{"title":"An Extension of Migration Effectiveness Indices: Accounting for the Impact of Migration on Population Structure","authors":"Sechang Kim, Sang-Il Lee","doi":"10.1002/psp.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study introduces the age-weighted migration effectiveness index (AWMEI), a new metric that integrates age-specific variation into a single measure of migration effectiveness. Traditional indices, such as the migration effectiveness index (MEI) and age-specific MEI (ASMEI), effectively address the first aspect of migration effectiveness—population redistribution—but overlook the second aspect—transformation of the composition of regional populations. The AWMEI bridges this gap by weighting net migration flows according to their age structure, offering comprehensive insights into migration's dual impacts. Applied to South Korea's internal migration data (2001–2022), the AWMEI uncovers patterns previously obscured by conventional measures. Nationally, an increasing divergence between AWMEI and MEI reveals growing age disparities in migration patterns. At regional and local scales, the AWMEI highlights substantial age-specific population shifts even where traditional indices indicate minimal migration effectiveness. Amid broader spatial demographic transitions, the AWMEI provides a robust analytical framework for capturing migration's demographic implications. Its inherent adaptability further allows broad application across diverse dimensions of population composition and various research contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144171834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving Back and Forth: A Longitudinal Approach to Analyze Migration Trajectories","authors":"Hanzhi Hu","doi":"10.1002/psp.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Migration and its implications are key research topics in population studies. Although scholars argue for a paradigm shift to examine migration from a life-course perspective, the central body of empirical studies treated migration as a one-off event. Joining the recent growing studies that focus on migration trajectories, this study proposes a new approach to identify distinct migration trajectories and examine their consequences by considering the directions and frequencies of migrations. This study uses prospective data from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2010–2020 to demonstrate the method and integrates with the fixed-effect model to estimate the impacts of the migration trajectories of the internal rural–urban child migrants on their educational attainment. Four migration trajectories were identified during the 10 years of observations, including migrant stayers, return migrants and circular migrants of different directions. Results illustrate their heterogeneities and educational consequences. The impact of one's migration trajectory on education is determined by the direction (to rural or to urban) of the transition and the accumulated effects of every transition.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144171714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Diaspora Engagement Policies Promote Loyal Ethnic Lobbying? Empirical Analysis of Turkey's Policies and the Lobbying Capacity of its Diaspora in Germany","authors":"Alfonso Giordano, Laura Sparascio","doi":"10.1002/psp.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines how sending governments engage their diasporas for lobbying purposes and the potential outcomes of such efforts. Using Turkey's diaspora in Germany as a case study, we apply an integrated framework combining insights from the diaspora engagement policies and ethnic lobbying literatures to address the question: To what extent is a sending country capable of mobilising its diaspora to lobby for its interests in the host country? We show that governments' policies can strengthen the diaspora lobbying capacity by enhancing the internal factors of ethnic lobbying success, such as political activity, unity, and collective identity. However, these efforts may provoke backlash from the host country, limiting the diaspora's access to political power and chances of successful lobbying. Moreover, when the group's interests diverge from the homeland's objectives, the diaspora may prioritise its own concerns, complicating states' efforts of mobilising a consistently loyal group. This study contributes to our understanding of state-diaspora relations by highlighting how states attempt to promote diaspora's lobbying and the complexity of such actions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144171296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Students to Movers: Linking Internal and International Migration Trajectories Among Spanish Bachelor's and Advanced Vocational Training Graduates","authors":"José David Lopez Blanco","doi":"10.1002/psp.