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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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

Transnationalism in a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction

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

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

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

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 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

Special Symposium of Comparative Migration Studies

Authors: Christian Kaunert and Sarah Léonard

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

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

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

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

Lessons from Canada and Germany

Authors: Harald Bauder, Patti Tamara Lenard and Christine Straehle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comparative Migration Studies: an introduction

Authors: Sawitri Saharso and Peter Scholten

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