{"title":"Rhetoric and Storytelling Within the U.S. Asylum Process: Shelter RhetoricsBy Mónica Reyes, New York: Routledge, 2025. 127 pp. $53.59 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-1-03-238285-2.","authors":"Ayşegül Balta Özgen","doi":"10.1111/imig.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144934912","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":"A Multi-Level Migration System Between Regions of Origin and the European Hexagon of Attraction","authors":"Dumitru Sandu","doi":"10.1111/imig.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70092","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>International migration systems are, usually, addressed from the perspective of networks between migration flows that have countries of origin and destination as units of analysis. This paper proposes a complementary approach in which the units restricting migration networks are national sub-regions at origin and countries at destination. What gives specificity to such migration systems based on a kind of conditional selectivity of emigration? How can the validity of such systems be tested? The methodology we propose to answer such questions is applied to the case of emigration from Romania. Regions of origin and six countries of destination of recent migration are linked through flows that structure the analysed migration system. The analysis highlights changes between emigration flows to Italy, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, France and Austria, during the 2011–2021 intercensary period. Recent emigration flows are specified by reference to NUTS 3 regions, differentiated by urban and rural residential areas. Emigration contexts are highlighted by multiple regression analyses and factor analysis.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144934911","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}
Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, Loren Collingwood, Michael Ahn Paarlberg, Jordin Tafoya
{"title":"The Sanctuary Scale: Measuring Immigrant Protections in Cities of Refuge","authors":"Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, Loren Collingwood, Michael Ahn Paarlberg, Jordin Tafoya","doi":"10.1111/imig.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Researchers broadly define sanctuary cities as localities with policies that limit local cooperation or participation in federal immigration enforcement, but this is often a binary definition. Existing scholarship has examined the roles that sanctuary cities play in limiting cooperation in federal immigration enforcement but has tended to rely on an inconsistent definition of what constitutes a ‘sanctuary city’. Much of the existing research also analytically treats sanctuary cities the same, regardless of the individual components of a given policy. To address these shortcomings, we draw on a content analysis of 379 municipal policies passed from 1971 to 2021, coding each policy along a seven-point scale originally developed by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC). We draw on individual city case studies to illustrate each component of the scale and then score each locality from one to seven based on a content analysis of the policy's text. We demonstrate that policies vary in the limits they place on cooperation in federal immigration enforcement and that these limits vary geographically and temporally. We find that sanctuary policies have added new components over time, as federal immigration policies and agencies have changed, with the most comprehensive policies passed after Trump won the presidency in 2016.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144929821","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 European Union's Governmentality of Climate-Induced Migration: A Need for Reconceptualisation","authors":"Özge Bozkaya","doi":"10.1111/imig.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Climate change has been irreversibly increasing its impact on human migration. This issue calls for an inclusive protection framework worldwide. In this context, one could expect the European Union (EU), a leading actor in global climate governance, to pioneer a more holistic conceptual framework for climate migration. However, the EU's rationality tends to portray a different picture in policymaking. This study conducts a content analysis of 62 selected legal and other acts between 2009 and 2024 to evaluate the EU's governmentality of climate migration. The use of climate change and migration-related concepts, both separately and interrelatedly, is analysed using MAXQDA through both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The research theoretically benefits from Michel Foucault's governmentality perspective. It finds that the conceptualisation and human rights-based approach (HRBA) of the EU to climate-induced migration are notably limited in the documents. The EU's governmentality of climate-induced migration reveals itself as slow-moving policymaking.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144905500","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":"Through the Lens of Perception: Unpacking Subjectivity in Brazil's Refugee Status Determination","authors":"Flavia Rodrigues de Castro","doi":"10.1111/imig.70093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70093","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Credibility assessment is critical in refugee status determination processes both in Brazil and around the world. The unusual circumstances of asylum, often marked by a lack of documentation or material evidence, emphasise the importance of applicants' narratives. As a result, determining who qualifies as a refugee is based on validating the truthfulness of these claims. This article analyses, via qualitative research and interviews, how Brazil's decision-making framework does not eradicate subjectivity but redistributes it, culminating in a collective subjectivity that affects asylum outcomes. This study contests the notion that credibility assessment is solely a matter of technical expertise and exposes subjectivity as an intrinsic element of asylum cases, even within democratic systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144905580","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}
Ingrid Ríos-Rivera, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero, Mariia Makarenko, Denisse Salazar, Rafaela Villao, Claudia Navarrete, Constanza Trujillo
