building through a tenacious discourse on skills: immigration and Canada Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Yasmeen Abu-Laban
This article considers the discursive emphasis in post-1960s Canadian immigration policy on ‘skills’ in the context of adopting a formally race-neutral immigration policy, and embracing what has be...
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Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Liisa Hänninen, Antti Kivijärvi
Designing feasible programmes for the attention of forced migrants’ needs is a demanding task that often relies on a group of experts at national levels. Moreover, programmes tend to be based on es...
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The economy of migration. Knowledge, accounting, and debt Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Willem Schinkel, Rogier van Reekum
What we propose in this paper is to elaborate on what it means to consider ‘migration’ as part of an oikonomia. This is not an ‘economic perspective on migration’ but a genealogy of migration as a ...
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Envisioning futures at new destinations: geographical imaginaries and migration aspirations of Nepali migrants moving to Malta Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Josef Neubauer
Imagination is central to migration. Geographical imaginaries, often shaped by historical narratives and mainstream media, allow people to envision futures elsewhere and influence migration aspirat...
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The formation of institutional trust among immigrants: what is the role of democracy? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Mario Quaranta
This article studies how trust in institutions is shaped among immigrants, considering the level of democracy in the countries of both origin and destination. Democracy is relevant to institutional...
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Reinventing the politics of knowledge production in migration studies: introduction to the special issue Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Nina Amelung, Stephan Scheel, Rogier van Reekum
This special issue (SI) calls for reinventing the politics of knowledge production in migration studies. Academic migration research should make knowledge production an essential part of its resear...
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The politics of (un)counting international migration in Senegal and the Gambia Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Inken Bartels
Since the European ‘migration crisis’ in 2015, various actors in politics, media and science have called for better data as a basis to efficiently manage migration. This includes a rising demand fo...
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‘Citizenship as incorporated beyond’ – Challenging national citizen–migrant categorisations with transnational (post)colonial relations of incorporating agrifood Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sabine Netz
Migrant activists in Bremen, Germany, challenge classifications of people as national citizens or migrants by highlighting the (post)colonial and capitalist relations that have contributed and cont...
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Challenging knowledge production on migration with statactivism: the category ‘migration background’ and some destabilizations Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Anne-Kathrin Will
‘Migration background’ has been an official category of population statistics in Germany since 2006 and has become an integral part of knowledge production about Germany as an immigration country. ...
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Migration information infrastructures: power, control and responsibility at a new frontier of migration research Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Fran Meissner, Linnet Taylor
The nature and production of migration statistics are in flux. State bureaucracies are no longer the primary source of migration data. Instead, there are a myriad unofficial data sources and proces...
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Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Stephan Scheel
In a growing number of destination countries state authorities have started to use various digital devices such as analysis of data captured from mobile phones to verify asylum seekers’ claimed cou...
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Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Jasper van der Kist
As the number of asylum seekers grew, and flight stories became more complex, many Western governments deployed national research units, tasked with producing reliable Country of Origin Information...
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Devices of suspicion. An analysis of Frontex screening materials at the registration and identification center in Moria Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Silvan Pollozek, Jan-Hendrik Passoth
The identification of migrants and the creation of data identities lies at the core of datafied forms of migration and border control. In recent years, Frontex has made identification to one of its...
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Doing migration studies with an accent Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Shahram Khosravi
I use accent as a metaphor and a conceptual tool to epistemologically reflect over the field of migration studies. Accented thinking is a response and a reaction to the condition of coloniality tha...
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‘Stand by me’: competitive subnational regimes and the politics of retaining immigrants Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Catherine Xhardez
This article examines the pivotal role of immigration for subnational units, focusing on their efforts to retain immigrants. In the global competition for ‘wanted’ immigrants, subnational governmen...
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Encountering infrastructural interruptions and maintaining transnational lives amongst foreigners in China Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Bingyu Wang, Juan Zhang
Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews with foreign scholars in China (hereafter ‘FSC’), this paper examines the impact of various infrastructural interruptions on the transnational lives of m...
