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Return governance and diplomacy between Türkiye and Afghanistan 恢复土耳其和阿富汗之间的治理和外交

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International Migration Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1111/imig.70037

Zeynep Sahin-Mencutek, Hidayet Sıddıkoğlu, Soner Barthoma

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Immigration realities: Challenging common misperceptions By Ernesto Castañeda & Carina Cione, New York: Columbia University Press. 2024. pp. 368 作者：Ernesto Castañeda & Carina Cione，纽约：哥伦比亚大学出版社，2024。368页。

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International Migration Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1111/imig.70039

Recep Baydemir

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The role of EU-promoted versus local narratives in migratory decision-making in the Gambia 冈比亚移民决策中欧盟推动的与当地叙事的作用

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International Migration Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1111/imig.70036

Omar N. Cham, Florian Trauner, Ilke Adam

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Bounded agency and aspirations: Understanding the motivations for irregular migration from Bangladesh to Europe 有限代理和愿望：了解从孟加拉国到欧洲的非正常移民的动机

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International Migration Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1111/imig.70035

Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder, Selim Reza, Sayed Nurullah Azad, Aziz Ahmed

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Narrative constructions of (non-)return in older migrants 老年移民（非）回归的叙事结构

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International Migration Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1111/imig.70034

Ute Karl, Anne Carolina Ramos

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‘Going back home to my family and community’: Lived realities of old-age return migrants in Zimbabwe “回到我的家庭和社区”：津巴布韦老年移民的生活现实

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International Migration Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1111/imig.70033

Gracsious Maviza, Phillip Thebe, Mandlenkosi Maphosa

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Venezuelan migrants in the Andean corridor 2019冠状病毒病对安第斯走廊委内瑞拉移民的影响

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International Migration Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1111/imig.70028

Julia Kieslinger

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Immigration experiences and occupational mobility of Chinese immigrant women in Spain and Portugal 西班牙和葡萄牙中国移民妇女的移民经历与职业流动

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International Migration Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/imig.70031

Jin Yangmin, Eloy Gómez-Pellón

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The diversity of older migrants and their intentions to return: The case of China 老年移民的多样性及其回国意愿：中国案例

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International Migration Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1111/imig.70029

Qiujie Shi, Tao Liu

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Instrumentalizing vulnerabilities: African and Haitian asylum seekers in Mexico navigating their road to protection 利用脆弱性：在墨西哥的非洲和海地寻求庇护者走向保护之路

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International Migration Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1111/imig.70030

Ester Serra Mingot

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