Research-policy relations

Research-policy relations, also known as   knowledge-governance relations refer to all aspects of the interaction between migration research and policy making. This includes research on knowledge production for the sake of policy development, how knowledge is used in policy processes, and how relations between researchers, knowledge brokers, and policy actors are structured, both formally and informally.

Studies listed under this topic include literature on research-policy dialogues, cross-national differences in research-policy relations, migration policy analyses, and knowledge utilisation studies.

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Research-Policy Dialogues on Migrant Integration in Europe: Comparison and Conclusions

Authors Han Entzinger, Peter Scholten, Rinus Penninx
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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1 Book Chapter

Politicization and expertise: Changing research-policy dialogues on migrant integration in Europe

Authors P. Scholten, S. Verbeek
Year 2015
Journal Name Science and Public Policy
Citations (WoS) 3
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2 Journal Article

Research-Policy Relations and Migration Studies

Authors Peter Scholten
Book Title Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies
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3 Book Chapter

Research-Policy Dialogues in the Netherlands

Authors Han Entzinger, Stijn Verbeek, Peter Scholten
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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4 Book Chapter

Integrating Immigrants in Europe

Authors Han Entzinger, Peter Scholten, Rinus Penninx, ...
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Research-Policy Dialogues in the European Union

Authors Marthe Achtnich, Andrew Geddes
Year 2015
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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7 Book Chapter

Research-Policy Dialogues in Austria

Authors Maren Borkert
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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8 Book Chapter

DIAMINT: Science-society dialogues on migration and integration in Europe

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DIAMINT is an international research cluster that studies science-society dialogues on migration and integration in Europe. Focusing on various European countries, as well as on the EU and local levels, , it aims to reconstruct how science-society dialogues on these contested topics have evolved and how these dialogues have shaped the understanding of migration and integration. The DIAMINT cluster was awarded the status of Standing Committee in the IMISCOE Research Network in 2014. Before, DIAMINT led an international comparative research project on Science-Society Dialogues on Migrant Integration, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. APPROACH The DIAMINT cluster connects literatures of policy sciences, science studies and migration studies. Knowledge production in the field of migrant integration research. Dialogue structures, or the various institutionalized or non-institutionalized ways in which science-society dialogues are configured Knowledge utilization in the fields of migrant integration policymaking, politics and civil society.
Year 2012
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A framework for understanding cross-national differences in the relationship between research and policy

Authors Roger Henke
Year 2001
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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10 Journal Article

Policy Analysis and Europeanization: An Analysis of EU Migrant Integration Policymaking

Authors Andrew Geddes, Peter Scholten
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
Citations (WoS) 2
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11 Journal Article

(De)constructing Expertise: Comparing Knowledge Utilization in the Migrant Integration "Crisis"

Authors Tiziana Caponio, Alistair Hunter, Stijn Verbeek
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
Citations (WoS) 6
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12 Journal Article

Research-Policy Dialogues in Denmark

Authors Martin Bak Jørgensen
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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13 Book Chapter

Mysteries of dialogue: From mysticism towards reality

Authors Juozas Zilionis
Year 2007
Journal Name LOGOS-VILNIUS
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14 Journal Article

Naar meer evidence-based beleid binnen JenV

Authors Universiteit Twente Saxion University of Applied Sciences WODC, R. Torenvlied,, H.F de Boer,, ...
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Het ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid (JenV) ziet kennis als een onmisbaar kompas voor een goed onderbouwd en effectief beleid. Een betere kennisbenutting leidt tot de verbetering van bestaand en nieuw beleid. In 2017 wordt daarom op het ministerie van JenV aangegeven dat de strategische kennisfunctie bij het ministerie zou moeten worden versterkt. De boodschap is helder: kennismanagement en kennisinnovatie, sturen op kennisbenutting en kennisontwikkeling, moeten (meer) aandacht krijgen binnen het ministerie van JenV. Het doel van het onderhavige onderzoek is om een beeld te krijgen in welke mate het werken en het beleid binnen JenV ‘evidence-based’ en/of ‘evidence-informed’ is. De hoofdvraag van het onderzoek luidt: in hoeverre kan het werken en beleid binnen het ministerie van JenV worden gekarakteriseerd als ‘evidence-based’ en welke institutionele- en contextfactoren zijn hierop van invloed?
Year 2022
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Research-Policy Dialogues in Poland

