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{"title":"Book Review: Age and Immigration Policy in Canada","authors":"Deniz Cevik","doi":"10.1177/01979183261473320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261473320","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148815524","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}

{"title":"Global Inequalities in US Visa Rejections: Evidence from Visitor Visa Applications Submitted Between 2006 and 2021","authors":"Kevin J. A. Thomas, Ricardo Henrique Lowe","doi":"10.1177/01979183251405836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251405836","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses data from the US Department of State and other sources to examine inequalities in the use of visas to regulate population mobility to the United States. The results showed that between 2006 and 2021, visitor visa rejection rates were higher for applications submitted in the Global South than in the Global North. For example, the top 15 countries with the lowest rejection rates were mostly wealthy states in the Middle East and Europe. On the contrary, two-thirds of the top 15 countries with the highest rejection rates were in Africa. Results from mixed-effects regression models indicated that visa rejection rates in Africa were more than double those in Europe. These differences were not explained by disparities in economic, demographic, and social factors. Sensitivity tests further suggested that regional disparities were not explained by higher visa overstay rates in non-European than in European countries. Additionally, the results showed that there were differential patterns of responses to visa <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">approvals</jats:italic> across regions. In Africa, increases in visa approvals were followed by increases in visa <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rejections</jats:italic> the following year. However, increases in visa <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">approvals</jats:italic> elsewhere, especially in Europe, were followed by decreases in visa <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rejection</jats:italic> s. Overall, the study demonstrates that visas regulate migration in ways that make it more difficult for people in the Global South than the Global North to enjoy the benefits associated with travelling to the United States. Moreover, they suggest that this disparity cannot be explained by country-level variations in overstay rates and other socioeconomic factors.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893912","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}

{"title":"Isolated from Home, Trapped by Remittances: How Isolation Leads to Affective and Moral Pressures on North Korean Remittances","authors":"Myung Ah Son, Jiwon Yun","doi":"10.1177/01979183251405861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251405861","url":null,"abstract":"What does it mean to remit to a country you would never return to? This article examines remittance practices of North Korean defectors in South Korea, who, despite being isolated from their country of origin, continue to remit. We conceptualize North Korean defectors as isolated migrants who have extremely low possibilities of visiting or returning home and face great difficulties when communicating with their family members. Inspired by scholarship that examines the social meaning of remittances for the migrants, we argue that the isolation from the country of origin has the effect of highlighting the affective and moral dimensions of remittances for the individual migrants. Through in-depth interviews with 24 defectors in South Korea, we illustrate how remittances serve as retainers of relationship, allowing defectors to maintain family ties. Remitting also helps to resolve the feeling of “sin” that comes with leaving their family in North Korea. These meanings evolve into affective and moral pressures for North Korean defectors, who respond by prioritizing short-term incomes for remittances over long-term investments to aid their resettlement in South Korea.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893913","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}

{"title":"Rethinking Externalization of Migration Governance in Europe–Africa Relations: Future Research Directions in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape","authors":"Amanda Bisong","doi":"10.1177/01979183251409750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251409750","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary explores the complex and often overlooked consequences of the European Union's (EU) migration externalization agenda, both within the EU and in its cooperation with third countries. Externalization is frequently presented as a pragmatic tool to manage migration and alleviate pressure on the EU's internal systems. However, it has introduced ripple effects within the EU, manifesting in policy fragmentation, legal tensions, institutional overstretch, and political contestation. The commentary reflects on six articles comprising the special issue on “The rippling effects of European migration governance in Africa. The articles analyze how externalization policies reshape power relations, reinforce authoritarian practices, and intersect with historical tensions, particularly in border regions, contributing to unintended consequences on the ground. The commentary also reflects critically on the broader research landscape, highlighting the urgent need for more inclusive and collaborative knowledge production. It argues that current research structures limit equitable partnerships and the ability to generate grounded, context-sensitive insights. In light of shifting geopolitical dynamics and growing influence of alternative global actors, the article calls for future research that interrogates the normative and institutional transformations driven by externalization.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"302 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145895540","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}

{"title":"Comfortable Immobility and the Role of Staying in the Upward Social Mobility of Families in Asian Cities","authors":"Karen Anne S. Liao, Marta Bivand Erdal","doi":"10.1177/01979183251405835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251405835","url":null,"abstract":"Research on spatial and social mobility intersections often foregrounds the role of migration in struggles for improved socioeconomic positions. Inspired by im/mobility scholarship and growing interest in voluntary immobility, this article considers the role of staying in the interactions between migration and upward social mobility. Drawing on 106 family history interviews with middle-class urban residents in Hanoi, Manila, Karachi, and Mumbai, we develop “comfortable immobility” as an analytical window to ask: How do spatial and social <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">immobility</jats:italic> matter for understanding this relationship? We analyze comfortable immobility as an active phase in migration and social mobility processes across three interrelated dimensions. First, as a subjective, embodied experience, participants’ descriptions of being and becoming comfortably middle-class reflect a voluntary immobility characterized by geographical and socioeconomic stasis, emerging as a social mobility outcome. Second, comfortable immobility is relationally produced as family members’ intertwined histories of moving and staying, and their interdependent relations, shape upward social mobility trajectories. Third, we examine how comfortable immobility builds on family histories while becoming a social mobility strategy shaping family futures, enabling aspirations and possibilities for moving and staying. Our analysis illuminates how staying may matter both as an outcome and as a strategy in urban middle-class families’ social mobility trajectories, thus contributing to rebalancing attention toward moving and staying in studies of the social-spatial mobility nexus. The article suggests that “comfortable immobility” speaks to debates on social change from varying Global South vantage points, while engaging with immobility conceptualization in migration studies more generally.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145801071","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}

