Margaret Walton-Roberts, Vivien Runnels, Irudaya Rajan Sebastian, Atul Sood, Sreelekha Nair, Philomina Thomas, Corinne Packer, Ronald Labonté, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
{"title":"Sending State Perspectives on the Global Migration of Indian Nurses","authors":"Margaret Walton-Roberts, Vivien Runnels, Irudaya Rajan Sebastian, Atul Sood, Sreelekha Nair, Philomina Thomas, Corinne Packer, Ronald Labonté, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault","doi":"10.1111/imig.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>India has become one of the key sources for the global nursing labour force. While there is significant research on the experiences of Indian-trained nurses in destination countries and their motivations to migrate, relatively less work explores the role of the sending state in this policy field, and rarely are subregional differences considered. In this paper, we focus on the policies and processes that are designed to or otherwise affect nurse migration from India. We draw upon three sources of data: (1) a scoping review of published literature on health worker migration in India, (2) a survey of 1736 health workers in India and (3) interviews with 60 key political and organisational representatives across two regions of India—Kerala and Punjab—as well as from the Delhi Capital Region. Our assessment of the role of the Indian sending state in the international migration of nurses reveals the existence of contradictory policies that are regionally differentiated and distinct. These important subnational jurisdictional policies differ in terms of context, competencies and coherence in managing health worker migration and its resulting impacts on health systems. This research highlights the need to understand jurisdictional differences in any analysis of sending state perspectives on international health worker migration to more fully assess its implication for domestic health systems and changing dynamics in international migration.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782222","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}
Lisa Rathsam, Karlijn Haagsman, Karlien Strijbosch
{"title":"Return and Reintegration Experiences of Senegalese Female Migrants","authors":"Lisa Rathsam, Karlijn Haagsman, Karlien Strijbosch","doi":"10.1111/imig.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70083","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates the under-explored domains of intra-African return and reintegration of female returnees. Drawing on qualitative data from 23 semi-structured interviews with female returnees in Senegal in 2023, the research reveals how female migrants negotiate their reintegration with hegemonic norms of femininity and masculinity and how they position themselves in their families and communities after return. It elucidates how hegemonic norms, families and communities heavily shape the experiences of the women after returning. The findings emphasise the significance of gender-sensitive frameworks in academia and policymaking, advocating for a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by women within African return and reintegration contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70083","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144782223","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":"Which Policy Attributes Affect Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Uptake Among Ukrainian Evacuees in Japan?","authors":"Harunobu Saijo, Ghulam Dastgir Khan, Alina Repeshko, Truong Pham, Ichihashi Masaru","doi":"10.1111/imig.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>What attributes of assisted voluntary return and remigration (AVRR) policies are likely to increase acceptance? Governments have put increasing efforts into remigration, or the return of migrants to their countries of origin. Whereas existing research has focused extensively on the determinants of policy choices, the efficacy of particular policies enacted by governments, as well as other push/pull factors in the host and origin societies that influence remigration choices, there is little work on what attributes of an AVRR policy influence policy uptake. To this end, we conducted a randomised conjoint survey on 242 Ukrainian evacuees in Japan from June to July 2024 which at the time accommodated approximately 2600 Ukrainians fleeing the 2022 Russian invasion. We find that factors such as guarantee of housing in an area less affected by conflict and the identity of the policy provider increase policy acceptance probability. Surprisingly, even large increases in one-time payments had little influence on policy uptake. This paper is the first application of conjoint experiments to study which features of AVRR policy affect acceptance probability. This approach would be useful globally to understand the preferences of potential AVRR policy recipients in diverse contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144725609","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":"Beyond Economic and Educated: Reconceptualising Skill in EU Migration Policy Through Contextual Adaptability","authors":"Anton Neronov, Tuba Bircan","doi":"10.1111/imig.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Academic research and policy discussions commonly define ‘skill’ in migration through the lens of formal qualifications, focusing almost exclusively on economic migrants with tertiary educations. Our systematic review of scholarly literature on skilled migration to, from, and within the EU+ confirms this empirical pattern, revealing a persistent narrowing of the concept. This narrow framing has been widely critiqued within migration studies, particularly for its exclusion of refugees, family migrants, and those whose skills lie outside conventional educational metrics. In response to both these findings and the critical debate, we propose a novel reconceptualisation of ‘skill’ that incorporates the notion of contextual adaptability, a migrant's ability to translate and apply their competencies within specific socio-cultural and economic environments. This multidimensional framework more accurately reflects the diversity of migrant experiences and offers a more inclusive basis for EU migration policy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144705357","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}
Uma Jogulu, Maggie McAlinden, Melissa A. Parris, Juliana Mutum
{"title":"Skilled Migrants' Experiences of Othering, Alterity and Language Policing","authors":"Uma Jogulu, Maggie McAlinden, Melissa A. Parris, Juliana Mutum","doi":"10.1111/imig.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Australian Permanent Migration Program and related settlement services have been critical to Australia's success as a stable, democratic and culturally diverse nation. However, emerging research has revealed that this success may come with a high price for as many as one in four skilled migrants who find themselves employed beneath their level of education, expertise and experience, which we define as underemployment. We designed a study that sought to understand the settlement experiences of 36 Asia-Pacific-skilled migrants working as managers. Incorporating Spivak's concepts of subalternity, othering and alterity as a theoretical framework, our analysis uncovered how migrant identity intersected with the linguistic prejudice and othering that arose in migrants' everyday interactions with coworkers and employers. We found that the skilled migrants experienced linguistic prejudice and discrimination despite their high levels of English language proficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681591","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":"Comparative Analysis of Reintegration Policies","authors":"Katie Kuschminder, Kidjie Saguin","doi":"10.1111/imig.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The term ‘reintegration policies’ is increasing in utility within academic and policy communities. However, exactly what constitutes a reintegration policy is unclear, and the term is being operationalised within a conceptual vacuum. We define reintegration policies as instruments intended to address the social, economic, and political needs of returnees to facilitate their reintegration into society. In doing so, we consider five elements within a reintegration policy: (1) the target population; (2) the policy goals; (3) instruments; (4) administration and funding; and (5) the implementers of the policy. Three contemporary reintegration policies are compared and used as examples: the EU-IOM Joint Initiative on Migrant Protection and Reintegration, the Netherlands Subsidy Scheme for Supporting Voluntary Departure, and the Philippines reintegration policy for Overseas Foreign Workers. The results show that contemporary reintegration policies are diverse and manage trade-offs between migration management-led and protection-led reintegration policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681590","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":"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}