{"title":"Computational Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies. By Emanuel Deutschmann, Lucas G Drouhot, Carolina V Zuccotti, and Emilio Zagheni (eds.), London: Routledge, 2025. 234 pp. £108.00 (hardback) ISBN: 978-1-03-287571-2; £42.39 (e-book) ISBN: 978-1-00-353336-8","authors":"Şükrü Atsızelti","doi":"10.1111/imig.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144666499","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":"Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration. By Nour Halabi, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 233 pp. £25.99 (paperback)","authors":"Farzeen Heesambee","doi":"10.1111/imig.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144647317","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":"The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging Across the US-Mexico Border. By Daina, Sanchez, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 182 pp. $24 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-50-364137-2","authors":"Megan Raschig","doi":"10.1111/imig.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144647454","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}
Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu, Yunus Kaya, Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, Melis Cin, Necmettin Doğan
{"title":"Encounters at the Edge: When Contact Builds Bridges or Barriers in Refugee-Receiving Countries","authors":"Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu, Yunus Kaya, Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, Melis Cin, Necmettin Doğan","doi":"10.1111/imig.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Policymakers often assume that interactions between host society members and immigrants will promote integration. However, scholars caution against such assumptions, considering both contact theory's optimism and group threat theory's concerns. In the present study, we examine a series of hypotheses pertaining to intergroup contact and group threat theories, utilising data collected from Istanbul, Türkiye. Ordered logistic regression models are employed to examine how contact and threat dynamics affect integration perceptions. Findings indicate that the quality and site of intergroup contact, rather than its quantity, significantly influence host community members' perceptions of refugee integration and Syrians' self-perceptions of their integration. Furthermore, threat perceptions significantly affect integration perceptions while intergroup contact moderates the impact of threat perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70071","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635182","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":"Migrant Data Extractivism: Tech and Borders at the Limit of Rights","authors":"Marianna Poyares","doi":"10.1111/imig.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper I present the notion ‘migrant data extractivism’ and argue that it is a defining aspect of pervasive systems of data-based migration governance. I focus on two specific examples: the partnership between the International Rescue Committee and OpenAI for providing chatbot assistance for the delivery of educational experiences to refugees, and the collection and processing of migrant DNA by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Within a system of ‘induced scarcity,’ forcibly displaced persons have been at the centre of exploitative mechanisms of behavioural data extraction aimed at expanding an economy of service provision that profits from the capture of migrant data with considerable behaviour-predictive value, and from racial-profiling securitization technologies. Working through the conceptual lens of the Latin American experience of <i>extractivismo</i>, I argue that migrant data extractivism goes far beyond mere user data collection. Migrant data extractivism sediments an ongoing shift from a system of rights, based on human dignity, to a system of sustained racialized dispossession, appropriation, and control, raising the question as to the limits of human rights in the datafied world.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615318","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}
Davide Gritti, Filippo Gioachin, Anna Zamberlan, Eleonora Meli, Raffaele Grotti, Paolo Barbieri, Stefani Scherer
{"title":"Citizenship Acquisition and Labour Market Outcomes Among Immigrants in Italy: Evidence From Linked Survey-Register Data","authors":"Davide Gritti, Filippo Gioachin, Anna Zamberlan, Eleonora Meli, Raffaele Grotti, Paolo Barbieri, Stefani Scherer","doi":"10.1111/imig.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The literature shows that immigrants who acquire citizenship tend to achieve better labour market outcomes than those who do not, though this may reflect positive selection rather than a causal effect. This study is the first to examine the consequences of citizenship acquisition for immigrants in Italy, a country with rising naturalisation rates and persistent ethnic penalties. Using nationally representative survey and register data for 2016, we compared natives, naturalised and non-naturalised immigrants on employment, socio-economic attainment and earnings. To disentangle selection from causal effects, we applied growth curve models and two-way fixed effects. Results show that naturalised immigrants have higher socio-economic attainment and earnings than their non-naturalised counterparts, but similar employment trajectories. These advantages are more pronounced among women. Overall, findings suggest that improved outcomes among naturalised immigrants are largely driven by positive selection into naturalisation, rather than by the acquisition of citizenship itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615320","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":"The Limits of Neutrality: Undocumented Migrants in the United States and Mexican Consular Diplomacy","authors":"Benjamin Bruce, Karla Angélica Valenzuela Moreno","doi":"10.1111/imig.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Mexican foreign policy has historically followed a course of non-intervention in international affairs. However, the question of how to support the millions of undocumented Mexican citizens residing in the United States has become a growing concern for Mexico, especially during the first administration of President Donald Trump (2017–2021) and once again following his re-election in 2024. This article analyses the strategies developed by Mexican foreign officials, focusing on the relationships developed with local political and associative actors, and asks whether Mexico's foreign policy of non-intervention limits its capacity to assist undocumented Mexican migrants abroad? Drawing on policy analysis and 16 qualitative interviews with Mexican diplomats from 2018 to 2024, we demonstrate how consular officials implement both direct and indirect strategies aimed at preserving official neutrality and responding to the needs of undocumented migrants, while also promoting the empowerment of local Mexican communities as a long-term objective.