{"title":"Book Review: Living and Dying in São Paulo LesserJ.2025. Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 321 pp. $24.","authors":"Denise Martin","doi":"10.1177/01979183261434032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261434032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147507871","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 Cultural Threat: Causal Evidence on Chileans’ Attitudes Toward Intraregional Immigrants From a Factorial-Survey Experiment","authors":"Mauricio Salgado","doi":"10.1177/01979183261427373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261427373","url":null,"abstract":"Research on immigration attitudes rarely examines contexts in which immigrants and natives share substantial cultural proximity. Leveraging Chile's recent intraregional inflow — a context that allows us to hold cultural distance constant — this study analyzes whether labor-market, family status, fiscal, and security concerns shape public opinion in the absence of cultural threat. We embedded a factorial - survey experiment in a nationally representative poll, randomizing migrant education, family status, gender, and nationality across 120 vignettes. The design yields causal estimates of each attribute's effect on preferences about who should be admitted into Chile. Respondents strongly favor highly educated immigrants and broadly reject low-skilled ones, regardless of their own schooling level. Women are viewed more favorably than men. Colombians and Venezuelans are penalized relative to Spaniards, Peruvians, and Haitians, an aversion amplified among respondents who link immigration to crime. No systematic bias against Afro-Caribbean migration appears. These results show that — even without extreme cultural distance — natives’ attitudes toward migrants are structured by their perceived socioeconomic value for the host country and by group-specific security considerations.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147507872","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}
Betina Szkudlarek, Eun Su Lee, Yijia Du, Sophia Johnson
{"title":"Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations: How Multinational Enterprises Can Drive Refugee Employment","authors":"Betina Szkudlarek, Eun Su Lee, Yijia Du, Sophia Johnson","doi":"10.1177/01979183261425989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261425989","url":null,"abstract":"Our research addresses the underexplored role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in tackling the grand challenge of skilled refugee employment through multi-stakeholder collaborations. While refugee workforce integration is largely shaped by macro-institutional forces and a multitude of actors, the potential contribution of MNEs has received limited attention in extant research. Adopting an MNE-centric lens, this paper explores how MNEs could become more active participants in the broader refugee employment ecosystem by engaging in collaborative initiatives that foster sustainable integration pathways. Through theoretical and practical insights, the study identifies strategic bilateral partnerships that MNEs can leverage to enhance refugee integration outcomes while advancing corporate social responsibility agendas. Key examples illustrate how businesses can foster resilient and scalable employment pathways for skilled refugees.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147507882","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":"Implications of Complex Migrant Trajectories, Itineraries, and Legal Pathways in the Americas: Lessons from Fieldwork in Mexico","authors":"Claudia Masferrer, Johana Navarrete-Suárez","doi":"10.1177/01979183261427423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261427423","url":null,"abstract":"Migrant flows through and to Mexico have become increasingly complex. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2025 in Ciudad Juárez and Mexico City, we find that many of the migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean have had very long and complex itineraries, trajectories, and legal statuses within the Americas. They were negotiating new possibilities in the face of constant change in migration policies in other Latin American countries, as well as recent changes in internalization and externalization policies of border control in the United States and Mexico. Specifically, our findings showcase (1) how relatively direct trajectories to Mexico have become longer, more dangerous, and more uncertain; (2) how people have visited multiple countries and lived in multiple countries holding several legal statuses before arriving to Mexico; and (3) how a reversal of the flow is increasing, with some considering returning to countries where they lived before, not necessarily their country of birth because staying in Mexico or arriving to the United States had become harder. In this Dispatch from the Field, we focus the discussion on their implications in three domains: (1) migrant's lives in terms of future plans, international protection, and legal pathways for migration; (2) theorizing migration, refuge, integration, transit, and return; and (3) data collection and analysis.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147489889","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":"Immigration and Deportation Attitudes: Sexuality, Economic Contributions, and Respondents’ Partisanship","authors":"Gabriele Magni, Zoila Ponce de León","doi":"10.1177/01979183261427376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261427376","url":null,"abstract":"Immigrant deportations are salient in many countries, but scholarship on deportation attitudes remains limited. Because some immigrants are especially likely to face harm if deported, we examine how immigrants’ identity and economic characteristics shape deportation attitudes. We focus on unauthorized LGBTQ+ immigrants in the United States, examining the interplay between immigrants’ economic contributions and respondents’ partisanship. We rely on an original survey experiment with a sample of U.S. respondents that mirrors Census quotas for key socio-demographic indicators. We present three main findings. First, without any information on economic contributions, similar levels of support emerge for the deportation of gay and straight unauthorized immigrants. Second, immigrants’ economic contributions substantially reduce support for deportation among both groups. Third, this apparent consensus masks important partisan differences. Democrats reward gay unauthorized immigrants significantly more than straight unauthorized immigrants for their economic contributions. The opposite occurs for Republicans: support for deportation is substantially lower for straight unauthorized immigrants who have made economic contributions. These findings illustrate how partisan identity structures the application of deservingness heuristics in immigration attitudes, with implications for immigration policy debates around vulnerable immigrant populations.