Articles

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

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