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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

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