{"title":"Dragomir, Cristina-Ioana. 2023. Making the immigrant soldier: How race, ethnicity, class and gender intersect in the US military. Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. pp. 258.","authors":"Mitchell A. Orenstein","doi":"10.1111/imig.13250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"62 2","pages":"247-249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140342919","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":"Hwee-Hwa Chan, Felicity. 2022. Tensions in diversity: Spaces for collective life in Los Angeles. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 264","authors":"Norma Schemschat","doi":"10.1111/imig.13247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"62 2","pages":"242-244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140342946","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":"Feminist methodologies in migration research","authors":"Christina Clark-Kazak","doi":"10.1111/imig.13224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13224","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the context of a methodological turn in migration studies since the early 2000s, this commentary focuses on three key contributions of feminist methodologies in migration research over the past two decades. This is not to suggest that feminist methodologies are “new,” or that some of these methodological orientations were not present in earlier work, but rather to highlight methodologies rooted in feminist praxis that have become more prevalent in migration studies recently. This commentary focuses on questions of positionality and reflexivity, radical care and (co-)creative methodologies. This is not an exhaustive list but provides examples of the transformative and generative potential of feminist methodologies in migration studies (see also Cleton & Scuzzarello, this issue; Fresnoza-Flot, this issue).</p><p>Before delving into the details of these three methodological contributions, I outline here what I believe are feminist epistemologies and praxis. Feminism is aligned with critical approaches to epistemology that squarely centre power in the production and reproduction of knowledge (Kouri-Towe & Mahrouse, <span>2023</span>; Nawyn, <span>2010</span>; Silvey, <span>2004</span>). Rather than assuming “objectivity,” feminist researchers acknowledge that our research questions, methods, data collection and analysis are all embedded in particular contexts and ways of knowing. Feminist research also attends to divisions of labour – both in the research questions we ask, but also in the doing of research. How these different roles are valued and reflected in the research process and “outputs” are particularly feminist concerns. Feminist praxis is oriented in the process of research, but also, through critical epistemologies and ontologies, the changes that come about through our individual and collective work. Feminist researchers are not content to simply describe what is; we are driven to uncover and dismantle structures of oppression. Feminist methodologies therefore have the potential to be generative and transformative. In particular, they extend beyond studies explicitly focused on women or gender, to encompass ontological, epistemological, ethical and methodological approaches that can be applied to any research project.</p><p>Feminist researchers have normalized explicit positioning of researchers within intersecting power relations in their work (see Fresnoza-Flot, this issue). This reflexive positionality is particularly important in migration studies, where severe power inequities – between research participants and researchers, service providers and gatekeepers – result from precarious legal status, differential citizenship, and reliance on governments, intergovernmental organizations and NGOs for basic services (Clark-Kazak, <span>2021</span>). Migration experiences are diverse and affected by intersecting power relations rooted in racialization, gender, age, class, (dis)ability, religion, etc. (see Cleton & Scuzzarel","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"62 2","pages":"237-241"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.13224","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140342965","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":"Jones, Garett. 2022. The culture transplant: How migrants make the economies they move to a lot like the ones they left. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 228.","authors":"Yusuf Emre Akgündüz","doi":"10.1111/imig.13249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"62 2","pages":"245-246"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140342970","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":"Kanaaneh, Rhoda. 2023. The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality and Arab Asylum Seekers in America. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 194","authors":"Uğur Yıldız","doi":"10.1111/imig.13248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"62 2","pages":"250-252"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140343046","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":"Institutional quality and emigration nexus: Empirical evidence from Türkiye","authors":"Emrah Eray Akça, Onur Çelik","doi":"10.1111/imig.13258","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.13258","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study attempts to fill an important gap in the empirical literature by investigating the impact of institutional quality in destination countries on emigrants from Türkiye using bilateral migration data from 2010 through 2020. For this purpose, the study builds an augmented gravity model, including economic, geographic, and cultural variables in an exponential form and estimates it by the Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) method. Empirical results significantly confirm the pulling role of strong institutions in destination countries for emigrants from Türkiye since all institutional quality indicators are positively associated with emigrant movements, albeit just one of them, regulatory quality, is statistically insignificant. Among indicators of institutional quality, the most pulling ones for emigrants are voice and accountability and the rule of law, followed by government effectiveness, control of corruption, and political stability and absence of violence, respectively. Overall results indicate that institutions are front-line players in the emigrants' migration decision and destination choice process. In this context, policy-makers in both Türkiye and the destination country may implement an institutional policy considering the outcomes stemming from migration movements.