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Migration, Development, Gender and the ‘Black Box’ of Remittances: Comparative Findings from Albania and Ecuador

Set within the growing literature on migration and development, this paper has two interlinked objectives. First, it examines remittances, a key element of the migration-development nexus, from a gendered pers...

Authors: Russell King, Diana Mata-Codesal and Julie Vullnetari

Comparisons in Migration Studies

The paper presents and critically discusses the different types of comparison developed in migration studies with a special attention to European literature. It then identifies missing topics and issues to be ...

Authors: Marco Martiniello

Immigrants and civil rights in cross-national perspective: Lessons from North America

The degree to which a nation envisions civil rights as applying to all residents offers insight into its commitment to and capacity for immigrant inclusion. A much-debated question is whether there is a trend tow...

Authors: Irene Bloemraad and Doris Marie Provine

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...

Authors: Mathias Czaika

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...

Authors: Christopher Cochrane

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 ‘venue-shopping’, that is, the move by national policy-makers to a new EU pol...

Authors: Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard and Ulrike Hoffmann

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...

Authors: Alex Street

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...

Authors: Karen Phalet, Mieke Maliepaard, Fenella Fleischmann and Derya Güngör

Comparative Migration Studies: an introduction

Authors: Sawitri Saharso and Peter Scholten

Traditions of Nationhood or Political Conjuncture?

If migration studies in the 1990s were marked by the predominance of the “national models” approach, the early 2000s have seen an increasing rebuttal to this approach. This paper contributes to the debate by e...

Authors: Elke Winter

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...

Authors: Harald Bauder

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...

Authors: Holger Kolb

Beyond National Models?

This comparison of Canada and Germany focuses on a particular dimension of these countries’ respective approaches to governing migration and integration. It is guided by a key conceptual assumption: Cities and...

Authors: Oliver Schmidtke

Shifting Up and Back

During the last decade, Canada’s immigration and citizenship policies have been radically transformed. Hardly any aspect has been left untouched. That humanitarian migration has also been restricted and transf...

Authors: Dagmar Soennecken

Lessons from Canada and Germany

Authors: Harald Bauder, Patti Tamara Lenard and Christine Straehle

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...

Authors: Valsamis Mitsilegas

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...

Authors: Jan Claudius Völkel

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 ‘civic integration abroad’ policies. Its e...

Authors: Saskia Bonjour

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...

Authors: Emanuela Paoletti

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...

Authors: Amy Lutz, Yaël Brinbaum and Dalia Abdelhady

Special Symposium of Comparative Migration Studies

Authors: Christian Kaunert and Sarah Léonard

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...

Authors: Ernesto Castañeda, Maria Cristina Morales and Olga Ochoa

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...

Authors: Linda Bakker, Godfried Engbersen and Jaco Dagevos

‘This is My Home’

Considerations about return are a persistent dimension of identity work in migrant populations. The question of where and what constitutes ‘home’ for migrants is central to understanding processes of integrati...

Authors: Marta Bivand Erdal

Migrants’ 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...

Authors: Özge Bilgili

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...

Authors: Masja van Meeteren, Godfried Engbersen, Erik Snel and Marije Faber

Transnationalism in a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction

Authors: Godfried Engbersen, Linda Bakker, Marta Bivand Erdal and Özge Bilgili

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...

Authors: Claudia Finotelli

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...

Authors: Alessio Cangiano

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...

Authors: Camilla Devitt

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...

Authors: Ester Salis