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Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:2
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African migration: trends, patterns, drivers
Africa is often seen as a continent of mass migration and displacement caused by poverty, violent conflict and environmental stress. Yet such perceptions are based on stereotypes rather than theoretically info...
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Enlightened Understanding, Empowerment and Leadership - Three Ways to Enhance Multiculturalism: Comment on Will Kymlickaās article: āSolidarity in Diverse Societiesā
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Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism
In the postwar period, projects of social justice have often drawn upon ideas of national solidarity, calling upon shared national identities to mobilize support for the welfare state. Several commentators hav...
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Definitional Debates, Mechanisms and Canada: Comment on Will Kymlickaās article: āSolidarity in Diverse Societiesā
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Conceptualizing and measuring migration policy change
This paper outlines the methodology of DEMIG POLICY, a new database tracking around 6,000 migration policy changes in 45 countries between 1945 and 2014. The article conceptualizes the notion of migration poli...
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A Crucial Testing Ground
European societies are currently facing serious challenges in responding to a large and growing demand of long-term care services. To a varying, but overall substantial, extent this increasing demand is satisf...
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In the Name of Human Capital
The international migration of physicians is considered an effective response to ageing societies. However, the international recruitment of physicians may be challenged by the protectionist rationale of the m...
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Europeanization and the Negotiation of a New Labour Migration Policy in Germany
The article focuses on the negotiation of a new labour migration policy in Germany in the years 2011 and 2012, and on the role that actors on both the regional and the European Union levels played in encouragi...
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Government Responses to Foreign Worker Demand During Economic Crises
With the aim of developing existing theories of labour immigration policy, I focus on the question of persisting demand for foreign workers during economic downturns and how governments attempt to respond to t...
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Migration Policies and Migrant Employment Outcomes
While a number of studies explored the demographic and human capital attributes affecting migrant socio-economic assimilation, less is known about the role of immigration status on entry. In particular, little...
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The Governance of Migrant Labour Supply in Europe, Before and During the Crisis
After more than two decades of policy inertia, since the late 1990s a new interest in labour migration arose across Europe and at the EU level. This translated into a new season of policy experimentation which...
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āThis is My Homeā
Considerations about return are a persistent dimension of identity work in migrant populations. The question of where and what constitutes āhomeā for migrants is central to understanding processes of integrati...
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Understanding Different Post-Return Experiences
Studies aimed at understanding different post-return experiences point at various factors that are involved. In this article, we show the importance of striving for a contextualized understanding of post-retur...
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Transnational Behavior in Comparative Perspective
This paper examines transnationalism across migrant generational statuses in three urban centers. The objective of this study is to explore how immigrant integration influences the maintenance of social and ec...
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Migrantsā Multi-Sited Social Lives
This paper challenges the assimilationist assumption that suggests migrants cannot be simultaneously embedded in multiple societies. Based on survey data collected among Afghan, Burundian, Ethiopian and Morocc...
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In Exile and in Touch
Studying transnational behaviour, i.e. interactions between the sending and receiving countries of international migrants, is especially interesting for refugees given their migration motive and history. Due t...
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Transnationalism in a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction
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The Transition from School to Work for Children of Immigrants with Lower-Level Educational Credentials in the United States and France
This paper compares the transition from school to work among Mexican-origin youth in the United States and North African-origin youth in France relative to the native-majority youth with similar low-level cred...
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The Transfer of Pre-departure Integration Requirements for Family Migrants Among Member States of the European Union
Over the last decade, six EU member states have introduced pre-departure integration requirements for family migrants. The Netherlands was the first to introduce such ācivic integration abroadā policies. Its e...
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Solidarity and Trust in the Common European Asylum System
The article examines the evolution of concepts of solidarity and trust in the Common European Asylum System by analysing the legislative and judicial development of the Dublin system of intra-EU transfers of a...
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Money for Nothing, the Cricks for Free
The conflictive targets of achieving security for itself, and assuring basic human rights for irregular migrants, have led to paradox EU migration policies. The increasing perception of (uncontrolled) immigrat...
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The Arab Spring and the Italian Response to Migration in 2011
This paper seeks to unpack and explain the relationship between the emergency rhetoric used by Italian politicians and the policies implemented in Italy in response to the influx of irregular migrants from Nor...
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Special Symposium of Comparative Migration Studies
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Shifting Up and Back
During the last decade, Canadaās immigration and citizenship policies have been radically transformed. Hardly any aspect has been left untouched. That humanitarian migration has also been restricted and transf...
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Beyond National Models?
This comparison of Canada and Germany focuses on a particular dimension of these countriesā respective approaches to governing migration and integration. It is guided by a key conceptual assumption: Cities and...
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When Extremes Converge
Not only but particularly in terms of labor migration policy Germany and Canada are widely perceived as being situated at opposite ends of the spectrum. Whereas Canada has for a long time been enjoying a reput...
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Traditions of Nationhood or Political Conjuncture?
