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Migration and inflation nexus under high and low interest rate environments: Some panel data evidence International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Afees A. Salisu, Rabia Abdul Muhammad, Mojeed O. Saliu
This study analyzes the relationship between migration and inflation as well as the intervening role of interest rates in selected OECD countries from 1995 to 2020, covering periods of turbulence and tranquillity. The study finds that migration increases inflation in the short run but lowers it in the long run. In other words, the inflationary effect of migration is a long‐run phenomenon. Additionally
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Are Syrians in Türkiye vulnerable to ‘epistemic injustice’?: A ‘narrative inquiry’ in the case of Bursa International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 İbrahim Oğulcan Erayman, Ahmed Burak Çağlar, Derda Küçükalp, Günhan Gayırhan
This study examines whether Syrians under temporary protection status in Türkiye vulnerable to epistemic injustice from the host society, exploring implications and transformation of these approaches. It provides a framework for understanding how the host society perceives Syrian refugees, assessing credibility within identified narrative motifs. The study focuses on the host community's narrative
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Back for good? Return aspirations of immigrants in the Netherlands International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Özge Elif Özer, Adrien Remund, Matthijs Kalmijn
Return migration is a complex process increasingly discussed in academic and policy circles. This study calls on complementary concepts and theories of migration, such as transnationalism, integration and family ties, to explore the return migration aspirations of first‐generation immigrants in the Netherlands. It aims to examine to what extent an immigrant's contacts with their origin country, proximity
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Overeducation of migrants in Lombardy: A trend analysis 2008–2021 International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Sara Maiorino, Laura Terzera
This study examines the determinants of the overeducation phenomenon among migrants in Lombardy, Italy, and how it has evolved over the last 14 years. The target population consists of legal and undocumented individuals with original citizenship from countries defined as ‘high migratory pressure countries’, who declared themselves as ‘employed’. Italy has one of the highest rates of overeducation among
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Household migration decisions: Understanding Ethiopians irregular migration from Kembata‐Tembaro zone to the Republic of South Africa International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Hailu Megersa, Tesfaye Tafesse
This research intends to shed light on the household migration decision‐making process of Ethiopian irregular migrants heading to the Republic of South Africa. Data were drawn from a cross‐sectional household survey (n = 659) and in‐depth interviews (n = 24) conducted in 2022. Descriptive statistics, binary logistic regressions and thematic analysis were employed to analyse the data. Our findings reveal
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Remittance as reactive transnationalism: The role of perceived unfairness among immigrants in South Korea International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Nari Yoo, Sou Hyun Jang
Despite numerous studies on the economic transnational connections of immigrants, focusing mainly on remittances to their home countries, the remittance behaviours and related factors of immigrants in South Korea, a country experiencing increased racial and ethnic diversity, remain relatively understudied. Applying a resource‐dependent and reactive transnationalism framework, this study examines the
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‘They must know their rights’– reflecting on privacy, informed consent and the digital agency of asylum seekers and refugees in border contexts International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Claudia Lintner
The article questions digital agency as a subjective experience of refugees when crossing Europe's external and internal borders. More concretely, the article asks how refugees experience digital agency, and how this concrete experience is constituted in specific border practices. In doing so, it examines the contradictions that arise between European laws and human rights in the context of border
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The ‘Coronavirus Crisis’ and xenophobia in South Africa: How did the pandemic affect anti‐immigrant sentiment? International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Steven Lawrence Gordon
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on xenophobia in South Africa is little understood. The Behavioural Immune System (BIS) theory would predict that hostility towards immigrants increases during periods of heightened pathogen stress. This BIS‐hypothesis is tested against the relative strength of three other possible drivers of anti‐immigrant sentiment. These included anger at the national lockdown
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Stay away or stay in? Exploring settlement decisions of economic migrants and war refugees from Ukraine in the structural approach framework International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Olena Shelest‐Szumilas, Marcin Wozniak
A sound understanding of immigrants' settlement intentions and the factors that influence them is crucial for developing successful integration policies and predicting the economic performance of the host country. It can also help us better comprehend migration patterns and individual decisions. Drawing upon a structural approach, we examined selected phenomena such as a skills mismatch and perceived
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Diaspora and development: The IOM's role in diaspora mapping in Bosnia and Herzegovina International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Dženeta Karabegović
