Articles

A ‘civic turn’ in Scandinavian family migration policies? Comparing Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Family migration policy, once basing citizens and resident foreigners’ possibilities to bring in foreign family members mainly on the right to family life, is increasingly a tool states use to limit immigratio...

Authors: Emily Cochran Bech, Karin Borevi and Per Mouritsen

Does citizenship always further Immigrants’ feeling of belonging to the host nation? A study of policies and public attitudes in 14 Western democracies

Immigrants’ access to citizenship in their country of residence is increasingly debated in Western democracies. It is an underlying premise of these debates that citizenship and national belonging are closely ...

Authors: Kristina Bakkær Simonsen

Scandinavian exceptionalism? Civic integration and labour market activation for newly arrived immigrants

Since the late 1990s, a wide range of so-called new civic integration policies aimed at civilizing or disciplining newcomers have been introduced. Consequently, migration scholars have discussed whether a conv...

Authors: Karen N. Breidahl

The commodification of mobile workers in Europe - a comparative perspective on capital and labour in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden

One of the defining features of contemporary Europe is the freedom of movement of persons. Despite its advantages, this ‘freedom of movement’ is also contested, since it has been shown to cause discrimination,...

Authors: Mark van Ostaijen, Ursula Reeger and Karin Zelano

Aspirations and the subjective future of migration: comparing views and desires of the “time ahead” through the narratives of immigrant domestic workers

Migrants’ aspirations are a meaningful and under-appreciated research subject. My paper investigates their development and implications over the life course, building on an archive of life stories of immigrant...

Authors: Paolo Boccagni

Surveying immigrants without sampling frames – evaluating the success of alternative field methods

This paper evaluates the sampling methods of an international survey, the Immigrant Citizens Survey, which aimed at surveying immigrants from outside the European Union (EU) in 15 cities in seven EU countries....

Authors: David Reichel and Laura Morales

Comparing the labour market position of Poles and Bulgarians before and after migration to the Netherlands

This article compares the pre- and post-migration labour market position of recent migrants to the Netherlands from Poland and Bulgaria. Previously it has been hypothesized that migrants loose job-status due t...

Authors: Marcel Lubbers and Mérove Gijsberts

Deconstructing the meanings of and motivations for return: an Afghan case study

Return migration after conflict is the result of a complex decision-making process. However, our understanding of this complexity is blurred by changing politicized understandings of return. In this paper, we ...

Authors: Marieke Van Houte, Melissa Siegel and Tine Davids

The economic side of social remittances: how money and ideas circulate between Paris, Dakar, and New York

This paper shows how economic remittances undergird the circulation of social remittances between New York, Paris, and Dakar. It compares the transnational practices of Senegalese-born migrants living in Franc...

Authors: Ilka Vari-Lavoisier

Do migrants adopt new political attitudes from abroad? Evidence using a multi-sited exit-poll survey during the 2013 Malian elections

In this article, we examine whether migration experience provides an opportunity for Malian migrants to learn and adopt new political values and norms, and whether this translates into different attitudes towa...

Authors: Lisa Chauvet, Flore Gubert and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Social remittances and the changing transnational political landscape

The term “social remittances” was coined over fifteen years ago to capture the notion that, in addition to money, migration also entails the circulation of ideas, practices, skills, identities, and social capi...

Authors: Thomas Lacroix, Peggy Levitt and Ilka Vari-Lavoisier

Irregular status, territorial confinement, and blocked transnationalism: legal constraints on circulation and remittances of Senegalese migrants in France, Italy, and Spain

This paper explores the link between legal status and transnational engagement through the lenses of territorial confinement and blocked transnationalism. We hypothesize that irregular legal status results bot...

Authors: Erik R. Vickstrom and Cris Beauchemin

Geographies of external voting: the Tunisian elections abroad since the 2011 Uprising

This contribution draws on the developing literature on the participation of citizens’ abroad in elections of their country of origin. It looks at Tunisia as a case study. Although it focuses on a single case ...

Authors: Thibaut Jaulin

Financial remittances, trans-border conversations, and the state

How does the reception of remittances change the views of those left behind? In this paper, we compare the impact of financial remittances (transmission of money) with the impact of social remittances (transmi...

