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Navigating employment and overeducation: comparative study of immigrant experiences in 17 Western European nations Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Debora Pricila Birgier, Stefano Cantalini
The labor market integration of migrants, focusing on employment and job quality, differs notably across Southern and Continental-Northern European nations, often involving trade-offs. Nonetheless,...
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Co-ethnic core intermediaries: Swedish speakers in Finnish party politics Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Daniel Fittante, Staffan Himmelroos
Scholars have unpacked the conditions out of which electorally successful ethnic parties in Europe emerge and the important roles they play in diverse contexts. But the existing research overlooks ...
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Epistemic notions of trust and distrust in institutional encounters with forced migrants in Finland and Sweden Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Liselott Sundbäck
This article examines epistemic notions of trust and distrust in institutional encounters from the perspective of forced migrants settling in the changing welfare states of Finland and Sweden. Whil...
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Legal care work: emotion and care work in lawyering with unaccompanied minors Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Luis Edward Tenorio
We know legal representation can improve the likelihood of favorable legal outcomes for immigrants, what some scholars refer to as the ‘representation effect’. But can legal representation affect c...
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Cutting in line ahead of us: the role of group relative deprivation in shaping gatekeeping attitudes across different immigrant integration contexts in Europe Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Duygu Merve Uysal, Sedef Turper
Although research shows that anti-immigrant sentiments are generally lower in liberal integration policy contexts, popular backlash against immigrants become salient in many pro-immigration and inc...
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Immigration, domestic labor, and earnings inequality among native-born women in the US Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Eiko Strader
The wage effects of immigration have been widely studied, yet much of the research has focused on competitive threats to low-skilled native-born men. In contrast, this paper applies a gender lens t...
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Polygyny in Denmark: a study of the instrumentalisation of cultural differences in immigration policies Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-08 Flora Botelho, Ludmila Bogdan, Séamus A. Power
This article explores reactions to the practice of polygyny in Denmark over the last 30 years. While bigamy was listed in the criminal code, the public approach to marital choices up until the 1990...
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The affective economy of removal: ethnographic perspectives on deportation and (In)voluntary return Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Sabine Strasser, Martin Sökefeld
The removal of undocumented migrants has become a widespread preoccupation of current European migration politics and one of the most emotionally contentious state practices of our times. Not only ...
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The affective economy of ‘self-deportation’: materiality, spatiality, temporality Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Victoria Tecca
The increased securitisation of the borders bounding and intersecting Europe has led to the formation of makeshift tent settlements along established routes of irregular migration. Built at permeab...
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The feeling of destiny: taqdeer and ‘voluntary’ return in the everyday lives of irregularised Pakistani migrants Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Usman Mahar
This article inquires into how rejected asylum seekers and returning migrants feel and make sense of their (im)mobility. Focusing on the emic concept of taqdeer (destiny), it explores how Pakistani...
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Multidirectional mistrust: German female volunteers’ emotion work in the context of male deportation and return from Europe to Senegal Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Karlien Strijbosch
This article investigates how German volunteers navigate the often conflicting and emotionally loaded European practices and discourses of removal when interacting with Senegalese returnees in Sene...
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‘As if the soul returns to the body’: affect, stuckedness, and (in)voluntary return to Nicaragua from Spain Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Elise Hjalmarson
This article attends to the emotional resonances of ‘stuckedness’ and (in)voluntary return as experienced by Nicaraguan migrants stranded in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Feeling both figurat...
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‘It takes courage to return’: West African migrants making sense of (In)voluntary return from Morocco amid adventure, failure and destiny Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Sabina Barone
This paper examines how young West African migrant men decide to enrol in the IOM's voluntary return programme in Morocco and make sense of their return while they wait for it to happen. Through an...
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Under pressure: moods, affects and the violence of everyday life in a Spanish migrant detention centre Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Gerhild Perl
What does it mean when the future of one’s life is exposed to the inscrutable will of an intangible other? And what are the possibilities of still asserting oneself when pushed to the limit? Nuanci...
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‘It was us, from Italy, that made him mayor’: drivers of migrant-led political change at the local level Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Vladimir Bortun, Eva Østergaard-Nielsen, Anatolie Coșciug
In recent years, researchers working on the nexus between migration and politics in countries of origin have started to pay more attention to the local level, but important empirical and theoretica...
