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{"title":"Make It Easier, Not More Complex: Employee Views on Immigration Detention Decision‐Making in Canada","authors":"Bronwen Perley‐Robertson, Ralph C. Serin, Isabella R. L. Bossom, Sarah K. Watts, Shelley L. Brown","doi":"10.1111/imig.70238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70238","url":null,"abstract":"Rising public scrutiny has put immigration detention systems under pressure to defend their decision‐making practices. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has drawn attention in this area, largely due to its partnerships with correctional agencies. Critics challenge CBSA's framework for placing noncitizens in these facilities, characterizing its risk assessment practices as opaque, arbitrary, and subjective. To address these concerns, CBSA commissioned us to develop an empirical tool for guiding immigration detention decisions—spanning conditional release to security classification level within detention. We surveyed 92 CBSA employees using mixed methods to gain their insights and ensure the operational utility of our tool. Top‐rated risk factors for decision‐making were criminal/compliance history, mental health, cooperation, identity concerns, and behaviour. We also identified misconceptions about standardized risk tools, the need for a streamlined assessment process, gaps in mental health guidance, operational decision‐making barriers, and opportunities for enhanced training. This study provides a foundation for developing an operationally useful tool that will improve the transparency and defensibility of CBSA's immigration detention decisions.","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149221371","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":"Correction to ‘Environmental Migration as Short- or Long-Term Differences From a Trend: A Case Study of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Effects on Out-Migration in the Gulf of Mexico’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/imig.70239","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.70239","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <span>Fussell, E.</span>, <span>DeWaard, J.</span> &amp; <span>Curtis, K.J.</span> <span>2023</span>. “ <span>Environmental Migration as Short- or Long-Term Differences From a Trend: A Case Study of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Effects on Out-Migration in the Gulf of Mexico</span>.” <i>International Migration</i> <span>61</span>, no. <span>5</span>: <span>60</span>–<span>74</span>. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13101.\u0000 </p><p>The current acknowledgement reads:</p><p>Research reported in this publication was supported by the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University through the generosity of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2C HD041020), the Minnesota Population Center (P2C HD041023), and the Center for Demography and Ecology (P2C HD047873). We thank Guixing Wei at Brown University's Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences for mapping assistance. We are also grateful for the World Bank's Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) Environmental Change and Migration Thematic Working Group for valuable feedback on the research reported here.</p><p>The revised acknowledgement should read:</p><p>Research reported in this publication was supported by the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University through the generosity of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2C HD041020, $218,363), the Minnesota Population Center (P2C HD041023, $210,936), and the Center for Demography and Ecology (P2C HD047873, $398,350) with zero percent financed from non-federal sources. We thank Guixing Wei at Brown University's Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences for mapping assistance. We are also grateful for the World Bank's Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) Environmental Change and Migration Thematic Working Group for valuable feedback on the research reported here.</p><p>We apologise for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149198912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Income Support for Migrant Agricultural Workers: Differential Inclusion via Racialized Administrative Burdens Under Canada's Employment Insurance Program","authors":"Leah F. Vosko","doi":"10.1111/imig.70223","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.70223","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Under Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Agricultural Stream, migrant agricultural workers (MAWs) arriving principally from Caribbean and Latin American countries are granted entry to Canada as essential workers. Yet they have limited access to social and statutory benefits and entitlements vis-à-vis citizens and permanent residents. Through an inquiry into rules governing access to benefits under Employment Insurance (EI) – a national contributions-based unemployment insurance program providing income replacement in instances of job loss, sickness, maternity, parental, and caregiving responsibilities—this article analyzes administrative mechanisms contributing to MAWs' differential inclusion. Examining EI policy administration, an underexplored area of scholarly inquiry, it demonstrates how, given the structure of migrant work programs in agriculture, seemingly neutral rules governing the provision of income replacement contribute to disentitlement among MAWs otherwise fulfilling qualifying requirements. Bridging scholarship illustrating how policy design can shape differential access to EI benefits among social groups and research documenting racialized (im)migration policies opening exclusively temporary migration to MAWs historically and contemporaneously, the analysis highlights the role of racialized administrative burdens in impeding MAWs from accessing EI's full range of income supports.