Diaspora governance strategies are part of an increasingly vibrant academic and policy debate. International organisations play a significant role in promoting diaspora institutions, collaborating with home states, diaspora communities, and other stakeholders. In post‐conflict states, the involvement, and evolving roles of international organisations, among a variety of actors in diaspora institution
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“Knowledge is confused”: Rethinking pull factors in light of asylum and refugee integration policies International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Colleen Boland, Daniel Morente, Elena Sanchez‐Montijano
The degree to which asylum or refugee integration policy influences a forcibly displaced individual's decision to settle in one European country versus another remains understudied, yet highly visible in policy and public debate. This work asks what explains this decision‐making via Spanish case study. The authors analyse 30 in‐depth interviews with persons seeking international protection from Spain
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Afghan immigrants' perceptions of integration policies in Iran International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Leila Zandi‐Navgran, Rasoul Sadeghi, Hossein Afrasiabi, Abbas Askari‐Nodoushan
In the contemporary global context, the challenge of integrating immigrants into host societies has gained prominence. This paper delves into the perceptions and experiences of Afghan immigrants in Iran regarding immigration policies and laws. Employing a constructivist grounded theory methodology, the study aims to uncover participants' interpretations and the meanings attributed to immigration policies
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Escape from education fever?: Impact of migration on child education practice International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Yong Moon Jung
An extraordinary interest in education has a historical and cultural foundation in Korea, but its harmful nature has created education emigration of Korean parents. This study sought to track if and how the culturally embedded education fever changed over migration generations. To this end, this study compared three different parent groups: staying‐put parents in the origin country (Korean parents
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Changes in recruitment plans of Polish enterprises caused by the outbreak of war in Ukraine International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Ewa Rollnik‐Sadowska, Katarzyna Dębkowska, Andrzej Kubisiak
The aim of the article is to identify the influence of the first months of Russian aggression against Ukraine on the recruitment plans of enterprises in the country receiving refugees, as exemplified by the Polish case study. Quantitative research was conducted among 500 Polish enterprises. Based on monthly measurements, before and after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, information was received from
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Return intentions among Ukrainian refugees in Europe: A Cross‐National Study International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Frank van Tubergen, Gusta G. Wachter, Yuliya Kosyakova, Irena Kogan
This study examines the return intentions of Ukrainian refugee women who fled to various European countries following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. By analysing data from the cross‐national OneUA survey, which included over 18,000 respondents in eight European countries, this research investigates the interplay of contextual, compositional, and cross‐level interaction effects on their intentions
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Ugandan women and sex trafficking in Istanbul International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Emel Coşkun, Lucy Williams
This paper demonstrates how the social construction of gender shapes women's migration choices and post‐migration experience using the example of Ugandan women migrants in Istanbul, Türkiye. Building on an ethnographic case study, we reveal how Ugandan women negotiate and find agency within oppressive structures that force them into debt, into “illegality”, and limit their opportunities for safe and
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Agricultural crisis, refugee crisis, or health crisis? Migrant seasonal workers in Italian agriculture during the COVID pandemic International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Pietro Cingolani
The concept of crisis has been widely used to describe European social phenomena which have become acute and unmanageable in recent years. Exceptionality and emergency have become attributes of the political strategies developed to address the economic, social, and environmental unsustainability of industrial farming; the flow of forced migrants; and the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article is based on
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The buying of freedom: Migrant workers and the “Azad” Visa in the Persian Gulf1 International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Zahra Babar
The six monarchies of the Persian Gulf are considered to be the world's third largest hub of international migration, having over the decades drawn millions of labour migrants to occupy a range of jobs across all tiers of the labour market. Despite decades of an unabated inward flow of foreign workers, none of the regional governments consider themselves to be destinations for permanent settlement
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Laczko, Frank, Mosler Vidal, Elisa, Rango, Marzia. 2024. Measuring Global Migration: Towards Better Data for All. London & New York: Routledge. pp. 224. International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Şule Toktaş
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Deconstructing migration studies and identity studies: The need for an alternative scientific lens International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Ayhan Kaya
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Morris, Julia C. 2023. Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press. pp. 318. International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Samantha O'Donnell
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Holding the door slightly open: Germany's migrants' return intentions and realizations International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Hend H. Sallam