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‘Leave no child behind’: investigating the undernutrition divide among Roma and non-Roma children in the Western Balkans Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Annalisa Busetta, Chiara Puglisi, Valeria Cetorelli
Childhood undernutrition affects both physical and cognitive growth and is strongly associated with morbidity and mortality. United Nations’ pledge to ‘leave no one behind’ requires prioritizing po...
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Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: social reproduction of ‘(low) skill’? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Petr Mezihorák
Refugees fleeing the Russian-Ukrainian war after receiving temporary protection visas in Czechia, which allowed free access to the labour market, found themselves in an ambiguous position between ‘...
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Caribbean street vending experiences: Guyanese migrant women in Trinidad and Tobago Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Tivia Collins, Levi Gahman
This article offers a critical overview of how South-South migration operates in the Caribbean. It represents an intersectional feminist analysis of the experiences of Guyanese migrant women who wo...
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Governing transit and irregular migration: informality and formal policies Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Maria Koinova
Informality has attracted significant attention in migration studies, yet a fresh look is needed given the succession of world crises over the past 15 years and the increasing use of informality to...
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Porosity on the Thailand-Myanmar border: before and after Myanmar’s 2021 coup Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Susan Banki
Points of political crisis in Myanmar’s history have been the catalyst for forced migration, and the Thailand-Myanmar border has, for decades, been a site of significant border-crossing. But while ...
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Friendly, not friends: migrant settlement and diverse social ties in Australian regional cities Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Bronte Alexander, Lawrence Rivera, Rebecca Wickes
Visa policies and pathways are increasingly driving international migration to Australia’s regional and rural centres. Often embedded within a multicultural imaginary, notions of friendliness and n...
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Playing dirty: the shady governance and reproduction of migrant illegality Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Stephan Scheel
State authorities in Europe invest immense resources in what the EU insists on calling the ‘fight against illegal migration’. Based on ethnographic research in two German cities, this paper shows t...
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He leads a lonely life: single men’s narratives of dating and relationships in the context of transnational migration Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Katarzyna Wojnicka, Andrea Priori, Ulf Mellström, Andreas Henriksson
This paper presents findings from a qualitative research project examining the dating narratives of single migrant men residing in Sweden and Italy. The study, analyzing 48 interviews with individu...
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The European Commission and the migration-development nexus: accessing resources and increasing the mandate Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Alexandra Berger, Christof Roos
The migration-development nexus (MDN) denotes interdependencies between international migration and development. The article identifies six different causal relations between migration and developm...
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Remnants of illegality: DACA, legal status, and unlearning illegality Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Jozef C. Robles
This paper examines transitions between legal statuses as an ongoing negotiated process between undocumented embodiments and legal realities. Rather than viewing legal statuses as mutually exclusiv...
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‘I wish I had listened and not come to South Africa’: fantasies, expectations and trajectories of migration among Ethiopian unaccompanied child migrants into South Africa Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Henrietta Nyamnjoh
Migration studies often focus on the socio-political and economic factors that drive people to migrate, overlooking the fantasies and processes involved in actualising the journey. This paper exami...
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Making (in)formality work in a multi-scalar European border regime Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Lisa Marie Borrelli, Annika Lindberg
The European migration control regime claims to strife for ‘orderly’ and safe conditions of migration, yet systematically generates the opposite. This paper explores the role of informality in crea...
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Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Zeynep Sahin-Mencutek, Anna Triandafyllidou
This article raises two questions: (1) how do formal policies and informal practices intersect in coercing returns of migrants without legal immigration status, refused asylum seekers and those unl...
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Power and informality in the polycentric governing of transit and irregular migration on EU’s eastern border with Belarus Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Maria Koinova
Migration towards the EU has passed for many decades via Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, using Ukraine and Belarus as transit states, yet it adopted new forms under Russia’s intensified ‘hy...
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Im/migration, mental health and well-being, and newcomer Filipino families: implications for anti-racist and anti-oppressive policies and practice Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Jessica Ellen Ticar
This article draws upon the perspectives of newcomer Filipino families who have migrated through the global domestic work industry, specifically through Canada's Live-in/Caregiver Program (L/CP), a...
