Pub Date : 2026-02-06DOI: 10.1177/01979183251414111
Cristina Bratu, Matz Dahlberg, Sebastian Kohl, Madhinee Valeyatheepillay
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.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1177/01979183251405873
Davina Vora, Stacey R Fitzsimmons, David C Thomas
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.
{"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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1177/01979183261416548
Eva Loreng
{"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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-23DOI: 10.1177/01979183251406191
Michiel de Haas, Ewout Frankema
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.
{"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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1177/01979183251413178
Jinhui Lan
{"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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1177/01979183251405865
Nuni Jorgensen
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 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.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1177/01979183251400272
Laine Munir
This auto-ethnographic field reflection explores the bureaucratic and biopolitical dimensions of transnational child loss. Drawing on the author's lived experience navigating medical and legal systems following her son's death abroad, the piece interrogates how institutional actors exert control over migrant families during moments of extreme vulnerability. Engaging concepts of biopower, necropolitics, and state surveillance, this narrative illustrates how grief becomes entangled in administrative violence. By centering embodied knowledge, the article challenges dominant paradigms of authority and care in humanitarian and migration regimes, offering insight into the ethics of global parenthood and loss.
{"title":"When a Child Dies Abroad: A Mother's Reflections on the Bureaucracy of Transnational Loss","authors":"Laine Munir","doi":"10.1177/01979183251400272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251400272","url":null,"abstract":"This auto-ethnographic field reflection explores the bureaucratic and biopolitical dimensions of transnational child loss. Drawing on the author's lived experience navigating medical and legal systems following her son's death abroad, the piece interrogates how institutional actors exert control over migrant families during moments of extreme vulnerability. Engaging concepts of biopower, necropolitics, and state surveillance, this narrative illustrates how grief becomes entangled in administrative violence. By centering embodied knowledge, the article challenges dominant paradigms of authority and care in humanitarian and migration regimes, offering insight into the ethics of global parenthood and loss.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146006047","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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1177/01979183251414091
Jesper Andreasson, Marcus Herz, Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander
Building on an ethnographic approach, this article aims to explore how the social dimensions of hope shape and relate to the migration trajectories of people seeking asylum in Sweden. Departing from the concept of asylum hope, a fragile form of hope that persists under conditions of oppression and uncertainty, the study examines how everyday interactions shape and transform it. Using Randall Collins’ theory of interaction rituals, the analysis shows how emotional energy generated in encounters influences hope. Based on interviews and observations with 43 participants, the study further demonstrates that hope is not an individual psychological state of mind but a socially negotiated and embodied process formed in relation to migration authorities, bureaucratic routines, and informal networks. Asylum hope emerges as fluid and dynamic, influencing the trajectory of migration journeys while being continuously reshaped by administrative and emotional experiences. The article also highlights how administrative violence is enacted through mundane practices that intertwine bureaucratic power with everyday social life. These encounters reveal that migration governance is socially embedded, operating through rituals that can suppress or enable agency, recognition, and solidarity. By foregrounding the emotional and relational dimensions of bureaucratic processes, the study challenges the idea that state power functions solely through law and policy. Understanding asylum hope as socially and emotionally situated allows for a deeper grasp of how migrants navigate precarious futures within the entangled structures of governance, affect, and everyday life.
{"title":"Tracing Asylum Hope: An Ethnographic Account of the Social Dimensions of Hope Across Migration Trajectories","authors":"Jesper Andreasson, Marcus Herz, Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander","doi":"10.1177/01979183251414091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251414091","url":null,"abstract":"Building on an ethnographic approach, this article aims to explore how the social dimensions of hope shape and relate to the migration trajectories of people seeking asylum in Sweden. Departing from the concept of asylum hope, a fragile form of hope that persists under conditions of oppression and uncertainty, the study examines how everyday interactions shape and transform it. Using Randall Collins’ theory of interaction rituals, the analysis shows how emotional energy generated in encounters influences hope. Based on interviews and observations with 43 participants, the study further demonstrates that hope is not an individual psychological state of mind but a socially negotiated and embodied process formed in relation to migration authorities, bureaucratic routines, and informal networks. Asylum hope emerges as fluid and dynamic, influencing the trajectory of migration journeys while being continuously reshaped by administrative and emotional experiences. The article also highlights how administrative violence is enacted through mundane practices that intertwine bureaucratic power with everyday social life. These encounters reveal that migration governance is socially embedded, operating through rituals that can suppress or enable agency, recognition, and solidarity. By foregrounding the emotional and relational dimensions of bureaucratic processes, the study challenges the idea that state power functions solely through law and policy. Understanding asylum hope as socially and emotionally situated allows for a deeper grasp of how migrants navigate precarious futures within the entangled structures of governance, affect, and everyday life.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146006013","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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1177/01979183251413192
Kevin Smith, Ahmed Wassal Elroukh
This paper makes the first empirical contribution to investigating the relationship between migration status and remittance behavior among Egyptian migrants. Using new individual-level data from the 2023 wave of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey and a probit regression, this paper estimates the impact of having legal entry to and work authorization in the host country on the likelihood of sending remittances. Additionally, the paper utilizes a supervised machine learning approach, the Random Forest algorithm, to identify the most influential variables in predicting remittance behavior. The analysis finds that legal entry into a host country plays a significant role in remittance behavior, with an increase in remittance by 16 percentage points compared to those with no legal entry. However, the Random Forest analysis suggests that being a married woman is the most influential factor associated with a higher likelihood of remitting.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-19DOI: 10.1177/01979183251409772
Ourania Dimitraki, Kyriakos Emmanouilidis
This study (re)examines the complex relationship between forced displacement (FD) and economic growth through the lens of security and political stability in selected European countries from 1960 to 2023. Building on a composite political instability (PI) index that captures both violent and non-violent forms of instability, we employ a simultaneous equations model with panel instrumental variable estimation techniques to address endogeneity and measurement challenges. Our findings reveal that FD generates dual effects on host states: initially, it strains resources and exacerbates PI, but when refugees can access economic opportunities, FD can foster long-term economic growth and strengthen social cohesion. The dynamic relationship between FD and PI highlights how conditions enabling refugee economic participation can mitigate security risks. These results emphasize the need for targeted, evidence-based policies that advance refugee economic inclusion as a pathway to enhancing political stability and sustaining long-term growth in host economies.
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