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70050","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The relationship between internal and international migration has traditionally been overlooked in migration research. Seeking to bridge this divide, we examine the cumulative, socioeconomically selective and functionally differentiated nature of youth spatial mobility. Using harmonized microdata from two nationally representative surveys of bachelor's graduates and advanced vocational trainees from the 2013/2014 cohort, we examine the role of pre-graduation mobility, social origin and field of study in shaping postgraduation migration outcomes. Our findings show that any form of educational mobility is a strong predictor of subsequent migration. Migration trajectories are also stratified by parental education, with graduates from more privileged backgrounds more likely to engage in international or complex mobility paths. Additionally, migration motives and patterns vary by migration type and field of study, supporting a functional differentiation between internal and international mobility. These results highlight how different forms of mobility are embedded in cumulative life-course processes and socially structured opportunity regimes, underscoring the need for more integrated theoretical and policy approaches to youth migration.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144140399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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 Types of Public Services Matter? The Impact of Access to Public Services on the Urban Settlement Intention of Migrants in China","authors":"Ziming Liu, Yuan Zheng, Bintong Yu, Zhigang Wang","doi":"10.1002/psp.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examined which migrants accessed four types of urban public services including housing support, medical insurance, health records, and residence permits, and investigated the relative impacts of such accessibility of public services on the urban settlement intention of migrants. Using the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) data in 2017, our results show that migrants have selective access to public services in urban China. That is, migrants with a higher socioeconomic status (in their prime working years, with higher household income and educational attainments) are more likely to access urban public services. Then we find that such multiple public services all have positive but different effects on migrants' settlement intention, after eliminating bias due to the selective accessibility of migrants by propensity score matching analysis. The magnitude of the estimated effects of housing support and medical insurance is considerably higher than residence permits and health records.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144085158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Dimitria Groutsis, Joana Vassilopoulou, Cihat Erbil
{"title":"The Refugee Integration Industry: Stakeholder Power, Market Logic, and the (De)Humanisation of Refugee Labour","authors":"Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Dimitria Groutsis, Joana Vassilopoulou, Cihat Erbil","doi":"10.1002/psp.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper theorises the refugee integration industry by examining how institutional configurations and stakeholder arrangements shape labour market integration outcomes for refugees in Germany and Turkey. Drawing on Spender's theory of industrial recipes, we conceptualise the integration industry as a network of public, private and third-sector actors governed by competing logics of humanitarianism and market efficiency. Through a comparative case study approach based on more than 200 policy, institutional, and civil society sources, we demonstrate how power asymmetries and economic imperatives systematically marginalise refugees' human agency, producing both humanising and dehumanising effects. We introduce a fourfold typology of (de)humanitarianism, indifference, assimilation, integration and multiculturalism models that reveals how different national and organisational contexts mediate the moral, economic, and political tensions at the heart of refugee labour market integration. Despite stark contrasts in governance models and economic capacity, both countries institutionalise forms of exclusion that limit meaningful participation and recognition. Our analysis advances the theoretical understanding of the refugee integration industry as a contested and relational space where policy, discourse and institutional practice interact to shape refugee subjectivities and futures. In doing so, we call for more reflexive, inclusiv, and agency-centred approaches to integration that foreground social justice and co-determination.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-Survival to Pension Age in Denmark and Sweden: A Sub-National Investigation","authors":"Ilya Kashnitsky","doi":"10.1002/psp.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Mortality keeps improving even in the most developed countries. Deaths before senior age become more and more occasional and thus are increasingly considered unnecessary and perhaps even avoidable. Denmark belongs to the most developed countries of the world in terms of progress in lowering human mortality levels. Yet there is still much room for large improvements—compared to Sweden, the Danish population has almost the same survival profile up to age 50 but then there are striking differences in later ages. Between ages 50 and 65 about 10% of Danish males die while in Sweden this proportion is only about 7%. This paper explores the regularities of non-survival to pension age across Danish municipalities and compares them to ones in Sweden. The main focus of this exploration is identification of the spatial patterns based on the mortality characteristics of the population that are studied using the advanced spatial clustering algorithm. The methodological challenge resolved along the way is the construction of reliable life table estimates for the small municipal populations. The results suggest that the main reason for the observed gap between Danish and Swedish municipalities, especially for males, is the lagging behind development of the most deprived areas, which corresponds with the results on widening gaps along socioeconomic dimensions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fertility Differences by Type of Residence Permit Among Female Immigrants in Sweden","authors":"Erik Carlsson","doi":"10.1002/psp.