Articles

‘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

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

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

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