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Working together or apart? Exposure between natives and migrants in Danish workplaces from 1996 to 2019 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Lanciné Eric Nestor Diop, Christian Albrekt Larsen
This article examines the extent to which the increasing ethnic diversity of Northern Europe’s population translates into exposure between natives and migrants (and their descendants) in the workpl...
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‘Do I really need to check that box?’ Ethnoracial ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-11 Heide Castañeda, Amine Bit
This article examines the experiences of Amazigh people (plural: Imazighen) and how they negotiate ethnoracial hierarchies in the United States. Imazighen are Indigenous peoples from North Africa; ...
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Migration aspirations in relation to border closures, employment opportunities and risk-taking attitudes: lessons from an online survey experiment Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-11 Eda Kiriscioglu, Ayşen Üstübici, Ezgi Elçi
This article investigates the effect of structural and individual factors on migration aspirations in a secondary migration context. Through an online survey experiment conducted with Syrian migran...
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The impact of liminal legal status on labor market experiences: a comparative study of Sudanese asylum seekers and refugees in Israel Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Anda Barak-Bianco, Rebeca Raijman
This article examines the labor market experiences of Sudanese forced migrants in Israel under prolonged temporary legal status. It underscores how regulatory and legal frameworks, particularly the...
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Crossing borders, casting votes: examining migrant electoral turnout in Chile (2012–2020) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Mario Herrera, Mauricio Morales
Our analysis focuses on the determinants of electoral participation among migrants, considering individual factors—gender and age—and variables from their countries of origin, such as economic, pol...
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Media coverage and local cooperation in immigration enforcement Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Ashley N. Muchow
Public concern about immigrant criminality in the U.S. is reflected in news coverage of immigration, which tends to associate the topic with ‘illegality’ and crime. Although these media characteriz...
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Introduction: mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Mohsin Alam Bhat, Rudabeh Shahid
This special issue critically examines the interplay between the law and politics of state trans/formation, status precarity and the abuse of law. Globally, governments have exercised state power t...
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National register of citizens and citizenship amendment act 2019: following the logic of citizenship securitization in India Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Chetna Sharma
The idea of securitization has an influence on citizenship policies since it enables them to regulate, control and separate secure identities from unsecure identities while also exploiting intercom...
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Living with ‘thin’ documents: a note on identity documents and liminal citizenship in the chars of Assam, India* Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Sampurna Das
This paper, based on my doctoral ethnographic research amongst the Miya community in one of the chars of Western Assam, shows how a particular category of identity documents shape their subjectivit...
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National identities among minority and ‘majority’ ethnic groups: evidence from the 2021 census in England and Wales Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Ross Bond
This paper employs data from the 2021 UK census to initially explore sub-state (English, Welsh) national identities among minority ethnic groups. This shows that these identities remain much more e...
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Policy variation and refugee integration: a natural experiment comparing the effects of local integration programs Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Meta van der Linden, Jaco Dagevos
This article investigates the extent to which policy variation matters for refugee integration, focusing on two parallel local integration programs varying in intensity and comprehensiveness and th...
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Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Rudabeh Shahid, Ronan Lee
Myanmar’s political system during the 2010–2021 period shares much in common with the political systems of neighbouring India and nearby Sri Lanka, and so this article identifies all three as ethno...
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Entangled contestations: transnational dynamics of contesting liberal citizenship in South Asia Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Tobias Berger, Uday Vir Garg
This paper investigates contemporary transformations of citizenship in India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar in their historical trajectories. More specifically, we focus on the contestation of liberal asp...
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(Un)Credible citizen: citizenship dispossession, documents and the politics of the rule of law Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Mohsin Alam Bhat
This article explores how states mobilise ideologies of the rule of law to legitimise, facilitate and obscure human rights violations, especially in the context of citizenship and migration. There ...
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National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam: within, without and beyond the law Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Suraj Gogoi, Rohini Sen
This paper analyses the historical antecedents, character and implications of Assam’s National Register of Citizens as a socio-legal instrument. It seeks to understand how dominant nationalisms and...
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The illegalisation of Rohingya refugees in India: a (non)citizenship crisis promoted by law and policy Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Anubhav Dutt Tiwari, Ali Juhar, Jessica Field
Detentions and a looming threat of deportations have significantly increased for Rohingya refugees since 2017, when the Indian government drastically changed its protection policy and categorised t...