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615321","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":"Predictors of Immigrant Acceptance in Africa: A Multi-Sample Analysis of Contact Hypothesis and Neighbourhood Violence","authors":"Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh","doi":"10.1111/imig.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the determinants of public attitudes towards immigrants in Africa, using the contact hypothesis as its framework. This study evaluated how neighbourhood violence affects the acceptance of immigrants using three distinct sample groups: a full sample, a group with no foreign exposure and a group with foreign exposure. This study draws on data from 28 African countries, encompassing 28,685 respondents. Binary logistic regression analysis was employed to investigate the relationship between the independent variables and public acceptance of immigrants. The results indicate that concerns about neighbourhood violence significantly predicted negative attitudes towards immigrants in both the full sample and the group without foreign exposure but not in the sample with foreign exposure. Higher levels of education, especially post-secondary education, were found to be strong predictors of more favourable attitudes towards immigrants across all samples. Notable regional variations were observed, with the western, southern, and northern areas generally exhibiting more negative attitudes. The nation's current economic state negatively influenced attitudes in the full and no-foreign-exposure groups, whereas individual financial circumstances had a positive impact. Border control consistently emerged as a negative predictor across the samples, whereas immigration enforcement demonstrated a positive relationship in certain models. These findings offer crucial insights into the multifaceted elements that shape the public opinion of immigrants in African nations and have substantial theoretical and practical implications. This study contributes to the broader literature on public attitudes towards immigrants and the contact hypothesis from an African perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144615319","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":"Rethinking Trust in the Refugee Resettlement Process: How Service Providers Can Enable Refugee Agency Through Diasporic Connections","authors":"Mahfoudha Sidelemine, Emily D. Campion","doi":"10.1111/imig.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70064","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Current guidance for refugee resettlement agency workers encourages the simultaneous pursuit of trust-building and administrative tasks (e.g., housing, transportation and employment). This dual goal is resource-intensive, and focusing on the former may come at a cost to the latter. The purpose of the current research is to challenge the importance of trust-building by resettlement agencies. Drawing from our qualitative data from in-depth interviews with resettled refugees (<i>N</i> = 20) and agency workers (<i>N</i> = 15), we adopt a grounded theory approach and find that the burden of responsibility for both caregiving and administrative responsibilities can overtax agency workers and create unrealistic expectations for refugee newcomers that can potentially have lasting negative effects on their resettlement. We explore the relationships among refugees and service providers and propose a self-efficacy focused rather than solely a trust-focused approach that prioritises opportunities of reciprocity for refugees that enables them to engage, contribute and be agents in their resettlement (self-efficacy approach). This primarily includes delegating some trust-building activities to diaspora to relieve resettlement agency workers of burdensome tasks for which they may be ill-equipped, so they may focus on tasks for which they are qualified and can be more effective. Ultimately, we argue that empowering refugees early on in their resettlement will reduce the likelihood that they will develop long-term reliance on governmental agencies rather than themselves and their new communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598538","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":"How Transit Countries Become Refugee Destinations: Insights From Central and Eastern Europe","authors":"Ciprian Panzaru, Liliana Harding","doi":"10.1111/imig.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how refugees' destination preferences evolve during transit, focusing on three Central and Eastern European countries—Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary—traditionally regarded as ‘transit only’ prior to the Ukraine refugee crisis. Using a mixed-methods approach, we first analyse 2252 observations from the International Organisation for Migration's Flow Monitoring Surveys to identify the main factors influencing changes in destination choices. We then complement these findings with qualitative data from focus groups with 16 asylum seekers in Romania to explore these dynamics in depth. Our results show that prioritising safety significantly increases the likelihood of asylum seekers reconsidering a transit country as a potential destination. Other influential factors include asylum conditions, migration costs, and educational background, with more educated individuals more likely to revise initial plans. Although our primary focus is on asylum seekers, we find that high migration costs also affect decisions, suggesting a need to ‘recover’ investments through settlement in more stable or economically attractive countries. The qualitative findings support the quantitative results, highlighting the role of legal stability, social networks, and perceived opportunity in shifting preferences. Overall, the study suggests that under certain conditions, transit countries can become viable destinations and supports the application of bounded rationality and human capital theory in understanding refugee decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144589652","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}