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{"title":"Interoperability and the multiple modes of ordering in Europe's digital border regime","authors":"Paul Trauttmansdorff,&nbsp;Chiara Loschi","doi":"10.1111/imig.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on qualitative interview data and document analysis, this article traces the making of interoperability between databases as a policy response to Europe's crisis-laden management of migration. It argues that, rather than adhering to a singular logic, the policy enacts several modes of ordering through which actors employ distinct meanings and rationales, deal with challenges and complexities, and evoke continuity and/or disruption in the digital bordering of migration. Specifically, four ordering patterns are identified: interoperability as a technological project, as database (re-)administration, as legal configuration and as political vision. Each mode assembles and performs the interoperability policy differently, uses modes of expression, proposes certain problems and interventions and also engenders forms of othering. Therefore, this article examines interoperability in the border regime as an example of how the digitization of borders and migration is driven by multiple—and partially conflicting—rationales and ordering intentions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793358","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":"IOM's WAKA Well unravelled: A multimodal discourse analysis of an internet-based migration-information campaign","authors":"Gaetano Giancaspro","doi":"10.1111/imig.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Most migration-information campaigns (MICs) funded by European countries or the European Union (EU) itself, with the collaboration of international and transnational organisations, have been targeting central and western Africa as origin areas for several undocumented migrants. In 2019, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched <i>WAKA Well</i>, an innovative campaign in the form of a website designed to provide young people from several African countries with information about risks associated with irregular migration and local opportunities. Using a multimodal discourse analysis (MMDA) methodology, the study identifies and discusses discourses and communicative strategies involved in the design of the <i>WAKA Well</i> campaign, by analysing the construction of meaning across its web pages and the logico-semantic relations between elements on the website. As such, the work enriches the state of the art on MICs by providing it with the first in-depth website analysis that accounts for the intrinsic multimodal nature of this type of campaign. The paper confirms previous findings from the existing literature revolving around the overgeneralisation of the campaign's target and the quantitative and qualitative prevalence of immobility over mobility in its contents, but also shows that such preference occurs regardless of the (ir)regularity of the journey. Unlike other campaigns, <i>WAKA Well</i> also displays an unexpected visual silence over human trafficking and a greater focus on local opportunities, often conveyed through images evoking patriotic feelings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793357","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 production of a ‘digital citizen’: citizen-migrant conundrum through the National Register of Citizens in India","authors":"Professor Manish K Jha,&nbsp;Dr. Anindita Chakrabarty","doi":"10.1111/imig.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article takes cognizance of a citizenship register called the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and comprehends it within the larger framework of a digital citizenship discourse. The NRC is a register that documents ‘authentic citizens’, based on documentary evidence, termed as the ‘legacy data’ (lineage of forefathers), and proof of residence of persons before a cut-off date of 24 March 1971. In the regional context of Assam, the NRC co-opts to the global sway of digitization of identities. The article examines how the digitization of citizenship defines eligibility for availing public services and thereby investigates the need to be included in a datafied citizenship repository that sorts and segregates citizens from non-citizens. The digital infrastructure, thus created, is presented as a panacea for the unresolved and complex issue of illegal migration, doubtful voters and citizenship. The article explains that the NRC works within a digital systems and technologies surveillance framework to track, control and manage populations, segregating the ‘legitimate from the “illegitimate” or doubtful residents’. In so doing, it engages with the documentation exercise that records the lineage and identity of people to make welfare accessible to the digitized kins of the legitimate forefather citizen. It engages with the concept of residence and explores how a digital citizenship regime shapes the relationship between the state and its inhabitants.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778236","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 Rohingya dilemma: Exploring the challenges of local integration in Bangladesh","authors":"Mohammad Musfequs Salehin,&nbsp;Md. Aslam Hossain","doi":"10.1111/imig.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The forced migration of the long-persecuted Rohingya minority group from the Rakhine State of Myanmar has created a chronic refugee crisis in neighbouring Bangladesh. This paper examines the potential for, and challenges to, local integration of the Rohingya into Bangladesh. Based on interview data, this paper analyses the factors that facilitated the de facto local integration of Rohingya into Bangladeshi society prior to the huge influx of Rohingya in 2017. It argues that cultural proximity factors (language, culture and religious beliefs), similarities in physical appearance, and intermarriage facilitated the establishment of robust social bonds and the subsequent acquisition of identity documents among those Rohingya who arrived earlier. Furthermore, the paper elucidates the formidable challenges to the de facto local integration process experienced by Rohingya who arrived during or after August 2017. These challenges go beyond heightened governmental restrictions, extending to an escalation of criminal activities within refugee camps, heightened levels of insecurity with the host community and a pervasive undercurrent of mistrust. The predicament is further exacerbated by economic constraints and mounting demographic pressures, which complicate the potential pathways to local integration for this specific cohort of Rohingya.