{"title":"We are all migrants","authors":"J. Valsiner","doi":"10.1186/s40878-021-00276-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00276-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37051,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Migration Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45677282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Magdalena Arias Cubas, Anju Mary Paul, Jacques Ramírez, Sanam Roohi, Peter Scholten
{"title":"Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic.","authors":"Magdalena Arias Cubas, Anju Mary Paul, Jacques Ramírez, Sanam Roohi, Peter Scholten","doi":"10.1186/s40878-022-00306-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00306-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37051,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Migration Studies","volume":" ","pages":"38"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9437390/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40352000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19 pandemic and the changing views of mobility: the case of Nepal-Malaysia migration corridor.","authors":"Andika Wahab, Mashitah Hamidi","doi":"10.1186/s40878-022-00320-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00320-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For decades, Malaysia has been heavily dependent on unskilled and temporarily contracted migrant workers to fulfil labour gaps in the country. While Malaysia's economy continues to rely on migrant workers, the COVID-19 pandemic has further aggravated their precarious working and living conditions. In-depth interviews with Nepali migrant workers and community leaders in Malaysia and Nepal in 2021 revealed the incidence of labour rights violations, compounded by the lack of access to justice and effective remedies. Besides, workers are allegedly no longer benefiting from the competitive wages, subsequently limiting the value of their remittance to Nepal. We argue that these incidents serve as the drivers of the changing views of mobility, eventually influencing the emigration environment in which the social construction of migration exists in Nepal. This study examines the migratory realities in the Nepal-Malaysia migration corridor during the pandemic, subsequently contributing to current debate on the aspiration-ability model as a class of research.</p>","PeriodicalId":37051,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Migration Studies","volume":" ","pages":"44"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9628520/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40670041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plural violence(s) and migrants' transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe.","authors":"Anastasia Bermudez","doi":"10.1186/s40878-022-00298-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00298-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores how multiple, interrelated violence(s) shape the ways in which migrants relate to democratic politics transnationally. It takes as a departing point the literature on violent democracies and violent pluralism in the Latin American context, and more specifically the situation in Colombia, where democratic institutions coexist with plural violence(s). Following on from studies of migrant transnational politics, the analysis focuses on the Colombian diaspora and how migrants coming from violent democracies engage politically with the home country. Based on extensive research with Colombian migrants in Europe since the mid-90s, the article shows how despite different motivations for migrating, origin-country violence plays a significant role in the lives of many Colombians abroad. It then explores how violence influences migrants' transnational politics. Migrating from a context of pervasive violence(s) can affect migrants' sense of transnational belonging as well as increase mistrust and indifference towards formal democratic processes. However, the situation in the home country, together with being exposed to different conditions in the host society, can also motivate migrants to participate transnationally in initiatives to end the violence, thus increasing cooperation and trust.</p>","PeriodicalId":37051,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Migration Studies","volume":" ","pages":"25"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9197901/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39999622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Covid-19 and female migrants: policy challenges and multiple vulnerabilities.","authors":"Dudziro Nhengu","doi":"10.1186/s40878-022-00295-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00295-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To what extent has Covid-19 policy responses exacerbated the already existing multiple vulnerabilities of female migrants in Southern Africa? Using strategic conversations, the paper explores personal experiences of key conversants, to explore how gender blind policy responses to the pandemic have heightened female migrants' socio-economic challenges. The paper recommends gender sensitive and context specific policy responses to mitigate the existing socio-economic challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":37051,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Migration Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"23"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9155193/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142086261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and \"Zoomification\": civil society in \"invited \" and \"invented \" spaces.","authors":"Stefan Rother","doi":"10.1186/s40878-022-00312-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00312-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40878-021-00275-9.].