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70223","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149198917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationality and Temporality of Return Migration: Overseas Chinese Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Yinni Peng","doi":"10.1111/imig.70234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70234","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study applies the perspectives of relationality and temporality to investigate how overseas Chinese students made their return decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysis of qualitative data obtained from 56 returning Chinese students during the pandemic indicates that their return decisions were relational and temporal: embedded in their familial and romantic relations and intertwined with their life trajectories of migration–education–employment. Identifying three types of return, namely hurried, predetermined, and thoughtful, during the pandemic, the study reveals the nuanced relational–temporal dynamics of the risks, opportunities, and emotions negotiated and contested between the students and their families and intimate partners during the crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Naiveté or Strategic Ambiguity? Examining Economic, Demographic and Security Narratives in India's Refugee Policy","authors":"Setu Gupta,&nbsp;Swati Singh Parmar","doi":"10.1111/imig.70231","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.70231","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The decadal transition in the Indian politico-legal stance on refugees, from a human rights tilt to national security concerns, invites a close examination. India maintains a theoretical <i>safe</i> distance from the international legal framework on refugees by not acceding to the 1951 Refugee Convention, while on the ground, it extensively engages—politically and judicially—with refugee-related domestic legal issues. In the absence of a dedicated legal framework, the refugees, categorised based on temporalities and spatialities, face a highly unpredictable executive and judicial discretion. The present work critically examines the validity of three purported claims that India frames as ‘obstacles’ in enacting refugee-specific legislation, using a mixed method design—combining doctrinal analysis of Indian jurisprudence, Parliamentary questions, statutory law and Executive Policy Rules along with a review of demographic data and securitization aspects to draw some hints as real-world inferences on the actual impact caused by refugees.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151775","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":"Voices of Change: Low-Skilled Migrant Workers' Perspectives on Labour Law Reforms in Qatar","authors":"Šemsia Jatić,&nbsp;Abdoulaye Diop,&nbsp;Fahmida Naheen,&nbsp;Engi El-Maghraby,&nbsp;Haneen Al-Qassass,&nbsp;Buthaina Al Khelaifi","doi":"10.1111/imig.70233","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.70233","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the years preceding the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar introduced a series of labour reforms aimed at strengthening migrant workers' rights, including the abolition of exit permit requirements, the removal of the No Objection Certificate requirement for job changes and the introduction of a universal minimum wage. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 30 low-skilled male migrant workers conducted in October 2023, this study examines how workers perceived and experienced these reforms in their everyday lives. The findings reveal a nuanced picture that resists binary assessments of success or failure. Many participants described meaningful improvements in job mobility, freedom of movement and living conditions, particularly those who had spent many years in Qatar and were able to compare conditions before and after the reforms. However, the translation of legal change into everyday experience was uneven. Workers continued to navigate their rights through informal information networks, relationships with employers and unequal social and financial resources that often predate migration itself. By centring migrant workers' own voices, this study contributes to a more grounded understanding of labour reform as a socially embedded process shaped by relationships, unequal resources and the everyday contexts through which rights obtain meaning.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149140451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Welcome Home? The Role of Stayees in Return Migration","authors":"Małgorzata Dziekońska","doi":"10.1111/imig.70235","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.70235","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While most research on return migration focuses on return migrants' experiences, this article highlights the perspectives of stayee family members. Based on in-depth interviews with 32 Polish stayees, it examines how they prepare for returnees' arrival and how they re-adapt to their renewed presence, thereby supporting their reintegration into the society of origin. The analysis distinguishes two stages of receiving returnees back: the welcome stage, which is primarily concerned with practical arrangements and emotional preparedness, and the reception stage, in which returnees are further accompanied and assisted—or not—after arrival. The reception stage reveals two analytically distinct but often overlapping dimensions of stayees' practices: domestic and family inclusion, and socio-economic inclusion. These forms of engagement vary with the strength of relationships and stayees' family positions. The findings show that return migration is a relational process involving both returnees and stayees, shaped by different understandings of responsibility and support.