Return migration intentions are complex and are not necessarily followed by future return migration. This study compares successful return or repeated migration with self‐declared return intentions. It takes advantage of the latest and unique German Socio‐Economic Panel (SOEP) survey dropout studies and fieldwork to observe a wider return migration window than reported in the literature to answer the
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Postmigrant thinking: Definition, critiques and a new offer International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Gökçe Yurdakul
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Beyond mixed embeddedness: Multilevel personal networks of migrant entrepreneurs in Naples and Manchester International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Maria Camilla Fraudatario, Giuseppe Giordano, Anna Maria Zaccaria
This article analyses immigrant entrepreneurship in different urban contexts and recognizes its significant impact on the economic and sociocultural development of cities. Immigrant entrepreneurs are often concentrated in neighbourhoods and promote diversified economic activities. The mixed embeddedness (ME) framework highlights the complex interplay of contextual, economic and institutional factors
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Evaluating special representation of non‐resident citizens: Eligibility, constituency and proportionality International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero, Rainer Bauböck, Klaudia Wegschaider
So far, 21 countries have introduced—and some thereafter withdrawn—reserved legislative seats for their citizens living abroad. Existing literature on this form of special representation has studied this topic either empirically or normatively. We bring these two approaches together based on the main dimensions of institutional variation of special representation: (1) eligibility, (2) constituency
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Searching for settlement information on Reddit International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Stein Monteiro
Newcomers are using informal means to find settlement information that is also freely available through formal settlement service providers. Newcomers may seek settlement information on Reddit when the same information might be found through a settlement service provider. This study finds that several Reddit submissions can be categorized in at least one or more of the formal settlement service categories
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The impact of intersecting crises on recent intra‐EU mobilities: The case of Spaniards in the UK and Germany International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Anastasia Bermudez, Beltrán Roca
This article contributes to two interconnected fields of study: recent literature on intra‐EU migration, specifically South–North flows; and scholarship into the impact of intersecting crises on (im)mobilities. Interest in intra‐EU mobilities has increased with the expansion of the EU and especially since the 2008 Great Recession, with a focus mostly on young people and East–West flows. However, based
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Healthcare delivery in the shadow of war: The experiences of Turkish nurses providing care to Syrian asylum‐seekers International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Ayşe Çiçek Korkmaz, Ülkü Baykal
The Syrian civil war caused humanitarian tragedy, resulting in significant losses and massive migration movement, significantly impacting nursing services. The purpose of this study was to identify the problems and experiences of nurses who provided care for Syrian asylum seekers in Turkish border hospitals during the war. This phenomenological and qualitative research selected participants with maximum
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Does skill emigration hurt unskilled workers? Theory and cross‐country evidence International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Saibal Kar, Sugata Marjit
How does out‐migration of skilled workers affect unskilled workers' wage in the source country? When skilled workers emigrate, unskilled wages tend to go down in some countries. If the sector that uses both skilled and unskilled workers shows a lower degree of capital intensity as compared to sectors that use only skilled workers in production, it is a common outcome. We use 19 years of cross‐country
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Refugee entrepreneurship in a non‐western country: How do Syrian refugee entrepreneurs respond to diaspora consciousness and negative prejudice? International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Mohamed Mousa
The aim of this paper is to identify how the diaspora consciousness of Syrian entrepreneurs in Egypt might affect their business practices. The research sample comprises semi‐structured interviews with Syrian refugee owners of small and medium‐sized businesses in Egypt. Thematic analysis was subsequently used to determine the main ideas in the transcripts from the interviews. The findings showed that
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Hwee‐Hwa Chan, Felicity. 2022. Tensions in diversity: Spaces for collective life in Los Angeles. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 264 International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Norma Schemschat
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Queer asylum: Between hostility and incredibility International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Diego Garcia Rodriguez, Calogero Giametta
The field of queer migration studies has significantly evolved in recent decades, with interdisciplinary scholars exploring the unique experiences of LGBTIQ+ people. This scholarship has emphasised that migrations are not solely motivated by economic or familial factors but are interwoven with migrants' sexuality and gender (Lewis & Naples, 2014; Luibheid, 2008). Initially, the focus was on the internal
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Feminist methodologies in migration research International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Christina Clark‐Kazak
INTRODUCTION In the context of a methodological turn in migration studies since the early 2000s, this commentary focuses on three key contributions of feminist methodologies in migration research over the past two decades. This is not to suggest that feminist methodologies are “new,” or that some of these methodological orientations were not present in earlier work, but rather to highlight methodologies
