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  1. Resettlement to a third country offers a durable solution for refugees who cannot integrate into their asylum or transit countries. While most studies focus on the experiences of refugees after their arrival i...

    Authors: Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli, Bayes Ahmed and Peter Sammonds
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:46
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  2. Migration forecasts are crucial for proactive immigration and integration management. While the demand for accurate migration forecasts continues to grow, the current state of migration forecasting is still un...

    Authors: Sandra Morgenstern and Oliver Strijbis
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:45
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  3. Extant literature shows that well-being is one of the key drivers of attitudes towards migrants as well as preferences for asylum and refugee policies. Less in is known, however, about the relationship between...

    Authors: Magdalena Adamus and Matúš Grežo
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:44
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  4. The relationship between feminist movements and racialised migrant women in Europe remains marred by the continued marginalisation of migrant women’s political claims in feminist struggles, despite the circula...

    Authors: Yvette Samnick and Ilaria Michelis
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:43
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  6. This paper examines how forced migrants integrate individual perception, interpersonal exchange, and extended networks to navigate the naturalization process. By bringing together these three methods of knowle...

    Authors: Liam Haller and Zeynep Yanaşmayan
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:41
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  7. Engagement with institutions from migrants’ country of origin, both in the destination country and in the country of origin, is distinct transnational behaviour. This study investigates the impact of geographi...

    Authors: Eva Janská, Dušan Drbohlav, Jiří Hasman and Zdeněk Čermák
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:40
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  8. This article recounts the stories of Afghan migrants who have returned from Iran to Afghanistan. I frame these accounts of ordinary Afghans’ life experiences as “narratives of pride,” juxtaposing these stories...

    Authors: Mohsen Jalali
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:39
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  12. Applying nation branding literature and the work of Erving Goffman on dramaturgy to the situation of asylum-seeking children in Norway and in the UK, this paper develops a comparative framework for understandi...

    Authors: Devyani Prabhat and Marie Louise Seeberg
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:35
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  14. Since the late 1990s and early 2000s, in what can be called an ‘integrationist wave’, standardised integration requirements for naturalisation have become increasingly common in Europe. To examine the impact o...

    Authors: Djordje Sredanovic
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:33
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  15. This study focuses on the impact of three attributes of migrants – their reasons for migration, religion, and level of religiosity – on public support for allowing migrants to come and live in Israel. We rely ...

    Authors: Rebeca Raijman, Anastasia Gorodzeisky, Moshe Semyonov and Thomas Hinz
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:32
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  16. This study investigates the role of migration background in the saving behavior of youth, with a focus on immigrant generation, national origin, and the influence of cultural and socioeconomic factors. Drawing...

    Authors: Jelle Lössbroek and Frank Van Tubergen
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:31
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  18. The existing literature points to securitisation as a dominant form of emergency governance emerging in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, also in relation to migration. However, another important way of frami...

    Authors: Marta Jaroszewicz, Mateusz Krępa and Marta Pachocka
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:29
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  19. Child labor migration is a critical issue that has received limited attention from academic and policy domains in many developing countries. This article analysis the causes of child labor migration and workin...

    Authors: Birhanu Mengist Zewdie, Arega Bazezew Berlie and Linger Ayele Mersha
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:28
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  20. This article develops mobility-based categories for studying young people with and without a migration background. Most research on migrant youth uses the category of ethnicity, defined by a young person’s cou...

    Authors: Valentina Mazzucato
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:27
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  22. Scholarship on immigrant stereotypes suggest that individuals’ viewpoints toward immigration may be differentiated across the dimensions of culture and economics. In this study, we use latent class analysis, w...

    Authors: Ronald Kwon, William J. Scarborough and Roberto Gallardo
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:25
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  23. De-migranticization is becoming a core strategy for overcoming the fetishization of migrants in migration studies. However, this shift in perspectives raises questions about what categories to use instead. Thi...

    Authors: Parvati Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines and Ashley Gunter
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:24
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  29. This study examines the potential economic and labour market impacts of a hypothetical but plausible migration scenario of 250,000 new migrants inspired by Austria’s experience in 2015. Using the agent-based m...

    Authors: Sebastian Poledna, Nikita Strelkovskii, Alessandra Conte, Anne Goujon, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Michele Catalano and Elena Rovenskaya
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:18
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  30. To care and feel cared for are considered fundamental to what makes us human, and what enables us to live and thrive in this world. Yet for the UK’s asylum-seeking population who is living with uncertainties f...

    Authors: Maria Wardale and Sarah Scuzzarello
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:17
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  36. This article uses 2012–2021 UK survey data to explore differences in subjective well-being (i.e. happiness, anxiety, life satisfaction, and having a worthwhile life) between those born in the UK and foreign-bo...

    Authors: Daisy Pollenne and Carlos Vargas-Silva
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:11
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  37. To describe migration-related phenomena, we need to reflect on the terminology and choose the most adequate one that allows us to determine whether migration is the (main) cause of a phenomenon, a consequence,...

    Authors: Lisa Marie Borrelli and Didier Ruedin
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:10
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  38. This article examines the link between immigrants’ social capital and their labour market access (employment) and success (occupational status) in Germany and contributes to previous research in two ways. Firs...

    Authors: Julia Rüdel and Jan-Philip Steinmann
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:7
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  42. Immigrants are increasingly participating in politics, publicizing their political concerns and contributions. How does such political participation relate to national majorities’ immigration attitudes? Previo...

    Authors: Judit Kende, Julia Reiter, Canan Coşkan, Bertjan Doosje and Eva G. T. Green
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:5
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  43. This article maps from a critical and comparative perspective how scholars at risk are currently being integrated into the European research infrastructure, as well as in various EU and non-EU Member States. T...

    Authors: Dina Gusejnova, Alina Dragolea, Andrea Pető, Andrei-Vlăduț Terteleac, Artemis Photiadou and Rebeka Bakos
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:4
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  46. This study examines the state of migrants’ cultural adaptation in Malaysia, and how such an adaptation can help build our understanding of migrants’ life and employment experiences in the country. In doing so,...

    Authors: Azlizan Mat Enh, Andika Wahab, Arina Anis Azlan, Kartini Aboo Talib, Andi Muhammad Tri Sakti and Fazal Mohamed Mohamed Sultan
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2024 12:1
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  48. For reasons of both electoral competitiveness and democratic legitimacy, political parties in diverse democracies increasingly compete for the votes of immigrant and ethnic minority voters. A considerable lite...

    Authors: Kate McMillan, Fiona Barker and Caleb Hoyle
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2023 11:34
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  49. In a comparison of three human service organisations in which the human body plays a key role, we examine how organisations regulate religious body practices. We concentrate on Muslim norms of dressing and und...

    Authors: Maja Apelt, Annika Koch, Ines Michalowski, Kaspar Molzberger, Liane Schenk and Max Oliver Schmidt
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2023 11:32
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  50. Even if families in migration contexts have been the subject of an increasing amount of attention in migration research in the recent years, there is a noticeable knowledge deficit with regard to current paren...

    Authors: Yasmin Öztürk, Eveline Reisenauer, Laura Castiglioni and Sabine Walper
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2023 11:33
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