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778237","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 governance between sovereignty, security and rights: An analysis of the literature","authors":"Bridget Collrin,&nbsp;Harald Bauder","doi":"10.1111/imig.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The concept of migration governance has captured scholarly attention in recent decades. In this paper, we present the results of a bibliometric analysis and a scoping review of this concept and explore how it is defined by authors across the social sciences. Based on our sample of literature, we find that a majority of definitions assume a state-sovereignty perspective of migration governance, leading to discussions that can fail to account for the role of migrant rights and autonomy. Our review reflects upon this result and discusses other findings on the conflation of migration governance with migration management and on the significance of externalized, multi-level and transnational migration governance in the literature. We conclude that migration governance is a complex concept that must pay closer attention to migrant rights and autonomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143770413","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":"Family separation and COVID-19: The impact of international border restrictions on refugees in Australia","authors":"Tadgh McMahon,&nbsp;Sukhmani Khorana,&nbsp;Ingrid Culos,&nbsp;Liam Magee,&nbsp;Emilie Baganz","doi":"10.1111/imig.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>COVID-19 resulted in global restrictions on migration, with pronounced consequences in Australia, where the resettlement of refugees was significantly curtailed from March 2020. This research, comprising a third phase in an ongoing study on refugee settlement and integration, seeks to understand the broader implications of these restrictions on family separation and reunion among resettled refugees in Australia. Employing a mixed-method approach of surveys and family interviews conducted in late 2021, we explored various themes that emerged from the pandemic's effects on family reunion, such as concerns about living difficulties, maintaining contact with family overseas, financial hardship, and reunion challenges specific to the pandemic. The findings reveal the negative impact of COVID-19 on refugees' ability to reunite with families, with evidence pointing to differences between gender, visa category, and language group/ethnicity. The research underscores the need for innovative approaches in resettlement to address the negative impacts of family separation and for governments to expedite family reunion pathways to alleviate isolation and uncertainty among resettled refugees.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143770414","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":"Resettlement of the first wave of Syrian refugees in Canada: Language training, employment-related services and employment income","authors":"Yuchen Li,&nbsp;Michael Haan","doi":"10.1111/imig.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper uses a unique, linked administrative data file to examine the impact of language training and employment-related services on the employment income of the first wave of Syrian refugees admitted to Canada between 2015 and 2016. The analysis reveals a significant positive relationship between refugees' access to employment-related services and higher employment income. However, this positive effect is not observed for participants in language training programs. The economic benefits of employment-related services are more pronounced for Privately Sponsored Refugees and Blended Visa Office-Referred Refugees than for Government Assisted Refugees. This disparity may be attributed to refugees' greater reliance on bridging social capital rather than on support from government agencies. Additionally, employment-related services are more effective in larger urban centres than in mid-sized or smaller communities. These findings highlight the importance of enhancing settlement service delivery in smaller and mid-sized communities to improve refugee labour market outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143749838","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":"Ageing of returnees to Morocco: Residential strategies under constraint?","authors":"Jordan Pinel","doi":"10.1111/imig.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The end of a person's active life is often a key moment in the emergence of new life projects involving, in particular, important issues linked to the choice of the place of residence or even the adoption of poly-residence practices. It is within this framework that many retired Moroccan immigrants in France choosing to return to Morocco as a residential choice for retirement are to be found in this particular situation. One option is a return migration to Morocco. However, the alternative to a move to Morocco often turns into Moroccans leading transnational lives which, in view of the ageing process, can be a questionable practice. Thus, this article analyses the different residential and mobility strategies implemented by ageing Moroccan immigrants. Have these retirees taken ageing into consideration in their residential strategies? The article is based on a survey conducted between 2017 and 2019 in the Souss-Massa region (Morocco) among 20 Moroccan retirees either returning permanently to Morocco or in regular circulation between France and Morocco. The article shows that the ageing of these ‘returning’ migrants raises several challenges of a financial, health and social isolation nature and that their care practices are transnational. Ageing sometimes implies changes in their initial residential and migratory projects. This could involve, for example, a wish to be reunited with the family, adapting their residential requirements and considering new mobility. However, we will also see that those without dual nationality and in precarious situations find their migration projects and residential choices restrained, particularly by difficulties in accessing certain social rights.