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Migration outside large cities: a comparison of the hiring of migrants for the food processing industry in the United States and Japan

Recent studies suggest that the hiring of migrants in the food processing industry has increased the migrant population outside large cities among affluent migrant-receiving countries. This study examines how ...

Authors: Yusuke Mazumi

A place migrants would call home: open-ended constructions and social determinants over time among Ecuadorians in three European cities

Is there a place in particular that international migrants would call home? How do they talk about it, where does it lie, and what characteristics is it expected to have, given their demographics and patterns ...

Authors: Paolo Boccagni, Bernardo Armanni and Cristiano Santinello

Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic

This paper addresses the question of how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the labour market integration support (LMIS) organised for refugees in Austria and Sweden, and the potential consequences of the chan...

Authors: Almina Bešić, Andreas Diedrich and Petra Aigner

Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the context of global migration. From a migration perspective, the pandemic is a source of insecurities that challenge migrants, their livelihoods and migration ...

Authors: Asel Murzakulova, Mengistu Dessalegn and Neelambari Phalkey

Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience

Many of the ‘essential workers’ during the Covid-19 pandemic are migrants, playing an important role for the continued functioning of basic services – notably health services, social care, and food supply chai...

Authors: Bridget Anderson, Friedrich Poeschel and Martin Ruhs

Exploring the trajectories of highly skilled migration law and policy in Japan and the UK

Japan and the UK appear to have few commonalities in terms of their history of and approach to migration law and policy. However, strong similarities in their contemporary approaches can be detected. Migration...

Authors: Daisuke Wakisaka and Paul James Cardwell

The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers

Policies banning women domestic workers from migrating overseas have long been imposed by labour-sending states in the Indo-Pacific region. This article presents the complexities surrounding such bans by devel...

Authors: Richa Shivakoti, Sophie Henderson and Matt Withers

Towards equality: joining forces with arts and culture in the struggle for change in migration societies

There is a tendency in migration research to view artistic and cultural practices of immigrants and their descendants as well as the research of such practices as less relevant for our understanding of migrati...

Authors: Wiebke Sievers

The case for increased centralization in integration governance: the neglected perspective

Local autonomy is a highly promoted feature in European governance, and the integration field is no exception. In the integration literature, values and considerations favoring local autonomy are often emphasi...

Authors: Vilde Hernes

The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sri Lankan migrants in Qatar

The spread of Covid-19 in Qatar and the pandemic-led economic slump in the country have substantial financial implications for Sri Lankan migrant workers in Qatar and the Sri Lankan economy as a whole, as Qata...

Authors: Anoji Ekanayake and Kopalapillai Amirthalingam

Integration, cultural preservation and transnationalism through state supported immigrant organizations: a study of Sweden’s national ethnic associations

This paper explores the activities of Swedish state supported ethnic associations (most of which are immigrant organizations), thus shedding empirical light on how immigrants organize with the help of state su...

Authors: Olle Frödin, Axel Fredholm and Johan Sandberg

The well-being of newly regularized migrant workers: Determinants of their satisfaction with life as compared to undocumented migrant workers and regular local residents

Subjective assessments of well-being are becoming routine indicators, considering that material resources are insufficient to capture people’s satisfaction with life. Examining the unique situation of undocume...

Authors: Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Aline Duvoisin, Liala Consoli, Julien Fakhoury and Yves Jackson

Correction to: Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places

Authors: Susanne Wessendorf and James Farrer

Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia

While party institutionalization research has advanced notably in the recent years, the institutionalization of political parties that extend their organizations abroad (i.e. transnationalizing parties) has re...

Authors: Mari-Liis Jakobson, Tõnis Saarts and Leif Kalev

Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa

Both Uganda and South Africa were quick to respond to the global pandemic – Uganda for example imposing quarantine on foreign travellers after only a handful of cases before shutting off all international flig...

Authors: Khangelani Moyo, Kalyango Ronald Sebba and Franzisca Zanker

Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom

The article examines the migration infrastructures and pathways through which migrants move into, through and out of irregular status in Japan and the UK and how these infrastructures uniquely shape their migr...

Authors: Nando Sigona, Jotaro Kato and Irina Kuznetsova

The impact of partisan politics on migration policies: the case of healthcare provision for refugees by German states

Comparative migration policy research has increasingly dealt with the question of whether partisan differences in government can explain differences between migration policies. The empirical findings, however,...