Authors Mikołaj Pawlak
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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18 Book Chapter

Research-policy relations and migration studies

Year 2018
Book Title Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies.
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19 Book Chapter

Research-policy dialogues in the Netherlands

Year 2015
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues.
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20 Book Chapter

Research-Policy Dialogues on Migration and Integration in Europe

Authors Rinus Penninx, Peter Scholten
Year 2009
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21 Policy Brief

FRAMING IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION: DUTCH RESEARCH – POLICY DIALOGUES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Authors Shauna Wilton
Year 2012
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
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23 Journal Article

Framing Immigrant Integration: Dutch Research-Policy Dialogues in Comparative Perspective

Authors Mante Vertelyte
Year 2014
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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24 Journal Article

Research-policy dialogues on migrant integration in Europe: comparison and conclusions.

Year 2015
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues
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25 Book Chapter

Multisystem-Involved Youth: A Developmental Framework and Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice

Authors Sarah Vidal, Christian M. Connell, Dana M. Prince, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name ADOLESCENT RESEARCH REVIEW
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27 Journal Article

Irregular Migration: Research, Policy and Practice, COMPAS, Annual International Conference, July 7–8, 2005

Authors Emma Newcombe
Year 2005
Journal Name International Migration Review
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28 Journal Article

Social justice for sex workers as a ‘politics of doing’: Research, policy and practice

Authors Sharron FitzGerald, Maggie O’Neill, Gillian Wylie
Year 2020
Journal Name Irish Journal of Sociology
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29 Journal Article

Research-policy dialogues on migrant integration in Europe: a conceptual framework and key questions.

Year 2015
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues
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30 Book Chapter

Mentoring and other educational support for children of immigrants: research, policy relevance, and good practice

Authors Jens Schneider
Year 2023
Book Title Research Handbook on Migration and Education
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31 Book Chapter

The research‐policy nexus: the case of unauthorised Mexico–US migration and US policy responses

Authors Philip Martin
Year 2009
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 2
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32 Journal Article

Research Policy and Review 30. How to Add Value to Migration Data from the 1991 Census

Authors P H Rees
Year 1989
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Citations (WoS) 1
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34 Journal Article

Immigrant Children and Child Welfare in the United States: Demographics, Legislation, Research, Policy, and Practice Impacting Public Services

Authors Sonia C. Velazquez, Alan J. Dettlaff
Year 2011
Journal Name Child Indicators Research
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35 Journal Article

Speaking Truth to Power? Why Civil Society, Beyond Academia, Remains Marginal in EU Migration Policy

Authors Ann Singleton
Book Title Integrating Immigrants in Europe
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36 Book Chapter

The School Climate Initiative

Principal investigator Filip Kachnic (Principal Investigator)
Description
The School Climate Initiative is a project-based non-governmental activity initiated by Mr. Filip Kachnic. Its establishment has been inspired by the Czech scholar Comenius and commenced in June 2020 to commemorate his 350th death anniversary. It´s aim is to build communication channels between research and policy-makers in the area of migration. The School Climate Initiative is made possible by two non-governmental organizations, company entities and private donors. Please consider to support collection of data in schools: https://www.f-nadace.cz/en/filip-kachnic-research/ (tax-deductable donations)
Year 2020
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The School Climate Initiative

Principal investigator Filip Kachnic (Principal Investigator)
Description
The School Climate Initiative is a project-based non-governmental activity initiated by Mr. Filip Kachnic. Its establishment has been inspired by the Czech scholar Comenius and commenced in June 2020 to commemorate his 350th death anniversary. It´s aim is to build communication channels between research and policy-makers in the area of migration. The School Climate Initiative is made possible by two non-governmental organizations, company entities and private donors. Please consider to support collection of data in schools: https://www.f-nadace.cz/en/filip-kachnic-research/ (tax-deductable donations)
Year 2020
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The Global School Climate Initiative

Principal investigator Filip Kachnic (Principal Investigator)
Description
The Global School Climate Initiative (GSCI) is a project-based non-governmental activity initiated by Mr. Filip Kachnic. Its establishment has been inspired by the Czech scholar Comenius and commenced in June 2020 to commemorate his 350th death anniversary. It´s aim is to build communication channels between research and policy-makers in the area of migration. The primary long-term goal is expertise dissemination from Israeli academic institutions. The School Climate Initiative is made possible by two non-governmental organizations, company entities and private donors. Please consider to support collection of data in multicultural schools: https://www.f-nadace.cz/en/filip-kachnic-research/ (tax-deductable donations)
Year 2020
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Human trafficking for sex, labour and domestic servitude: how do key trafficking types compare and what are their predictors?

