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  2. In this rejoinder for this special issue, we enter into dialogue with the various commentaries that our article "Between Fragmentation and Institutionalisation" received. In doing so, we address some of the co...

    Authors: Asya Pisarevskaya, Nathan Levy and Peter Scholten

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:40

    Content type: Commentary

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  4. Over the last 30 years, as the CrossMigration project demonstrates, Migration Studies has been positively institutionalized in a number of ways. Further, a number of new theoretical interventions have signific...

    Authors: Steven Vertovec

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:38

    Content type: Commentary

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  7. This commentary paper starts by questioning the assumption that migration means international migration, and goes on to affirm that migration studies has indeed come of age as a coherent if highly diverse rese...

    Authors: Russell King

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:35

    Content type: Commentary

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  9. This commentary discusses the scope of institutionalization by providing a regional dimension of migration studies. A pivotal weakness of the article is its lack of understanding of Asian migration scholarship...

    Authors: Yuk Wah Chan

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:33

    Content type: Commentary

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  10. Recent commentaries on migration integration suggest that researchers focus more on cities than nation states and include considerations of political economy, societal inequality and shifts in production. This...

    Authors: Kathryn Kopinak, Jenna Hennebry, Rosa Maria Soriano-Miras and Antonio Trinidad Requena

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:32

    Content type: Original Article

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  12. Cities are taking a prominent role in solving global challenges, with a ‘new localism’ inviting a reorientation of power from nation-states downwards, outwards and globally. This special issue explores this ph...

    Authors: Caroline Oliver, Rianne Dekker, Karin Geuijen and Jacqueline Broadhead

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:30

    Content type: Editorial

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  16. This study compares the longitudinal dynamics of labor market integration between asylum refugees, resettled refugees and their reunited family members. The labor market integration of the three refugee groups...

    Authors: Jussi Tervola

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:28

    Content type: Original Article

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  18. It is clear that the field of migration studies has grown significantly over the past decades. What is less known is how this growth has taken place. This article combines bibliometric metadata with expert int...

    Authors: Nathan Levy, Asya Pisarevskaya and Peter Scholten

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:24

    Content type: Original Article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:29

  19. This paper contributes to the migration studies literature by a comparative analysis of local migration diversity governance in large, mid-sized and small cities, analysing the broader scope of the local dimen...

    Authors: Ilona van Breugel

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:23

    Content type: Original Article

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  20. The reception of asylum seekers in Italy has become an increasingly contentious issue: many actors, public and private, are involved at various levels of government, and cooperative behaviour cannot be taken f...

    Authors: Francesca Campomori and Maurizio Ambrosini

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:22

    Content type: Original Article

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  23. This paper reviews new evidence on the trends and patterns of migration between Africa and Europe since the mid-1970s, and discusses their congruency with the changing context of migration policy. Using data f...

    Authors: Cris Beauchemin, Marie-Laurence Flahaux and Bruno Schoumaker

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:19

    Content type: Original Article

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  24. This article focuses on the interest and ability to acquire destination country nationality among non-EU-born adults in six European countries. While a sizeable literature has emerged on nationality policies a...

    Authors: Thomas Huddleston

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:18

    Content type: Original Article

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  25. With about 2.7 million nationals residing elsewhere in the European Economic Area, Poland was the second largest country of origin of all intra-European migrants in 2018. After the country’s accession to the E...

    Authors: Oleksandr Ryndyk

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:17

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  28. This paper argues that perceptions towards asylum seekers are shaped by both media representation as well as lived experiences in and around asylum accommodation. Drawing on Lefebvre’s spatial triad, the paper...

    Authors: Marielle Zill, Bas Spierings and Ilse Van Liempt

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:16

    Content type: Original Article

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  30. In various European cities urban authorities and local stakeholders are exploring ways to tackle challenges arising from recent refugee flows. A central concern is the social integration of refugees: how to co...

    Authors: Rilke Mahieu and Rut Van Caudenberg

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:12

    Content type: Original Article

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  33. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century and after two turning point events – 09-11 terrorist attacks and the ‘Arab spring’ – both migration control and democracy promotion became central issues within ...

    Authors: Luisa Faustini-Torres

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:9

    Content type: Original Article

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  34. Water scarcity and management of this problem are increasingly acknowledged in development policies as well as in adaptation and migration discourse. In South Mediterranean countries, insufficient water suppli...

    Authors: Karolina Sobczak-Szelc and Naima Fekih

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:8

    Content type: Original Article

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  37. Historically, minority status has been linked with visibility as a non-White person, and such phenotypical visibility has marked people in terms of racial stigmas and discrimination. But definitions and claims...

    Authors: Miri Song

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:5

    Content type: Original Article

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  38. This article explores the different memorial strategies of the civil society associations and the public authorities in Mali through various practices and discourses of the International Migrant Day around the...

    Authors: Almamy Sylla and Susanne U. Schultz

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:4

    Content type: Original Article

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  39. After repeated failed attempts to reform its dysfunctional internal architecture, the external dimension has become the real cornerstone of the EU’s migration strategy, with the Mediterranean as its main geogr...

    Authors: Ferruccio Pastore and Emanuela Roman

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:2

    Content type: Original Article

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  40. Studies demonstrate that both group status and geographic location influence media coverage of immigrants, ethnic groups, and marginalized communities. We examine a systematic sample of headlines about Muslims...

    Authors: Hasher Nisar and Erik Bleich

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:3

    Content type: Original Article

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  43. Social protection refers to resources and strategies to deal with social risks, such as poverty or obligations and needs of care, which might impede the realization of life chances and well-being. Previous res...

    Authors: Başak Bilecen, Karolina Barglowski, Thomas Faist and Eleonore Kofman

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:47

    Content type: Editorial

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  44. The article highlights international dimensions of the emergence and transformation of migration policies in Turkey from the early 2000s onwards, including the context of the Syrian displacement, which made Tu...

    Authors: Ayşen Üstübici

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:46

    Content type: Original Article

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  46. The phenomenon of families separated across continents is a result of migratory flows in a globalised world. Transnational families occur because one or both parents migrate internationally requiring children ...

    Authors: Allen White, Bilisuma B. Dito, Angela Veale and Valentina Mazzucato

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:44

    Content type: Original Article

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  49. This paper looks at how migrants with different skill profiles make use of their education in order to avoid unemployment compared with natives in three European countries with significantly different labour m...

    Authors: Héctor Cebolla-Boado, María Miyar-Busto and Jacobo Muñoz-Comet

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:41

    Content type: Original Article

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  50. This introduction to the special issue provides a critical state-of-the-art of the literature on second-generation migrants which has hitherto subsumed the case of the children of refugees. It highlights the t...

    Authors: Milena Chimienti, Alice Bloch, Laurence Ossipow and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:40

    Content type: Editorial

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