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Moving beyond normative philosophies and policy concerns: a sociological account of place-based solidarities in diversity

In this commentary, I think with and beyond the normative philosophies and policy-oriented frameworks on how to deal with diversity in contemporary societies formulated by Zapata-Barrero and Modood. I propose ...

Authors: Stijn Oosterlynck

Multiculturalism and interculturalism: redefining nationhood and solidarity

Theoretical and normative approaches regarding the question of diversity and integration, such as multiucluturalims and interculturalims compete in an attempt to redefine citizenship and nationhood. Most analy...

Authors: Riva Kastoryano

Moving the debate forward: interculturalism’s contribution to multiculturalism

In this article, we compare Ricard Zappata-Barrero’s interculturalism with Tariq Modood’s multiculturalism. We will discuss the relation between distinct elements that compose both positions. We examine how re...

Authors: François Boucher and Jocelyn Maclure

Is the post-multicultural era pro-diversity?

This commentary discusses the claim of Zapata-Barrero that Western countries have historically entered a ‘post multicultural’ phase, in which the emergence of the intercultural policy paradigm must be placed. ...

Authors: Tamar de Waal

Introduction: mapping the multiculturalism-interculturalism debate

Since the 1970s multiculturalist policies that recognize and accommodate ethnocultural diversity have been implemented across western democracies. However, the tide seems to have changed: a ‘backlash against m...

Authors: François Levrau and Patrick Loobuyck

Towards a new way of interacting? Pondering the role of an interpersonal ethos

Both multiculturalism and interculturalism strive for the creation of a well-ordered society in which the integration of all citizens is realized. This shared ambition, however, can only be realized if the qua...

Authors: François Levrau

War of words: interculturalism v. multiculturalism

This article tackles the relationship between interculturalism and multiculturalism from the points of view of both. Interculturalism owes its existence to a critique of multiculturalism, but of highly distort...

Authors: Christian Joppke

Playing the safe card or playing the race card? Comparison of attitudes towards interracial marriages with non-white migrants and transnational adoptees in Sweden

This article compares the attitudes of white Swedes towards interracial marriages with someone of non-white migrant origin and a non-white transnational adoptee. The analysis is based on a postal survey and fo...

Authors: Sayaka Osanami Törngren

A migration effect? Comparing the acculturation of Russian migrant populations in Western Europe to Russians in three former soviet countries on attitudes towards government responsibility

In a number of recent articles migration has been used as a ‘natural experiment’, which can give insights into the general mechanisms of attitude formation. Studies from the field of psychology, however, sugge...

Authors: Troels Fage Hedegaard and Hidde Bekhuis

Segmented socioeconomic adaptation of New Eastern European professionals in the United States

This study examines the socioeconomic adaptation of post-1991 Eastern European professionals in the United States. The data were obtained from the pooled 2006–2010 American Community Surveys. The analysis incl...

Authors: Nina Michalikova

Ethnicity and nationality among Ethiopians in Canada’s census data: a consideration of overlapping and divergent identities

This article addresses the intersection of ‘homeland’ politics and diaspora identities by assessing whether geopolitical changes in Ethiopia affect ethno-national identifications among Ethiopian-origin populat...

Authors: Daniel K. Thompson

From forced migration to forced arrival: the campization of refugee accommodation in European cities

In the aftermath of large refugee arrivals in 2015, EU regulations and national asylum laws were tightened, especially those regarding reception and accommodation. The current contribution introduces the conce...

Authors: René Kreichauf

From discourse to practice: the circulation of norms, ideas and practices of migration management through the implementation of the mobility partnerships in Moldova and Georgia

This research wishes to contribute to the understanding of the migration policy regime of the European Union (EU), by considering an analytical perspective that privileges the standpoint of the countries of it...

Authors: Martine Brouillette

Rethinking immigration policy theory beyond ‘Western liberal democracies’

How do political systems shape immigration policy-making? Explicitly or implicitly, comparative politics and migration policy theories suggest a ‘regime effect’ that links specific dynamics of immigration poli...

Authors: Katharina Natter

Migration and child health in Moldova and Georgia

There is scarce empirical evidence on the relation between migration and child health in Moldova and Georgia—two post-Soviet countries with large out-migration flows in the region. This study uses nationally r...

Authors: Victor Cebotari, Melissa Siegel and Valentina Mazzucato

Continuity and change in local immigrant policies in times of austerity

European cities are increasingly being recognised for the role they play in devising and implementing their own migration, integration and diversity policies. Yet very little is known about the local dimension...