</p>","PeriodicalId":37051,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Migration Studies","volume":" ","pages":"48"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9648864/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40486259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An eye for an 'I:' a critical assessment of artificial intelligence tools in migration and asylum management.","authors":"Lucia Nalbandian","doi":"10.1186/s40878-022-00305-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00305-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The promise of artificial intelligence has been originally to put technology at the service of people utilizing powerful information processors and 'smart' algorithms to quickly perform time-consuming data analysis. It soon though became apparent that the capacity of artificial intelligence to scrape and analyze big data would be particularly useful in surveillance policies. In the wider areas of migration and asylum management, increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence tools have been used to register and manage vulnerable populations without much concern about the potential misuses of the data collected and the overall ethical and legal underpinnings of these operations. This article examines three cases in point. The first case investigates the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' decision to deploy a biometric matching engine engaging artificial intelligence to make accessing identification documents easier for both refugees and asylum seekers and the states and organizations they interact with. The second case focuses on the New Zealand government's introduction of artificial intelligence to improve border security and streamline immigration. The third case looks at data scraping and biometric recognition tools implemented by the United States government to track (and eventually deport) undocumented migrants. The article first shows how states and international organizations are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools to support the implementation of their immigration policies and programs. Subsequently, the article also outlines how even despite well-intentioned efforts, the decision to use artificial intelligence tools to increase efficiency and support the implementation of migration or asylum management policies and programs often involves jeopardizing or altogether sacrificing individuals' human rights, including privacy and security, and raises concerns about vulnerability and transparency.</p>","PeriodicalId":37051,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Migration Studies","volume":" ","pages":"32"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9361936/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40612464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anita Kit Wa Chan, Lewis T O Cheung, Eric King-Man Chong, Man Yee Karen Lee, Mathew Y H Wong
{"title":"Hong Kong's new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals' intention to emigrate.","authors":"Anita Kit Wa Chan, Lewis T O Cheung, Eric King-Man Chong, Man Yee Karen Lee, Mathew Y H Wong","doi":"10.1186/s40878-022-00323-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00323-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With a recent surge in the outward movement of the population, a new wave of emigration has been suggested to have started in Hong Kong. It is speculated that recent socio-political changes in Hong Kong may have contributed to this phenomenon. Therefore, five socio-political variables-mobility, sense of place, trust and confidence in the law and the legal system, global citizenship, and perception of inequality-are employed in this study as proposed determinants to investigate the intention of Hong Kong residents to migrate to mainland China and to other international destinations. A random telephone questionnaire survey representative of the local population was conducted, with a total of 801 valid samples collected. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was carried out. The results showed that all five proposed socio-political variables successfully predicted people's migration intention to mainland China and to foreign countries, with important variations between the two choices. Our results carry strong implications for understanding people's concerns behind their intention to emigrate. Further, our findings present a challenge for Hong Kong; society may gradually be failing to accommodate individuals with diverse perceptions and values, particularly in terms of trust and confidence in the law and the legal system, and individuals' sense of global citizenship.</p>","PeriodicalId":37051,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Migration Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"49"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9734732/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10398520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and \"Zoomification\": civil society in \"invited \" and \"invented \" spaces.","authors":"Stefan Rother","doi":"10.1186/s40878-021-00275-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00275-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The global pandemic has resulted in ad hoc unilateral policies on migration, mobility and border management while at the same time emphasizing the need for global cooperation. For global governance in this field to be effective, it needs to include stakeholders beyond states and international institutions. The Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration (GCM) highlights the role of those groups directly affected by global policies, i.e. migrants and their organisations. The goal of this paper is to analyse the role of civil society in global migration governance in times of COVID-19. It employs a comparative approach between \"invented\" and \"invited\" spaces. \"Invited spaces\" in this context refer to spaces created by international organisations such as the United Nations Network on Migration's \"Stakeholder Listening Sessions\" on COVID-19 and the resulting statements. \"Invented Spaces\" refer to self-organized spaces by civil society actors. The paper will compare these spaces regarding their openness, the central issues and calls for specific policy measures, the stakeholders involved and the strategies they employ. I argue that the pandemic has strengthened the \"input\" dimension for migrant civil society in global governance. This relates to the structure/format as well as to the content of the participation. \"Zoomification\" has opened up access to \"invited\" spaces while pushing forward the creation and scope of \"invented\" spaces\". There are indicators that the pandemic has also influenced parts of the output dimension, although it is too early to assess whether this will have a lasting effect on policies on the ground.</p>","PeriodicalId":37051,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Migration Studies","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8731205/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39685654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}