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{"title":"‘You would never pick up the thread from where you left off’: Older Irish women migrants' narratives of non‐return, post‐retirement","authors":"Louise Ryan, Neha Doshi","doi":"10.1111/imig.13321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13321","url":null,"abstract":"There is growing interest in the extent of post‐retirement return among migrants. However, most research focuses on those approaching or soon after retirement, e.g. in their 60s. Less is known about how return, and indeed non‐return, decision‐making evolves in later years, with calls for more research on migrants in the old‐old age groups. Moreover, there are indications that women migrants may be less inclined to return than their male counterparts. Our article seeks to advance understanding in this area of research by drawing upon rich qualitative data from Irish women migrants, who worked as nurses in Britain and are now entering older age, e.g. 70s–80s. Many simply asserted that they could not leave their adult children and grandchildren. However, using the embedding framework, through a life course lens, we argue that non‐return may reflect complex processes of disembedding and non‐belonging in the origin country – which are less easy to articulate.","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141880322","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":"Social networks as double‐edged swords: Understanding the impact of relational positivity and negativity on Hungarian migrants' return experiences","authors":"Dorottya Hoór, Elisa Bellotti","doi":"10.1111/imig.13313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13313","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines how relational positivity and negativity within personal networks shape the return experiences of Hungarian migrants. Previous studies have hinted at the potential ‘dark side’ to personal networks for returnees, but no research has explored how different types of positive and negative ties impact return experiences. To address this gap, the study collected personal network data from 69 returning migrants in Hungary and analysed the effects of social support, relational negativity, and ambivalence on their self‐evaluated return experience score. The findings reveal that migrants' return experiences are significantly influenced by both relational positivity and negativity, affected by factors such as relational context, emotional closeness, geographical location, and social status. Particularly, relationships with family members and romantic partners are susceptible to relational negativity, which can adversely affect return experiences.","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141880323","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":"Migrant children and inequality in twenty-first-century Spain: The risk of living with no working adults in times of crisis","authors":"Jacobo Muñoz-Comet,&nbsp;Albert F. Arcarons","doi":"10.1111/imig.13310","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.13310","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the impact of the crises on the level of inequality between native and migrant origin children in twenty-first-century Spain. We use microdata from the Spanish Labour Force Survey (2000–2022) to study the risk for migrant and native children of living in a household with no working adults. We hypothesize that the assimilation of the immigrant population—after more than two decades in the country—might have contributed to reducing the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Results show that the 2008 crisis substantially increased the gap between migrant and native children, while the impact of the pandemic has been milder. Moreover, social origin has a stronger protective effect for native children compared with children with a migrant background, especially during periods of economic downturn. However, we find that among children of low social origin, migrant children are less likely to live in a household with no working adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.13310","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857772","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":"Deploying an ageing-astute lens in migration studies: Current research and future directions","authors":"Alistair Hunter,&nbsp;Sandra Torres","doi":"10.1111/imig.13301","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.13301","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In respect of international migration, some 281 million people were estimated to live outside their country of origin as of 2020, roughly equivalent to the population of Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country (UNDESA, <span>2020b</span>). Bringing both demographic drivers into focus, 9.3% of the global population are aged over 65, yet migrants aged 65+ comprise 12.3% of the world's international migrant stock (equivalent to 34 million people) (Kelley et al., <span>2024</span>). According to a joint report by the OECD and European Commission, ‘elderly migrants are a growing group of concern (…) Foreign-born populations are getting older in most OECD and EU countries’ (OECD/European Commission, <span>2023</span>: 152; see also Fargues, this issue, for a detailed discussion on similar trends in the MENA region).</p><p>As with population trends, so with research trends. Academic interest in the intersection of migration and ageing has grown considerably since scholars first began to explore this terrain in the late 1990s and early 2000s (Sayad, <span>2001</span>; Warnes et al., <span>2004</span>), part of a broader recognition of the diversification and globalisation of international migration at this time, as exemplified in the leading textbook <i>The Age of Migration</i>, now in its sixth edition (de Haas et al., <span>2020</span>). The commission by Edward Elgar Press of the <i>Handbook on Migration and Ageing</i>, which we co-edited (Torres &amp; Hunter, <span>2023</span>), is validation that research at the intersection of migration and ageing is by now sufficiently consolidated to warrant its first reference work.</p><p>In organising and structuring the handbook, we departed from the ageing-migration nexus framework proposed by King et al. (<span>2017</span>). A nexus approach proposes a holistic view of ageing and migration as ‘entwined trajectories’ (ibid: 182), expanding the range of actors who are implicated in this field beyond the purview of older migrants per se, notwithstanding the heterogeneity observed in these populations. Thus, the ageing-migration nexus also draws attention to, for example, older people ‘left behind’ by migrating family members (Lenoël, <span>2023</span>), as well as the large proportion of migrant workers (often female) employed in the eldercare industry in countries of the Global North (Amrith, <span>2023</span>).