If migration studies in the 1990s were marked by the predominance of the ānational modelsā approach, the early 2000s have seen an increasing rebuttal to this approach. This paper contributes to the debate by e...
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Re-Imagining the Nation
In the context of immigration and settlement, Canada and Germany are often portrayed as opposites: Canada represents a settler society and Germany an ethnic nation. The different approaches and attitudes of th...
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Lessons from Canada and Germany
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Venue-Shopping and the Role of Non-governmental Organisations in the Development of the European Union Asylum Policy
The development of cooperation on asylum and migration matters in the European Union (EU) has often been explained as the result of āvenue-shoppingā, that is, the move by national policy-makers to a new EU pol...
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The Effects of Islam, Religiosity, and Socialization on Muslim-Canadian Opinions about Same-Sex Marriage
Critics of Islam often frame anti-Islamic positions as a defense of tolerance against intolerance, and of equality against inequality. Islam, for this perspective, poses challenges for the ideological integrat...
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The Making and Unmaking of Religious Boundaries
In public debates over multiculturalism in Europe, Islamic values and ways of life are commonly represented as incompatible with Western rights and liberties. Against this background, Muslim minorities have de...
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Are unequal societies more migratory?
Are unequal societies more migratory? The position of this paper is: not necessarily, it depends on the type of inequality. By proposing horizontal and vertical inequality between and within ethnic groups as s...
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Naturalization Dynamics in Immigrant Families
In recent decades millions of people have migrated to the democracies of North America and Western Europe. Some of these immigrants have become citizens of their new homelands, while others remain foreign resi...
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Comparative Migration Studies: an introduction
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Family involvement and educational success of the children of immigrants in Europe. Comparative perspectives
Recent literature has emphasised the importance of family involvement within immigrant families in determining their childrenās educational pathways. On the one hand, the focus on family involvement and the tr...
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Parental involvement and educational success in Kosovar families in Switzerland
While some children of immigrants experience intergenerational upward social mobility, others do not. This paper explores the impact of parental and family involvement on offspring trajectories by contrasting ...
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Passing the torch to a new generation: Educational support types and the second generation in the Netherlands
This study is based on 86 in-depth interviews with second-generation people of Turkish and Moroccan background in the Netherlands who have achieved upward educational mobility. We used an inductive approach to...
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The educational supports of parents and siblings in immigrant families
This paper sets out to examine the type of help, from parents to children and among siblings, in order to understand the educational involvement and strategies of large immigrant families. The first point cons...
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Behind the scenes: family involvement and educational achievements of second-generation Turks in Austria, France and Sweden
This article explores school-related involvement strategies within Turkish families in Austria, France and Sweden and their linkages with educational achievements of their children. Using data from the TIES su...
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āIs it Merit or Cultural Capital?ā The role of parents during early tracking in Amsterdam and Strasbourg among descendants of immigrants from Turkey
Streaming into educational tracks forms a turning point in the school careers of young people living in the Netherlands and in France. Yet the two countries differ from each other with regards to tracking cond...
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Full membership or equal rights? The link between naturalisation and integration policies for immigrants in 29 European states
Traditionally, there are two contrasting views on the way states can use naturalisation and immigrantsā rights policies to set out their broader agenda of immigrant integration. First, citizenship acquisition ...
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A national turn of local integration policy: multi-level governance dynamics in Denmark and Sweden
There is a growing interest in the research community in the local governance of migration and integration. Studies indicate a local turn in integration policies, with local governments becoming important inte...
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Toward an improved understanding of immigrant adaptation and transnational engagement: the case of Cuban ĆmigrĆ©s in the United States
The article compares the explanatory power of assimilationist and transnational frameworks with a historically informed generation (historical cohort) thesis that addresses the long-term cross-border impact of...
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Beyond opportunity structures: explaining migrant protest in Western Europe, 1975ā2005
The dominance of the political opportunity structure approach has led to an emphasis of institutional variables in the field of migrant mobilization. This paper critically discusses political opportunity struc...
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The evolution of gendered migration trajectories from Moldova & Georgia
This paper is the first of its kind to comparatively examine the evolution of feminized migration flows from Moldova and Georgia in the post-Soviet period. Despite some similarities between the two countries, ...
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Citizenship, integration and the quest for social cohesion: nationality reform in the Scandinavian countries
After having coordinated their nationality laws since the late 19th century, the Scandinavian countries have moved in distinctly different directions in this field since the turn of the millennium. Today Swede...
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Social protection of foreign seasonal workers: from state to best practice
The employment of foreign seasonal workers is often advocated for filling labour shortages, but at the same time criticised for being prone to exploiting migrants as cheap labour without granting them sufficie...
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Trade unions, immigration and immigrants in Europe revisited: Unionsā attitudes and actions under new conditions
This paper revisits the comparative approach used by Penninx and Roosblad (Trade Unions, Immigration and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993. New York: Berghahn Books) to study trade unionsā attitudes and actions ...
Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2015 3:1
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