Authors: Covadonga Meseguer, Sebastián Lavezzolo and Javier Aparicio

Empowering to engage with the homeland: do migration experience and environment foster political remittances?

This article investigates the drivers and mechanisms of emigrants’ electoral and nonelectoral political engagement with their homeland. Our analysis concentrates on the diverse experiences of Polish migrants i...

Authors: Anar K. Ahmadov and Gwendolyn Sasse

Conceptualising integration: a framework for empirical research, taking marriage migration as a case study

Enquiry into the factors which impact on ‘integration’ requires clarity on the nature of the integration processes in which individuals are engaged, the intersection of those processes and the factors that may...

Authors: Sarah Spencer and Katharine Charsley

Bridging the qualitative-quantitative divide in comparative migration studies: newspaper data, and political ethnography in mixed method research

Newspaper data are popular in Comparative Migration Studies as they allow diachronic and cross-national comparison and are relatively easy and inexpensive to acquire. Critics, however, warn that newspaper data...

Authors: Liza M. Mügge

Erratum to: Why liberal nationalism does not resolve the progressive’s trilemma: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”

Authors: Rainer Bauböck

Why liberal nationalism does not resolve the progressive’s trilemma: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”

Authors: Rainer Bauböck

Rejoinder from sociability to solidarity: reply to commentators

Authors: Will Kymlicka

Floating populations, civic stratification and solidarity: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”

Authors: Godfried Engbersen

The ties that blind us - the hidden assumptions in the ‘new progressive’s dilemma’: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”

Authors: Nasar Meer

The Question of Solidarity and Society: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”

Authors: Nina Glick Schiller

Liberalism not Neo-Liberalism: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”

Authors: Adrian Favell

Introduction to the special issue: “Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism”:

Authors: Rainer Bauböck and Peter Scholten

Eurocity London: a qualitative comparison of graduate migration from Germany, Italy and Latvia

This paper compares the motivations and characteristics of the recent migration to London of young-adult graduates from Germany, Italy and Latvia. Conceptually the paper links three domains: the theory of core...

Authors: Russell King, Aija Lulle, Francesca Conti and Dorothea Mueller

Pragmatism, moral responsibility or policy change: the Syrian refugee crisis and selective humanitarianism in the Turkish refugee regime

Authors: Umut Korkut

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...

Authors: Marie-Laurence Flahaux and Hein De Haas

Enlightened Understanding, Empowerment and Leadership - Three Ways to Enhance Multiculturalism: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”

Authors: Hanspeter Kriesi

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...

Authors: Will Kymlicka

Definitional Debates, Mechanisms and Canada: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”

Authors: Irene Bloemraad

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...

Authors: Hein de Haas, Katharina Natter and Simona Vezzoli

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

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...

Authors: Barbara Laubenthal

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

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...

Authors: Ferruccio Pastore

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 children’s educational pathways. On the one hand, the focus on family involvement and the tr...

Authors: Philipp Schnell, Rosita Fibbi, Maurice Crul and Martha Montero-Sieburth

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 ...

Authors: Rosita Fibbi and Jasmine Truong

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...

Authors: Sara Rezai, Maurice Crul, Sabine Severiens and Elif Keskiner

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...

Authors: Laure Moguérou and Emmanuelle Santelli

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...

Authors: Philipp Schnell

“Is it Merit or Cultural Capital?” 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...

Authors: Elif Keskiner

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 immigrants’ rights policies to set out their broader agenda of immigrant integration. First, citizenship acquisition ...

Authors: Thomas Huddleston and Maarten P Vink

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...

Authors: Henrik Emilsson

Toward an improved understanding of immigrant adaptation and transnational engagement: the case of Cuban Émigrés 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...

Authors: Zoua M Vang and Susan E Eckstein

Beyond opportunity structures: explaining migrant protest in Western Europe, 1975–2005

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...

Authors: Oliver Strijbis

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, ...

Authors: Michaella Vanore and Melissa Siegel

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...

Authors: Arnfinn H Midtbøen

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...

Authors: Christine Brickenstein

Trade unions, immigration and immigrants in Europe revisited: Unions’ 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 unions’ attitudes and actions ...

Authors: Stefania Marino, Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad