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Cubans in the United States and Spain: The Diaspora Generational Divide

Authors	Susan Eckstein, Mette Louise Berg
Year	2015
Journal Name	Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
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32701 Journal Article

The Newest Polish New Yorkers: A Social and Demographic Profile

Year	2015
Journal Name	Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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32702 Journal Article

Undocumented Immigration and Human Trafficking**The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas or the Federal Reserve System.

Year	2015
Book Title	Handbook of the Economics of International Migration
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32703 Book Chapter

Migration, religion and work in comparative perspective. Evangelical ‘ethnic churches’ in Southern Europe

Description	How do Evangelical migrants use religion and church-related networks to seek employment, pursue social mobility, construct respectability and resist racism? How do Evangelical churches become ‘brokers’ of socio-economic integration of their members thus stakeholders in immigration countries? These are the main questions that this project seeks to answer. MIGRANTCHRISTIANITY investigates how migrant men and women from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America make use of a minority religion in negotiating their social and economic integration in Europe. The project focuses on Ghanaian and Ecuadorian migrants in Italy and Spain. I investigate how migrants develop strategies of integration through the Evangelical churches and how such strategies are shaped by ethnicity, class, gender and age. I also look at how Evangelical churches act as ‘brokers’ of integration, in relation to employment but also with reference to a wider social positioning of the migrant as a ‘minority Christian’. In doing so, the research contributes to our understanding of the role of religion in migrants’ integration or marginalisation and of how migration is reconfiguring the Italian and Spanish societies through the production of new understandings of Christianity: these churches challenge the Catholic majority religion as well as dominant views of migrant religion as Islam only. The MIGRANTCHRISTIANITY project brings together two hitherto separate strands of research: that on migrant labour and ethnicity on the one hand, and that on migration and religion, more specifically on migration-driven Evangelical churches, on the other.
Year	2015
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32704 Project

Socialist Mobilities: Crossing New Terrains in Vietnamese Migration Histories

Year	2015
Journal Name	Central and Eastern European Migration Review
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32705 Journal Article

Mussolini’s Mobilities

Authors	Matteo Pretelli
Year	2015
Journal Name	Journal of Migration History

32706 Journal Article

The Religious Aspects of Diasporic Experience of Muslims in Europe within the Crisis of Multiculturalism

Authors	Driss Habti
Year	2014
Journal Name	Policy Futures in Education
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32707 Journal Article

“Enemy Territory”: Immigration Enforcement in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Authors	Walter A. Ewing
Year	2014
Journal Name	Journal on Migration and Human Security
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32708 Journal Article

Diaspora Institutions and Diaspora Governance

Authors	Alan Gamlen
Year	2014
Journal Name	International Migration Review
Citations (WoS)	62

32709 Journal Article

Migration Profile: Afghanistan 2014

Year	2014
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32710 Book

International Migration, Vol. 52(4) 2014

Year	2014
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32711 Book

Migration in Seychelles: A Country Profile 2013

Year	2014
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32712 Book

Forced Migrants or Voluntary Exiles: Ethnic Turks of Bulgaria in Turkey

Authors	Cem Dişbudak, Semra Purkis
Year	2014
Journal Name	JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION

32713 Journal Article

Emigration and diaspora policies in Belarus

Authors	Andrei YELISEYEU
Description	In the first half of the 1990s, Belarus saw large migration flows, which since then have become considerably more moderate. The main destination countries for Belarusian emigrants are Russia, Poland, Germany, the US, and Canada. Over the last decade, temporary labour migration of Belarusians to the European Union has remained rather limited. At the same time labour migration flows of Belarusians towards Russia have increased. Belarus is a highly centralized state with regional authorities playing a marginal role in elaborating state policies, including in emigration matters. In order to curb emigration, Belarus authorities have resorted to the adoption of laws that discourage mobility. Taking into account growing labour shortages, the state policy to attract immigrants has been largely ineffective. At the same time, by September 2014 Belarus had reportedly hosted more than 25,000 Ukrainian migrants as a result of the military conflict in the Donbass region. Diaspora policy in Belarus is largely incoherent and selective. The long-awaited diaspora law is set to be adopted soon, but it fails to take into account the aspirations of diaspora members.
Year	2014
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32714 Report

