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Return reimagined: Diaspora interactions with protracted internal displacement in post-war Sri Lanka Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Mohamed Munas, Gayathri Lokuge
This paper aims to study transnational diasporic interactions with the internal return of protracted displaces, using two cases from directly war-affected regions of Sri Lanka. This paper contributes to the conceptualization of return by analyzing the complexities arising through diaspora engagement in post-war return and recovery of internally displaced people. Split returns—of near and far diasporas
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Drivers of return of Sri Lankan migrants in the skill spectrum from the Gulf region Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Anoji Ekanayake
For Sri Lankan migrant workers in the Gulf region, returning home is an irrevocable aspect of their migration journeys as Gulf countries do not provide any pathways for permanent settlement. However, the circumstances surrounding their return vary from one migrant worker to another and depend on a range of interconnected and interdependent factors. This paper, based on a survey of 205 returnee migrant
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Sri Lanka’s entanglements with transnational migration: Emerging trends and overlooked facets Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Wasana Handapangoda, Matt Withers
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Are remittances “resilient?” Evidence from Sri Lanka between COVID-19 and the crisis Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Matt Withers
Remittances have been characterized as resilient flows of capital that provide financial relief to migrant households and emerging economies during downturns, crises and other periods of hardship. This article examines patterns of remittance transfer to Sri Lanka between January 2020 and December 2022, drawing on Central Bank statistics and online remittance surveys with migrant workers to test prominent
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Caring for elderly parents while living away: Sri Lanka’s professional and skilled emigrants Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Udeshika Chandrarathne, Asel Hettiarachchi, Oshadhie Silva
Providing parental care within transnational families poses significant psychological costs for migrants in their migration and return migration decisions. The facilitation of transnational elderly care is complicated by associated stressors and mediated by systems that ease the emotional burden. The recently growing skilled emigration from Sri Lanka, often as a means of escapism, poses unique challenges
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Book review: Migration and development in India: The Bihar experience Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Binod Khadria
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The realities of return migration: Reintegrating women migrant domestic workers in Sri Lanka Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Sophie Henderson
This paper critically analyzes the Sri Lankan government’s management of return migration. Adopting an intersectional lens, it examines how exclusionary policies and programs fail to protect the rights and welfare of returnee women migrant domestic workers, resulting in poor reintegration outcomes. The paper focuses on three interconnecting issues that disproportionately impact upon their rights, as
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Accumulating delay: Filipino Time, COVID-19 and experiences of male returnees in Cebu Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Unique to this paper is a gendered examination of return migration from the point of view of male return migrants. I analyze the perspectives of repatriated male migrant workers during their return migration in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a discussion of time as “accumulated delay,” I suggest that the (de)constructions of masculinity concerning overseas Filipino workers’ (OFWs) experiences
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Discrimination during COVID-19: Assessing migrant workers’ vulnerability to forced labor in Thailand’s seafood industry Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Johanna Lee, Kimberly Rogovin, Sudarat Musikawong
Between 2020 and 2022, Thailand instituted a series of policies to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. However, many of the regulations were rooted in structural discrimination against the migrant population. This paper reveals how the discriminatory nature of the government’s policies heightened the vulnerability of migrant workers in Thailand’s commercial fishing and seafood processing industries. COVID-19
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Trapped in the COVID-19 pandemic: Seafarers and the global crew change crisis Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Maria Borovnik
This paper builds on the situation of seafarers, who found themselves stuck in the global crew change crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis, caused by countries going into lockdown and closing their borders, had affected more than 400,000 seafarers worldwide. Some were stranded overseas, some were trapped aboard ships and others were waiting in transition. A number of international
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Filipino seafarers’ experiences and perceptions of psychosocial interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Sanley Abila, Serafin Malecosio
This paper examines the mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions provided to Filipino international merchant seafarers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the significant labor participation in seafaring of Filipinos, examining the MHPSS provided to them during a crisis is necessary because these services remain unexplored. Using an online survey, this paper raises two questions:
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Precariousness and vulnerability: Seafarers in the COVID-19 pandemic Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Desai Shan, Cory Ochs, Sriram Rajagopal, Hugo Andres Rojas Aldieri, Pengfei Zhang
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected the world and work in particular, but its effects on the labor market were not evenly distributed. Seafarers, who are essential workers engaging in international maritime transport, encountered exacerbated challenges to labor conditions at sea during the pandemic. Notably, the inability to conduct crew changes violated their right to rest, increasing the
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Economic, social and psychological drivers of labor trafficking and its impacts: A case study on returned Bangladeshi survivors Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Ahmed Abidur Razzaque Khan, Garry J. Stevens, Nichole Georgeou, Dianne Bolton, Terry Landells
Irregular maritime migration from Bangladesh to Malaysia presents serious risks for Bangladeshi laborers who seek work overseas to change their precarious living conditions. Survivors’ voices are often unheard and their motivation and experiences are largely undocumented. This study details the accounts of 25 survivors of labor trafficking, all men, from three major trafficking hubs in Bangladesh.
