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Taking high-stakes venture to make ends meet? Determinants and impacts of international migration of Ethiopians to the Middle East. 为了维持生计而冒险?埃塞俄比亚人向中东国际移民的决定因素和影响。

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Comparative Migration Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1186/s40878-023-00338-z

Beneberu A Wondimagegnhu, Lemlem Fantahun

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"Crossing borders, connecting cultures": an introduction to the special issue. “跨越国界，连接文化”:特刊简介。

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Comparative Migration Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1186/s40878-023-00333-4

Birte Nienaber, Nicole Holzapfel-Mantin, Gabriele Budach

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The student migration transition: an empirical investigation into the nexus between development and international student migration. 学生迁移转型:发展与国际学生迁移关系的实证研究。

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Comparative Migration Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1186/s40878-023-00329-0

Tijmen Weber, Christof Van Mol

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引用次数: 2

Between here and there: comparing the worry about the pandemic between older Italian international migrants and natives in Switzerland. 在这里和那里之间:比较老年意大利国际移民和瑞士本地人对流感大流行的担忧。

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Comparative Migration Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1186/s40878-023-00331-6

Sarah M Ludwig-Dehm, Iuna Dones, Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu

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A global network of scholars? The geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications. 全球学者网络？移民研究机构的地理集中及其影响。

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Comparative Migration Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1186/s40878-023-00336-1

Lorenzo Piccoli, Didier Ruedin, Andrew Geddes

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Hong Kong's new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals' intention to emigrate. 香港新一波移民潮:个人移民意向的社会政治因素。

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Comparative Migration Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1186/s40878-022-00323-y

Anita Kit Wa Chan, Lewis T O Cheung, Eric King-Man Chong, Man Yee Karen Lee, Mathew Y H Wong

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Addressing seeming paradoxes by embracing them: small state theory and the integration of migrants. 通过接纳这些看似矛盾的问题来解决:小国理论和移民融合。

IF 3.5 2区社会学

Comparative Migration Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1186/s40878-021-00222-8

Thomas Kolnberger, Harlan Koff

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