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149140452","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":"Migration and Education Choices: How Low-Skilled Migration Shapes the Educational Attainment of Mexican Youth","authors":"Eskander Alvi,&nbsp;Md Ohiul Islam","doi":"10.1111/imig.70227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70227","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines the impact of low-skilled migration on educational attainment in developing countries, specifically focusing on Mexico. While previous research has extensively studied brain drain (the migration of high-skilled workers to developed countries), this study delves into the lesser-discussed phenomenon of ‘brawn drain’, which involves the migration of low-skilled workers to developed nations. The paper analyses data from the Mesoamerican Migration Project to understand how the presence of low-skilled migrant elders (household members aged 26 or older) affects the educational decisions of young individuals (ages 18–25) in high-migration communities. The results reveal a strong negative impact of family-level exposure to low-skilled US migrants on Mexican youth, discouraging them from pursuing further education. The study explores other factors, such as community-level influences and the presence of high-skilled individuals as role models, on educational outcomes. Overall, the paper contributes valuable insights to the understanding of how low-skilled migration affects educational attainment in developing countries like Mexico.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149145961","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":"Supporting Without Steering: The Role of International Actors in Colombia's Policy on Venezuelan Displacement","authors":"Nieves Fernández-Rodríguez,&nbsp;María Gabriela Trompetero-Vicent","doi":"10.1111/imig.70232","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.70232","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on the role of international organisations (IOs) and donors in migration governance has largely focused on low-income countries, while Latin America remains underrepresented despite the importance of its middle-income states in responding to large-scale displacement. This article examines Colombia's Temporary Protection Statute for Venezuelan Migrants (TPS), introduced in 2021 to grant Venezuelan nationals legal status, rights, and a pathway to permanent residency. Drawing on 65 interviews with policymakers and representatives of IOs and aid agencies, as well as policy documents, it analyses how Colombian authorities, IOs, and donors jointly shaped the policy. The findings show that international actors contributed through financial assistance, ideational framing, knowledge provision, and capacity-building. Yet Colombian authorities retained policy ownership, selectively adapting and mobilising international resources to advance domestically defined objectives. The article demonstrates how extensive international involvement and domestic ownership can coexist, challenging portrayals of Southern states as reactive to external agendas.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Taiwan Dream to Everyday Resilience: Temporal Trajectories of Vietnamese Marriage Migrant Women in Taiwan","authors":"Huynh Le Anh Huy,&nbsp;Huynh Quoc Tuan","doi":"10.1111/imig.70228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70228","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Marriage migration from Vietnam to Taiwan has often been portrayed in static terms of integration or failure, overlooking how women adapt to ruptures across time. This study applies resilience theory to examine how 27 Vietnamese marriage migrant women confronted disappointment and developed coping strategies within transnational marriages. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the findings reveal that Vietnamese marriage migrant women endured disillusionments such as domestic violence, neglect, and isolation but actively recalibrated their lives through spirituality practices, small-scale entrepreneurship and investments in children's education. By situating these practices within a resilience framework, the study highlights how adaptation is not a linear recovery but an iterative process shaped by agency, family obligations and cross-border ties. Through this perspective, the study shows how aspiration, rupture and recalibration recur across the life course, leading to different rather than converging trajectories. The study extends resilience theory into the domain of marriage migration, contributes to feminist and transnational scholarship by foregrounding everyday agency, and carries policy implications for supporting migrant women beyond early settlement stages.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149145835","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}