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Asia Pacific and the global maritime industry: Hierarchies, vulnerabilities, solidarities Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Roderick Galam, Iris Acejo, Nelson Turgo
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Tales of the sea: Seafarers’ sense of place in the management of socialities and safety culture at sea Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Nelson Turgo
Workplaces can be tricky for migrant workers like seafarers to navigate, especially on board cargo ships which in recent times have become multi-ethnic in composition. Diverse cultures and individual differences can pose challenges to working relationships on board, which in turn can have negative implications on operational safety. In this context, the article highlights the role of seafarers’ sense
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The precarious lives and survival strategies of unaccompanied Afghan youth in Türkiye Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Sultan Ebru Bulgurcuoğlu, Reyhan Atasü-Topcuoğlu
Unaccompanied children who do not or cannot access the child protection system in Türkiye often become engaged in child labor and find themselves living in precarity. This paper highlights narratives of survival within their culturally-assumed transition to manhood based on empirical research on the life experiences of 12 unaccompanied, male Afghan youth who came to Türkiye as unaccompanied children
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Ambiguity and migration governance in the satellite city of Duzce, Türkiye Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kübra Yüksel
Türkiye has adopted regulations to manage migration and refugee flows requiring the cooperation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) since the early 2000s. Even though the basic rights of refugees, such as health and access to educational aid, are defined by regulations, there are barriers that cause discrimination by the authorities of the institutions providing these rights and services, despite
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Precarity and survival of migrants in Türkiye: An overview of the divide between migration policy and practice Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Emel Coşkun, Saniye Dedeoğlu, Lucy Williams
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A transition in the Journal Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Maruja MB Asis
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A gendered analysis of Palestinian refugee women’s experiences of migration from Syria to Türkiye Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Ayça Kurtoğlu, Armağan Teke Llyod, Zafer Salimoğlu
After the outbreak of the conflict in 2011, millions of people fled Syria across its borders. This gave way to a new category of people, “Syrian refugees.” While this categorical understanding constitutes the basis for legal entitlements, it homogenizes all fleeing Syria and results in concealing the differential experiences and vulnerabilities of particular groups. The paper challenges this blanket
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Women’s social resilience in the context of male out-migration in Dehradun district, India Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Federica Cagliani, Valentina Mazzucato, Elsje Fourie
It is widely acknowledged that migration impacts men and women differently. Most prior research has looked at these effects on the migrants themselves, while those who remain in their places of origin have received less scholarly attention. This article investigates how male labor migration from the Dehradun district of India affects the wives who stay behind. It adopts a social resilience perspective
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Encounters of Syrian refugees and locals in the informal garment sector of Esenler district, Istanbul Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Özge Sarıalioğlu
This article focuses on relations between Syrian and local workers in the informal garment sector. It presents a framework showing the participation and integration of the Syrian refugees and the local workers’ response to this process. The findings are based on empirical materials collected in the Esenler district of Istanbul, including 60 interviews with Syrians and locals as well as participant
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State restrictions and gender-based violence in cross-border marriages: The case of Kyrgyz women in Türkiye Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Emel Coşkun, Elvira Budaichieva
This paper focuses on Kyrgyz women in cross-border marriages under Türkiye’s increasingly tight legal requirements for marriage migration. Although the main intention of the policy change was to prevent marriages contracted to gain residency permits in Türkiye, strict regulations can have an adverse effect on migrant women’s position. Based on in-depth interviews with 24 key informants including Kyrgyz
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Criminality, chaos and corruption: Analyzing the narratives of labor migration dynamics in Malaysia. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Laura Foley
This paper analyzes how policy-relevant actors understand the causes and effects of labor immigration to Malaysia, the country that receives the highest number of migrant workers in Southeast Asia. Whereas most research on international migration governance has focused on governance system outputs, this paper adopts an actor-centered perspective to investigate how actors narratively construct labor
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The logics of staying for highly skilled Asian migrants in Japan Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Gracia Liu-Farrer
Japan welcomes highly educated migrants, but do these migrants stay on in Japan? Drawing on a web survey of 600 immigrant employees working in Japan, this paper evaluates different factors influenc...
