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In Memoriam International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Father Lydio F. Tomasi, C.S
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Traces of Kinship Care: Preliminary Findings From Nansen Passport Holders’ Documents in the League of Nations and Arolsen Archives International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ismee Tames
This article offers a new perspective on a body of literature that has been growing since the modern concept of “statelessness” became a pressing concern of diplomats and the displaced alike more than a century ago: it studies the “voices” of the stateless as captured in the archival documents of the organizations designed to deal with refugees through the lens of family and kinship care. This will
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Why do Citizens Criminalize Migrants? Experimental Evidence from a Multi-Role Country, Mexico International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 María del Pilar Fuerte-Celis, Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga
Every year, millions of immigrants arrive in countries that play multiple roles: they expel them, receive them, or shelter them. Sometimes, citizens welcome immigrants with open arms. Other times, they perceive them as potential criminals. Surprisingly, there is little research on the determinants of criminalization in multi-role countries. In this article, we analyze the results from a nationally
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Book Review: Dying Abroad International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Mirjam Twigt
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Book Review: Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Sofia Aouani
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The Entanglement Between Tangible and Intangible Factors in Shaping Hadiya Migration Aspirations to South Africa International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Dereje Feyissa Dori, Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Caterina Mazzilli
This article expands scholarly knowledge on migration decision-making drawing on the case of Hadiya (Southern Ethiopia) migration to South Africa. We propose a conceptual framework where intangible factors (religious beliefs, imaginations, norms, and emotions, and feelings) are placed at the core of decision-making, alongside more tangible factors, such as livelihood opportunities. Even though we differentiate
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The Real Consequences of Symbolic Social Policies: The Public Charge Rule and Benefits Use among Noncitizen Immigrants International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Felipe Dias, Joseph Chance
This article examines the impact of the 2018 announcement of changes to the public charge rules on the benefits use of noncitizen immigrant households. Using data from the American Community Survey and difference-in-difference models, as well as an event-study approach, we document a decrease in Medicaid use in 2019 by members of low-income households with noncitizens compared to low-income households
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Understanding the Dynamics of Refugee Impact on Employment: Evidence from Northern Uganda International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Joseph Musasizi, Dharma Arunachalam, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Uganda hosts the largest refugee population on the African continent and the third highest worldwide. The country also has one of the world's most progressive refugee policies. Refugees are allowed to work and operate businesses anywhere in the country, which is uncommon in other African countries and beyond. Despite the large refugee population, their impact on employment and the associated dynamics
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Unwelcome Immigrants Knocking on the Door: Demographic Features of Immigrants and Populist Attitudes Rising in South American Countries International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Jeongnam Hwang, Jeongho Choi
Previous studies examining the link between immigration and populism have found mixed empirical results. By focusing on the populist attitude among native citizens, this article revisits the question of how immigration affects populism. In addition, we investigate this relationship in South America where immigrants are more educated, and skilled and have similar cultural or historical roots to native
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Making Single Mothers Matter: Reflections on the Vulnerability and Agency of Displaced Persons in Postwar Occupied Austria and Beyond International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Franziska Maria Lamp
This article explores the experiences of displaced women and their children in occupied postwar Austria by focusing both on the assistance provided to them by relief workers in displaced persons (DP) camps and on the displaced women's role as persons in charge of planning their own and their children's futures. In doing so, it sheds light on the care infrastructure for a particularly vulnerable group
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Men's Migration and Women's Health in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Migration's Economic Returns and Spousal Communication International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Natalie Jansen, Victor Agadjanian
In this study, we investigate the association between men's labor migration and changes in their non-migrating wives’ self-rated health (SRH) over time using longitudinal data from rural Mozambique. In addition to comparing wives of non-migrants and wives of migrants, we account for variation in the economic impact of migration and in migrants’ phone communication with their spouses. We find that migrants’
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Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals” International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Filip Savatic, Hélène Thiollet, Alice Mesnard, Jean-Noël Senne, Thibaut Jaulin
Sudden rises in migration across the borders of the Global North have persistently attracted substantial media attention and fueled hostility toward “irregular migrants” and “bogus refugees.” While existing qualitative studies have extensively criticized the migrant-refugee distinction, we offer unique quantitative evidence of how migration numbers and labels construct impressions of increased irregular
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Uprooted Families: Caretaking, Belonging, and Inheritance During and After Displacement International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Sarah A. Cramsey
Stories about those uprooted from their homes are almost always stories about families, the youngest children within them and those who cared for them. From the ancient world when grand deportations accompanied military defeats to contemporary displacement unleashed by conflict, persecution, and climate change, forced movement unsettles family homes, creates new routines, and reshapes the constant
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Short-run Labor Market Integration of Venezuelan Immigrants to Peru International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Javier Torres, Francisco B. Galarza Arellano
We study the negative wage premium Venezuelan immigrants face in the Peruvian labor market, the second largest receiving country of Venezuelan migrants. Consistent with an imperfect transfer of skills, we find that the higher the education level, the larger the negative wage premium. Also, as in south-to-north migration processes, foreign work experience has a negligible value in the host country.
