{"title":"Book Review: Insurgent Communities QuinsaatSharon M. (2024). Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 248 pages, $30.00","authors":"Kennedy Chi-pan Wong","doi":"10.1177/01979183261466199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261466199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148400964","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":"Unequal Penalties: The Relative Weight of Gender and Ethnic Disadvantage in Migrant Women's Labor Market Integration Across Western Europe","authors":"Stefano Cantalini, Debora Pricila Birgier","doi":"10.1177/01979183261461203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261461203","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research has highlighted the distinct position of migrant women in host labor markets, showing they face a “double disadvantage” due to the intersection of gender and migrant status. However, evidence remains limited on the relative weight of these two sources of disadvantage and how they vary across origins and destinations. This research note examines the labor market outcomes of migrant women in Western Europe, asking whether they face disadvantages compared to migrant men ( <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">gender penalty</jats:italic> ) and native women ( <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">ethnic penalty</jats:italic> ), and whether these two penalties are comparable in magnitude. It also explores how this double disadvantage varies by women's macro-area of origin and destination country. Using Heckman selection models on European Labor Force Survey data (2015–2019), our study confirms that in most countries migrant women experience significant penalties relative to both native women and migrant men, in employment and occupational status. Findings indicate that the ethnic penalty is generally more pronounced than the gender penalty in occupational status, while the employment gender penalty exceeds the ethnic penalty only in Mediterranean countries. Important differences also emerge by origin: African women are the most penalized, Eastern European women the least, and the only group experiencing a larger gender than ethnic employment penalty. These results highlight the importance of considering multiple outcomes and comparison groups when studying the labor market integration of migrant women. Understanding the labor market position of reference groups is crucial, as the relative status of native women and migrant men varies significantly by destination and origin.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148355631","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: The Returned MasferrerClaudiaHamiltonErin R.DenierNicole. 2025. The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants’ Lives in Mexico City. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 233 pp. $37.50.","authors":"Neeraj Kaushal","doi":"10.1177/01979183261463239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261463239","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148321838","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: Educating the Next Generation KalishaWillsSzkudlarekTomasz, 2025. Educating the Next Generation: Reflections on Crises, Migration, and Education. Singapore: Springer. 211 pages. $215.50.","authors":"Weiping Wu, Linshuang Kong","doi":"10.1177/01979183261463486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261463486","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"334 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148322007","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":"Human Dignity Along a Spectrum: Practicing Dignity in the Enforcement of Returns of Non-Citizens From the EU","authors":"Antonella Patteri, Witold Klaus","doi":"10.1177/01979183261459054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261459054","url":null,"abstract":"Human dignity is widely invoked and operationalized as a normative basis for safeguarding the rights of non-citizens across return enforcement practices. In this context, this article critically examines how “human dignity” is mobilized and practiced in relation to enforced return processes in the European Union (EU). Drawing on 27 interviews conducted across 10 EU countries with deportation fundamental rights monitors, implementers of assisted “voluntary” return programmes, and other experts, the paper explores how the “dignified” treatment of returnees is shaped along a spectrum of return procedures spanning the “deportation continuum.” The fieldwork analysis demonstrates how practitioners define dignity through both minimal and more expansive thresholds. It further shows how these “practices of dignity” frequently operate as forms of harm mitigation and articulate, as well as justify, the return process and its technical implementation. Overall, the article aims to stimulate reflection on the uses and practices of human dignity in migration and returns from the EU, distinguishing between types of enforced returns, and shedding light on the (rather unexplored) subjective understandings of return practitioners, whose interpretations and approaches of dignity for returning migrants vary.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"194 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148321839","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: Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy LonerganGwyneth. 2025. Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women's Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK. Bristol University Press. 