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Transnational Families and Neo-Liberal Globalisation: Past, Present and Future Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Deborah Fahy Bryceson
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Student-Initiated Discussion Topics in Career Counselling of Adult Immigrants Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Miika Kekki
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Scandinavian Social Democrats Facing The ‘Progressive Dilemma’: Immigration and Welfare States In Left-of-Centre Party Programs Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Anne Skevik Grødem
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Book review of Gullikstad, Berit, Kristensen, Guro Korsnes and Sætermo, Turid Fånes (eds.) 2021. Fortellinger om integrering i norske lokalsamfunn [Narratives of Integration in Norwegian Local Communities]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. 292 pp. Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
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How do Children of Immigrants Experience Parental Involvement in their Education? Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Marianne Takvam Kindt
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‘Migrant Carer-Wives’ – Between Transnational Marriages, Care Work for Older Husbands and Gendered Precarity Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Anika Liversage,Abir Mohamad Ismail
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Book review of Cohen, Robin & Van Hear, Nicholas (2020) Refugia. Radical Solutions to Mass Displacement. Oxon & Routledge. 148 pp. Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Ian Murphy-Pociask
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Complex and Convoluted Borders within EU: Free-Movers and Their Experience of Negotiating Borders to Labor Market and Social Welfare in Sweden Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Maarja Saar,Florence Fröhlig,Martin Ericson,Valeria Kopeykina
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Minoritizing Processes and Power Relations between Volunteers and Immigrant Participants—An Example from Norway Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Barbara Stein
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Little Norway in Somalia–Understanding Complex Belongings of Transnational Somali Families Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Ayan Handulle
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Is Open Science Good for Research and Researchers? Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Lena Näre
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Compassionate Border Securitisation? Border Control in the Scandinavian News Media during the ‘Refugee Crisis’ Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Anja Aaheim Naper
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Upward Mobility, Despite a Stigmatised Identity: Immigrants of Iranian Origin in Sweden Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Alireza Behtoui
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Influences on Outdoor Recreation Behavior Among Immigrant Women in Norway Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Catherine Anne Nicole Lorentzen,Berit Viken
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What Makes Resources Capital? The Labour Market Integration of Highly Skilled Japanese in Finland Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Takuya Yamazaki
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Does First-Language Training Matter for Immigrant Children’s School Achievements? Evidence from a Danish School Reform Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Anna Tegunimataka
This article explores municipal variation in the implementation of a Danish educational reform. The aim of the reform was to increase the assimilation of immigrants, and removing mother-tongue training for first- and second-generation immigrants was believed to increase their proficiency in Danish. This article uses a difference-in-differences method to explore the effect of this removal on children’s
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How to be a ‘Good Asylum Seeker’? The Subjectification of Young Men Seeking Asylum Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Maria Petäjäniemi,Maija Lanas,Mervi Kaukko
This research focuses on the subjectification of young asylum-seeking men. By subjectification, we mean the effort an individual invests in detecting, negotiating, meeting and contesting the surrounding discursive expectations. The underlying question is: if someone wants to fulfil the position ascribed to them, that is be a ‘good asylum seeker’ and respond to the surrounding demands as much as possible
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Genres of Departure: Forced Migrants’ Family Separation and Personal Narratives Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Johanna Hiitola,Valtteri Vähä-Savo
The absence of family members is often inseparable from the phenomenon of forced migration. This article examines how forced migrants make experiences of family separation bearable and meaningful through personal narratives. Following narrative theory and methodology, we understand that people organise their experiences and memories of past incidents predominantly in the form of stories. Narratives
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Heading for a ‘Better Life’? Why Swedes Move to Portugal Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Daniel Rauhut
This article discusses the drivers behind why Swedes move to Portugal and who these migrants are. The conceptual framework is based on lifestyle migration and considers migration as a process. Using a semi-structured interview guide, designed according to a life-course approach, 36 in-depth interviews with Swedes permanently residing in Portugal were conducted. The findings display that only a small
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Employer Preferences Towards Recruitment of Refugees – A Danish Vignette Study Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Rasmus Lind Ravn,Thomas Bredgaard
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Sensitive Stuff and Expressive Caution: Notes on the Research Process in Studies of Ethnicities Associated with Crime Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Malin Åkerström,Veronika Burcar Alm
Questions related to crime and migration are delicate matters, potentially because of associations with ethnicity, racism and oppressive politics and ideology in both the past and the present. The delicate nature of issues of crime and deviance may result in expressive caution exercised by both researchers and those studied. In this article, we discuss these dynamics in the research process in terms
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Materialising Care across Borders: Sent Things and Family Ties between Sweden and Ukraine Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Lyudmyla Khrenova,Kathy Burrell
This article is an exploration of transnational family links and how they are materialised. Based on interviews with Ukrainian migrants living in Sweden, we discuss different dimensions of the everyday practices of sending things back and forth between family members. We find that what these packages embody and represent are more complex than tropes of economic need, obligation and responsibility allow
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At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean by Ċetta Mainwaring, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 219 pp Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Anitta Kynsilehto
