How does war reshape migrants’ experience of time across borders? Drawing on interviews with Ukrainian migrants in Poland, A Matyska shows how the timescales of intimate life and war intersect, synchronize, and diverge, producing varied temporal experiences. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

Did assisted emigration help sustain Francoist rule?, @L. Maravall, @C.Meseguer, and @Á.Muñiz show that state-sponsored emigration was shaped less by economic vulnerability than by political considerations, reflecting tensions between labour export and ideological control. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do immigration bureaucracies demonstrate accountability beyond formal political oversight? @A.Ellermann and @M.Paquet show how immigration departments direct accountability to different audiences, shaped by institutional design and politicization. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do climate-induced displacement and migration unfold in Mongolia? Drawing on interviews, K.Sharapov and colleagues show how environmental degradation, economic fragility, and policy neglect erode livelihoods, challenging distinctions of voluntary/forced migration. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do immigrant generation and age at migration shape educational outcomes? Using Finnish register data, Silvia Loi and colleagues show that first-generation migrants, face the greatest challenges, while second-generation youth are more likely to follow the academic track. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do intersecting inequalities shape migrant domestic workers’ mental distress? Drawing on interviews, @J. Diab and @R. Al Riachi shows how gender, race, legal status, and crisis conditions within the #Kafala system interact to produce structural vulnerability. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

Can noncognitive skills help explain the native–immigrant wage gap? Using German panel data, @M. Fernandes finds that immigrants differ from natives across personality traits, locus of control, and life goals, explaining part of wage gaps alongside human capital. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do Chinese migrants navigate belonging across cultures? Drawing on interviews, @A.Ullah and @Q.Guan explore cultural homelessness among the Chinese diaspora, showing how they navigate cultural homelessness between heritage retention, assimilation, and liminal belonging. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do immigration threat perceptions relate to policy preferences and political behaviour? @J.Dennison shows that threat perceptions are multidimensional, driven by threat sensitivity and migrant cues, shaping policy preferences and influencing behaviour indirectly. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do AVRR programmes reshape expulsion governance? Using critical discourse analysis, @V. Junuzi shows how AVRR reframes expulsion, recasts coercion, centres reintegration, and redefines post-expulsion as a key domain, while remaining embedded in power asymmetries. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do states reconcile free movement with national control? Comparing Mercosur, ECOWAS, and the EU, @Z. Perko shows that despite different institutional contexts, states rely on similar mechanisms such as conditionalities, selective incorporation, and ambiguous compliance. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do migrants engage politically across borders? Using survey data from Switzerland, @I. Pap, @V. Petrović, and @J. Rössel show that political participation in countries of residence and origin can coexist, but varies depending on political attention and news consumption. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do immigrants claim belonging in ethnically defined societies? In Czechia, @R. Klvanova and @I.V. Božič show how Slovak, Vietnamese, and MENA migrants draw on distinct cultural repertoires, producing hierarchies of belonging shaped by mulitple factors. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

Do labour market penalties persist across immigrant generations? Using Spanish Labour Force Survey data, @J. Muñoz-Comet and @A. Feixas show that most first-generation penalties fade, pointing to assimilation, while access penalties increase for certain groups. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

What makes a place a transit space in migration journeys?Based on fieldwork in Necoclí, Colombia, @C. Broussy shows how transit is not a fixed category but a lived, socially and affectively produced space, shaped by practices, local actors, and overlapping governance regimes doi.org/10.1093/migr...

What shapes public support for hosting migrants? Based on a survey experiment in Catalonia, @Raül Tormos and Toni Rodon show strong preference for refugees over economic migrants, especially Ukrainians, and a reversal of the NIMBY effect, with greater support for local settlement. lnkd.in/gupKpifi

How does cinema shape how we see refugee vulnerability? Examining Turkish films on Syrian refugees, @F. Serdaroğlu shows how cinema makes vulnerability perceptible, unsettles dominant ways of seeing, and opens space for more inclusive visual engagement. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do refugees navigate and reshape the EU’s geopolitics of asylum? Drawing on fieldwork in Greece, @G.Mavrommatis shows how refugees enact their geopolitics in practice, exercising freedom as possibility within and against restrictive EU and national regimes. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do South Asian parents balance gender equality and safety in student migration? Studying expatriate families in the UAE, @A. M. Paul and @S. A. Parwani show daughters study abroad as often as sons, yet parents still manage risks through gendered choices. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How does US immigration enforcement treat pregnant migrants? @qabila.bsky.social and @M. Téllez show how detention policies under both parties render them disposable, exposing how profit extraction and racialized control persist even under claims of humanitarian exception. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

Why do similar refugee aid deals diverge? Comparing the Jordan and Ethiopia Jobs Compacts, @S.Almasri and @A.A.Nigusie show how contrasting political strategies shaped employment reforms, showing that rapid reforms do not always lead to sustainable refugee self-reliance. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How does immigration policy intersect with reproductive oppression in the United States? Proud to share our new article exploring the experiences of pregnant people detained, excluded or expelled by US immigration enforcement from 2017-2022. @migrationjrnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/migr...

Do economic conditions shape anti-immigrant attitudes in non-Western contexts? Using survey data from Japan, @M. Aikawa finds that while opposition peaked during economic downturns, macro and individual economic indicators only partly explain shifting attitudes. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

In our latest issue, @J.Diab explores how class shapes displacement in Lebanon after the Israel–Hezbollah escalation. The study shows wealthier families preserved comfort, while poorer households faced overcrowding and deepened precarity revealing a class-contingent process. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How does urban resilience in refugee governance work under centralised rule? @ricardzapata.bsky.social shows that in Turkey it often stabilises power rather than transforms it by reinforcing loyalty, adaptation, and continuity. A sharp rethink of the “local turn": doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Urban resilience in Turkish refugee governance: Loyalty, adaptation, and continuity

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How does China manage the transition from education to skilled migration? A. Zi Wang shows that while China offers inclusive higher education access, especially for students from the Global South, significant structural barriers hinder their transition into the labour market. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do local actors navigate and enforce restrictive migration policies? T. Øland examines Denmark’s integration workers, showing how they function as “fiery soul” bureaucrats who both reinforce state-imposed restrictions and create space for care, order, and ethical agency. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

What determines long-term outcomes for return migrants in rural settings? Drawing on surveys, Sugden et al. show that return outcomes are deeply shaped by ongoing patterns of agrarian differentiation. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

How do internally displaced children born during captivity in Uganda navigate post-war life? Drawing on interviews and art-making, @M.Denov and @O.Alexandrakis use the concept of #wayfinding to show how shared memory and imagination shape belonging and agentive future-making. doi.org/10.1093/migr...