Pub Date : 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1177/01979183251353452
Lamis Abdelaaty, Scott Blinder, Rebecca Hamlin
Which arguments for refugee admissions are most persuasive to publics in receiving states? Some refugee scholars and advocates insist that the way to maximize support for refugee admissions is to emphasize their instrumental economic benefit to receiving states. Others prefer arguments based in legal or moral obligations, arguing that economic arguments risk undermining support for the most vulnerable or needy refugees. In this article, we assess whether and how economic, legal, and moral arguments affect Americans’ support for refugee admissions, and which types of refugees they prefer to admit. We report results from a nationally representative survey in the United States ( N = 1,297), with an embedded survey experiment and conjoint decision task. We find that the moral argument led to more support for refugee admissions, while the legal argument increased support only among non-Republicans, and the economic argument had no discernible impact. In the conjoint task, the economic argument increased preferences for economically productive potential refugees, but in a way that focused on lower-status occupations. Our findings suggest that while the economic argument may not reduce support, other approaches are more likely to increase Americans’ support for refugees.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1177/01979183251356494
V. Kalyani
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Pub Date : 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1177/01979183251352443
Eduardo Acostamadiedo
While the study of international migration has benefited from the use of direct surveys to measure aspirations to migrate, little attention has been paid to potential sensitivity biases that could lead to measurement errors (i.e., underreporting) when eliciting irregular migration intentions. In contexts where migration through irregular pathways is clandestine, dangerous, and concealed from family members to avoid interference, prospective migrants may hesitate to disclose their true intentions. Thus, the question arises: Are direct survey estimates underreporting intentions to migrate through irregular pathways? This article presents evidence from a double-list experiment in rural Central Ethiopia in 2022. Drawing on a sample of 5,302 respondents, this study compares estimates of intentions to migrate irregularly obtained through a traditional direct question vs. a less intrusive double list experiment. While the main results indicate no significant differences between the double list experiment and the direct question in the prevalence of irregular migration intentions, further analysis reveals heterogeneous sensitivity biases with respect to respondent subgroups. Taken together, the results suggest that direct measures of irregular migration intentions can be reliable.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1177/01979183251343888
Filip Savatic, Margherita Lazzeri, Kartika Herscheid, Thomas Lacroix, Hélène Thiollet, Başak Yavçan
The displacement of approximately eight million Ukrainians throughout Europe since February 2022 has had a significant impact on migration governance, and sparked important discussions within migration research. Leveraging novel data from the “Voice of Ukraine” (VOU) survey — a multifaceted longitudinal study of Ukrainian refugees deployed since June 2022 — we examine the migratory and socio-economic trajectories of this community in exile. We posit that the demographic characteristics of Ukrainian refugees, and the asylum and integration policies enacted by European countries of settlement, shape variation in migratory decisions as well as integration outcomes. Our initial analyses of the VOU data show a surprising migratory sedentariness following an initial sorting across Europe. They also reveal a potential association between policies and socio-economic integration tied to housing, education, employment, and personal finances. Our work sets the stage for further exploration of the interplay between refugee attributes and the legislative frameworks of host nations, shedding light on broader dynamics of forced displacement.