Policy and institutional frameworks : country report Serbia

Authors	Vladimir PETRONIJEVIC
Description	In Serbia, migration, and particularly labour migration, has been of little importance to state institutions and the public. However, migration management has become important in the context of European integration. Unfortunately, Serbia still lacks independent migration studies at its universities. The lack of interest among the Serbian academic community has been reflected in a muddled national policy approach towards Serbian emigration and the diaspora. Although there have been improvements in the legal and strategic framework, the implementation of these acts and the results of these policies are still missing. In 2009, as part of the visa liberalisation between Serbia and the EU, the Serbian Government adopted the Migration Management Strategy. The Migration Management Strategy was followed by the Law on Migration Management, adopted in November 2012. The public debate in Serbia is now more focused on obstacles related to the recognition of foreign diplomas. Highly-skilled returnees are faced with very expensive and long procedures for diploma recognition. Although readmission has become very important during the EU integration process, returnees are still faced with obstacles in the reintegration process.
Year	2014
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32715 Report

The economics of international migration: A short history of the debate

Authors	Timothy J. Hatton
Year	2014
Journal Name	LABOUR ECONOMICS

32716 Journal Article

Bolivia : diaspora and emigration policies

Authors	Alfonso HINOJOSA GORDONOVA, Leonardo DE LA TORRE AVILA
Description	Is immigration on the Bolivian political agenda? If we only analyze the official census figures and focus on laws, decrees and public policy initiatives, we should probably answer ‘no’. However, as we shall see, we have to consider another reality after integrating various statistical estimates that increase official numbers and after acknowledging the work of some governmental departments as well as non-governmental social research and advocacy organizations and Bolivian migrants associations abroad. To understand the difference in the response to migration questions in Bolivia, we now present the policy and institutional foundations on which the immigration debate is held in Bolivia. Some public policy, civil right defense and research initiatives have been proposed and established, but these initiatives would be best judged after considering how much political and economic support they will receive in future.
Year	2014
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32717 Report

Spatial-Temporal Analysis on Migration of Chinese Registered in Japan

Authors	Changping Zhang
Year	2014
Journal Name	JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION

32718 Journal Article

Comparison of Eating Habits in Obese and Non-obese Filipinas Living in an Urban Area of Japan

Authors	Chu Hyang Oh, Emiko Saito
Year	2014
Journal Name	JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT AND MINORITY HEALTH
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32719 Journal Article

Return migration: Evidence from a reception country with a short migration history

Year	2014
Journal Name	European Urban and Regional Studies
Citations (WoS)	1
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32720 Journal Article

Unpacking Refugee Community Transnational Organizing: The Challenges and Diverse Experiences of Colombians in Canada

Authors	P. Riano-Alcala, L. Goldring
Year	2014
Journal Name	REFUGEE SURVEY QUARTERLY

32721 Journal Article

Split Return: Transnational Household Strategies in Afghan Repatriation

Authors	Kristian Berg Harpviken
Year	2014
Journal Name	International Migration

32722 Journal Article

The political participation of immigrants in host countries : an interpretative framework from the perspective of origin countries and societies

Authors	Ricard ZAPATA-BARRERO, Lorenzo GABRIELLI, Elena SÁNCHEZ-MONTIJANO, ...
Description	The main goal of the present position paper is to create an interpretative framework for the role of origin countries and societies in influencing the political participation of immigrants. Considering that we are opening a new line of research within the literature on political participation of immigrants and integration, we first consider the more classic methodological approaches in this field: this is to understand better any gaps. Second we consider other fields in the literature, namely diaspora policies and transnational politics. This is to allow a deeper identification of the influence of the countries and societies of origin. Then, we map state and non-state actors implicated in the countries of origin, their strategies, and how they overcome difficulties in their actions. On the one hand, we consider state actors’ strategies and interactions with emigrants, both in conventional and unconventional forms of political participation: as well as the issue of external voting, as a paradigmatic example of conventional political participation towards origin countries. On the other hand, we look at non-state actors and their strategies to influence migrant political participation, both towards origin and destination countries. In parallel, we introduce some relevant case studies underlining and exemplifying the role and the impact of origin countries’ actors on the political participation of migrants, both in their host and home countries. Afterwards, we propose a framework to interpret the relations between the different actors in origin countries and migrants in the field of political participation. Finally, we identify gaps in scientific knowledge that deserve to be covered in the next steps of the Interact project, we point out the key factors influencing migrants’ political participation that deserve more research, and we set out the specific questions to fill gaps in our knowledge of those interactions.
Year	2014
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32723 Report