Authors Ella Cockbain, Kate Bowers
Year 2019
Journal Name Crime, Law and Social Change
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41 Journal Article

A note on migratory dynamics

Authors George P. Richardson, John D. Sterman
Year 1988
Journal Name SYSTEM DYNAMICS REVIEW
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42 Journal Article

Can White allyship contribute to tackling ethnic inequalities in health? Reflections on the experiences of diverse young adults in England

Authors Stephanie Ejegi-Memeh, Sarah Salway, Victoria McGowan, ...
Year 2023
Citations (WoS) 2
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44 Journal Article

Researching illegality and labour migration

Authors Bridget Anderson, Martin Ruhs
Year 2010
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 44
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45 Journal Article

Support Services for Immigrant and Refugee Women of Color Domestic Violence Survivors: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Barriers

Authors Cecilia Mengo, Julianna Nemeth, Brieanne Beaujolais, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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46 Journal Article

A Strategy Typology: Unearthing How U.S.-Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits Contribute to Immigrant Inclusion Outcomes

Authors Zayda Sorrell-Medina
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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47 Journal Article

Migration research and migration policy making: a study of Australia, the Philippines, and Thailand

Authors R Iredale, T Turpin, C Hawksley
Year 2004
Journal Name International Social Science Journal
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48 Journal Article

Poverty in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit (LGBTQ2S+) populations in Canada: an intersectional review of the literature

Authors Hannah Kia, Jenna Mackay, Lori E. Ross, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name JOURNAL OF POVERTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Citations (WoS) 17
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49 Journal Article

Im/migrant Well-Being Part I: The Impact of Immigration Laws and Enforcement Measures

Authors Elizabeth Aranda
Year 2023
Citations (WoS) 1
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50 Journal Article

Off-Colour Landscape: Framing Race Equality in Sport Coaching

Authors Alexandra J. Rankin-Wright, Kevin Hylton, Leanne Norman
Year 2016
Journal Name SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT JOURNAL
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51 Journal Article

Integration in Canada: A systematic review of the youth experience

Authors Lily Kaufmann
Year 2021
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Citations (WoS) 10
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52 Journal Article

Sport for development and peace: a call for transnational, multi-sited, postcolonial feminist research

Authors Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst
Year 2016
Journal Name QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN SPORT EXERCISE AND HEALTH
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53 Journal Article

Die IAB brain-drain Daten

Description
Die IAB Datenerhebung zur internationalen Migration wurde im Rahmen des TEMPO Projekts (TEmporary Migration, integration and the role of POlicies) durchgeführt. Das Projekt wurde von NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe) finanziert. Hierbei handelt es sich um einen europäischen Zusammenschluss von 15 Forschungseinrichtungen mit dem Ziel das Wissen über die Ursachen und Wirkungen der internationalen Migration zu erweitern. Spezielle Schwerpunkte enthalten Forschung zur temporären Migration, Integration von Migranten und Migrationspolitik. Das IAB war verantwortlich für den Aufbau eines Makrodatensatzes zur internationalen Migration für 20 OECD-Zielländer nach Geschlecht, Herkunftsland und Bildungsstand, für die Jahre 1980 bis 2010 (5-Jahres-Intervalle). Die oben genannte Datenerhebung wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit Abdeslam Marfouk (ULB, Brüssel) durchgeführt.
Year 1980
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54 Data Set

Towards a universal declaration on internet rights and freedoms?

