{"title":"Irregular and Forced Migration within Asia: Governance, Marginality, and Labor","authors":"Niro Kandasamy, Nirukshi Perera, Matt Withers","doi":"10.1177/01979183261442877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261442877","url":null,"abstract":"This special collection of <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">International Migration Review</jats:italic> brings together a series of articles that collectively situate Asia at the heart of contemporary discussions of irregular and forced migration. Foregrounding the scholarship of researchers working in and from Asia, we position the collection as a deliberate decentering of Global North preoccupations with border control, instead emphasizing the diverse expressions of inequity and resistance that characterize the “routine irregularities” of migration governance in the majority-world. Our editorial introduction traces the origins and normative commitments of the special collection, before discussing the key themes that emerged from a subsequent workshop held in Kuala Lumpur in 2024: governance from above and below, marginality and social exclusion, and labor market segmentation. Each of the papers in the special collection offers a timely intervention in irregular and forced migration debates, hastening analytical departures from Eurocentric epistemes by centering the knowledge production of those directly researching the contextually specific histories, policies, practices, and outcomes of migration in the region where it occurs most.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147684594","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":"Understanding Regularization, Temporary, and Permanent Residence in Mexico Using Administrative Data","authors":"Johana Navarrete-Suárez, Claudia Masferrer","doi":"10.1177/01979183261434041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261434041","url":null,"abstract":"Bureaucratic processes and administrative procedures play a central role in producing differentiated statuses of legality and regularity. Over the past decade, Mexico has experienced a notable increase in the number of arrivals from a diverse range of countries of origin, with varied motivations and intentions to stay, transit, or seek asylum. As a result of this changing migration scenario, some foreign-born individuals lack valid migration documents, have expired residence permits, or have not obtained temporary or permanent residence authorization. In this research note, we use administrative data from the Mexican National Migration Institute, accessed through a request for information, to calculate the foreign-born population living in an irregular situation in Mexico and provide an overview of their main sociodemographic characteristics and countries of origin compared to those under temporary and permanent resident statuses. With this lower-bound calculation of irregularity, we aim to inform how legal pathways and socio-demographic characteristics have changed over time. Findings show age- and gender-based patterns and differences by country of birth, as well as an increase in irregularity over time, including a broad range of reasons for aiming at regularization. We hope this calculation and characterization of irregular migration—conceived not solely in terms of irregular entry—opens new avenues for research into how this phenomenon affects broader integration processes and how the Mexican case may be situated in a comparative regional perspective.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147636005","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: 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.","authors":"Sherzod Eraliev","doi":"10.1177/01979183261436377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261436377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"105 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147578431","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":"Circular Refugee Migration: Understanding Protracted Displacement Beyond a Refugee-Returnee Binary","authors":"Daniel Masterson, Rosa Vidarte","doi":"10.1177/01979183261427441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261427441","url":null,"abstract":"What explains patterns of circular migration during protracted refugee displacement? We examine circular refugee migration (CRM) between Syria and Lebanon, focusing on why refugees undertake trips to their home country and how they navigate them. We draw on in-depth interviews and focus groups with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, bus and taxi drivers working between Lebanon and Syria, UNHCR border monitoring staff, and Syrian community leaders. We show that without consideration and measurement of CRM, research risks misinterpreting refugee movements. We offer an analytical framework for describing and interpreting refugee trips back to their home country, grounded in understanding people's capabilities and constraints. The findings suggest that CRM is a high-stakes survival strategy that people are compelled to rely on during protracted displacement, with three key empirical regularities. First, refugees traveling between the host country and home country face considerable risks, including forced conscription, arrest, and violence on smuggling routes. Second, CRM is usually driven by urgent needs related to healthcare, documentation, and family. Third, CRM often reveals a disconnect between intentions and outcomes due to worse-than-expected conditions—planned circular migration may result in unplanned return, and planned return may end in unplanned circular migration.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147536221","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: Moved by Modernity SchewelKerilyn. 2025. Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 275. $29.95.","authors":"Geoffrey Cameron","doi":"10.1177/01979183261433991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261433991","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147507964","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":"The Changing Job Instability of UK Immigrants at the Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity, 1992–2023","authors":"Xavier St-Denis, Diana Popescu","doi":"10.1177/01979183261427375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261427375","url":null,"abstract":"Today, the duration of jobs held by men is substantially lower than prior to the 1990s. An increase in women's job tenure has masked that decrease in job stability for men, a pattern called “masked instability.” In this paper, we contribute to the masked instability literature by focusing on differences in job stability trends between immigrant and non-immigrant workers. We are specifically interested in differences stemming from employment dynamics among immigrant mothers and fathers, which has received limited attention in research on job instability. We use data from the United Kingdom's Labour Force Survey (LFS) from 1992 to 2023 to conduct a disaggregated analysis comparing the evolution of the job tenure of immigrant and non-immigrant mothers and fathers from various ethnic groups. We find that white non-immigrant mothers experienced the highest increase in job tenure, converging with the job tenure level of white non-immigrant fathers. Meanwhile, immigrant mothers from most ethnic groups did not experience the same increase in job tenure, leading to persisting gaps in job stability relative to white non-immigrant mothers and fathers. This is especially true for Black immigrant mothers. Finally, we find a decrease in job tenure duration among immigrant fathers of all ethnicities and white non-immigrant fathers. Our findings illustrate how the rise of flexible employment practices has impacted the job stability of racialized immigrant mothers and fathers in the UK and highlight the importance of studying career instability for immigration scholars.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147507955","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: 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}