{"title":"Labor-Market Integration Projects Targeting Refugee Women in Germany: How Organizations With Different Inequality Regimes Negotiate Economic Integration","authors":"Johanna Ullmann","doi":"10.1080/15562948.2023.2264809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2264809","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, several European reception countries have made rapid labor-market integration a key part of refugee policy. Little is known about how such services work, how involved actors addres...","PeriodicalId":46673,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies","volume":"24 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claudia Masferrer, Luicy Pedroza, Ana Covarrubias, Víctor M. García-Guerrero, Isabel Gil Everaert, Guadalupe González, Oscar Rodríguez, Antonio Yúnez-Naude, Beatriz Zepeda
{"title":"Considerations for a New Research Agenda on Migration and Refugee Studies: Lessons from Studying Migration and Foreign Policies in Mexico","authors":"Claudia Masferrer, Luicy Pedroza, Ana Covarrubias, Víctor M. García-Guerrero, Isabel Gil Everaert, Guadalupe González, Oscar Rodríguez, Antonio Yúnez-Naude, Beatriz Zepeda","doi":"10.1080/15562948.2022.2137268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2022.2137268","url":null,"abstract":"Since 2000, Mexico has faced challenges in developing migration policies as it transformed from an emigration country into a country of return, transit, immigration, and forced internal displacemen...","PeriodicalId":46673,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies","volume":"24 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olga Odgers-Ortiz, Olga Lidia Olivas Hernández, Ietza Bojorquez-Chapela
{"title":"Waiting in Motion. Migrants’ Involvement in Civil Society Organizations While Pursuing a Migration Project","authors":"Olga Odgers-Ortiz, Olga Lidia Olivas Hernández, Ietza Bojorquez-Chapela","doi":"10.1080/15562948.2022.2155335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2022.2155335","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses how strandedness is produced for asylum seekers and migrants in northern Mexico. We argue that it is fundamental to place these populations’ subjective experiences at the cor...","PeriodicalId":46673,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies","volume":"24 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gisela P. Zapata, Luciana Gandini, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Victoria Prieto Rosas
{"title":"Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19","authors":"Gisela P. Zapata, Luciana Gandini, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Victoria Prieto Rosas","doi":"10.1080/15562948.2022.2163521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2022.2163521","url":null,"abstract":"This paper develops a comparative assessment of the state of asylum in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay. It argues that an accelerated weakening of refugee protection, exacerbated during the pand...","PeriodicalId":46673,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies","volume":"23 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hierarchical Governance and the Refugee Compact in Central America: Host States, Containment, and the Absence of International Resettlement","authors":"Craig Damian Smith","doi":"10.1080/15562948.2023.2179150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2179150","url":null,"abstract":"Central America is experiencing rapidly-accelerating displacement crises. 400,000 have fled to neighboring states, and 500,000 throughout the Americas. In response, the international community impl...","PeriodicalId":46673,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies","volume":"93 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Migrant Worker to Migrant Broker: The Grey Zone of Transnational Recruitment between Canada and Guatemala","authors":"Mylène Coderre","doi":"10.1080/15562948.2022.2156650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2022.2156650","url":null,"abstract":"The Global Compact on Migration and International Organizations pay increasing focus to fair migrant labor recruitment. By looking at the temporary migration of Guatemalans to Canada, this paper de...","PeriodicalId":46673,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies","volume":"24 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kehla Lippi, Lisa Hanna, Hayley McKenzie, Fiona McKay
{"title":"Living in Limbo: The Experiences of People Seeking Asylum in Australia","authors":"Kehla Lippi, Lisa Hanna, Hayley McKenzie, Fiona McKay","doi":"10.1080/15562948.2023.2263393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2263393","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past two decades, the Australian policy environment has become increasingly focused on deterring asylum seekers. For people who arrived by sea between August 13, 2012 and January 1, 2014 (...","PeriodicalId":46673,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies","volume":"23 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event","authors":"Katarzyna Andrejuk","doi":"10.1080/15562948.2023.2260337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2260337","url":null,"abstract":"The article uses the concept of a focusing event to shed light on the specificity of the political transformation process in response to an unexpected event. The analysis shows that as a result of ...","PeriodicalId":46673,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies","volume":"22 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Helen Landmann, Birte Siem, Birgit Fuchs, Anette Rohmann
{"title":"Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid","authors":"Helen Landmann, Birte Siem, Birgit Fuchs, Anette Rohmann","doi":"10.1080/15562948.2023.2238635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2238635","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>To investigate the specific events and processes that contribute to volunteering in refugee aid, we conducted a qualitative study with volunteers in Germany (<i>N</i> = 220). Participants described in their own words critical incidents that motivated them to volunteer. Content analysis revealed contact with refugees (spatial closeness or conversation), contact with non-refugees (volunteers or xenophobic persons), media experiences (reports about refugees or calls for action), and biographical incidents (own migration or major life changes) as key experiences. The results provide valuable insights into experiences that motivate people to volunteer in refugee aid, which supports integration processes of refugees and asylum-seekers.</p>","PeriodicalId":46673,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies","volume":"59 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tahereh Ziaian, Emily Miller, Teresa Puvimanasinghe, Adrian Esterman, Maureen Dollard, Helena de Anstiss
{"title":"Family Functioning and the Psychological Wellbeing of Refugee-Background Youth in Australia","authors":"Tahereh Ziaian, Emily Miller, Teresa Puvimanasinghe, Adrian Esterman, Maureen Dollard, Helena de Anstiss","doi":"10.1080/15562948.2023.2238264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2238264","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>Experiences of young people from refugee backgrounds in resettlement are impacted by their families, communities, and society. This study investigated factors that affected the psychological wellbeing of refugee-background youth, highlighting the complex relationships between these factors. Quantitative survey data collected from refugee-background youth in Australia, aged 14-26 (<i>n</i> = 556) were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results showed that family function and discrimination impacted youth psychological wellbeing, with relationships mediated by levels of integration and resilience. Policies and practices targeting wellbeing can therefore focus on supporting families, to positively influence refugee-background young people and counter negative impacts of discrimination.</p>","PeriodicalId":46673,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies","volume":"59 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}