Authors Andrea Pettrachin
Year 2018
Journal Name International Communication Gazette
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56 Journal Article

European Smart Citizens as Decision Makers Rather Than Data Providers

Authors Nicola Delvino
Description
On November 14th 2016 the Urban Transformations programme, funded by the ESRC, kicked off the first knowledge exchange activity[1] by bringing together academics and practitioners in the research/policy field of urban transformations from all over Europe. This workshop was the first of a series entitled Bridging European Urban Transformations that has been established in partnership between the Urban Transformations programme led by the University of Oxford at COMPAS and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), particularly with the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies. In this post-Brexit era, commitment and willingness to cooperate seems more important than ever before. Therefore, the workshop series, which runs from November 2016 to October 2017, emphasises the value of connections between institutions and key players in the field of urban transformations in the UK and in the rest of Europe
Year 2016
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The IAB brain-drain data

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The IAB data collection on international migration has been carried out within the framework of the TEMPO project (TEmporary Migration, integration and the role of POlicies), a European project financed by NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe), a partnership of 15 research councils established to increase cooperation in research and research policy in Europe. The project has the goal of extend the knowledge of the causes and consequences of international migration with particular focus on themes like temporary migration, migrants’ integration, and migration policies. The IAB has been in charge of building a macro-dataset on international migration to 20 OECD destination countries by gender, country of origin and educational level, for the years 1980-2010 (5 years intervals). The above data collection has been carried out in cooperation with Abdeslam Marfouk (ULB, Brussels).
Year 1980
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58 Data Set

UNRWA's Policy Analysis and other Research Needs: Strengthening Knowledge Management Within the Agency

Authors Rica Terbeck
Year 2009
Journal Name Refugee Survey Quarterly
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59 Journal Article

Violence against women - Examining ethnic differences and commonalities

Authors SB Sorenson
Year 1996
Journal Name EVALUATION REVIEW
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60 Journal Article

Return Migration in the Republic of Moldova: Main Issues and Opportunities

Authors Alina Ianioglo, Tatiana Tabac, Irina Pahomii, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name International Migration
Citations (WoS) 2
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61 Journal Article

Recognizing the agency of forced migrants with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics

Authors Onen David Ongwech, Onen David Ongwech, Philipp Schulz, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
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62 Journal Article

Conceptualizing Social Determinants of Neighborhood Health through a Youth Lens

Authors Elizabeth Benninger, Megan Schmidt-Sane, James C. Spilsbury
Year 2021
Citations (WoS) 6
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65 Journal Article

Socio-demographic Factors and Cancer Screening Among Foreign-Born Chinese, Cambodian and Vietnamese Women

Authors Karen E. Kim, Edwin Chandrasekar, Helen Y. Lam
Year 2014
Journal Name Race and Social Problems
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66 Journal Article

Who Goes to College, Military, Prison, or Long-Term Unemployment? Racialized School-to-Labor Market Transitions Among American Men

Authors JooHee Han
Year 2018
Journal Name Population Research and Policy Review
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67 Journal Article

Education of unaccompanied refugee minors in high-income countries: Risk and resilience factors

Authors Yousef Khalifa Aleghfeli, Lucy Hunt
Year 2022
Journal Name Educational Research Review
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68 Journal Article

Precarious Hope: Situated Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Undergraduate Students in Manchester, UK

Authors Caitlin Nunn, Chloe Germaine, Charlotte Ogden, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Applied Youth Studies
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70 Journal Article

STUDY ON THE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION EFFECT OF SERIOUS ILLNESS MEDICAL INSURANCE IN THE ETHNIC MINORITY AUTONOMOUS AREA OF WESTERN CHINA

Authors Nan Jiang, Vorapoj Promasatayaprot, Songkhamchai Leethongdissakul, ...
Year 2024
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72 Journal Article

News Media Trends in the Framing of Immigration and Crime, 1990–2013

Authors Casey T Harris, Jeff Gruenewald
Year 2019
Journal Name Social Problems
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73 Journal Article

Diversity, situated social contexts, and college enrollment: Multilevel modeling to examine student, high school, and state influences.