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Employment of highly-skilled migrants during the pandemic: Focus on internal migration in Indonesia Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Aris Ananta
This article examines whether highly-skilled migrants (HSMs) have better employment prospects compared to low-skilled migrants (LSMs), highly-skilled non-migrants (HSNMs) and low-skilled non-migran...
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Migration of high-skilled and STEM professionals from India: Addressing Global Compact for Migration objective 1 Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Binod Khadria, Basant Potnuru, Ratnam Mishra, Kanika Bakshi, Narender Thakur
This research note examines the dimension and characteristics of the outflow of Indian high-skilled and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) professionals to five key destination...
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Age, wage and vintage: Empirical validation of brain drain in the migration of Indian knowledge workers to the United States of America Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Narender Thakur, Binod Khadria
This article examines the effects of brain drain caused by the migration of knowledge workers from India to the United States of America (USA) during the pre- and post-global financial crisis perio...
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The impact of “Nitaqat” on Indian high-skilled migration to Saudi Arabia Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Basant Potnuru, Pooja Arora
“Nitaqat,” the labor market nationalization policy of Saudi Arabia, aims to increase the employment of Saudi nationals by restricting the entry of foreign workers in the country. Data from a sample...
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Internal student migration in India: Impact of the COVID-19 crisis Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Rajni Singh, Navneet Manchanda, Rakesh Mishra
The education sector in India was among the most affected sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic. While considerable attention has been paid to informal workers' return or reverse migration to their ...
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Transnational migration and dual citizenship: The conundrum of social and economic rights of dual citizens in Pakistan Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Ayesha Masood Chaudry, Muhammad Bilal
Pakistan is among the Asian countries which permits dual citizenship. However, the dual citizenship privileges availed by overseas-based Pakistanis spark intense debate making Pakistani dual citize...
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Social networks as providers of social protection to urban migrants in Delhi Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Arvind Pandey, Rakesh Mishra, Rajni Singh
Why are social networks necessary at the place of destination? What roles do they play as a form of “social capital” for newly arrived migrants in urban centers? These are some relevant questions t...
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The politics of sanitization: Pandemic crisis, migration and development in Asia-Pacific Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Yuk Wah Chan, Pei-Chia Lan
COVID-19 has resulted in new anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility and forced governments to simultaneously re-engineer policies for temporary health control and longer-t...
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New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Liangni Sally Liu, Guanyu Jason Ran, Xiaoyun Jia
In September 2021, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) announced the offer of a one-off residence visa category – the 2021 Resident Visa, to over 165,000 temporary migrant workers and their family member...
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Rethinking the migration-development nexus in the post-COVID-19 era Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-17 Yuk Wah Chan, Pei-Chia Lan
This concluding article serves as an epilogue summing up key issues about migration, labor migrants and development amid a crisis of public health. We predict the forging of an age of sanitization ...
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Sanitizing the national body: COVID-19 and the revival of Japan’s “Closed Country” strategy Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Gabriele Vogt, Sian Qin
Japan’s handling of border control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic has become known as sakoku-approach. Sakoku literally means “closed country” and generally refers to a historic period when ...