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These Methods Note analyzes the feasibility of conducting panel surveys with migrant populations in Latin America, which is characterized by increasingly vulnerable migration flows and complex migration trajectories. Since evidence shows that the migration event is an attrition factor in panel surveys, we reflect on methods to minimize its impact and recommend how other researchers could adopt our applied method. We took three steps to accomplish this. First, we compared the sociodemographic profiles of respondents of Venezuelan origin who participated in the 2018 Ethno-Recent Immigration Survey (ENIR) in Uruguay, focusing on those who were recontacted in the ENIR's second round in 2021 versus those who were not. Second, we conducted a multivariate analysis by estimating logistic regression models to predict the probability of being contacted in the ENIR's second round. Finally, we systematized our observations of which factors enabled participants to be recontacted in the second round, thereby determining strategies to allow future studies to recontact participants. Our results indicate that, in addition to the informants’ individual attributes, it is imperative to consider the characteristics of their social networks to facilitate recontact.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1177/01979183251343882
Sorana Toma, Mao-Mei Liu
Ample prior research shows that social capital is contingent on a person's position in society and is, consequently, a significant factor in perpetuating and amplifying social inequalities. In contrast, migration scholarship is relatively quiet about how social position may stratify the role of migrant networks, and instead conceptualizes migrant networks as broadening access to migration. This paper integrates theoretical insights from these two lines of research to offer a novel contribution on the interplay between social stratification and migrant networks. We examine three pathways—network access, network mobilization, and network returns—through which social position may shape migrant networks and, as such, reinforce inequalities in migration. To do so, we employ retrospective data from the multi-sited Migration between Africa and Europe survey that allows us to account for the dynamic nature of migrant networks and to distinguish among these pathways. Our study highlights significant stratification in access, mobilization, and returns to migrant networks among individuals in different social positions, operationalized as educational attainment. In a context of positive educational selectivity such as sub-Saharan African migration to Europe, access to migrant networks increases substantially with higher social position. And while lower-educated individuals rely more financially on migrant networks, which offer them larger relative gains, these networks ultimately exacerbate initial advantages and amplify social inequalities in migration opportunities.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1177/01979183251337052
Abiodun Samuel Adegbile, Juliana Siwale, Ugbede Umoru, Olu Aluko
This study, based on in-depth interviews with 50 African migrants living in the United Kingdom, argues for a more nuanced approach to studying their remittance behavior. Drawing from the tension-centered approach, we posit that African migrants derived their remittance behavior in tensional ways based on the philosophy of Ubuntu, which is both enabling and constraining, stemming from the social context of the home and host countries. This occurs through ongoing negotiation with allegiance to Ubuntu from their home African country, their acculturation to the host country, and migrants scaling back from remitting due to ongoing experiences. In addition to examining migrant remittance behavior as a dynamic and contested negotiation, the sociocultural implications of such remittance behavior patterns are identified. We conclude by discussing some implications for future research on remittance behavior. Our research thus contributes to a more fine-grained understanding of the remittance behavior of African migrants.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1177/01979183251343885
Jeffrey R. Bloem, Isabel Lambrecht, Kamiljon Akromov
In places with limited employment opportunities, households aspiring to increase their income are mainly left with two options: either (a) invest locally in their farm or non-farm enterprises, or (b) earn income elsewhere via migration. With survey data from 1,705 respondents from rural Tajikistan, we analyze the relationship between income aspirations and household investment strategies, and we contrast this to the relationship between income aspirations and international migration. We find evidence of a strong link between the income aspirations gap and international migration, but, strikingly, we do not observe any association between the income aspirations gap and local investment in farm or non-farm assets. These results suggest that households do not view local investment as a viable strategy for increasing income. Exploring heterogeneity, we find that these results can vary by household poverty status and household land endowments, but not by the respondent's gender. Given the prominence of migration in the study area, this also suggests that remittances commonly serve different purposes than farm or non-farm investments — such as supporting households in their day-to-day expenditures or funding major ritual events.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1177/01979183251349086
Gabriele Leone
{"title":"Book Review: Private Violence CleavelandCarolWaslinMichele. 2024. Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum. New York: NYU Press. 296 pages. $30.00(paperback).","authors":"Gabriele Leone","doi":"10.1177/01979183251349086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251349086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144296114","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 : 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1177/01979183251345767
Agnieszka Weinar
{"title":"Book Review: Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia CookLinda J.2024. Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia: The Politics of 21st Century Exclusionary and Inclusionary Migrations. Cambridge University Press. 364 pages. $34.99(paperback).","authors":"Agnieszka Weinar","doi":"10.1177/01979183251345767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251345767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260611","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}
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