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Book Review: Souls in the Kalyug RamaswamiShankar. 2025. Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 293 pages. $64.95. 书评：《伽留格罗摩斯瓦米尚卡尔的灵魂》。2025. 卡柳格人的灵魂：当代印度移民工人的政治与宇宙观。费城：宾夕法尼亚大学出版社，293页。64.95美元。

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2026-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/01979183261442838

Amal Latif

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Overeducated and Underpaid: Characteristics of H-1B Visa Holders from New Administrative Records, 2014–2024 学历过高与薪资过低：2014-2024年新行政记录中H-1B签证持有者的特征

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.1177/01979183261438077

Yining Milly Yang

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Book Review: Young and Undocumented AlbarracínJulia. 2025. Young and Undocumented: Political Belonging in Uncertain Times. New York: New York University Press. 288 pages. $30.00. 书评：年轻无证AlbarracínJulia。2025. 青年与无证件：不确定时期的政治归属。纽约：纽约大学出版社，288页。30.00美元。

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.1177/01979183261442850

Alessandra Bazo Vienrich

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Book Review: Homesick WaltonEmily. 2026. Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 153 pages. $26.00. 书评：想家的沃尔顿·艾米丽。2026. 思乡：新英格兰农村的种族与排斥。斯坦福：斯坦福大学出版社，153页。26.00美元。

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2026-04-21 DOI: 10.1177/01979183261442851

Mary Brown

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Irregular and Forced Migration within Asia: Governance, Marginality, and Labor 亚洲内部的非正规和被迫移民：治理、边缘化和劳动力

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/01979183261442877

Niro Kandasamy, Nirukshi Perera, Matt Withers

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Understanding Regularization, Temporary, and Permanent Residence in Mexico Using Administrative Data 利用行政数据了解墨西哥的正规化、临时和永久居留

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2026-04-08 DOI: 10.1177/01979183261434041

Johana Navarrete-Suárez, Claudia Masferrer

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Book Review: Migration from Central Asia: Stories and Identity Formation by Çağla Gül, Y. Çağla GülY.2024. Migration from Central Asia: Stories and Identity Formation. London: Routledge. 160 pp.€55.99. 书评：《来自中亚的移民：故事与身份的形成》，作者：Çağla g<e:1> l， Y. Çağla g<e:1> ly .2024。中亚移民：故事与身份形成。伦敦：Routledge出版社，160页，55.99欧元。

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2026-03-31 DOI: 10.1177/01979183261436377

Sherzod Eraliev

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Circular Refugee Migration: Understanding Protracted Displacement Beyond a Refugee-Returnee Binary 循环难民迁移：理解难民-返回者二元二元之外的长期流离失所

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2026-03-30 DOI: 10.1177/01979183261427441

Daniel Masterson, Rosa Vidarte

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Book Review: Moved by Modernity SchewelKerilyn. 2025. Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 275. $29.95. 书评：被现代性所感动SchewelKerilyn。2025. 现代性的推动：发展如何影响埃塞俄比亚农村的移民。牛津：牛津大学出版社。275页。29.95美元。

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2026-03-26 DOI: 10.1177/01979183261433991

Geoffrey Cameron

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The Changing Job Instability of UK Immigrants at the Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity, 1992–2023 1992-2023年，性别和种族交叉下英国移民工作不稳定性的变化

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2026-03-26 DOI: 10.1177/01979183261427375

Xavier St-Denis, Diana Popescu

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