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Distress return migration amid COVID-19: Kerala’s response Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 S Irudaya Rajan, Balasubramanyam Pattath
Emigrants from Kerala, India, were among the international migrants affected by the displacing consequences of COVID-19 — job losses, decreasing wages, inadequate social protection systems, xenophobia and overall uncertainty — which led to large-scale return migration to India. Returning home due to exogenous shocks calls into question the voluntary nature of return, the ability of returnees to reintegrate
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Emergent political remittances during the pandemic: Evidence from a survey of overseas Filipino workers Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Imelda B. Deinla, Gabrielle Ann S. Mendoza, Ronald U. Mendoza, Jurel K. Yap
This article examines the experiences and assessments of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) on the Philippine government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is part of the growing migration literature exploring the formation of political remittances, defined as political principles, norms and practices migrants acquire during the migration process and what these imply for democratization,
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Financial capabilities and financial behavior of overseas Filipino workers in South Korea Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-17 Minjung Kim, Hye-Gyoung Koo, Juyoung Jang
This study aimed to identify factors affecting the financial behavior of overseas Filipino workers. Responses from a survey of 116 Filipino workers in Korea were analyzed using descriptive statistics and hierarchical regression. The results revealed that some Filipino workers showed sound financial behavior only for simple financial activities; many were not equipped with complex financial management
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Pathways of aging in migration and their association with the quality of life Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Yong Moon Jung
This study adopted a life course approach in exploring the quality of life of old migrants based on the experiences of Korean Australians aged 60 years and over. Pathways of aging were considered as related to the aging progress in migration, and three different groups were identified: aged with a migrant background (those who migrated when they were younger and had grown old in the destination country)
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Experiences of i-Kiribati with labor mobility schemes Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Gillian E. Cornish, Jasmine Pearson, Karen E. McNamara, Pelenise Alofa, Celia McMichael
Circular labor mobility provides opportunities for Pacific Islanders to upskill whilst alleviating labor shortages in Australia and New Zealand. Past studies have sought to understand the value of the labor schemes, yet very few have focused on the experiences of i-Kiribati participants. Drawing on preliminary insights from eight semi-structured interviews, this research offers specific examples of
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Global householding and gendered citizenship: Family visits as care support for Vietnamese marriage migrants in South Korea Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Hyunok Lee
The citizenship of marriage migrants in South Korea has been discussed in terms of their roles as mothers in the context of Korea’s aging population and care crisis. However, as marriage migrants increasingly participate in the labor market, their individual rights as workers, and more specifically as working mothers, bring attention to the question of women’s citizenship in South Korea. Care provision
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Student migration from Nepal to Japan: Factors behind the steep rise Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Dipesh Kharel
Nepali student migration to Japan is a relatively new phenomenon, but one that has accelerated in recent years. The number of Nepali students increased from fewer than 1,000 in 2008 to over 29,000 in 2019, making them the third largest foreign student community in Japan. They migrate despite the exorbitant cost, with each student migrant usually paying 1.4 million Nepali rupees (USD 14,000) to a Japanese
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Book Review: The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jean Encinas-Franco
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“Move backward to make a step forward”: Understanding the migration of the highly educated to Sorong City, West Papua, Indonesia Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Meirina Ayumi Malamassam, Inayah Hidayati, Bayu Setiawan, Ade Latifa
Highly educated people are mainly concentrated in big cities or metropolitan areas. However, some of them choose to move to less developed regions. Using information from in-depth interviews of 15 highly educated migrants that recently moved to Sorong City, a small city in easternmost Indonesia, this study examines the narratives behind their spatial movements. The findings show that promising career
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Book review: Organized Labor and Civil Society for Multiculturalism: A Solidarity Success Story from South Korea Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Sohoon Yi
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Book review: Chinese Diasporas: A Social History of Global Migration Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Fangmeng Tian
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The role of migration and demographic change in small island futures Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Laurens H. Speelman, Robert J. Nicholls, Ricardo Safra de Campos
Low-lying atoll islands are especially threatened by anticipated sea-level rise, and migration is often mentioned as a potential response of these island societies. Further, small island states are developing population, economic and adaptation policies to plan the future. Policies, such as raising of islands or land reclamation, require a long-term vision on populations and migration. However, population
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Hakka migrant hometown associations: Development and social network patterns Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-23 Han-Pi Chang, Chen-Chi Chang, Wei-An Chang