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Comprehending and sensing racism: how Germans of migrant background make sense of experiences of ethnoracial exclusion Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Eunike Piwoni
Over the past decade, there has been a strong focus on studying individuals’ responses to stigmatisation, discrimination and racism, while the question of how individuals recognise and make sense o...
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Non-Belonging: borders, boundaries, and bodies at the interface of migration and citizenship studies Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Anna Korteweg, Gökce Yurdakul
Non-belonging is an undertheorized current in work on migration and citizenship, too often understood as simply the absence of belonging. We define non-belonging as an actively constructed space an...
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Which individual-level factors explain public attitudes toward immigration? a meta-analysis Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Lenka Dražanová, Jérôme Gonnot, Tobias Heidland, Finja Krüger
Public attitudes toward immigration have attracted much scholarly interest and extensive empirical research in recent years. Despite a sizeable theoretical and empirical literature, no firm conclus...
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Does inequality foster xenophobia? Evidence from the German refugee crisis Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Sascha Riaz
Why does immigration trigger xenophobic backlash in some regions but not in others? This study focuses on economic inequality as a moderator of backlash against immigration. Drawing on prior cross-...
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Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Simon Roland Birkvad
Many states have recently re-discovered citizenship deprivation as a tool to exclude undesirable citizens. Scholars have primarily discussed the implications of this policy (re)turn from perspectiv...
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Treading water in transit: understanding gendered stuckness and movement in Tunisia Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Ahlam Chemlali
EU containment and Tunisian domestic policies have produced a new, Black migrant, urban underclass. Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork among Ivorian migrant women in Bhar Lazreg, a Tunis banl...
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Friends and foes: the ambivalence of the use of NICT during the migratory journey Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Paul May
The article looks at how migrants and people on the move use ‘digital tactics’ to mitigate the use of technologies deployed against them. It uses the concept of ‘social navigation’ developed by Hen...
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Deciding on asylum dilemmas: a conflict between role and person identities for asylum judges Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Katerina Glyniadaki
Large discrepancies in asylum recognition rates across individual judges and asylum agencies constitute a cause for concern. To better understand the asylum determination process, existing research...
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Assimilation and integration in the twenty-first century: where have we been and where are we going? Introduction to a special issue in honour of Richard Alba Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Paul Statham, Nancy Foner
This introduction sets the agenda for a Special Issue dedicated to the life and works of Richard Alba. It opens up a dialogue on the continuing value of assimilation and integration perspectives to...
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Cultural adaptation and demographic change: evidence from Mexican-American naming patterns after the California Gold Rush Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Nan Zhang, Maria Abascal
According to new assimilation theory, assimilation can entail not only the adoption, by immigrants, of the established population's cultural practices, but also the adoption, by the established pop...
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Relational integration: from integrating migrants to integrating social relations Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Lea Klarenbeek
The conventional notion of integration as ‘immigrants becoming part of something’ has been widely criticised for its undesirable normative connotations. In response, scholars either discard the con...
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Does the welfare entitlement of refugees reduce openness to refugee migration? A survey experiment on the welfare entitlement of Ukrainian refugees in the United Kingdom Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Alexandre Afonso, Samir Mustafa Negash, Emily Anne Wolff
This article uses an original survey experiment to assess whether the social and employment rights available to refugees affects the openness of citizens in receiving countries to greater refugee f...
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The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Marcela González-Agüero, Oana Burcu
In a context marked by restrictive migration policies, precarious living conditions and a neoliberal market, this article explores how Venezuelan migrants incorporated themselves into the job marke...
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Coerced migration: mobility under siege in Gaza Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Caitlin Procter
This article, based on field research conducted between 2018 and 2019 centres the role of Israeli state coercion in the migration of young Palestinians from Gaza. In recent years, migration from Ga...
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Editorial welcome 2024 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Paul Statham
Published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Becoming white or becoming mainstream?: defining the endpoint of assimilation Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Philip Kasinitz, Mary C. Waters
In this article we address some of the controversies that have arisen in the reception of Richard Alba’s work on changing patterns of ethnoracial diversity and the integration of immigrants. We par...