Authors Dongbin Kim, Anne-Marie Nunez
Year 2013
Journal Name Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
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75 Journal Article

Puppeteering as a metaphor for unpacking power in participatory action research on climate change and health

Authors Eija Merilainen, Ilan Kelman, Laura E. R. Peters, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Climate and Development
Citations (WoS) 3
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76 Journal Article

Critiquing and Joining Intersections of Disaster, Conflict, and Peace Research

Authors Laura E. R. Peters, Ilan Kelman
Year 2020
Journal Name International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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77 Journal Article

Advocates, Implementers or Allies? NGOs between Humanitarian Borderwork and Migration Management in Libya

Authors Melissa Phillips
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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80 Journal Article

Meaningful Refugee Participation: An Emerging Norm in the Global Refugee Regime

Authors James Milner, Mustafa Alio, Rez Gardi
Year 2022
Journal Name Refugee Survey Quarterly
Citations (WoS) 10
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81 Journal Article

Água negra (black water) and overwhelming details: For more-than-nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges

Authors John Horton, Peter Kraftl, José Antonio Perrella Balestieri, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
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82 Journal Article

"Falling in love with me means that she can never go back": a case study exploring the cumulative costs of multiple migrations

Authors Anusha Kassan, Nadine Nakamura, Julia Toews, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name JOURNAL OF LESBIAN STUDIES
Citations (WoS) 2
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83 Journal Article

“It is not just about my work, my identities count”: the Influence of Intersectional Identities on the Employment Experiences of Black African Immigrant Women in Ontario, Canada

Authors Joyceline Amoako, Joyceline Amoako, Ellen MacEachen, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
Citations (WoS) 1
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85 Journal Article

The RISE Survey: Developing and Implementing a Valid and Reliable Quantitative Measure of Refugee Integration in the United States

Authors Jini E. Puma, Gary Lichtenstein, Paul Stein
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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86 Journal Article

Gender and equity considerations in AMR research: a systematic scoping review

Authors Ingrid Lynch, Lorenza Fluks, Lenore Manderson, ...
Year 2024
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87 Journal Article

Epistemic injustice: complicity and promise in education

Authors A. C. Nikolaidis, Winston C. Thompson
Year 2023
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90 Journal Article

Fostering (re)connections: South Asian students healing from dating violence.

Authors Nadeeka Karunaratne
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
Citations (WoS) 1
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91 Journal Article

The impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on care-givers of people with cognitive impairment and their support needs: a mixed-methods systematic review

Authors Loretta Baldassar, Thi Ngoc Minh Nguyen, Bronte Jones, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Ageing and Society
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95 Journal Article

Cardiovascular health and risk factors in African refugees and immigrants in the United States: a narrative review

Authors Maya Almoussa, Josiemer Mattei
Year 2022
Journal Name Ethnicity & Health
Citations (WoS) 2
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96 Journal Article

The Race-Gender-Equity-Leadership Matrix: Intersectionality and Its Application in Higher Education Literature

Authors Natasha N. Johnson, Natasha N. Johnson, Thaddeus L. Johnson, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Journal of Black Studies
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99 Journal Article

Europe and its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy

Principal investigator Iva Dodevska (Principal Investigator)
Description
Amidst heated debates on immigration and “migrant integration”, the European Union becomes an increasingly relevant actor, where important resources are earmarked for the implementation of civic integration measures, as well as for producing “scientific evidence” to guide policy. Simultaneously, a prolific scholarship attempts to understand, measure and compare how and whether immigrants are “integrated into society”, often in the effort to remain “policy-relevant”. This study joins other critical works that draw attention to the ways “integration” is debated, legislated, conceptualized, monitored, evaluated, and ultimately, normalized as a mode of governance. Situated at the interstices of migration studies, European studies, and the social studies of science, the dissertation examines the role of scientific research, EU policy, and research-policy knowledge infrastructures in shaping the “immigrant integration” paradigm in Europe. Interested primarily in integrationism as a technique of power, I take a decolonial and genealogical approach that situates integrationist discourses within wider and intersecting systems of hierarchy. The main argument is that the politics of integration research and the scientific claims in “evidence-based” policy intersect to produce “migrant integration” as the hegemonic paradigm in governing migration-related diversity in Europe. Through discourse analysis of research publications, policy documents, media statements, as well as a virtual ethnography of the EU’s science-for-policy community, I examine how integration comes to be seen simultaneously as a political problem and an object of scientific fascination, how is integration regulated at supranational level and through science-policy collaboration, and what are the power effects of integrationism, as a rationality of governance, on its target subjects. Ultimately, I argue, the practices of regulating, governing, measuring, theorizing and monitoring the integration of immigrants are shaped by power relations linked to the preservation of European liberal subjecthood against rapid demographic, social, political, and environmental shifts.
Year 2019
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