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Gradations of Migrant Legality: The Impact of States’ Legal Structures and Bureaucracies on Immigrant Legalization and Livelihoods International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Deisy Del Real
Immigrant legalization scholarship assumes that immigrants with “non-tenuous” legal statuses—with ostensible pathways to citizenship—smoothly transition into enduring legality. However, under-studied features of the legal structure and bureaucracy likely disrupt their legalization. Thus, the present article introduces the concept of “gradations of migrant legality” to examine how multilayered, embedded
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Taking Care of Others and the Self through Islamic Funeral Service in Berlin International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Barış Űlker
This article examines how Islamic funeral services contribute to the production of care in Berlin. Deriving from participant observations, in-depth interviews with migrant undertakers with Turkish backgrounds, and a collection of textual and visual materials, the article focuses on the practices of migrant undertakers. Against the essentialist arguments inherent to the identity politics of the existing
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Transnational Students Facing Multiple Crises: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Oaxaca, Mexico International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Marta Rodríguez-Cruz
This article analyzes the impact of multiple crises — economic, educational, and health — generated by the COVID-19 pandemic among transnational students in Oaxaca, Mexico. The article explores the...
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Spatial Segregation in Action? An Empirical Assessment of Population Concentration of Foreigners and Nationals in Italy, 2002–2018 International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Federico Benassi, Massimo Mucciardi, Maria Carella, Alessia Naccarato, Luca Salvati
The spatial concentration of human populations is a dynamic attribute of demographic systems and a multifaceted research dimension intrinsically dependent on settlement patterns and diverging (indi...
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Population Innumeracy and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Case of South Africa International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Daniel Herda
Several studies find links between immigrant population innumeracy and anti-immigrant attitudes. It seems that when people over-estimate the size of foreign-born populations in their country, they ...
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Dreaming of a Remittance House: Understanding Transnational Housing Aspirations International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Carlos Vargas-Silva, Paolo Boccagni
Migrant housing investments in the countries of origin are a demonstration of their transnational engagement and their potential contribution to local development. Yet, these investments remain rel...
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Making a National Program National: The US Resettlement of Displaced Persons After World War II1 International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 David W. Haines
The end of the Second World War in Europe left millions of people out of place, including Jews left in concentration camps, forced laborers in the huge Nazi work camp system, and many Germans as we...
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Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement. Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019 International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Giacomo Solano, Samuel David Schmid, Marc Helbling
Due to a lack of data, quantitative analysis of integration policy trends during the past decade has received limited attention. This research note presents newly collected data from the Migrant In...
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The Making of a “Lost Generation”: Child Labor among Syrian Refugees in Turkey International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Meltem Dayıoğlu, Murat Güray Kırdar, İsmet Koç
Millions of children are forcibly displaced worldwide due to wars, civil conflicts, and natural disasters. Displacement disrupts the lives of children making child labor a serious risk. However, li...
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The Integration Paradox: A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Complex Relationship Between Integration and Reports of Discrimination International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Merlin Schaeffer, Judith Kas
Social science research has produced evidence of an “integration paradox”: immigrants and their descendants who appear to have greater access to mainstream middle-class society, as indicated by the...
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Actors, Ideas, and International Influence: Understanding Migration Policy Change in South America International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Leiza Brumat, Marcia Vera Espinoza
This article analyzes the role of ideas, domestic actors, and international influences in migration policy change (MPCh) in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Building on 67 in-depth interviews with key...
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Immigration and New Firm Formation – Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Germany International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Vera Jahn, Max Friedrich Steinhardt
This paper provides new insights into the economic impact of international migration by analyzing how immigration can affect business formation in the host country. For this purpose, we exploit a p...
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Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Aslan Zorlu, Wouter van Gent
Grandchildren of post-World War II immigrants have started entering the labor market in Western Europe. Are they on a multigenerational path toward full economic assimilation, much like the Europea...
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Heterogeneous Effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on Undocumented College Students’ Educational Outcomes International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Keitaro Okura, Amy Hsin, Sofya Aptekar
We investigate why prior studies examining the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on undocumented youth's college outcomes in the United States have yielded mixed findings...
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Permanent Membership: The Prohibition of Citizenship Renunciation International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Imke Harbers, Abbey Steele
Dual citizenship is often seen as an indication that states are adopting more open membership policies. In some cases, however, dual citizenship is imposed because states lay claim to populations b...