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689747","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":"Pondering the non-return of ageing migrants in the Finnish–Russian everyday transnational context","authors":"Olga Davydova-Minguet,&nbsp;Pirjo Pöllänen","doi":"10.1111/imig.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the Finnish–Russian migratory context, return migration does not exist as such. In this article, we examine the non-return migration of Russian-speaking elderly migrants through the lens of the transnational everyday. The transnational everyday of Russians in Finland has, until recently, enabled their back-and-forth trips from Finland to Russia. The combination of Finnish and Russian migratory regimes, welfare policies, closeness of places of birth and dwelling, as well as the constantly changing and tightening geopolitical situation can be seen as explanations for the almost non-existent return migration. This article also questions the concept of the ‘host’ and the ‘home’ society and explains that, in everyday transnational reality, which is lived ‘in between’ the ‘host’ and the ‘home’ concepts do not meet the lived experience of immigrants. The article is based on our long-term ethnographic work on immigration in the Finnish province North Karelia since the beginning of the 2000s. We have used ethnographic data (interviews, observations, ethnographic and autoethnographic notes) accumulated during our long-term studies in the Finnish–Russian border area. We are committed to a transnational multisited methodology. Additionally, our view is situated in border and everyday ethnography and in narrative ethnography. As a result of the study, we conclude that the contemporary geopolitical situation with the closure of the border in 2023 forces elderly Russian-speaking immigrants to become immobile, or at least diminish their travels to Russia. The everyday transnational ties of Russian speakers in Finland are now possible only in virtual forms or through laborious and expensive back-and-forth trips through Estonia, Norway, Turkey or some other third countries. This situation has tied elderly Russian speakers even more closely to Finnish society and its welfare system. The closure of the border has affected social ties of ageing Russian immigrants in different ways: Some are keen to keep up social relations despite political disagreement, but some social relations have, however, severed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689746","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":"What migrant narratives can tell us about the role of class in migration (and about class in general)","authors":"Maja Cederberg","doi":"10.1111/imig.70019","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.70019","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Social class is undoubtedly an important aspect of international migration. Socio-economic factors contribute to shaping access to mobility and decisions to migrate, while migration often entails a reconfiguration of class positions following trajectories of upwards, downwards or ‘contradictory’ class mobility (Cederberg, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;; Parrenas, &lt;span&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;). Class is also an important dimension of the growing distinction between ‘wanted’ and ‘unwanted’ migrants in political discourse and migration policy (Bonjour &amp; Chauvin, &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;), and different kinds of class-based resources impact migrants' rights, opportunities and experiences (Cederberg, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;; Van Hear, &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While social class had been less of a focus than other structures of inequality in migration research for some time, the topic has gained more attention recently, and it has been studied from different angles. In my research, I have addressed class as one of several social structures and axes of inequality that intersect to shape migrants' experiences and positions in different ways, and that impact on the broader process of social integration. For exploring the role of class in migration, I have found narrative interviews to be valuable tools (e.g. Riessman, &lt;span&gt;2008&lt;/span&gt;). In narrative interviews, research participants are asked to talk freely about their experiences of and perspectives on different issues and areas; in turn, the interviewer may pick up on points that have been made or events that have been mentioned, or highlight issues that may not have been addressed thus far in the interview, and ask for further or additional narrations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using this method can provide access to rich, detailed information about migrants’ class trajectories and how they are positioned in class hierarchies in different social contexts, which is important when studying class in a transnational setting (Kelly &amp; Lusis, &lt;span&gt;2006&lt;/span&gt;; Nowicka, &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;). For instance, an increase in income that enables socio-economic advancement for one's family in the sending country context may be accompanied by professional downgrading and a decline in social status in the receiving country. Migrants may also enjoy a different position and status within the migrant community, on the one hand, and majority society, on the other, which makes the picture even more complex (Kelly, &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;, cf. Anthias, &lt;span&gt;2002&lt;/span&gt;). Through narrative interviews, we can also gain insights into different aspects of class, including both material and symbolic dimensions (Anthias, &lt;span&gt;2001&lt;/span&gt;). I should note here that my understanding of class is informed by the ‘cultural turn’ in research on social class, inspired by Bourdieu's class theory (e.g. &lt;span&gt;1984&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;1986&lt;/span&gt;). This means attending to not only occupation, income, property and wealth, but also a range of non-economic resources that contribute to class inequali","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143672511","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}