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The Green Card Drag: How Highly Skilled Asian Indian Immigrants Experience the US Immigration System

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1177/01979183251314831

Brenda Gambol, Varaidzo Zvobgo, Meghna Sabharwal

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Book Review: “Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class.”

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1177/01979183251316509

Inka Stock

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Regional Economic Communities and Attitudes Toward Free Cross-Border Movement in Africa 区域经济共同体和对非洲自由跨境流动的态度

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1177/01979183241303703

Zack Zimbalist

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Digital Nomadism and the Emergence of Digital Nomad Visas: What Policy Objectives Do States Aim to Achieve? 数字游牧主义和数字游牧签证的出现：各国旨在实现什么政策目标？

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1177/01979183241306367

Hari KC, Anna Triandafyllidou

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Book Review: Noncitizen Power 书评：非公民权力

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1177/01979183241296008

Daniela Movileanu

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A Global Panel Dataset of Dyadic Dual Citizenship Acceptance 双重国籍接受的全球面板数据集

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1177/01979183241305388

Maarten Vink, Luuk van der Baaren, David Reichel

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Good Jobs or Bad Jobs? Immigrant Workers in the Gig Economy 好工作还是坏工作？零工经济中的移民工人

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1177/01979183241309585

Cathy Yang Liu, Rory Renzy

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Age at Migration and the Political Integration of Immigrants — Evidence From a Sibling Analysis 移民年龄与移民的政治融合——来自兄弟姐妹分析的证据

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1177/01979183241309579

Henrik Andersson, Sirus Dehdari, Karl Oskar Lindgren

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The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations 2016年美国大选及对移民法律援助组织的财政支持

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1177/01979183241309573

Juan Pedroza, Stephanie Potochnick, Robert Santillano

{"title":"The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations","authors":"Juan Pedroza, Stephanie Potochnick, Robert Santillano","doi":"10.1177/01979183241309573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183241309573","url":null,"abstract":"The 2016 US election of Donald Trump ushered in a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric and federal policies that have been shown to harm immigrant families. This study examines how the election affected immigrant-serving community-based organizations (CBOs), which provide vital support to these communities and may mitigate harm. Focusing on migrant-legal CBOs — a key subset that offers pro-bono or low-cost legal services — and incorporating theories from organizations, social movements, and political opportunity, we assess whether these organizations were able to leverage the election as a focusing event to attract funding and whether they sustained this support over time. Using Internal Revenue Service records, we identify migrant-legal aid CBOs with a track record of delivering legal services to immigrant communities. Using synthetic control methods, we find that financial resources to migrant-legal CBOs increased from 4 to 11 percentage points during the 2016 election, and were 8 to 17 percentage points higher through 2019, the last year of available data. Our study shows that amid the shifting anti-immigrant policy climate of the Trump election, migrant-legal CBOs mobilized as a counterforce, using the socio-political landscape and public response as an opportunity to secure and sustain financial support, potentially acting as a safeguard against the escalating anti-immigrant climate.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Book Review: Fragments of Home 书评：《家的碎片》

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International Migration Review Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1177/01979183241309556

Romola Sanyal

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