Authors: Maria Schiller and Sarah Hackett

International remittances, cash transfer assistance and voter turnout in Mexico

Most research on the political consequences of international migration conceptualizes financial remittances as being a substitute for state-provided assistance. This paper tests the actual validity of this ass...

Authors: Ana Isabel López García

Sampling immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany

This paper discusses the limitations of harmonised sampling designs for survey research on immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands. Although the concepts for immigrants are largely similar in both countries,...

Authors: Kurt Salentin and Hans Schmeets

Early tracking and immigrant optimism: a comparative study of educational aspirations among students in disadvantaged schools in Sweden and the Netherlands

Educational tracking affects both the trajectories and the composition of peers that students meet in school. This study compares the effect of significant others on students’ educational aspirations within tw...

Authors: Olav Nygård

Two logics of policy intervention in immigrant integration: an institutionalist framework based on capabilities and aspirations

The effectiveness of immigrant integration policies has gained considerable attention across Western democracies dealing with ethnically and culturally diverse societies. However, the findings on what type of ...

Authors: Philipp Lutz

Trajectories of emigrant quasi-citizenship: a comparative study of Mexico and Turkey

In two of the busiest migration corridors of the twentieth century, namely Mexico-US and Turkey-Germany, migrants can today be dual citizens. However, the acceptance of dual citizenship did not occur automatic...

Authors: Rusen Yasar

Surveying immigrants in Southern Europe: Spanish and Italian strategies in comparative perspective

Italy and Spain, as countries of recent immigration and high irregularity rates, have struggled to adapt their statistical system, especially their population registers, to adequately reflect the presence of a...

Authors: Inmaculada Serrano Sanguilinda, Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Amparo González Ferrer, Stefania Maria Lorenza Rimoldi and Gian Carlo Blangiardo

Cycles of judicial and executive power in irregular migration

This article argues that power struggles between judiciaries and executives are fuelled by tensions of securitisation, border control and human rights over the issue of irregular migration. The article juxtapo...

Authors: Marinella Marmo and Maria Giannacopoulos

Must Interculturalists misrepresent multiculturalism?

Statements of and advocacy for interculturalism always seems to begin with a critique of multiculturalism and aspire to offer a new and alternative paradigm of diversity and citizenship. With particular refere...

Authors: Tariq Modood

Interculturalism in the post-multicultural debate: a defence

The main purpose of this article is to formulate a defence of the emerging intercultural policy paradigm for the benefit of those who are still somewhat reluctant to accept its proper place within the current ...

Authors: Ricard Zapata-Barrero

Intercultural policy in times of crisis: theory and practice in the case of Turin, Italy

In this article we analyse how interculturalism, intended as a new paradigm of immigrant integration policies, has been taking shape in an Italian city, i.e. Turin, in the context of the current economic crisi...

Authors: Tiziana Caponio and Davide Donatiello

Managing crime through migration law in Australia and the United States: a comparative analysis

This article examines the intertwining of migration law and criminal law — termed ‘crimmigration’ by scholars — in Australia and the United States of America, and its implications for non-citizens who engage i...

Authors: Khanh Hoang and Sudrishti Reich

Have the Olympic Games become more migratory? A comparative historical perspective

It is often believed that the Olympic Games have become more migratory. The number of Olympic athletes representing countries in which they weren’t born is thought to be on the rise. It should, however, be not...

Authors: Joost Jansen and Godfried Engbersen

Thank You Reviewers!

The Board of Comparative Migration Studies would like to use this opportunity to thank our reviewers for their continued support. Their expertise and hard work as a reviewer is invaluable to us and has helped ...

Authors: Karin Milovanovic-Hanselman

The civic turn of immigrant integration policies in the Scandinavian welfare states

This special issue addresses the question of how to understand the civic turn within immigrant integration in the West towards programs and instruments, public discourses and political intentions, which aim to...

Authors: Karin Borevi, Kristian Kriegbaum Jensen and Per Mouritsen

Surveillance and prayer – comparing Muslim prison chaplaincy in Germany’s federal states

Moving beyond approaches that emphasise the influence of national ideologies and transnational frameworks on the governance of religious diversity in Western Europe, recent scholarship has underlined the impor...

Authors: Lisa Harms-Dalibon

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

The civic integrationist turn in Danish and Swedish school politics

The civic integrationist turn usually refers to the stricter requirements for residence and citizenship that many states have implemented since the late 1990’s. But what of other policy spheres that are essent...

Authors: Christian Fernández and Kristian Kriegbaum Jensen

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