{"title":"Between ‘Approval’ and ‘Rejection’: Non-Resident Citizens' Vote Choice in Constitutional Plebiscites","authors":"Ingrid Ríos-Rivera, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero, Mariia Makarenko, Denisse Salazar, Rafaela Villao, Claudia Navarrete, Constanza Trujillo","doi":"10.1111/imig.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines how the political resocialisation of Chilean emigrants shapes their electoral preferences in constitutional plebiscites. We propose a set of hypotheses linking democracy levels in residence countries, prior electoral experience, ideology, and exposure to constitutional reforms abroad to voting behaviour. Using both administrative and individual-level data, our analysis yields three key findings. First, Chileans residing in less democratic countries than Chile are more likely to reject constitutional plebiscites. Second, while prior electoral experience and partisan ideology contribute to stable voting patterns, exposure to constitutional reforms in residence countries does not significantly shape non-residents' vote choices. Third, individual-level evidence underscores the role of democratic pluralism, prior voting participation, ideology, and socioeconomic factors in structuring electoral behaviour abroad. By situating non-resident Chilean voters within broader debates on migrant political participation, this study provides insights into how transnational experiences shape electoral engagement in origin-country politics.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144881108","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}
Radzuwan Ab Rashid, Omar Ali Al-Smadi, Raed Al-Ramahi, Marwan Harb Alqaryouti, Umair Munir Hashmi
{"title":"A Discourse Analysis of Syrian Refugee Learners' Reflective Accounts of Returning to Syria From Jordan","authors":"Radzuwan Ab Rashid, Omar Ali Al-Smadi, Raed Al-Ramahi, Marwan Harb Alqaryouti, Umair Munir Hashmi","doi":"10.1111/imig.70088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70088","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper is part of a larger study investigating the educational experiences of Syrian refugees in Jordan. It explores the reflective accounts of 129 Syrian refugee university learners in Jordan, collected during the third week following the fall of Bashar al-Assad, a period marked by significant political transition and the voluntary return of nearly 60 000 Syrians. Using a discursive analytical approach, the research investigates how language reflects the learners' decisions about returning to Syria or remaining in Jordan. The analysis identifies key language strategies, including the use of conditional framing to express hypothetical scenarios, modal verbs to convey future intentions, affective language that positions education as both a personal and collective responsibility, concessive structures to navigate the interplay of familial support, financial constraints, and educational aspirations, temporal framing that situates actions within a specific time context, a combination of agentive verbs, intensification, presupposition, and comparative evaluation. This study contributes to understanding the relationship between language, identity, and post-conflict reconstruction in refugee contexts by highlighting the language strategies employed by Syrian refugee learners at a pivotal historical moment. It thereby advances sociolinguistic understandings of how refugee learners use language to frame return as a morally situated decision shaped by displacement, education, and political change.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144869425","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":"International Cooperation on Migration Between the EU and Third Countries: Governing EU Borders in Invisible Spaces","authors":"Luc Leboeuf","doi":"10.1111/imig.70086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article addresses the consequences of the externalisation of EU border policies on the legal and institutional dynamics that govern those policies. Drawing on the analysis of legal and policy documents and interviews, which were conducted with expert public servants among EU institutions and in one EU member state (Belgium), the article argues that EU border policies are increasingly governed by ‘regimes of invisibility’—which mainly involve expert public servants who cooperate with their counterparts in informal settings and through informal agreements. The article shows how the emergence of those ‘regimes of invisibility’ is deeply connected with the mainstreaming of migration through all components of the EU foreign policy. This leads to broader use of the tools from the foreign policy toolbox, which often rely on informal forms of cooperation, as well as to greater involvement of institutional actors beyond officials within interior ministries, such as diplomats. The article further makes an initial attempt to unpack these ‘regimes of invisibility’ by showing their underlying institutional tensions and dynamics. Therefore, it discusses how public servants, with different institutional background and knowledge, conflict and cooperate in shaping EU relations with third countries in the field.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832780","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}
Fatemeh Bakhshalizadeh, Clinton Gudmunson, Kimberley Greder
{"title":"Do Resilience and Social Support Mitigate Fear of Deportation Among Latina Mothers?","authors":"Fatemeh Bakhshalizadeh, Clinton Gudmunson, Kimberley Greder","doi":"10.1111/imig.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous literature on Latinx immigrants in the US mostly focuses on the negative effects of fear of deportation on this population. However, limited studies highlight coping resources that can mitigate the fear of deportation. This quantitative study, through logistic regression and conservation of resource theory, explored how resilience and social support may influence fear of deportation among 130 rural Latina immigrant mothers in a Midwestern state. Findings revealed that resilience, receiving emotional support from family members, and earned income were associated with lower fear of deportation among Latina mothers in the study. Additionally, other types of social support, such as providing instrumental support to people outside of their household and receiving emotional support from friends, were associated with higher levels of fear of deportation among the mothers.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144811329","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}