The political participation of immigrants in host countries : an interpretative framework from the perspective of origin countries and societies

Authors	Ricard ZAPATA-BARRERO, Lorenzo GABRIELLI, Elena SÁNCHEZ-MONTIJANO, ...
Description	The main goal of the present position paper is to create an interpretative framework for the role of origin countries and societies in influencing the political participation of immigrants. Considering that we are opening a new line of research within the literature on political participation of immigrants and integration, we first consider the more classic methodological approaches in this field: this is to understand better any gaps. Second we consider other fields in the literature, namely diaspora policies and transnational politics. This is to allow a deeper identification of the influence of the countries and societies of origin. Then, we map state and non-state actors implicated in the countries of origin, their strategies, and how they overcome difficulties in their actions. On the one hand, we consider state actors’ strategies and interactions with emigrants, both in conventional and unconventional forms of political participation: as well as the issue of external voting, as a paradigmatic example of conventional political participation towards origin countries. On the other hand, we look at non-state actors and their strategies to influence migrant political participation, both towards origin and destination countries. In parallel, we introduce some relevant case studies underlining and exemplifying the role and the impact of origin countries’ actors on the political participation of migrants, both in their host and home countries. Afterwards, we propose a framework to interpret the relations between the different actors in origin countries and migrants in the field of political participation. Finally, we identify gaps in scientific knowledge that deserve to be covered in the next steps of the Interact project, we point out the key factors influencing migrants’ political participation that deserve more research, and we set out the specific questions to fill gaps in our knowledge of those interactions.
Year	2014
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32724 Report

Reviews

Authors	Kelsey P. Norman, Sara Marino
Year	2014
Journal Name	Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture
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32725 Journal Article

What Are “Reverse Diasporas” and How Are We to Understand Them?

Authors	Christin Hess
Year	2014
Journal Name	Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
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32726 Journal Article

European emigration governance - emigration and diaspora policies and discourses in the post-crisis era

Description	The project breaks new ground in the study of migration governance by looking at the so-called immigration countries from the perspective of emigration governance. The main underlying theme of this research is that emigration and immigration are two sides of the same coin and thus European migration governance should be approached from two angles to understand its full dimension. European Union is in fact still a region of emigration, with majority of flows staying within its boundaries, but important numbers leaving EU every year. Following the current global trends emigrants should be perceived as a potential asset. ÉMIGRÉ analyses emigration and diaspora policies of four EU Member States (UK, France, Spain and Poland) as well as EU-level responses to emigration to understand what are the drivers of the emigration governance in Europe and how the policies actually work. Key objectives are: 1) To close the knowledge gap on migration from the EU. 2) To enrich international migration governance studies by providing comparative analysis of actions of EU States in regards to emigration management, over time. 3) To ask what is the relation between State identity formation/shifts and success of policy learning/policy transfer processes between levels of governance. 4) To contribute to evidence-based policy making at the EU level. The project focuses especially on EU emigration to other OECD countries and in particular Canada. It employs a wide range of interdisciplinary methods to collect and analyse data. It also offers an intensive training programme.
Year	2014
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32727 Project

Immigration in the post -accession Poland

Year	2014
Journal Name	Trends in the World Economy
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32728 Journal Article

Migration and Diversity

Authors	Steven Vertovec
Year	2014
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32729 Book

“Even If the Only Thing for Me to Do Here Was to Milk Cows”: Portuguese Emigrant Descendant Returnees from Canada Narrate Pre-return Desires and Motivations

Authors	João Sardinha
Year	2014
Journal Name	Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
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32730 Journal Article

Readmission, return and reintegration : legal framework in the Republic of Azerbaijan