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Challenging the Muslimification of Muslims in research on ‘liberal democratic values’: why culture matters beyond religion Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Paul Statham
This study critiques the use of ‘Muslim’ as an analytic category and overfocus on religiosity as an explanatory variable in studies on conflicts between Muslims and national majorities over ‘libera...
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Re-thinking assimilation and why it matters: an intellectual, career and life journey – Richard Alba in conversation with Paul Statham Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Richard Alba, Paul Statham, Nancy Foner
Richard Alba, the American sociologist whose research is known for developing assimilation theory to fit the contemporary multi-racial era of immigration, reflects on the evolution of his thinking,...
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Pardon my French, Turkish and Arabic! How Flemish headteachers and teachers respond to multilingualism in the classroom Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Marloes Hagenaars, Teuntje van Heese, Wendelien Vantieghem, Peter A. J. Stevens
A growing amount of ethnically diverse students is bringing a multitude of different languages into the classroom. In Flanders, most schools respond to this reality by adopting a monolingual approa...
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Will friends and family still be there after you have left? Evidence from return migrants in Colombia Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Claire Le Barbenchon
It is widely acknowledged that immigrants use their social networks (friends, family and colleagues) to find a job upon arrival to their destination country. However, there is little evidence on ho...
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Mainstreaming immigrant integration in Labour Market Support: policy index and alternative policy frameworks Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Salta Zhumatova
In many Western European countries, governments have increasingly accepted the strategies of enhancing equality between immigrants and EU nationals in major policy domains. One of the latest trends...
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Wartime (im)mobilities: effects of aspirations-capabilities on displaced Ukrainians in Canada and Germany and their viewpoints on those who remain in Ukraine Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Aryan Karimi, Yuliya Byelikova
In war times, what differentiates those who manage to flee from those who remain behind? Based on 468 qualitative interview and survey responses with displaced Ukrainians’ in Canada and Germany, an...
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Inclusive assimilation: middle-class Asian parenting in suburban America Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Ziyao Tian
Previous studies find that Asian American parents enforce a strict academics-centered success frame upon their children. However, there is limited research on the actual standards of successful chi...
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Welfare state bordering as a form of mobility and migration control Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Synnøve Bendixsen, Lena Näre
This article introduces this special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. In it, we present and discuss the concept of welfare state bordering. The notion of welfare state borderin...
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Mapping new colour lines – border studies within a workfare state Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Lisa Riedner, Sabine Hess
This article argues that the invention of the European Union (EU) common market and the lifting of national border controls produced a mobility-control vacuum within the EU and its member states. B...
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Multiple sources of precarity: bureaucratic bordering of temporary migrants in a Nordic welfare state Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Lena Näre, Olivia Maury
Nordic welfare states are imagined as generous and universal due to their residence- and needs-based welfare rights. We analyse how welfare state borders are implemented in practice through what we...
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The neoliberal welfare state and its discontents. Slow violence against irregular migrants in Norway Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Synnøve Bendixsen, Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Welfare rights in Norway, as in other European nation-states, are increasingly used as techniques of control and management of irregular migration. Proliferation of borders is generated by dispersa...
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Blurred boundaries: fantasy citizenship, the worker citizen and mobility controls Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Bridget Anderson
This article uses the lens of state control over mobilities of residents both migrants and citizens to move away from assumptions that position them as competitors for the privileges of membership....
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When your accent betrays you: the role of foreign accents in school-to-work transition of ethnic minority youth in Germany Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Jörg Dollmann, Irena Kogan, Markus Weißmann
Given the challenges immigrants and their descendants face in entering the labour market, we add to the existing literature by considering a previously neglected explanation: a foreign accent. Usin...
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The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Susanne Wessendorf, Malte Gembus
Much research on migrant arrival and settlement has looked at these processes through the lens of ‘integration’, investigating how migrants access societal realms such as the labour market, educati...
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Locked out, but not disconnected: multilingual community engagement in Australia Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 3.53) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Sally Lamping, Stephanie Dryden, Toni Dobinson, Julian Chen, Paul Mercieca, Sonja Kuzich
At the onset of COVID-19, many Local Government Areas (LGAs) indicated they were struggling to communicate effectively with multilingual migrant communities. Communities were isolated from vital LG...