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Internal and International Migration and the Mental Health of “Left-Behind” Older Parents International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Deependra Kaji Thapa, Denis Visentin, Rachel Kornhaber, Michelle Cleary
Despite evidence of the impact of adult children's migration on left-behind older parents, the comparison of left-behind older parents’ mental health and psychological well-being between internal a...
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Papers of the Paperless: Governmentality, Technologies of Freedom, and the Production of Asylum-Seeker Identities International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Taru Salmenkari, Saif Aldawoodi
Refugees become asylum-seekers not only because the receiving country gives them the bureaucratic-legal status but also because they start to identify with the status. This article examines how ref...
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Acculturation Among Finnish Somalis: An Imitation Game Inquiry Into bicultural fluency International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Otto Erik Alexander Segersven, Ilkka Ari Tapani Arminen, Mika Simonen
According to acculturation theories, members of immigrant second-generation minorities hold a broader cultural competence — a bicultural fluency — for living in two cultures, compared to members of...
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Counting Migrants in Russia: The Human Dimension of Administrative Data Production International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Caress Schenk
How do states count migrants? This article engages evidence from Russia to demonstrate how official labor migration data depend on human interactions between state actors and migrants in a Russian ...
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Judicial Framing and Immigration Policymaking: Israel's Policy toward Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Ofir Hadad, Menachem Hofnung
How does the use of judicial framing, a repeated selection of certain features across a large number of related cases, enable courts to be active participants in national immigration policymaking? ...
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Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering: The Securitization of Migration Policy in Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Nicola Montagna
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for bordering, that is, for measures that aim to delineate foreigners’ access to citizenship and membership and to further securitize migration policy...
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Channeling and Wages Among New US Immigrants from Mexico, India, and the Philippines International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Matthew A. Painter, Matthew R. Sanderson, Ronald Kwon
National — and local — conversations about immigration are often centered on immigrants’ integration into the US society. One factor that shapes immigrants’ integration is their pre-migration work ...
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Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar
Transnational city networks (TCNs) focused on international migration and migrant integration are an outcome of cities’ ever-larger role in migration governance beyond city boundaries. Although the...
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Educational Expectation Gaps Between Second-Generation Immigrant and Ethnic Majority Students in a Comparative Perspective: The Moderating Role of Educational Tracking International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Katja Pomianowicz
This paper investigates the influence of educational tracking on immigrant educational expectation gaps in Sweden, England, the Netherlands, and Germany. To account for heterogeneity in immigrant c...
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Is Migration a Way Out from Ascription? The Status Attainment Process of Romanians in Western Europe International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Maria Giulia Montanari, Cinzia Meraviglia
This article assesses the role of social origin for Romanian migrants in Western Europe, compared to stayers in their origin country. We propose a novel theoretical model of status attainment to ac...
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Impact of Syrian Refugees on Male Immigrants’ Labor Market Outcomes in Jordan International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Bilal Malaeb, Jackline Wahba
This article examines whether the Syrian refugee inflow to Jordan has displaced other immigrant workers in the Jordanian Labor Market. Using data from Jordan, before and after the Syrian refugee in...
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Analyzing the Borderlands: A Regional Report on the Colombia–Ecuador Border on Political, Economic, Social, Legal, and Environment Aspects International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Fangbin Zou, Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan, Tiziana Crovella, Annarita Paiano
This regional report critically analyzes the historical Colombia–Ecuador border issues using a PESL (political, economic, social, and legal) lens, extended in PESTLE, considering this a strategic p...
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Divergent Immigrant Health Trajectories: Disparities in Physical Health Using a Multidimensional Conceptualization of Legal Status International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Rachel A Zajdel
Immigrant health research demonstrates that foreign-born individuals generally experience lower morbidity rates relative to native-born individuals. However, this research often overlooks structura...
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Modes of Migration City Network Mobilization in the EU and US Multilevel Institutional Systems: The Neglected Role of Politics International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Tiziana Caponio, Andrea Pettrachin
The existing literature on the multilevel governance of migration in Europe and on migration federalism in the United States tends to assume that the modes of city network (CN) mobilization can be ...
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Unauthorized Mexican-Born Immigrants, Occupational Injuries, and the use of Medical Services in the United States International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Pedro P. Orraca-Romano, Erin R. Hamilton, Eunice D. Vargas-Valle
This article examines how unauthorized immigrant status is associated with the risk of suffering a work-related accident or illness and with the use of medical services after experiencing an injury...
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Happiness in the Daily Socio-Cultural Integration Process: A day Reconstruction Study among American Immigrants in Germany International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Martijn Hendriks, Randall Birnberg
Many immigrants struggle to integrate into host societies, despite the frequent long-term benefits of integration for immigrants and host societies. This article aims to increase understandings of ...