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A gendered ‘politics of discomfort’: the effects of immigration- and integration policies on Syrian and Eritrean women’s homemaking processes in the Netherlands Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Iris Poelen
Following scholars who critique integration with a homemaking lens (Boccagni and Hondagneu-Sotelo 2023), this paper studies the impact of immigration- and integration policies on Syrian and Eritrea...
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Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Dina Taha
Research on why women, especially racialized women, stay in undesirable relationships is scarce and often misses how intersecting inequalities affect their decisions and the wider range of consent ...
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Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Xiaochen Liang
Although ‘student-migrant-workers’ is increasingly recognised as an important subcategory of temporary, high-skilled and ‘backdoor’ migrants, research on this group and their participation in the l...
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Ambitious, misaligned, or uncertain? The occupational and educational aspirations of immigrant-origin youth in Germany Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Alessandro Ferrara, Zerrin Salikutluk
Immigrant-origin students often hold higher educational aspirations than native-origin peers, accounting for socioeconomic status and school grades. The consequences of this ‘Immigrant Aspiration P...
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‘[K]neeling only goes to highlight your ignorance. England is NOT! a #racist country’: aversive racism, colour-blindness, and racist temporalities in discussions of football online Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Mark Doidge, Itoiz Rodrigo-Jusué, Jack Black, Thomas Fletcher, Gary Sinclair, Pierangelo Rosati, Colm Kearns, Daniel Kilvington, Katie Liston, Theo Lynn
Drawing on theories of aversive racism and colour-blindness, which stress the invisibility of contemporary racism, this article analyses online discussions on taking the knee (TTK) during EURO2020 ...
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Walking a tightrope between policy and scholarship: reflections on integration principles in a hostile environment Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Jenny Phillimore, Linda Morrice, Alison Strang
The term ‘integration’ has received considerable academic attention, much of it critical. Yet it continues to be widely used in policy and practice to capture the processes of change that occur fol...
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The time-space-energy nexus in the gig economy: the work and everyday lives of migrant food delivery ‘walkers’ in Venice Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Giorgio Pirina, Francesco Della Puppa, Fabio Perocco
The intersection of migrant labour and the gig economy is a field of growing interest. Although there is no comprehensive public data on the topic, current studies show that platform labour in urba...
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Constructing migrant capital in Belgium: migrants’ views on the translation of capital types across fields and time Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Lore Van Praag
This article contributes to the growing scholarship on ‘migrant capital’ by examining the social, cultural, and economic capital acquired and used by 29 migrants living in Belgium, building further...
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of platform labour: short-term rental cleaning labour intermediaries and student-migrant-workers Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Kiley Goyette
Although short-term rental platforms (e.g. Airbnb) are often not considered labour platforms, their suppliers must contend with demands on labour structured by the platforms. Using Lefebvre’s rhyth...
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From criminality to inclusion? Law and media framing of migrants in 1987–1990 and 2016–2019 Japan Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Risa Murase
Immigration law and policies shape public understanding of immigrants by categorizing the population into dichotomies of ‘illegal’ or ‘legal,’ and ‘skilled’ or ‘unskilled.’ Within such processes, s...
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At your service: the mobilities, rhythms and everyday lives of migrant labour in the gig economy Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Magnus Andersen, Kristina Zampoukos, Marlene Spanger, Don Mitchell
This introduction presents a framework for the contributions to the special issue At Your Service: The Mobilities, Rhythms and Everyday Lives of Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy. The article begin...
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Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Olivia Maury, Olivia Hakala, Lena Näre
The temporal structuring of migrant gig workers’ work and lives has been insufficiently addressed in research. Drawing on multi-sited onlineoffline methodologies, including interviews with migrants...
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Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Kristina Zampoukos, Olivia Butler, Don Mitchell
This article, working within the ‘infrastructural turn’, combines social reproduction and Lefebvrian rhythm analysis to examine the everyday labour and life of migrant cleaners and delivery service...
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The work of waiting: migrant labour in the fulfillment city Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Kafui Attoh, Katie J. Wells, Declan Cullen
Drawing on research conducted with platform delivery workers in Washington D.C., this paper builds on the work of scholars committed to both describing and challenging the degrading conditions that...