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  1. 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

    Content type: Original Article

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  2. 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

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  3. 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

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  6. 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

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  8. 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

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  11. 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

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  12. 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

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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  24. 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

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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. Our paper focuses on current trends in refugee migration and job polarization. In so doing, we assess the role of refugee migration in relation to institutional, technologicalty 1 and globalization factors in ...

    Authors: Lars Fredrik Andersson, Rikard Eriksson and Sandro Scocco

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:39

    Content type: Original Article

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  30. In recent years, forcibly displaced populations have attracted enormous media attention as an increasing number of disasters and political conflicts push more and more people to move away from their homes and ...

    Authors: Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:38

    Content type: Original Article

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  31. In the original publication of this article (Mouthaan, 2019), the last section heading has been processed incorrectly as ‘List of interviews’ instead of ‘Conclusion’. The original publication of this article h...

    Authors: Melissa Mouthaan

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:37

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:35

  33. Drawing on interviews conducted in Brussels, Dakar and Accra between September 2017–March 2018, this paper discusses the responses of domestic policy actors to the EU’s migration policy proposals in the two We...

    Authors: Melissa Mouthaan

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:35

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:37

  35. This paper investigates how social dimensions of life in local communities are affected by the long-term presence of Congolese refugees in Rwanda, paying particular attention to feelings of safety, social netw...

    Authors: Veronika Fajth, Özge Bilgili, Craig Loschmann and Melissa Siegel

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:33

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  36. This is a rejoinder to the responses made to my paper ‘Against “immigrant integration”: For an end to neocolonial knowledge production’, which was based on my book Imagined Societies. A Critique of Immigrant Inte...

    Authors: Willem Schinkel

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:32

    Content type: Commentary

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  41. Starting from the idea that border externalization – understood as the spatial and institutional stretching of borders – is enmeshed with the highly contextual humanitarian and securitarian dynamics of migrant...

    Authors: Nanneke Winters and Cynthia Mora Izaguirre

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:27

    Content type: Original Article

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  42. Malta, an island-state, limits the mobility of non-deportable, rejected asylum seekers who want to leave due to the lived consequences of disintegration. Stripped of any legal entitlements non-deportable refug...

    Authors: Sarah Nimführ and Buba Sesay

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:26

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  45. In the original publication of this article (Penninx, 2019), an incorrect version of Figure 1 has been published. In this Correction the incorrect and correct version of the figure are shown. The original publ...

    Authors: Rinus Penninx

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:23

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:13

  46. While the presence of foreign-born footballers in national teams has a long history, it is often believed that the World Cup has become more migratory over time. The presumed increases in the volume and diversity

    Authors: Gijs van Campenhout, Jacco van Sterkenburg and Gijsbert Oonk

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:22

    Content type: Original Article

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  47. By way of a commentary on Willem Schinkel’s ‘Against “immigrant integration”: For an end to neocolonial knowledge production’ in this volume, I propose twelve propositions in order to rethink the academic use ...

    Authors: Adrian Favell

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:21

    Content type: Commentary

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  48. In this essay, I respond to Schinkel’s recent statement that ‘any claim and practice that concerns ‘integration’ should be the object of research, rather than the project of research’ (2018, p. 8). Although I ...

    Authors: Lea M. Klarenbeek

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:20

    Content type: Commentary

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  49. This article explores the various types of racism and racialization comparing the experiences of descendants of Kurdish, Tamil, and Vietnamese refugees in Switzerland. Drawing on qualitative data from 45 inter...

    Authors: Laurence Ossipow, Anne-Laure Counilh and Milena Chimienti

    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:19

    Content type: Original Article

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