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Dragomir, Cristina‐Ioana. 2023. Making the immigrant soldier: How race, ethnicity, class and gender intersect in the US military. Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. pp. 258. International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Mitchell A. Orenstein
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Jones, Garett. 2022. The culture transplant: How migrants make the economies they move to a lot like the ones they left. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 228. International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Yusuf Emre Akgündüz
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Kanaaneh, Rhoda. 2023. The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality and Arab Asylum Seekers in America. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 194 International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Uğur Yıldız
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Institutional quality and emigration nexus: Empirical evidence from Türkiye International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Emrah Eray Akça, Onur Çelik
This study attempts to fill an important gap in the empirical literature by investigating the impact of institutional quality in destination countries on emigrants from Türkiye using bilateral migration data from 2010 through 2020. For this purpose, the study builds an augmented gravity model, including economic, geographic, and cultural variables in an exponential form and estimates it by the Poisson
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Qualitative analysis of migrants' network data: Using conceptual reflexivity to reveal the ‘magic trick’ International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Alessio D'Angelo, Louise Ryan
While in recent years, qualitative social network analysis (SNA) has advanced considerably – particularly in migration research – there is still an overall tendency to focus more on issues of network structure and on the generation of data, rather than on how data can be interpreted and analysed qualitatively in practice. In this article, we discuss how a genuinely qualitative SNA should not only apply
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Democrats abroad: What motivates core activists to engage in political transnationalism? International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Amanda von Klekowski von Koppenfels
Research into transnational political engagement of non‐resident citizens has largely focused on the Global South and less on the Global North. This article focuses on non‐resident United States citizens, or overseas Americans, asking what motivates them to become politically engaged. This article contributes insights to an insufficiently explored case. Drawing from 14 semi‐structured interviews with
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Exploring the difference: Immigrant peers and the imagination of natives International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Ana Alanis-Amaya, Carlos Vargas-Silva
Using data for the United States, we explore how interactions with immigrants during school age affect imagination during adulthood for native children. The analysis uses The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health survey and focuses on the impact of differences in the number of immigrants across cohorts within schools. Results suggest that exposure to immigrant classmates has positive
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Between a rock and a hard place: Multisystem resilience and Honduran youth migration intentions International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Maria Estela Rivero Fuentes, Tom Hare, Laura Miller-Graff
More is known about how ‘push factors’ motivate emigration and how immigrants adapt to their new environment than about psychological factors associated with migration intentions for those experiencing adversity in their country of origin. This paper explores the association between multisystem resilience and migration intentions among youth in Honduras. In this context of high economic need and contextual
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Size and ethnic homogeneity of extended social networks in the Netherlands: Differences between migrant groups and migrant generations International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Thijmen Jeroense, Bas Hofstra, Niels Spierings, Jochem Tolsma
Extended social networks encompass both weak and strong ties to provide social support and resources. Hence, it is important to study what explains variation in these networks. This paper addresses this and examines the size and ethnic homogeneity of extended social networks, and group differences therein, and it aims to explain these differences based on a preference–opportunities approach through
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Transforming settlement and integration services during a pandemic International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Valerie Preston, John Shields, Jayesh D'Souza
Settlement services are key to Canada's success in welcoming and integrating immigrants. Offered mainly in person prior to COVID-19 by non-governmental agencies reliant on and regulated by government funders, services were forced online and delivered by staff working remotely. We document this transition between September 2020 and September 2021 in Ontario, Canada and the conditions that influenced
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Unpacking “the system”: Multi-level governance gaps in the labour market integration of highly skilled refugees International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Micheline van Riemsdijk
A plethora of government- and non-government actors are involved in the labour market integration of highly skilled refugees, forming a complex “system” that is difficult to navigate for integration actors and refugees. Based on interviews with 32 labour market integration actors in Sweden, this article examines multi-level governance gaps in the wake of the simultaneous centralization and decentralization