Authors: Wolfgang Günther, Dennis Kurrek and Annette Elisabeth Töller

The membership of parties abroad: a case study of the UK

Against a long trend decline in the membership of political parties in Western democracies, there has been an unexpected surge in the UK since 2015. Interestingly, this phenomenon has also been observed amongs...

Authors: Susan Collard and Tudi Kernalegenn

Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK

The article deploys the lens of the race-migration nexus (Erel et al., Ethnic and Racial Studies 39:1339–1360, 2016) to compare the racialization of migrants in the UK and Japan. It draws on qualitative data o...

Authors: Špela Drnovšek Zorko and Miloš Debnár

How can we categorise ‘nationality’ and ‘second generation’ in surveys without (re)producing stigmatisation?

Whilst reflexive migration studies have criticised the use of categories such as ‘nationality’ and ‘second generation’ in quantitative research, several gaps on how to develop such reflexivity remain. In quali...

Authors: Milena Chimienti, Eduardo Guichard, Claudio Bolzman and Jean-Marie Le Goff

Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places

In global cities such as London and Tokyo, there are neighbourhoods where ethnic, religious, cultural and other forms of diversity associated with migration are commonplace and others where migrants are regard...

Authors: Susanne Wessendorf and James Farrer

Political parties abroad as actors of transnational politics

This paper argues that parties abroad are the actors of a new arena for citizenship and party politics. The proliferation of overseas voting and the development of representative institutions for emigrants has...

Authors: Emilie van Haute and Tudi Kernalegenn

Accessing the public workforce: Organisational recruitment practices and the inclusion or exclusion of individuals of immigrant origin

Organisations are important gatekeepers in the labour market inclusion of immigrants and their children. Research has regularly documented ethnic discrimination in hiring decisions. Aiming to further our under...

Authors: Christine Lang

Bridging the state and market logics of refugee labour market inclusion – a comparative study on the inclusion activities of German professional chambers

Due to their high numbers, refugees’ labour market inclusion has become an important topic for Germany in recent years. Because of a lack of research on meso-level actors’ influences on labour market inclusion...

Authors: Martina Maletzky de García

How does immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment, and who is affected most? A longitudinal analysis of the UK and Japan cases

Does increasing immigration affect natives’ attitudes towards immigrants? A significant volume of research has been conducted in Western contexts to explore this question. However, we know little about whether...

Authors: Akira Igarashi and James Laurence

Parties beyond national borders: exploring the activities of Israeli political parties abroad

In recent decades it has become a common practice for political parties to have active branches operating outside of their countries. The main reason for this practice is to mobilize potential voters living ab...

Authors: Avital Friedman and Ofer Kenig

Migration and mobility of third-country national labour workers to and inside Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic – a legal analysis

The Covid-19 pandemic took most EU Member States of the European Union by surprise, as they underestimated the rapid spread of the contagion across the continent. The response of the EU Member States was asymm...

Authors: Adolfo Sommarribas and Birte Nienaber

Exchange rates and immigration policy

What explains cross-national and temporal variations in migrant rights? This article argues that policymakers implement more exclusionary or inclusive policies toward migrants in response to exchange-rate fluc...

Authors: Adrian J. Shin

Campaigning across continents: how Latin American parties link up with migrant associations abroad

Emigrant voting rights have opened new electoral arenas, and many political parties increasingly campaign across borders. Yet relatively little is known about the challenges parties confront when campaigning t...

Authors: Nicolas Fliess

EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: a new conceptual framework

Challenges of weak economic growth, population decline, and labour shortages led many countries across the world to introduce immigration policy changes in order to attract foreign migrants. This paper focuses...

Authors: Helena Hof, Simon Pemberton and Emilia Pietka-Nykaza

Reframing ‘integration’: acknowledging and addressing five core critiques

Empirical and theoretical insights from the rich body of research on ‘integration’ in migration studies have led to increasing recognition of its complexity. Among European scholars, however, there remains no ...

Authors: Sarah Spencer and Katharine Charsley

Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK

There is an urgent need to expand the scale and scope of refugee resettlement schemes, and yet country approaches to resettlement vary markedly and there is little cross-country learning from approaches and re...

Authors: Jenny Phillimore, Linda Morrice, Kunihiko Kabe, Naoko Hashimoto, Sara Hassan and Marisol Reyes

Street-level workers, managers and institutional tensions: a comparative ethnography of healthcare practices of in/exclusion in three Italian public organisations

Public organisations are fundamental actors in migrant incorporation processes, as they are in charge of assessing migrants’ entitlement and providing access to welfare services. While a lot has been written o...