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Communicating Economic Evidence About Immigration Changes Attitudes and Policy Preferences International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 William L. Allen, Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij, Heather Rolfe, Johnny Runge
Existing studies demonstrate that threat perceptions matter for immigration attitudes. However, while these perceptions are potentially sensitive to information about immigrants’ impacts, questions...
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Determinants of Intended Return Migration among Refugees: A Comparison of Syrian Refugees in Germany and Turkey International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Nawras Al Husein, Natascha Wagner
Little is known about whether Syrian refugees intend to return to their origin-country and what affects their return migration intentions. We introduce a theoretical framework for voluntary return,...
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Bureaucratic Migration Politics in West Africa: Opportunities and Dependencies Created by EU Funding International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Christof Roos, Florian Trauner, Ilke Adam
This article delves into the role of bureaucrats and administrations in the development of national migration policies in West Africa. Based upon 87 interviews conducted in Accra, Dakar, and Brusse...
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Social Status and Gendered Pathways to Citizenship International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Jeannette Money, Sara Kazemian, Audie Klotz, Marisella Rodriguez
Despite decades of research on naturalization, the relationship between gender and the decision to naturalize is under-theorized. Given that women's lived experiences of migration are distinctive f...
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Labor Recruitment and Human Trafficking: Analysis of a Global Trafficking Survivor Database International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Camilla Fabbri, Heidi Stöckl, Cathy Zimmerman, Katharine Jones, Harry Cook, Claire Galez-Davis, Naomi Grant, Yuki Lo
Over the past decade, third-party labor recruiters who facilitate employment for migrant workers across low- and middle-income countries have often been considered by the counter-trafficking commun...
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“All the World's a Stage?” A Role Theory Analysis of City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Janina Stürner-Siovitz
In 2018, cities from Africa, Europe, North, and South America officially submitted input to the state-led negotiations of the Global Compact for Migration. In the same year, the Mayors Mechanism wa...
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Public Attitudes to Immigration in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Little Change in Policy Preferences, Big Drops in Issue Salience International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 James Dennison, Alexander Kustov, Andrew Geddes
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected public attitudes toward immigration? Long-term evidence in Europe and the United States suggests attitudes to immigration are relatively stable and, in some c...
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Does Time Since Arrival have an Effect on Immigrants’ Preferences for Vocational Education and Training Programs in Switzerland? International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Thomas Bolli, Ladina Rageth
In many European countries, immigrants tend to view vocational education and training (VET) programs as less desirable for themselves and their children. Students with migration background, therefo...
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Intergroup Encounters in Urban Public Spaces: Everyday Strategies of Host Community Members Following a Refugee Influx International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Ezgi Irgil
Some host community members (HCMs) develop positive attitudes toward refugees, while others do not. The current literature on perceptions of refugees offers different explanations for these varied ...
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The Migration Response to Food Insecurity and Household Shocks in Southwestern Ethiopia, 2005–2008 International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 David P. Lindstrom, Heather F. Randell, Tefera Belachew
This article examines how severe food insecurity and other shocks impact internal and international migration in southwestern Ethiopia using longitudinal survey data collected between 2005 and 2008...
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Do Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) Support Self-Reliance among Urban Refugees? Evidence from Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Charles Martin-Shields, Katrina Munir-Asen
Organizations working with refugees are increasingly using information communication technologies (ICTs) in their work. While there is a rich literature in the field of media and communications stu...
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Generational Perspectives on Homeland-Oriented Diasporic Humanitarianism: Coptic, Assyrian, and Iraqi Christian Charities in the United Kingdom International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Fiona McCallum Guiney
This article explores generational perspectives on homeland-oriented diasporic humanitarianism by minority diasporas. Through a case study of Coptic, Assyrian, and Iraqi Christian charities in the ...
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Immigrants’ Life Satisfaction in Intermarriages with Natives: A Family Life Course Perspective International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Annegret Gawron, Sarah Carol
What role do intermarriages (i.e., interethnic marriages) play in immigrants’ life satisfaction? Only a few studies have addressed this question. While intermarriages are associated with upward mob...
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Socialization Disrupted: The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Engagement in Immigrant Families International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Magda Borkowska, Renee Luthra
In this article, we examine the political socialization process in immigrant families based on the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). We find that international migration disrupts the interge...
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The Gender Employment Gap among Refugees and the Role of Employer Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from the German, Swedish and Austrian Labor Markets International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Flavia Fossati, Carlo Knotz, Fabienne Liechti, Ihssane Otmani
Compared to their male counterparts, refugee women exhibit low employment rates in many countries. Discrimination by recruiters could possibly explain this phenomenon, but thus far, there is little...