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Immigrants’ life circumstances both before and after migration are likely to vary considerably by type of residence permit, which may affect fertility behaviour. Yet, the relationship between permit type and fertility is surprisingly underexplored. This study uses Swedish population register data to examine fertility differences by permit type among female immigrants to Sweden. The study also examines variation in fertility patterns within the family migrant category by characteristics of the male partner. The analysis compares how the mean number of children of different groups develops over time, both before and after immigration. The relationship between permit type and fertility is examined separately by geographical origin, to facilitate the disentanglement of permit type and origin effects on immigrant fertility. Results show that the mean number of children is higher among refugees and family migrants than among labour and student migrants. Family migrants experience an increase in fertility tempo shortly after migration, whereas this pattern is less pronounced and often somewhat delayed among labour and student migrants and largely absent among refugees. Among family migrants, women who migrated together with or shortly after their male partner have the highest fertility, whereas family migrants with a Swedish-born partner have lower fertility than other family migrants. This study contributes new knowledge to the understanding of how permit type relates to fertility, by studying fertility differences between more permit categories than earlier studies, by considering time both before and after migration, and by exploring heterogeneity within the family migrant category.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Attitudes, Inequality and Migration Decision-Making","authors":"Sandra Morgenstern, Carlos Vargas-Silva","doi":"10.1002/psp.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explore the role of gender-unequal attitudes towards gender norms and perceived structural gender inequality in the migration decision-making of men and women. Adopting a conceptual model based on possible selves theory, the research employs a contextual social identity perspective concerning gender. We posit that the disparate spheres of inequality experienced by women relative to men should have a distinct relationship with the constituent elements of migration decision-making per gender. We expect a negative (positive) relationship between more conservative gender attitudes and women's (men's) aspirations to migrate. Similarly, gender inequalities concerning structural opportunities should have a negative (positive) relationship with women's (men's) expectation to migrate. We explore these propositions using survey data from a sample of 11,563 young adults aged 18-39 from Afghanistan, Cabo Verde, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Tunisia and Turkey. The results provide insights regarding the role of gender-unequal attitudes and structural gender inequality in migration decision-making. More conservative gender-unequal attitudes are associated with a lower preference for migration among women. More conservative gender-unequal attitudes have no statistically significant relationship with a preference for migration among men. On the other hand, higher perceived structural gender inequality is linked to higher expectations of migration for men, but with no statistically significant indication for women.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ingrid Setz, Marie-Caroline Compans, Éva Beaujouan
{"title":"The Diffusion of Late Fertility Across European Regions (2006–2018)","authors":"Ingrid Setz, Marie-Caroline Compans, Éva Beaujouan","doi":"10.1002/psp.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rise in late fertility has emerged as a landmark trend in high-income countries in recent decades. Yet, its spread has been geographically uneven, which has largely been attributed to socioeconomic contextual factors. Our study introduces a new perspective: the role of spatial diffusion processes. We exploit the regional variation in the increase in the contribution of late fertility rates to total fertility to assess whether a region follows the behaviour of nearby regions in preceding periods. To test this, we use a comprehensive panel of 193 regions across 18 European countries and utilise a dynamic spatial Durbin model that captures both temporal and spatial interdependencies. After accounting for socioeconomic factors known to affect late fertility rates, such as the tertiarisation of education or changes in the opportunity structure of the labour market, we still find a significant association between geographic proximity and the rise in late fertility across European regions. This underlines the deep interconnectedness within and across contemporary societies. Thus, beyond socioeconomic transformations, our research provides empirical evidence that diffusion processes have contributed to the spread of late births across the continent, and will likely continue to shape future fertility trends.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}