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  1. It is clear that the field of migration studies has grown significantly over the past decades. What is less known is how this growth has taken place. This article combines bibliometric metadata with expert int...

    Authors: Nathan Levy, Asya Pisarevskaya and Peter Scholten
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:24
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:29

  2. This paper contributes to the migration studies literature by a comparative analysis of local migration diversity governance in large, mid-sized and small cities, analysing the broader scope of the local dimen...

    Authors: Ilona van Breugel
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:23
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  3. The reception of asylum seekers in Italy has become an increasingly contentious issue: many actors, public and private, are involved at various levels of government, and cooperative behaviour cannot be taken f...

    Authors: Francesca Campomori and Maurizio Ambrosini
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:22
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  6. This paper reviews new evidence on the trends and patterns of migration between Africa and Europe since the mid-1970s, and discusses their congruency with the changing context of migration policy. Using data f...

    Authors: Cris Beauchemin, Marie-Laurence Flahaux and Bruno Schoumaker
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:19
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  7. This article focuses on the interest and ability to acquire destination country nationality among non-EU-born adults in six European countries. While a sizeable literature has emerged on nationality policies a...

    Authors: Thomas Huddleston
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:18
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  8. With about 2.7 million nationals residing elsewhere in the European Economic Area, Poland was the second largest country of origin of all intra-European migrants in 2018. After the country’s accession to the E...

    Authors: Oleksandr Ryndyk
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:17
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  11. This paper argues that perceptions towards asylum seekers are shaped by both media representation as well as lived experiences in and around asylum accommodation. Drawing on Lefebvre’s spatial triad, the paper...

    Authors: Marielle Zill, Bas Spierings and Ilse Van Liempt
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:16
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  13. In various European cities urban authorities and local stakeholders are exploring ways to tackle challenges arising from recent refugee flows. A central concern is the social integration of refugees: how to co...

    Authors: Rilke Mahieu and Rut Van Caudenberg
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:12
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  16. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century and after two turning point events – 09-11 terrorist attacks and the ‘Arab spring’ – both migration control and democracy promotion became central issues within ...

    Authors: Luisa Faustini-Torres
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:9
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  17. Water scarcity and management of this problem are increasingly acknowledged in development policies as well as in adaptation and migration discourse. In South Mediterranean countries, insufficient water suppli...

    Authors: Karolina Sobczak-Szelc and Naima Fekih
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:8
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  20. Historically, minority status has been linked with visibility as a non-White person, and such phenotypical visibility has marked people in terms of racial stigmas and discrimination. But definitions and claims...

    Authors: Miri Song
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:5
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  21. This article explores the different memorial strategies of the civil society associations and the public authorities in Mali through various practices and discourses of the International Migrant Day around the...

    Authors: Almamy Sylla and Susanne U. Schultz
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:4
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  22. After repeated failed attempts to reform its dysfunctional internal architecture, the external dimension has become the real cornerstone of the EU’s migration strategy, with the Mediterranean as its main geogr...

    Authors: Ferruccio Pastore and Emanuela Roman
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:2
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  23. Studies demonstrate that both group status and geographic location influence media coverage of immigrants, ethnic groups, and marginalized communities. We examine a systematic sample of headlines about Muslims...

    Authors: Hasher Nisar and Erik Bleich
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2020 8:3
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  26. Social protection refers to resources and strategies to deal with social risks, such as poverty or obligations and needs of care, which might impede the realization of life chances and well-being. Previous res...

    Authors: Başak Bilecen, Karolina Barglowski, Thomas Faist and Eleonore Kofman
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:47
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  27. The article highlights international dimensions of the emergence and transformation of migration policies in Turkey from the early 2000s onwards, including the context of the Syrian displacement, which made Tu...

    Authors: Ayşen Üstübici
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:46
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  29. The phenomenon of families separated across continents is a result of migratory flows in a globalised world. Transnational families occur because one or both parents migrate internationally requiring children ...

    Authors: Allen White, Bilisuma B. Dito, Angela Veale and Valentina Mazzucato
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:44
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  32. This paper looks at how migrants with different skill profiles make use of their education in order to avoid unemployment compared with natives in three European countries with significantly different labour m...

    Authors: Héctor Cebolla-Boado, María Miyar-Busto and Jacobo Muñoz-Comet
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:41
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  33. This introduction to the special issue provides a critical state-of-the-art of the literature on second-generation migrants which has hitherto subsumed the case of the children of refugees. It highlights the t...

    Authors: Milena Chimienti, Alice Bloch, Laurence Ossipow and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:40
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  34. Our paper focuses on current trends in refugee migration and job polarization. In so doing, we assess the role of refugee migration in relation to institutional, technologicalty 1 and globalization factors in ...

    Authors: Lars Fredrik Andersson, Rikard Eriksson and Sandro Scocco
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:39
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  35. In recent years, forcibly displaced populations have attracted enormous media attention as an increasing number of disasters and political conflicts push more and more people to move away from their homes and ...

    Authors: Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:38
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  36. In the original publication of this article (Mouthaan, 2019), the last section heading has been processed incorrectly as ‘List of interviews’ instead of ‘Conclusion’. The original publication of this article h...

    Authors: Melissa Mouthaan
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:37
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:35

  38. Drawing on interviews conducted in Brussels, Dakar and Accra between September 2017–March 2018, this paper discusses the responses of domestic policy actors to the EU’s migration policy proposals in the two We...

    Authors: Melissa Mouthaan
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:35
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:37

  40. This paper investigates how social dimensions of life in local communities are affected by the long-term presence of Congolese refugees in Rwanda, paying particular attention to feelings of safety, social netw...

    Authors: Veronika Fajth, Özge Bilgili, Craig Loschmann and Melissa Siegel
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:33
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  41. This is a rejoinder to the responses made to my paper ‘Against “immigrant integration”: For an end to neocolonial knowledge production’, which was based on my book Imagined Societies. A Critique of Immigrant Inte...

    Authors: Willem Schinkel
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:32
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  46. Starting from the idea that border externalization – understood as the spatial and institutional stretching of borders – is enmeshed with the highly contextual humanitarian and securitarian dynamics of migrant...

    Authors: Nanneke Winters and Cynthia Mora Izaguirre
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:27
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  47. Malta, an island-state, limits the mobility of non-deportable, rejected asylum seekers who want to leave due to the lived consequences of disintegration. Stripped of any legal entitlements non-deportable refug...

    Authors: Sarah Nimführ and Buba Sesay
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:26
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  50. In the original publication of this article (Penninx, 2019), an incorrect version of Figure 1 has been published. In this Correction the incorrect and correct version of the figure are shown. The original publ...

    Authors: Rinus Penninx
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:23
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Comparative Migration Studies 2019 7:13

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