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Care for the Visa: Maximising Mobility from Northwest Russia to the Schengen Area Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Olga Tkach
This article analyses how and why the residents of Northwest Russia—holders and users of the unified Schengen multiple-entry ‘C’ visas issued by the state of Finland—care for their visas by balancing trips to Finland against trips to the wider Schengen Area, according to the rules that require such balancing. Applying the concept of productive work and reproductive labour, and drawing on in-depth interviews
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Transnationalism and Settlement of Latvian Emigrants in the Nordic Countries Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Inese Šūpule
The intra-European migration flows have fostered debates about the intentions of migrants to settle in their destination country or return to their countries of origin. Based on a quantitative analysis of survey data (N = 1391), this article presents a typology of migration patterns among migrants from Latvia in the Nordic countries. Using two dimensions—attachment to the destination country and attachment
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‘This Is a Country To Earn and Return’: Polish Migrants’ Circular Migration to Iceland Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Małgorzata Dziekońska
The problem under investigation in this article is circular migration of Polish men working in Iceland and its consequences for migrants’ lives, as well as the lives of those who stay. The phenomenon is discussed on the basis of the research conducted among migrants and complemented by their wives’ perspectives. The research was designed in two parts: one was conducted in Iceland with the migrants
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“It’s To Protect the Country!”: The Everyday Performance of Border Security in Sweden Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Mette Catarina Skaarup
In 2015, Sweden introduced inner border control. Five years later, the ‘temporary’ controls remain. Their increasing permanence raises urgent questions about the logics that undergird the exercise of biopolitical border security and the relationship between intent and practices on the ground. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Swedish border guards and fieldwork conducted at Hyllie Station—the first
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In Search of the Swedish Asians: Representations of Asians and Experiences of Being Asian in Contemporary Sweden as Reflected in the Non-White Swedish Literature Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Tobias Hübinette
Asians in Sweden make up over 200,000 inhabitants. However, compared to the Afro-Swedes, the Latin Americans or the minority inhabitants who have a background in the Middle East, the Swedish Asians are largely absent from the political, cultural and academic spheres in contemporary Sweden. This absence applies in both minority and migrant contexts as well as in connection with migration and integration
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Downward Professional Mobility among Poles Working and Living in Norway Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Anna Przybyszewska
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From Going Abroad to Settling Down… While Remaining Mobile? Polish Women in Norway Narrate Their Migration Experiences Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Izabella Main,Elżbieta M. Goździak,Leszek Nowak
This article analyses mobility of Polish women living transnational lives between Poland and Norway. The emphasis is on the emic (insider’s) versus etic (outsider’s) points of view regarding issues of migrant identity, mobility before arriving in Norway, and temporality, permanence, fluidity and settlement after moving to Norway. The article is based on an online survey of 485 Polish women and 126
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Living With Difference – Interventions for Just Cities Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Marit Aure,Anniken Førde
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Stitching People Together: The Art of Cross-Cultural Encounters in an Embroidery Workshop Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Marit Aure,Marsil Andjelov Al-Mahamid
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Multicultural Voluntarism–The Second-Hand Shop in Bodø, Norway, as Arena for New Encounters Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Tone Magnussen
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‘ARE WE GOING TO STAY REFUGEES?’ Hyper-precarious Processes in and Beyond the Danish Integration Programme Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Ditte Shapiro,Rikke Egaa Jørgensen
The Danish welfare state is designed to protect and support people in need. However, refugees experience hyper-precarity related to a restrictive socio-legal regime connecting them to the state. Based on 4 months of ethnographic fieldwork in and around a local community organisation, including 35 qualitative interviews with refugees, social workers and volunteers, the article examines hyper-precarious
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Roli Misra. 2020. Migration, Trafficking and Gender Construction: Women in Transition. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. 230 pp. Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Emma Seyram Hamenoo
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Notes on a More Equitable Higher Education Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Lena Näre,Synnøve Bendixsen
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Re-made in Sweden: Success Stories in a Swedish Migration Context Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Erik Olsson
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Cuttitta, Paolo and Last, Tamara (eds.) 2020. Border Deaths: Causes, Dynamics and Consequences of Migration-related Mortality. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 174 pp Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Saila Heinikoski
Border Deaths: Causes, Dynamics and Consequences of Migration-related Mortality, a volume edited by Paolo Cuttitta and Tamara Last, compiles articles dealing with migration-related mortality from a variety of perspectives. It is an outcome of a conference Border deaths and migration policies: state and non-state approaches, organized as part of the research project Border Policies and Sovereignty.
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Parvez, Z. Fareen. 2017. Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India. New York: Oxford University Press. 288 pp Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Alexandros Sakellariou
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Meeting Places and Integration: Participatory Mapping of Cross-Cultural Interactions in Norwegian Cities Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Gregory Taff,Marit Aure
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Diversity Policies as Tools to Increase Participation and Encounters Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Torill Nyseth
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Transnational Welfare Management: Accommodating Transnational Living in Norway Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Cathrine Talleraas
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Using Photo Elicitation Interviews to Explore Newly Arrived Pupils’ Social and Academic Experiences Nordic Journal of Migration Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Anita Norlund