</p><p>Our entry point is to present the key concepts within migration studies and gerontology that form the basis for scholarship at the intersection of ageing and migration. The notion of the life course is central here, and gerontologists Katz and Grenier (<span>2023</span>: 14) argue that ‘life course research advances studies of migration and ageing by illustrating how human stories and their varying pathways are situated across multiple places and points in time’, thereby offering a corrective to long-held assumptions (in policy circles and public discourse more widely) that migrati","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.13301","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857770","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 and migration. Reflection on an emerging nexus and application to the Middle East and northern Africa","authors":"Philippe Fargues","doi":"10.1111/imig.13304","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.13304","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857773","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":"Rosenthal, Jill. 2023. From Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border. Durham: Duke University Press. pp. 203.","authors":"Deo Mwapinga","doi":"10.1111/imig.13294","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.13294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857768","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":"Unveiling the missing pieces: Addressing research gaps in tackling loneliness among older migrants","authors":"Tineke Fokkema","doi":"10.1111/imig.13300","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.13300","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Older migrants have long been an overlooked population (Fokkema &amp; Ciobanu, <span>2021</span>). While gerontological research has a rather colour-blind history, migration research has predominantly focused on younger migrant populations (e.g., recent newcomers and second-generation). Especially in longstanding immigration countries, older migrants today represent a substantial segment of the ageing population (OECD/European Union, <span>2023</span>), and their numbers are expected to increase significantly in the near future (Apt, <span>2018</span>; also see Fargues this issue). There is also growing awareness of the specific vulnerabilities of older migrants arising from the intersection of ageing and migration (Ciobanu et al., <span>2017</span>). As a result, research on older migrants has gained momentum in recent years, encompassing a wide array of topics (see Torres and Hunter (<span>2023</span>) and the commentary in this issue for a nice illustration of this).</p><p>One of the vulnerabilities faced by older migrants is loneliness – the perceived discrepancy between the quality and/or quantity of an individual's actual and desired social relationships (Peplau &amp; Perlman, <span>1982</span>). Quantitative studies to date show, almost without exception, that older migrants on average report substantially higher levels of loneliness compared with their native-born counterparts (Dolberg et al., <span>2016</span>; Fokkema &amp; Naderi, <span>2013</span>; Lin et al., <span>2016</span>; Uysal-Bozkir et al., <span>2017</span>; van Tilburg &amp; Fokkema, <span>2021</span>; Wu &amp; Penning, <span>2015</span>). When older migrants are further differentiated by ethnicity, those from countries of origin with greater cultural and linguistic distance are particularly prone to experiencing above-average levels of loneliness. In Great Britain, for instance, older migrants from India showed a loneliness prevalence similar to that of the native-born (8% versus 9%), whereas it was much higher for older migrants from the Caribbean (24%) and even more so for those from Bangladesh (40%), China (40%), Pakistan (50%), and Africa (50%) (Victor et al., <span>2012</span>). In Canada, older migrants are on average lonelier than their native-born age peers, except for those who migrated from Britain or France (de Jong Gierveld et al., <span>2015</span>) and identify themselves as British or French (Wu &amp; Penning, <span>2015</span>).</p><p>Addressing loneliness, especially when it becomes chronic, is paramount due to its detrimental effects on physical and mental health. Prolonged loneliness increases the risk of health issues such as cardiovascular disease, accelerated cognitive decline, dementia, depression, anxiety disorders, and even premature all-cause mortality (Cachón-Alonso et al., <span>2023</span>; Holt-Lunstad et al., <span>2015</span>; Holwerda et al., <span>2014</span>; Park et al., <span>2020</span>). Loneliness may also lead to unhealthy coping","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.13300","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857771","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":"‘In-betweeners’ in turbulent times: Migrants in the epicentre of diverse ‘crises’ in the Americas and Europe","authors":"Ana Margheritis,&nbsp;Anastasia Bermúdez,&nbsp;Gioconda Herrera,&nbsp;Beatriz Padilla","doi":"10.1111/imig.13292","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.13292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857769","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":"European migration governance in the context of uncertainty","authors":"Mathias Czaika, Heidrun Bohnet, Federica Zardo, Jakub Bijak","doi":"10.1111/imig.13308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13308","url":null,"abstract":"Migration inherently embodies uncertainty and dynamism, eluding precise conceptualization, definition and measurement. Embedded within intricate migration driver environments and shaped by the diverse agency of actors involved—prospective migrants, intermediaries and policymakers—migration defies easy prediction and effective policy response. This inherent complexity within international migration flows poses immediate and long‐term governance challenges. This paper delves into the impact of migration‐related uncertainty on European migration governance. We scrutinize how uncertainty shapes migration policy responses and investigate the roles of key actors in assessing and communicating various facets of migration‐related uncertainty. Employing illustrative cases—the Syrian refugee situation and environmentally induced migration—we uncover how uncertainty influences European migration governance and policymaking. Our study sheds light on the interplay between migration uncertainty and governance processes. The findings emphasize the need for nuanced policy approaches to navigate the complexities inherent in international migration processes.","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141768558","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 inflation nexus under high and low interest rate environments: Some panel data evidence","authors":"Afees A. Salisu, Rabia Abdul Muhammad, Mojeed O. Saliu","doi":"10.1111/imig.13312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13312","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzes the relationship between migration and inflation as well as the intervening role of interest rates in selected OECD countries from 1995 to 2020, covering periods of turbulence and tranquillity. The study finds that migration increases inflation in the short run but lowers it in the long run. In other words, the inflationary effect of migration is a long‐run phenomenon. Additionally, we find that the high interest rates help mitigate the inflationary effect of migration in the short run relative to the low interest rates. Moreover, additional analysis using the panel threshold technique further lends credence to the mediating role of interest rates in the nexus, thus making our results robust to alternative estimation techniques. These findings have significant implications for policymakers responsible for managing inflation.","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141730564","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}