This study sought to review the development of Hakka migrant hometown associations and to explore the social network patterns of these associations. To better understand migrant associations in different contexts, research was conducted in various countries or regions. The study examined the relationships between and among associations from an organizational perspective. Using the criteria of density
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Civic engagement and self-empowerment of second-generation Vietnamese in Czechia Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-20 Tereza Freidingerová, Barbora Nováková
The first cohort of Czech second-generation Vietnamese has only recently reached adulthood. Raised by Czech nannies, they received early socialization into Czech society, while Vietnamese culture remained unfamiliar. With this childhood experience, the generation grew into young adulthood questioning their identity/identities. Caught between social and normative pressures from both the Vietnamese community
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Remittances and the financial capabilities of migrant households in the Philippines Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-19 Jeremaiah M. Opiniano
This exploratory mixed methods study sought to determine the financial capabilities of remittance-receiving households from two rural municipalities in the Philippines: San Nicolas in Ilocos Norte province and Moncada in Tarlac province. The broader concept of financial capabilities not only looks at people’s financial literacy but also their financial inclusion (access to financial products) and financial
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Determinants of remittances by unskilled Pakistani migrant workers Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-18 Abdullah Khan, Khadija Tippu, Saffi Ur Rehman, Muhammad Ali
Foreign remittance is the second-largest source of foreign exchange in Pakistan which makes international migrant workers key players in the balance of payments equation of Pakistan. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are the most common destinations for unskilled migrant workers from Pakistan. With the increasing costs of migration and the sluggish economic performance
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Protecting Filipino migrant workers in distress through social media platforms Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-09-18 Jovito Jose P. Katigbak, Ma. Divina Gracia Z. Roldan
This exploratory study focuses on the Philippine government’s response to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in distress, especially in the Middle East using social media platforms. It examines the level of social media adoption by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in protecting Filipino nationals abroad. The popularity of social networking sites among Filipinos, including DFA officials and staff
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Framing young South Korean working holidaymakers in Australia: A longitudinal analysis of South Korean newspapers from 2000 to 2018 Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Kyungja Jung, Yong Moon Jung
Temporary migration is a growing global trend, but there is little research on its representation in the media of origin countries. This paper fills this gap by examining how temporary migration is framed by using a longitudinal analysis that focuses on the representation of South Korean participants in the Australian Working Holiday Program in South Korean newspapers from 2000 to 2018. This paper
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Rural–urban migration and ethnic diversification in Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Nepal Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Bhim Prasad Subedi
This article analyzes rural–urban migration and subsequent caste/ethnic diversification in Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) using ward-level (the smallest spatial unit) data from Nepal’s National Population and Housing Census 2011 (CBS, 2012). KMC has 975,453 residents with migrants constituting 57 percent of the population. Almost all caste/ethnic groups (122 out of 125 in total) are present in KMC
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Disrupted social integration: A case study of Shanghai’s point-seeking group Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Yixiong Huang, Shufei Yang, Kuiming Wang
The development and expansion of Shanghai have attracted many labor migrants. Because the migrants hold a non-local hukou (household registration), they can only access minimal social services in urban areas. One of the reforms introduced by the local government of Shanghai is the Residential Points System (RPS), which would allow qualified migrants to access more social services. The policy has created
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Erratum to the Special Issue: Temporary Migration and Inequalities in the Asian-European Migration System. Asian Pacific Migration Journal 29(3): 319–466. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-03
The Guest Editors of the Special Issue: Temporary Migration and Inequalities in the Asian-European Migration System should read as Mustafa Aksakal and Kerstin Schmidt.
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The implications of migration policies on migrant worker mixed families: The case of Filipinos in Israel Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Deby Babis
The ever-growing worldwide phenomenon of transnational labor migration has resulted in the increase of families formed by migrant workers in destination countries. While scholarly attention has mainly focused on the transnational families of migrant workers, the formation of mixed families involving migrants in host countries has rarely been studied. Based on a qualitative and quantitative study of
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“Dubai is a transit lounge”: Migration, temporariness and belonging among Pakistani middle-class migrants Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-12 Gennaro Errichiello, Line Nyhagen
This article discusses relationships between temporariness and belonging among Pakistani middle-class migrants in Dubai. We explore reasons that push them to move to Dubai and how their professional position and temporary status affect their sense of belonging. Based upon unstructured interviews with 20 Pakistanis, our findings show that temporariness is problematized, but not explicitly contested