{"title":"Beyond the Economics Versus Culture Divide: Neoliberal Migration Policy","authors":"Christian Joppke","doi":"10.1177/01979183251405866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251405866","url":null,"abstract":"Previous scholarship on migration policy assumed that economics and culture are categorically separate criteria of migrant selection, often pushing policy in opposite directions, typically expansive on economics yet restrictive on culture. I argue that in a neoliberal order the economics versus culture distinction loses traction. “Neoliberal nationalism” entails a transactional understanding of political community and society, in which economic considerations become predominant across selection criteria. This strongly relativizes and weakens individual rights on the part of migrants, which had been the mark of liberal migration policy. Neoliberal migration policy simultaneously economizes and culturalizes migrant selection. This is obvious and nearly trite with respect to high-skilled labor migration, the type favored in a neoliberal society. But it is also observable, and more problematic, with respect to family and asylum migrations, which previously had been considered as-of-right and now are subjected to (broadly construed) utility considerations.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145801074","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}

{"title":"Under the Radar: An Examination of Norway's Mixed-Origin Population","authors":"Arnfinn H. Midtbøen, Jon Horgen Friberg, Solveig Topstad Borgen","doi":"10.1177/01979183251405833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251405833","url":null,"abstract":"In the US and the UK, rapidly growing populations of mixed origins have constituted a key research site for decades. In most European countries, by contrast, the mixed-origin group has remained largely invisible within research on immigration-related inequality and especially so in its quantitative branch. Breaking this pattern, we zoom in on Norwegian-born individuals with one parent born outside of Western Europe and North America, a group constituting about a third of the country's overall mixed-origin population. Drawing on administrative register data and survey data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Norway, we assess their socioeconomic backgrounds, educational aspirations, and subjective experiences, and compare them to individuals with two Norwegian-born parents and two immigrant parents. Our analyses document a contradictory pattern that begs for future research: Mixed-origin individuals largely resemble their majority peers in terms of parental socioeconomic resources, but they lack the educational drive typical of the second generation, in terms of both subjective aspirations and actual educational attainments. In their social orientations and national identification, they are located somewhere in between the minority and the majority, but they experience similar levels of discrimination and non-recognition as those with two immigrant parents. We use these contradictory findings to discuss possible ways forward for a broader research agenda for mixed-origin populations beyond the US and the UK.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"361 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145801073","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}

{"title":"Refugee Fatigue? How Reports of Increased Numbers of Refugees Affect Public Attitudes About Admission and Overseas Relief","authors":"David Scott FitzGerald, John H. Evans","doi":"10.1177/01979183251405858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251405858","url":null,"abstract":"Advocates for refugees often publicize increased numbers of refugees, seemingly to generate greater support for pro-refugee policies. In this research note we test whether reading about a greater number of refugees results in more, less, or unchanged feelings of support for pro-refugee policies via a survey experiment from a national sample of more than 3000 U.S. adults. Accounting for uncertainty over whether the public will perceive differential magnitudes on a logarithmic or linear scale, we find that for U.S. adults as a whole, the magnitude of the number of refugees does not lead to support or opposition to policies to (a) admit more refugees or (b) fund refugee relief abroad. Republicans are much less likely to support such policies compared to Democrats, independent of the number of refugees. Surprisingly, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to respond to larger numbers with greater support for both policies. Refugee advocates should not assume that reporting increased numbers of refugees will result in more public support for funding refugees abroad or refugee admissions in the United States.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145801072","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}

{"title":"Book Review: Law, Migration, and the Construction of Whiteness: Mobility Within the European Union by Myslinska, Dagmar Rita MyslinskaDagmar Rita, 2024. Law, Migration, and the Construction of Whiteness: Mobility Within the European Union. Abingdon, Oxon, UK; New York, NY: Routledge. 260 Pages. $180.00.","authors":"Katharina Ebner","doi":"10.1177/01979183251405735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251405735","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145765159","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}

{"title":"Waiting and the Everyday Life in Precarity: The Impact of Thailand's Approach to Forced Displacement on Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers","authors":"Mary Rose Geraldine Sarausad, Sureeporn Punpuing","doi":"10.1177/01979183251397379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251397379","url":null,"abstract":"Urban refugees and asylum seekers in Thailand are confronted with the complexities of autonomy and precarity beyond formal camp arrangements. Although cities offer some flexibility, refugees face systemic impediments that include the absence of legal recognition, restrictive immigration policies, and marginalization exacerbated by prolonged waiting, demonstrating the realities of <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">being a refugee</jats:italic> . This qualitative study examines the influence of Thailand's migration governance system on the realities of protracted displacement among urban refugees, utilizing in-depth interviews with 35 participants (14 key experts and 21 refugees) in Bangkok and peripheral areas. Findings indicate that Thailand's non-ratification of the 1951 Refugee Convention labels refugees as “illegal migrants” under domestic law, subjecting them to arrest and deportation in spite of UNHCR recognition. While most depend on insecure informal work, they are generally excluded from healthcare, education, and social protection, threatening their well-being and perpetuating a cycle of marginalization that hampers the likelihood for inclusion and self-reliance. The COVID-19 pandemic aggravated their precarious conditions, disrupted their livelihoods, and community support networks. The study also highlights how extended periods of legal uncertainty and administrative delays in refugee status determination magnify mental and emotional health issues and social exclusion. Therefore, it advocates for policy reforms that include strengthening Thailand's National Screening Mechanism through nondiscriminatory legal process, creating stable employment prospects by providing work permits, and ensuring equitable access to social infrastructures such as healthcare and education regardless of status. The findings also amplify extensive discussions on the management of urban displacement in non-signatory countries, illustrating how urban refugee populations are consigned to an indefinite state of legal uncertainty and heightened precarity.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145759580","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}