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How framing impacts attitudes about electoral rights for non‐resident citizens International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Staffan Himmelroos, Jean‐Michel Lafleur, Magdalena Lesinska, Marco Liesi, Johanna Peltoniemi, Theresa Reidy, Daniela Vintila, Åsa von Schoultz
Widespread adoption of policies granting electoral rights to citizens living abroad has spurred vivid scholarly debates regarding the drivers and consequences of extra‐territorial enfranchisement. But, little is known about the views of resident citizens in origin countries on the matter. We address this research gap and investigate how resident citizens' attitudes to external voting rights are affected
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Immobility in Moldova: Beyond the migration paradigm International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Ludmila Bogdan
This paper explores the motivations and barriers behind the decision of economically disadvantaged Moldovans to refrain from migrating for better economic prospects. Drawing on 30 qualitative interviews with voluntary stayers, it uncovers a range of individual-level characteristics that impede migration aspirations. These findings highlight the heightened sensitivity of lower-wage stayers to their
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From smuggled migrants to ‘alleged smugglers’: Empirical evidence and policy perspectives on the criminalization of people on the move in Italy International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Federico Alagna
Since 2014, numerous people on the move have been accused of migrant smuggling in Italian courts for steering makeshift vessels or for assisting in navigation across the Mediterranean Sea. This is the case regardless of the fact that such behaviour was the result of coercion or threats. In this contribution, drawing upon extensive empirical research and following a socio-legal paradigm, I first explore
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A relational analysis of migration in old age: How transnational ties affect migration decisions International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Livia Tomás, José Luis Molina
Recently, the role of personal ties in migration decisions has received considerable attention. However, this aspect has seldom been studied in the context of retirement. This paper addresses this gap by shedding light on the composition of personal networks, types of mobility patterns and retirement locations for four groups of older adults. To this end, two methodological approaches are employed:
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Refugees as perceived threat: College students' attitudes towards refugees in South Korea International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Joowon Yuk, Hyoung-jin Shin
In 2018, the influx of Yemeni asylum seekers generated the unprecedented politicization of the refugee issue in South Korea. This paper explored South Korean attitudes towards refugees by collecting data from Korean college students. In doing so, we looked into what led to negative attitudes towards refugees and the role perceived threats play as a mediator. Following previous studies on intergroup
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Connecting the dots: Using social network analysis to disentangle the factors driving international migration International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Cassie McMillan
Migration scholars and policymakers continue to question why international migration corridors develop. In the current project, I argue that there is value in applying a social network approach to disentangle the processes that drive international migration. Using data on migration between 173 countries from 2010 to 2015, I construct a migration network where nodes are countries and edges are flows
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Cross-border mobility, inequality and migration intermediaries: Labour migration from Nepal to Malaysia International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Heila Sha, Yvonne Khor
This article aims to contribute to labour recruitment policy by demonstrating the relations between cross-border mobility and inequality through the lens of migration intermediaries. Drawing on thematic analysis of the MIDEQ project's in-depth interviews with Nepalese labour migrants (n = 20) in Malaysia, this research reveals the range of migration intermediaries along the recruitment chain, and shows
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Beyond the asylum-applications growth. The limits of the Spanish refugee reception program International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Juan Iglesias, Rut Bermejo, Isabel Bazaga
Based on two extended qualitative research projects conducted between 2017 and 2022, this paper analyses the refugee reception programme (RP) in Spain, which is managed both by the central state and some specialised social organisations. This cross-sectoral RP presents notable and enduring problems, which have deepened since the increase in asylum applications during the so-called European refugee
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Ethical tensions of migrants in the informal economy in the Global South International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Oscar Naranjo Del Giudice, Sertan Kabadayi
Considering the ongoing, record-setting migration in the Global South, this paper explores the values, principles and ethical tensions of Venezuelan migrants in the informal economy of Colombia. We found that migrants frequently prefer to stay within the informal economy as a way of preserving their identities, values and principles, rather than adopting those of their new country. This choice sets
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Letter from the editors International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Ahmet Icduygu, Deniz Sert, Jan Rath, Aysen Ustubici
Throughout 2023, migration has remained a focal point in global political and social discourse. Numerous events have arisen in which migration issues have ascended to the forefront of national, regional and global agendas, underscoring the significance and urgency of addressing the complexities and challenges associated with migration. The earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey on February 6 resulted