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147454672","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":"Why People Migrate: Testing Socio-Psychological Explanations of Migration Aspirations, Plans, Preparations, and Irregularity","authors":"James Dennison","doi":"10.1177/01979183261427377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261427377","url":null,"abstract":"Why do some people want to migrate while others do not, and why are only some willing to do so irregularly? Existing explanations emphasise socio-demographic characteristics, political and economic contexts, and access to migrant networks. This article tests socio-psychological factors as predictors of variation in migration aspirations, plans, preparations, and irregularity willingness. Using original, nationally representative survey data from Montenegro, it tests the effects of personal values, risk aversion, self-efficacy, interpersonal trust, behavioural inhibition, and personality traits. In particular, individuals who value openness-to-change and self-enhancement and are less risk-averse are significantly more likely to express a desire to migrate, even when controlling for conventional predictors. Psychological factors play a more limited role in explaining the more behavioural plans and preparations, where structural and enabling factors dominate, consistent with the aspirations–capabilities framework, though perhaps reflecting statistical power. Willingness to migrate irregularly displays a largely distinct pattern of associations, particularly higher interpersonal trust and lower conscientiousness. Overall, the results suggest that psychology is particularly well suited to explaining why people want to migrate and how they would be willing to do so, while migration behaviour depends more heavily on capabilities.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147393362","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: Diaspora and Soft Power LorengEva. 2025. Diaspora and Soft Power: Influence of Indian American Elites in US Foreign Policy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 177 pages. EUR 119.99.","authors":"Pulkit Buttan","doi":"10.1177/01979183261428095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261428095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147393361","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: Asian Immigrant Teachers in Australia YipSun Yee. (2026). Asian Immigrant Teachers in Australia: Negotiating Identity, Navigating Adaptation, and the Paradoxes of Belonging. New York: Routledge. 180 pages. £155.00.","authors":"Xie Weiwei","doi":"10.1177/01979183261429522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261429522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147393360","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":"Motus Internus: Narrative Turning Points and the Intragroup Emergence of Dehumanizing Ideologies Among Migrants","authors":"Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi","doi":"10.1177/01979183261427389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261427389","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how forced migrants in Italy come to adopt morally distancing and dehumanizing views toward fellow migrants, and how these ideological shifts are narratively justified through turning points. Drawing on longitudinal narrative interviews with 52 forced migrants in Italy conducted over six years (2019–2025), the study analyzes how moments of rupture — relational, institutional, aspirational, and symbolic — prompt migrants to reorganize moral evaluations and redefine group boundaries. Through a typology of corrective, disillusioning, and liberating turning points, the article shows how migrants reposition themselves in response to betrayal, exclusion, or the desire for civic recognition. Dehumanization emerges as a discursive strategy for asserting dignity and legitimacy under precarious conditions, rather than as a mere rhetorical excess. The study contributes to research on narrative, ideology, and migrant integration, and highlights the need for policy approaches that address the relational and moral dimensions of belonging.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147358799","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}
Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska, Marta Jadwiga Pietrusińska, Patrycja Hryciuk-Ziółkowska, Joanna Grzymała-Moszczyńska
{"title":"Focus-Group Workshops as a Reciprocal Method of Research and Support: The Case of Volunteers Assisting Ukrainian Displaced Migrants","authors":"Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska, Marta Jadwiga Pietrusińska, Patrycja Hryciuk-Ziółkowska, Joanna Grzymała-Moszczyńska","doi":"10.1177/01979183261423959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261423959","url":null,"abstract":"In this Method Note, we present our reciprocal method of research and support — the focus-group workshop (FGW). Our framework was developed during research conducted in 2022 with individuals assisting Ukrainian war refugees in Poland and was applied in five FGWs attended by 36 participants. The originality of the FGW lies in linking the ideas of an ad-hoc support group, an educational workshop and a focus group interview. We argue that this is a much needed development in migration studies, which can help to attract participation and facilitate the involvement of interviewees, increase the richness and depth of research data and satisfy ethical requirements for benefiting participants and generating social good. In this Note, after presenting the context of our research, we explain the specificity of our research, focusing on the needs and constraints of volunteers. We then discuss the role of reciprocity in social research. Next, we present our framework and toolkit and explain in detail how we implemented them and the challenges we experienced. In conclusion, we argue that our FGW method can bring a novel approach to migration studies as it allows for immediate reciprocity in the form of competencies sharing with workshop participants as well as networking and support. It also allows us to address the power hierarchies, particularly present in research with vulnerable groups. Last but not least, FGW can be used by researchers who are also activists, as it allows for the study of specific social issues and simultaneously supports researched communities.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"147 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147358801","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}