{"title":"Book Review: Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control RosalesErika Herrera. 2025. Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control: Colonial Legacies and the Experiences of Migrants in Mexico. Routledge. 178 pp. £124.00.","authors":"Belinda Rawson","doi":"10.1177/01979183261423956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261423956","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146261168","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: Banished Citizens RamírezMarla A. 2025. Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 349 pp. $29.95.","authors":"Onur Ağkaya","doi":"10.1177/01979183261423955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261423955","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146204976","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: Migrant Social Networks in Cape Town ChekeroTamuka. 2025. Resilient Social Networks and Mobility Strategies among Migrants in Cape Town. Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, 254 pp.$40.","authors":"Enocent Nemuramba","doi":"10.1177/01979183261421493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261421493","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146204926","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: Hearts of Freedom DuschinskyPeterColleen LundyMichael J. MolloyMoscovitchAllanStobbeStephanie Phetsamay, 2025. Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 333 pp. $34.95.","authors":"Diotima Chattoraj","doi":"10.1177/01979183261421494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261421494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146210179","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}
Cristina Bratu, Matz Dahlberg, Sebastian Kohl, Madhinee Valeyatheepillay
{"title":"Age at Arrival and Immigrant Segregation: A Between-Siblings Analysis","authors":"Cristina Bratu, Matz Dahlberg, Sebastian Kohl, Madhinee Valeyatheepillay","doi":"10.1177/01979183251414111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251414111","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of urban segregation have paid little attention to when immigrants arrive, whereas research on age at arrival has rarely considered segregation as an outcome. This study bridges these two literatures. Exploiting variation in age at arrival between siblings, we causally show that immigrants who arrive at younger ages are more likely to live in less segregated neighborhoods as adults, with the effect being particularly pronounced among refugees. A descriptive decomposition suggests that economic factors account for a larger share of the relationship among non-refugees, whereas for refugees, intermarriage and economic factors contribute roughly equally to explaining the variation in the effect of age at immigration.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"303 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146129390","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":"Unlocking the Potential of Multicultural Migrants: Cultural Brokering Scale Development and Validation","authors":"Davina Vora, Stacey R Fitzsimmons, David C Thomas","doi":"10.1177/01979183251405873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251405873","url":null,"abstract":"Migrant employees have knowledge, skills, and abilities that may not be recognized by organizations or countries. Typically, they have knowledge of, identification with, and internalization of more than one culture. This allows them to support international knowledge flows and facilitate intercultural social networks by engaging in cultural brokering — the act of facilitating interactions across cultures. In a series of four studies employing qualitative and quantitative methods, we developed and validated a context-general assessment of cultural brokering. The result is a scale assessing the frequency of five cultural brokering behaviors: interpreting culturally based behavior, teaching others about a cultural group, mediating between cultures, advocating for a cultural group, and advising people across cultures. Since this scale is not limited by organizational context, it can be used to assess and leverage cultural brokering across a wide range of settings that would benefit from cultural brokering, including multinational enterprises (MNEs), international nongovernmental organization (NGOs), and intergovernmental associations.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070688","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: Host Cities JacobsenKaren. 2025. Host Cities: How Refugees are Transforming the World’s Urban Settings. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 352 pp. $32.50.","authors":"Eva Loreng","doi":"10.1177/01979183261416548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183261416548","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070233","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":"Africa's Migration Transition: A Long-Run Historical Perspective","authors":"Michiel de Haas, Ewout Frankema","doi":"10.1177/01979183251406191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251406191","url":null,"abstract":"Popular and political concerns about accelerating migration from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are often framed through migration transition theory, which posits that as poor regions develop, migration rates first rise and later decline after surpassing a certain development threshold. SSA is widely viewed by scholars, pundits, and policymakers as the region where migration rates have only just begun to climb the upward slope. Adopting a long-run historical perspective, we revise this image in three respects. First, although migration out of SSA has recently increased, Africans overall have not become more migratory since colonial times. The share of Africans living abroad was high in the 1960s, reflecting the legacy of large-scale interterritorial migration during the colonial era. Second, voluntary mass migration within Africa expanded rapidly in an era that is not typically regarded as “developmental,” after the abolition of slavery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Large numbers of voluntary migrants, often extremely poor by historical standards, moved toward zones of cash-crop production and mining, and later increasingly to urban destinations. Third, we argue that the recent surge in extracontinental migration reflects a shift in destinations within a much longer migration transition rather than its early stage. This shift was driven by narrowing spatial opportunity gaps within Africa, growing hostility to intra-African migration in the context of nation building, and the simultaneous expansion of capabilities and opportunities for migration beyond the continent.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146032741","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: Immigrant Integration in Southeast Europe CoşkunLaura Elina. (2025). Immigrant Integration in Southeast Europe: Policy and Outcomes in EU Member States and Candidate Countries. London: Routledge, pp. 246, $56.99.","authors":"Jinhui Lan","doi":"10.1177/01979183251413178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251413178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146014338","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":"Governance Through Uncertainty and the Making of Mixed-Status Venezuelan Families in Chile and Colombia","authors":"Nuni Jorgensen","doi":"10.1177/01979183251405865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251405865","url":null,"abstract":"Since the introduction of the term “mixed-status families” by Fix and Zimmermann in 2001, a growing body of literature has examined how migration and citizenship politics affect people as family units rather than individuals. While most of this literature has focused on contexts in the Global North, and on the effect of nationality acquisition rules, this paper explores the emergence of mixed-status Venezuelan families in South America, as the result of the precarisation of protection frameworks in the region and, more broadly, of what Biehl <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\"/> <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\"/> has called “governance through uncertainty”. Using 60 life-history interviews with Venezuelan migrants in Chile and Colombia, alongside 16 semi-structured interviews with civil society representatives, it argues that, unlike the formal stratification systems explored thus far, this phenomenon occurs through a combination of gender-blind migration policies and piecemeal regulations that afford family members different rights depending on the documents they possess, the timing of their departure, and, sometimes, sheer luck. By comparing the contexts of Colombia and Chile, the paper also underscores that the impacts of mixed migration statuses need to be analysed at the interplay between economic and legal precarity, and will vary substantially according to each country's labour market conditions and broader institutional context.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146014340","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}