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"62 3","pages":"3-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140340833","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":"Qualitative analysis of migrants' network data: Using conceptual reflexivity to reveal the ‘magic trick’","authors":"Alessio D'Angelo, Louise Ryan","doi":"10.1111/imig.13257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13257","url":null,"abstract":"While in recent years, qualitative social network analysis (SNA) has advanced considerably – particularly in migration research – there is still an overall tendency to focus more on issues of network structure and on the generation of data, rather than on how data can be interpreted and analysed qualitatively in practice. In this article, we discuss how a genuinely qualitative SNA should not only apply qualitative techniques in generating visual and oral network data but also in the analytical processes. Building on our earlier work, we advance methodological debates by presenting the idea of ‘conceptual reflexivity’: an awareness of how our thinking about networks and the ways in which we interact with participants – and the wider field – inform layers of meaning making. Using two recent examples from our migration research, we explore the inter‐subjectivity of the research encounter, offering insights into the ‘craft’ of qualitative SNA and the epistemological issues underpinning it. In doing so, we aim to make analytical processes more open and visible, to reveal, so to speak, what goes on behind the curtain: the ‘magic trick’ of how qualitative SNA is performed.","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140196165","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":"Democrats abroad: What motivates core activists to engage in political transnationalism?","authors":"Amanda von Klekowski von Koppenfels","doi":"10.1111/imig.13251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13251","url":null,"abstract":"Research into transnational political engagement of non‐resident citizens has largely focused on the Global South and less on the Global North. This article focuses on non‐resident United States citizens, or overseas Americans, asking what motivates them to become politically engaged. This article contributes insights to an insufficiently explored case. Drawing from 14 semi‐structured interviews with strongly politically engaged US citizens living abroad, this article shows that they engage in political activism for many of the same reasons as individuals from other countries, as well as ones which may be unique to the US case. Key factors include mobilising to change things at home, the role of the United States in the world, civic duty, fulfilling work and reactive transnationalism. The article concludes with policy recommendations and sets the scene for future comparative research, both within the Global North and between Global North and Global South non‐resident citizen groups.","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140162167","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":"Exploring the difference: Immigrant peers and the imagination of natives","authors":"Ana Alanis-Amaya, Carlos Vargas-Silva","doi":"10.1111/imig.13254","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.13254","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using data for the United States, we explore how interactions with immigrants during school age affect imagination during adulthood for native children. The analysis uses The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health survey and focuses on the impact of differences in the number of immigrants across cohorts within schools. Results suggest that exposure to immigrant classmates has positive effects on the long-term imagination of natives. Increasing the number of immigrants in the grade by 20 students, would increase the likelihood of reporting a high level of imagination during adulthood by three percentage points. We suggest that the effect is not coming via direct friendship with immigrant students, but through increasing exposure to diverse ideas and experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"62 2","pages":"3-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.13254","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140142112","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}
Maria Estela Rivero Fuentes, Tom Hare, Laura Miller-Graff
{"title":"Between a rock and a hard place: Multisystem resilience and Honduran youth migration intentions","authors":"Maria Estela Rivero Fuentes, Tom Hare, Laura Miller-Graff","doi":"10.1111/imig.13253","DOIUrl":"10.1111/imig.13253","url":null,"abstract":"<p>More is known about how ‘push factors’ motivate emigration and how immigrants adapt to their new environment than about psychological factors associated with migration intentions for those experiencing adversity in their country of origin. This paper explores the association between multisystem resilience and migration intentions among youth in Honduras. In this context of high economic need and contextual violence, higher levels of resilience are associated with higher levels of migration intentions among those who have a job and thus the ability to navigate or negotiate access to resources – economic, social and psychological – that make it possible to consider migration. Among those who have not been victims of violence and consequently may not have that motivation to migrate, higher levels of resilience are associated with lower migration intentions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"62 2","pages":"53-65"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140104980","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}