Authors	Alovsat ALIYEV
Description	Azerbaijan did not adopt any legal acts that would specifically deal with reintegration. In various normative acts one can only find some norms related to reintegration of certain groups of people. Thus, for instance, according to the Law “On combat against human trafficking”, social rehabilitation of human trafficking victims aims to encourage their integration into society and their return to normal life. It envisages measures aimed at providing legal assistance, educational opportunities, psychological, medical and professional rehabilitation, employment and housing1 . The Law “On the status of refugees and forced migrants (persons forced to move to the country)” creates conditions in which refugees can adapt to the local environment, undergo naturalization, learn the language and learn about their rights and obligations2 . As for immigrants, Azerbaijani legislation offers them an opportunity to study the Azerbaijani language, as well as the Constitution and laws of Azerbaijan
Year	2013
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32731 Report

Some aspects of ukrainian legislative reform relating to combating against human trafficking

Authors	Lyudmila DAVYDOVYCH, Valentina SUBOTENKO
Description	The issue of combat against human trafficking is very pressing for Ukraine, just like for most postSoviet countries. As it is indicated in the Migration Profile of Ukraine compiled in 2011 by Ukrainian migration experts based on research and on statistical data provided by Ukrainian national authorities and international specialists in the field of migration, Ukraine is primarily a state of origin for human trafficking victims1. Ukraine is also a country of transit for foreigners who became human trafficking or smuggling victims on their way to other countries, primarily Turkey or United Arab Emirates, from Moldova, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.The issue of combat against human trafficking is very pressing for Ukraine, just like for most postSoviet countries. As it is indicated in the Migration Profile of Ukraine compiled in 2011 by Ukrainian migration experts based on research and on statistical data provided by Ukrainian national authorities and international specialists in the field of migration, Ukraine is primarily a state of origin for human trafficking victims1. Ukraine is also a country of transit for foreigners who became human trafficking or smuggling victims on their way to other countries, primarily Turkey or United Arab Emirates, from Moldova, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.The issue of combat against human trafficking is very pressing for Ukraine, just like for most postSoviet countries. As it is indicated in the Migration Profile of Ukraine compiled in 2011 by Ukrainian migration experts based on research and on statistical data provided by Ukrainian national authorities and international specialists in the field of migration, Ukraine is primarily a state of origin for human trafficking victims1. Ukraine is also a country of transit for foreigners who became human trafficking or smuggling victims on their way to other countries, primarily Turkey or United Arab Emirates, from Moldova, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.The issue of combat against human trafficking is very pressing for Ukraine, just like for most postSoviet countries. As it is indicated in the Migration Profile of Ukraine compiled in 2011 by Ukrainian migration experts based on research and on statistical data provided by Ukrainian national authorities and international specialists in the field of migration, Ukraine is primarily a state of origin for human trafficking victims1. Ukraine is also a country of transit for foreigners who became human trafficking or smuggling victims on their way to other countries, primarily Turkey or United Arab Emirates, from Moldova, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.The issue of combat against human trafficking is very pressing for Ukraine, just like for most postSoviet countries. As it is indicated in the Migration Profile of Ukraine compiled in 2011 by Ukrainian migration experts based on research and on statistical data provided by Ukrainian national authorities and international specialists in the field of migration, Ukraine is primarily a state of origin for human trafficking victims1. Ukraine is also a country of transit for foreigners who became human trafficking or smuggling victims on their way to other countries, primarily Turkey or United Arab Emirates, from Moldova, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
Year	2013
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32732 Report

Russian policy : emigration and diaspora

Authors	Vladimir MUKOMEL
Description	Russia is a country attracting migrants, migration policy is focused on the immigration and labour migration, the challenges of emigration are considered minor. In the 1990s emigration was conceptualized as a “brain drain” problem and the main goal of the migration policy was the restraint of the outflow of the high-qualified personnel. In the 2000s, due to the decrease of the emigration, the major aim is seen as return of emigrants, though the mechanisms of its implementation have not been created.
Year	2013
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32733 Report