166 pages. $41.95","authors":"Anastasia N Iwuagwu","doi":"10.1177/01979183261458215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261458215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286256","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":"What Holds Multiculturalism Together? Shared Middle-Class Identity in Canada","authors":"Sophie Xiaoyi Liu, Aryan Karimi, Thomas Kemple","doi":"10.1177/01979183261451477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261451477","url":null,"abstract":"Recent scholarship on multiculturalism increasingly examines how cultural pluralism intersects with social class, particularly middle-class formation. In Canada, a growing thesis argues that immigration and refugee policies promote diversity while simultaneously advancing a middle-class nation-building project through selection criteria emphasizing skills, education, and professional experience. Moving beyond macro-level analyses, this study investigates the micro-level dynamics of this process through a Bourdieusian lens. Drawing on 80 interviews with recently arrived Ukrainian and Afghan newcomers, we show that participants self-identified as socioeconomically and behaviorally middle-class in their countries of origin. They described their ambitions and future-oriented dispositions to mobilize their linguistic competencies, international experience, and transnational networks to preserve and reconstruct their middle-class status after arrival. Participants perceived shared middle-class habitus and resources with native-born Canadians as key for navigating cultural pluralities of multicultural life, fostering belonging, and (implicitly) sustaining a multicultural middle-class nation-building project. Our empirical findings demonstrate how newcomers negotiate belonging in plural societies by activating (class, linguistic, religious, and other) identities that resonate with the host context. In contradistinction with normative multicultural nationalism debates that invite for diversifying all axes of identities so as to sustain multiculturalism, we propose a new theoretical framework that situates one axis, such as class, as the thread that runs through and sustains multiculturalism.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286255","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}
Weiqian Xia, Jani Turunen, Siddartha Aradhya, Jan Saarela
{"title":"Returns to Returning with Sibling Comparisons: Register-Based Evidence from Finland","authors":"Weiqian Xia, Jani Turunen, Siddartha Aradhya, Jan Saarela","doi":"10.1177/01979183261454067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261454067","url":null,"abstract":"How experience of migration affects the labor market outcome after remigration is difficult to examine because both migration and remigration processes are driven by various mechanisms of selection. In this study, we investigate the labor market outcomes of return migration in Finland in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. With Finnish register data covering the period 1987–2019, we use a counterfactual sibling fixed-effects design that compares the return migrants to their siblings of the same sex who have not migrated, and controls for the influence of family background and pre-adolescent experience. We show that, compared to their same-sex siblings who have no migration experience, return migrants have slightly lower employment rates, particularly men, for whom the gap does not recover over time. Return migrants are overrepresented at both the lower and the upper ends of the income distribution and enjoy substantial income advantages at the higher end. We argue that the labor market disadvantages of return migrants to Finland is likely due to the disruption of social networks during the years spent abroad. However, the disadvantage can be overcome over time and with reintegration to the Finnish labor market.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286257","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":"Targetability as Credibility: The Judiciary and Refugee Status Determination in South Korea","authors":"Angela Y. McClean","doi":"10.1177/01979183261454126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261454126","url":null,"abstract":"Credibility assessment is a central yet contested element of refugee status determination (RSD) across jurisdictions, with adjudicators often weighing extralegal signals of trustworthiness to determine who qualifies for protection. This paper advances the study of credibility and refugee recognition by empirically operationalizing a key but underexamined evaluative logic in judicial reasoning—“targetability,” or the perceived likelihood that an applicant would attract the attention of persecutors if returned. The analysis draws on a uniquely comprehensive dataset of 134 asylum litigation cases adjudicated in South Korea's first-level courts between 2005 and 2018. South Korea offers a critical case for examining the judicial construction of credibility: despite its advanced democratic institutions, it maintains one of the most restrictive asylum systems globally, with an exceptionally low refugee recognition rate. I find that courts predominantly deem applicants credible when they demonstrate sustained active engagement in politically or socially sensitive causes, a degree of public visibility, and verifiable evidence of past persecution. Over time, these traits have redefined the institutional standard for credibility itself, privileging publicly legible forms of vulnerability and narrowing the scope of what refugeehood can entail. By specifying how “targetability” is operationalized in practice, the study contributes to broader comparative debates on the extralegal construction of credibility and the judiciary's role in shaping access to refugee protection.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286266","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}