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  1. This paper analyzes the role of border fortifications for migration control and access to asylum based on two case studies: the Hungarian–Serbian and U.S. American–Mexican borders. The research is based on qua...

    Authors: Kristina Korte
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2023 11:29
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  3. 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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  4. Enquiry into the factors which impact on ‘integration’ requires clarity on the nature of the integration processes in which individuals are engaged, the intersection of those processes and the factors that may...

    Authors: Sarah Spencer and Katharine Charsley
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:18
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  5. 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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  6. 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
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2015 2:2020151
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  9. The European Union (EU) faces challenges that affect its persistence, including the revival of national populism in many EU member states. Studies have shown that individuals with immigration histories identif...

    Authors: Beatriz Matafora, Johanna Fee Ziemes and Hermann J. Abs
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2023 11:25
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  10. Muslims and immigrants have both been subjected to negative attitudes over the past several decades in Europe. Using data from the European Values Study, this study analyses the changes in these attitudes in t...

    Authors: David Andreas Bell, Marko Valenta and Zan Strabac
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2021 9:57
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  11. There is scarce empirical evidence on the relation between migration and child health in Moldova and Georgia—two post-Soviet countries with large out-migration flows in the region. This study uses nationally r...

    Authors: Victor Cebotari, Melissa Siegel and Valentina Mazzucato
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2018 6:3
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  12. 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
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2021 9:22
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  17. 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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  18. This research wishes to contribute to the understanding of the migration policy regime of the European Union (EU ... current political framework, the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM). Applying an ...

    Authors: Martine Brouillette
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2018 6:5
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  19. 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
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2015 1:1010097
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  20. 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
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2015 2:2010077
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  21. Italy and Spain, as countries of recent immigration and high irregularity rates, have struggled to adapt their statistical system, especially their population registers, to adequately reflect the presence of a...

    Authors: Inmaculada Serrano Sanguilinda, Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Amparo González Ferrer, Stefania Maria Lorenza Rimoldi and Gian Carlo Blangiardo
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:17
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  22. Although research on return migration is growing, little is known about returnees’ plans and attitudes regarding further migration. This article contributes to the filling of this knowledge gap by studying the...

    Authors: Olga Czeranowska, Violetta Parutis and Agnieszka Trąbka
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2023 11:28
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Comparative Migration Studies 2023 11:35

  24. Africa is often seen as a continent of mass migration and displacement caused by poverty, violent conflict and environmental stress. Yet such perceptions are based on stereotypes rather than theoretically info...

    Authors: Marie-Laurence Flahaux and Hein De Haas
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:1
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  25. 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
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2015 2:2030335
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  27. Research on international student migration has been burgeoning, leading to a more nuanced understanding of international students whose experiences were, for many years, conceptualised in a rather limited way...

    Authors: Cosmin Nada, Josef Ploner, Christof Van Mol and Helena C. Araújo
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2023 11:26
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  28. 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
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2015 2:2010057
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  29. 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
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2015 1:1010123
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  30. This paper focuses on the intra-EU movement of young adults from Finland, Poland, and Spain who have settled, short- or long-term, in London and its wider region. In our comparative analysis, we find that the 46 ...

    Authors: Saara Koikkalainen, Aija Lulle, Russell King, Carmen Leon-Himmelstine and Aleksandra Szkudlarek
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2022 10:26
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  31. 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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  33. In a number of recent articles migration has been used as a ‘natural experiment’, which can give insights into the general mechanisms of attitude formation. Studies from the field of psychology, however, sugge...

    Authors: Troels Fage Hedegaard and Hidde Bekhuis
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2018 6:9
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  34. This article compares the pre- and post-migration labour market position of recent migrants to the Netherlands from Poland and Bulgaria. Previously it has been hypothesized that migrants loose job-status due t...

    Authors: Marcel Lubbers and Mérove Gijsberts
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:22
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  36. 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

  39. 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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  40. This special issue of Comparative Migration Studies on the occasion of the IMISCOE 2021 Conference with the theme “Crossing borders, connecting cultures” features five invited contributions by several conference ...

    Authors: Birte Nienaber, Nicole Holzapfel-Mantin and Gabriele Budach
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2023 11:7
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Comparative Migration Studies 2023 11:21

  41. 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
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2015 2:2030361
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  42. This article argues that power struggles between judiciaries and executives are fuelled by tensions of securitisation, border control and human rights over the issue of irregular migration. The article juxtapo...

    Authors: Marinella Marmo and Maria Giannacopoulos
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:16
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  43. Family migration policy, once basing citizens and resident foreigners’ possibilities to bring in foreign family members mainly on the right to family life, is increasingly a tool states use to limit immigratio...

    Authors: Emily Cochran Bech, Karin Borevi and Per Mouritsen
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:7
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  44. The COVID-19 health crisis has put to the test Latin America’s already precarious social protection systems. This paper comparatively examines what type of social protection has been provided, by whom, and to ...

    Authors: Marcia Vera Espinoza, Victoria Prieto Rosas, Gisela P. Zapata, Luciana Gandini, Alethia Fernández de la Reguera, Gioconda Herrera, Stephanie López Villamil, Cristina María Zamora Gómez, Cécile Blouin, Camila Montiel, Gabriela Cabezas Gálvez and Irene Palla
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2021 9:52
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  45. Migrants’ aspirations are a meaningful and under-appreciated research subject. My paper investigates their development and implications over the life course, building on an archive of life stories of immigrant...

    Authors: Paolo Boccagni
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:4
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  47. 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
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2015 2:2010029
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  48. The current era of globalization is accompanied by vulnerabilities of migrants at their destination. Although such cases possibly shape the vulnerabilities of migrant-sending households through the network of ...

    Authors: Linger Ayele and Terefe Degefa
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2022 10:30
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  49. 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
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2015 2:2040493
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