Authors: Roberta Perna

Seeking asylum in Scandinavia: a comparative analysis of recent restrictive policy responses towards unaccompanied afghan minors in Denmark, Sweden and Norway

This article investigates recently imposed restrictions in the asylum regimes in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The purpose of the paper is twofold. First, we aim to identify general changes in asylum policies an...

Authors: Marianne Garvik and Marko Valenta

Addressing seeming paradoxes by embracing them: small state theory and the integration of migrants

This article examines the integration of migrants in Luxembourg within the framework of small state theory. Within the comparative scholarship on migration, small states are often presented as “success stories...

Authors: Thomas Kolnberger and Harlan Koff

Correction to: A comparative study of parental knowledge and adaptation of immigrant youth

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Elina Turjanmaa and Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti

An organizational approach to the Philippine migration industry: recruiting, matching and tailoring migrant domestic workers

This article analyses how organizations shape migration trajectories. More specifically, by looking at the Philippine migration industry, this ethnographic research highlights how organizations such as recruit...

Authors: Julien Debonneville

Party expats? Mapping transnational party branches of French, German and UK parties

Today many parties interact with members and supporters outside their national borders. One way parties do so is by establishing transnational party branches. However so far, there is a lack of theoretical and...

Authors: Felix-Christopher von Nostitz

How migrants manifest their transnational identity through online social networks: comparative findings from a case of Koreans in Germany

Although migration has long been an imperative topic in social sciences, there are still needs of study on migrants’ unique and dynamic transnational identity, which heavily influences the social integration i...

Authors: Sunyoung Park and Lasse Gerrits

How do borders influence migration? Insights from open and closed border regimes in the three Guianas

The ways border regimes affect migration patterns remain ambiguous. Closed borders may constrain migration but also encourage migrants to pursue alternative migration channels and destinations. While open bord...

Authors: Simona Vezzoli

British and Japanese international retirement migration and creative responses to health and care challenges: a bricolage perspective

Most research on international retirement migration has focused on the Western context and the motivations and lifestyle choices of migrants when they are healthy. This paper instead explores how British retir...

Authors: Kelly Hall, Mayumi Ono and Ayako Kohno

A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework

This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding of human mobility as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social change. In order to achieve a more meaningful unde...

Authors: Hein de Haas

The integrative force of political institutions? Direct democracy and voter turnout across ethnic and nativity groups

Much has been written on the positive effect of direct democracy (initiatives, referendums) on voter turnout. However, we have limited knowledge about potential differential effects on voters belonging to vari...

Authors: Anita Manatschal

Shaping migration at the border: the entangled rationalities of border control practices

This article analyses how border guards as members of a state organisation shape the movement of non-nationals into the territory of a nation state. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the Swiss Border Guard (S...

Authors: Christin Achermann

Regular matters: credibility determination and the institutional habitus in a Swiss asylum office

This article seeks to understand a common and regular feature of asylum decision-making, namely, that the majority of asylum claims are rejected, mostly on the basis of non-credibility. It draws on a bottom-up...

Authors: Laura Affolter

“By women, for women, and with women”: on the integration of highly qualified female refugees into the labour Markets of Berlin and Brandenburg

This article focuses on the labour market integration of highly qualified female refugees in cosmopolitan Berlin and smaller towns in the county of Brandenburg. Based on interviews with civil society organisat...

Authors: Felicitas Hillmann and Burcu Toğral Koca

Governing displaced migration in Europe: housing and the role of the “local”

This article will explore the extent to which a focus on the ‘local’ can tell us something meaningful about recent developments in the governance of displaced migrants and refugees. Taking a multi-sited approa...

Authors: Nasar Meer, Claudio Dimaio, Emma Hill, Maria Angeli, Klara Oberg and Henrik Emilsson

The aporia of refugee rights in a time of crises: the role of brokers in accessing refugee protection in transit and at the border

Many refugees fleeing from persecution across borders, find navigating the refugee registration system extremely complicated. In many border spaces, destination or transit countries, the difficult registration...

Authors: Sara Riva and Gerhard Hoffstaedter

Immigration in the populist crucible: comparing Brexit and Trump

The successful Brexit referendum and the election of Trump in 2016 mark the breakthrough of populism in the West. Opposition to immigration has been central to both events. However, it has been central in diff...

Authors: Christian Joppke

Vielfalt and diversité: how local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity

In both Germany and France, perceptions of immigration, diversity and their societal consequences have undergone important transformations in the past two decades. However, existing research has only partially...

Authors: Maria Schiller, Christine Lang, Karen Schönwälder and Michalis Moutselos