Emigration and diaspora in Belarus

Authors	Anastacia BOBROVA
Description	emigration policy, unlike policy with regards to immigration, still needs refinement. Policy with regards to emigrants, just as in case of diaspora, is still to large extent theory-, rather than practice-oriented. The same is not true for the current immigration policy. Unlike previous programs, the current one implies not only assistance in settlement of immigrants and their integration into Belarusian society, but also a differentiated approach to migrants’ categories, based on national interests. This means that, first of all, one of the measures is to develop target-oriented regional programs, aimed at migrant influx to the geographic areas experiencing workforce deficit. Second, preference is given to persons under the age of 40 and having higher or secondary education. Besides, the Department of Citizenship and Migration of the Ministry of Interior identified countries from where migration is desirable: Ukraine, Russia, Baltic and CIS countries with Russian-speaking population, as well as undesirable donor countries: Africa and most of South East Asia
Year	2013
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32734 Report

Shedding light on the South

Year	2013
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32735 Book

Migration and development within the South: New evidence from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries

Year	2013
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32736 Book

International Migration, Vol. 51(5) 2013

Year	2013
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32737 Book

Integration and reintegration in CARIM-East countries

Authors	Alexandru STRATAN, Galina SAVELYEVA, Vera KOTELNIK, ...
Description	Policy in the field of migrants’ integration is a relatively new task for practically all CARIM-East countries. Integration has an impact upon demography, including the composition and structure of the country’s population, namely gender ratio, mortality, marriage structure, birth rate, ageing etc. While integrating into society migrants become a part of the same, which affects the demographic security of the recipient country. As was noted above, integration is a twofold process, i.e. it is linked both to the adaptation of migrants and the adaptation of the recipient society [16]. If one takes Russia as an example of a recipient country, then, in the first half of the 1990s, its actions were primarily directed towards assistance to refugees and forced migrants from the former USSR republics, most of whom were ethnic Russians in need of economic, social and household integration: assistance in getting housing, jobs, and legal status. In the late 1990s and the early 2000s the situation changed: forced migration gradually gave way to large-scale labor migration from practically all CIS countries and this, of course, required a drastic change in policy. The absence of migrants’ integration policy increases their social exclusion and segregation. This absence make them vulnerable to different forms of rights violations, labor and other types of exploitation, even extreme forms of violence, such as forced labor and human trafficking: all of these, it should be noted, are to be found in CARIM-East countries.
Year	2013
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32738 Report

Building Democracy or Reproducing 'Ecuadoreanness'? A Transnational Exploration of Ecuadorean Migrants' External Voting

Authors	Paolo Boccagni, Jacques Ramirez
Year	2013
Journal Name	Journal of Latin American Studies
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32739 Journal Article

Migrant integration models in modern Russia

Authors	Vladimir IONTSEV, Irina IVAKHNYUK
Description	The work here is of both a theoretical and an applied character. The authors pay particular attention to understanding what the integration of migrants means and how it corresponds to the terms assimilation and adaptation. They also offer a classification of complete and partial integration. For Russia, the paper retraces how the disregard of migrant integration in the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s was gradually replaced – after a delay – by an understanding that these were closely interrelated spheres of State activities. This was particularly true for a country like Russia, which annually receives millions of migrants, both for permanent and temporary stays. The experience of Russia clearly demonstrates that the dissociation of the State from this important sphere of internal policy leads to ethnic tension, erosion of tolerance in society, alienation of migrants from Russian society, self-isolation, and open conflicts between migrants and local residents. Therefore, now that the integration of migrants has been understood to be an important issue in Russia, the elaboration and realization of the policy of integration of migrants is complicated by an extremely unfavorable atmosphere of xenophobia and a politically-loaded perception of migration. The Russian policy of migrant integration is evaluated in respect of the most privileged category of immigrants: Russian “compatriots”. The adaptation policy of temporary labour migrants is analyzed in the context of the Russian State’s 2012 initiatives. The authors also argue out the integration and the anti-integration potential of ethnic diasporas when – as in present-day Russia – the infrastructure for the admission and integration of migrants has not been properly developed.
Year	2013
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32740 Report

Feeding the Beast: Nourishing Nativist Appeals in Sweden and in Denmark

Authors	Anders Hellström, Peter Hervik
Year	2013
Journal Name	Journal of International Migration and Integration
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32741 Journal Article

