{"title":"Do Migrants Think Differently about Migration? An Experimentum Crucis for Explaining Attitudes on Migration","authors":"Jochen Roose","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter discusses four theories to explain attitudes on immigration: economic group conflict theory, the cultural group conflict theory, the ingroup favoritism and the contact hypothesis. Attitudes held by migrants on immigration are highly illuminating as an empirical test for these theories. Migrants having entered the respective country previously are more economically threatened than the autochthon population, thus migrants would reject further immigration more than non-migrants. On the other hand, they are culturally less threatened which should result in attitudes more open to further immigration among migrants. Ingroup favoritism should result in more openness for immigration among migrants. The same applies for the contact hypothesis which implies a reduction of negative sentiments towards immigrant communities. Using the European Social Survey that covers attitudes towards immigration from European countries and non-European countries, testing countries of same race/ethnic origin and different race/ethnic origin, the findings are not fully coherent across European countries, however there is considerable evidence against the economic group conflict theory, while a decision between the other three theories is not possible.","PeriodicalId":285554,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Migration and Border-Making","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128177454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current Migration Trends in Russia: The Role of the CIS Region Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union","authors":"M. Apanovich","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides an overview of the migration trends in the Russian Federation from the 1990s to the 2010s in the context of the drastic change in the political, economic and social aspects of the country. It examines the various laws that were passed during the period to indicate the architecture of the migration policy in “new” Russia. The chapter focuses on the Migration Policy Concept (later Concept) and its criticism, which was adopted in 2012 as an action plan until 2025. The last part of the chapter gives an overview of the newest adjustment of the Concept done in November 2018. This latest policy emphasises the importance of labour migration and added internal migration to the agenda for the first time since 1990s.","PeriodicalId":285554,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Migration and Border-Making","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122825508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Refugee Integration: The Importance of Core Values for Cultural Debate in Germany","authors":"Aleksandra Koluvija","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the impact of the refugee crisis on the political debate on German identity from 2015 to 2017. It examines how the integration of the high number of asylum seekers rekindled an old debate on German core values and culture. While the debate was propelled by concerns to preserve Germany identity, it also focused on finding durable solutions to where both parties – the host country and the refugee – can profit. The chapter concludes that a more up-to-date view on integration is needed and suggests the use of a human rights-based approach to refugee integration.","PeriodicalId":285554,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Migration and Border-Making","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128338222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Unfolding of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey: From Temporariness to Permanency","authors":"Ayhan Kaya","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter scrutinizes how the policy and discourse in respect to refugees have developed in Turkey since the beginning of the mass migration of Syrians in 2011. Refugees were initially welcomed for a short-term stay, however it became evident after some time that the situation was not temporary but becoming more and more permanent. The Turkish state under the Justice and Development Party rule immediately adapted to this situation by revitalizing a religious discourse of hospitality. Based on the findings of an Horizon 2020 research project (RESPOND), the chapter claims that that there is a parallel between the state of temporariness granted to the Syrian refugees by the Turkish government and the Islamic set of discourses and policies generated by the government in the second half of the 2000s leading to the de-Europeanization of Turkey. The chapter also argues that the break-up of Turkey’s European perspective has partly contributed to the destabilization of the Middle East and the emergence of the Syrian crisis.","PeriodicalId":285554,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Migration and Border-Making","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133125141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fencing in the Boundaries of the Community: Migration, Nationalism and Populism in Hungary","authors":"R. Sata","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that the European migration crisis just provided more ground for nationalist populist politics of the Fidesz government of Hungary. Using a systematic content analysis of the official speeches of the PM Viktor Orbán since 2010, the chapter shows this new conception of national identity mobilizes against the collapse of traditional national values as well as the liberal rationalism embodied by EU institutions and puts Hungarian nationals above all others. In this setting, the discursive construction and use of ‘otherness’ in public discourse stand for the representations of migrants as a deviant groups of people, enemies of the Hungarian nation, of a threatening ideology/religion that must be opposed. Citizenship is hijacked as a civilizational/cultural marker to distinguish ‘us’ from the ‘other’. Europe and its common governance systems, secular organization, religious tolerance, and liberal foundation only exacerbate this threat, making the EU become ‘the other’, against what the national identity must be protected.","PeriodicalId":285554,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Migration and Border-Making","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125151556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Macedonian Refugees from the Greek Civil War: From Separation to a Transnational Community","authors":"Anna Kurpiel","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter analyses Macedonian-origin refugees from the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) who, together with ethnic Greeks, settled in the Polish People’s Republic. One of the core factors of Macedonian condition in Poland was a constant dependency on two other groups: Greeks and Poles. For that reason, they are described as “minority within a minority”. Their life trajectories create a pattern of selected phases: from ‘separation’ via ‘assimilation’ to ‘new space of identification’ - a transnational social space. Based on the Macedonian case study, the chapter discusses other research issues that are universal for migration studies: the question of refugees’ homeland(s), integration inside a migrant’s group and a dominant majority or the politics of remembrance, and its impact on creating a groups’ identity.","PeriodicalId":285554,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Migration and Border-Making","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129126672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}