Latino studies/Latinidades – Under construction …

Authors	Lourdes Torres
Year	2013
Journal Name	LATINO STUDIES
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32742 Journal Article

Cohesion without participation: immigration and migrants' associations in Italy

Authors	Claudia Mantovan
Year	2013
Journal Name	PATTERNS OF PREJUDICE
Citations (WoS)	4
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32743 Journal Article

Muslim immigrants and the Greek nation: The emergence of nationalist intolerance

Authors	Anna Triandafyllidou, Hara Kouki
Year	2013
Journal Name	Ethnicities
Citations (WoS)	15
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32744 Journal Article

“Whom should We Help First?” Transnational Helping Practices in Ecuadorian Migration

Authors	Paolo Boccagni
Year	2013
Journal Name	International Migration

32745 Journal Article

“Smuggled Refugees”: The Social Construction of North Korean Migration

Authors	Jiyoung Song
Year	2013
Journal Name	International Migration

32746 Journal Article

Returnees' Perspectives on Their Re‐migration Processes

Authors	Ine Lietaert, Ilse Derluyn, Eric Broekaert
Year	2013
Journal Name	International Migration

32747 Journal Article

Approaches to the Afro-Colombian Experience in Chile

Authors	Jimena Silva Segovia, Marcelo Lufin
Year	2013
Journal Name	JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES

32748 Journal Article

Transforming Migration: Transnational Transfer of Multicultural Habitus

Description	How do migrants develop the competence to successfully operate within a new society, and will these newly acquired intercultural skills and attitudes transfer between individuals and geographical locations? Can migration, and to what extent, trigger a shift towards more tolerance and respect for ethnic and cultural diversity in the countries sending migrants? And how are these effects mediated by particular conditions? These are the questions the TRANSFORmIG project seeks to answer by investigating recent massive migration between Poland and Great Britain and Germany. The ‘Polish case’ is highly instructive because of diametrically opposed contexts between which the transnational migrants regularly ‘switch’: Britain and Germany are characterized by a level and kind of multi-cultural complexity that is unknown to immigrants from Poland which is recognized as one of the most ethnically homogeneous country in the world. The TRANSFORmIG project puts the hypothesis that contact with diversity – socializing with people of diverse backgrounds – leads to (a positive) change of attitudes both among migrants and their peer groups in the communities of origin, and that these effects are mediated by the particular configurations and representations of diversity. The TRANSFORmIG project entails interdisciplinary, multi-method research in selected localities in Great Britain, Germany and Poland. Spanning sociology, anthropology, history and media studies, the project investigates with the help of a longitudinal qualitative study, individual and group interviews, ethnography and discourse analysis how people’s attitudes and skills to act in diverse societies change over time and in dependence with historical and contemporary conditions. Findings will significantly advance social scientific understanding of the processes of transnational transfer of values and attitudes and the spread of intercultural competences under the condition of growing diversification of societies.
Year	2013
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32749 Project

Family Migration, Marriage and Integration

Description	Family migration in general, and more specifically migration for the purpose of family formation, has become one of the most important forms of immigration to European countries. Consequently, family migration and family formation receive increasing attention, particularly in the field of migrant integration. This is reflected not only in recently introduced programmes in many countries which link admission and integration, but also in examining the role of the family in integration processes. For example, bi-national or inter-ethnic marriages and partnerships can be understood as an expression of successful integration, assuming that these relations require a high level of intercultural interaction, social contacts outside their own group and the acceptance of different values. Existing literature indicates that this and similar conclusions are much too simplistic and refers to the variety of considerations, motives and ambitions that influence partner choices. Particularly in German-speaking countries, the state of knowledge on partner choice, marriage and family formation patterns of migrants is poorly understood. Existing studies are often limited to specific aspects of the phenomenon, such as "forced marriages" or "arranged marriages", which neglect a comprehensive analysis and an informed debate on the impact of these patterns on the integration of third country nationals in general. Objectives of the study: The study will examine: • marriage patterns and motives in major immigrant groups in Austria over time; • the effects of changing marriage patterns and marriage structures on the integration characteristics of immigrant spouses and their children in Austria; • whether integration policies support the needs of immigrant spouses and their children; • options for policy development in the respective areas.
Year	2013
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32750 Project

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