Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1177/01979183251399112
Orhon Myadar
{"title":"Book Review: Reconfiguring Refugees CoenA. (2024). Reconfiguring Refugees: The US Retreat from Responsibility-Sharing. New York: NYU Press. 256 Pages. $89.00.","authors":"Orhon Myadar","doi":"10.1177/01979183251399112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251399112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145651524","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 : 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1177/01979183251392493
Dana J. Smith
This article studies how domestic and international remittances respond to weather shocks in Mexico and whether local violence affects the use of remittances as insurance. I use a novel combination of state-level, administrative, survey, and remotely sensed panel data to investigate these questions. Estimating a gravity model that accounts for network characteristics and potential spatial dependence, I find that remittances are selective, responding positively to drought but negatively to violence. The negative impact of violence is even larger in areas experiencing drought, suggesting that households facing violence are especially vulnerable to weather shocks as they are less able to cope using remittances. I further unpack the costs of both drought and violence by studying spillovers from neighboring states. I find that the degree of violence in neighboring states magnifies the main impact, motivating regional policy approaches.
{"title":"Climate Change, Violence, and Remittance Flows in Mexico","authors":"Dana J. Smith","doi":"10.1177/01979183251392493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251392493","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies how domestic and international remittances respond to weather shocks in Mexico and whether local violence affects the use of remittances as insurance. I use a novel combination of state-level, administrative, survey, and remotely sensed panel data to investigate these questions. Estimating a gravity model that accounts for network characteristics and potential spatial dependence, I find that remittances are selective, responding positively to drought but negatively to violence. The negative impact of violence is even larger in areas experiencing drought, suggesting that households facing violence are especially vulnerable to weather shocks as they are less able to cope using remittances. I further unpack the costs of both drought and violence by studying spillovers from neighboring states. I find that the degree of violence in neighboring states magnifies the main impact, motivating regional policy approaches.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145610865","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 : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/01979183251394005
Francis Dillon, Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Andrew Wang
Immigrant students who attend US colleges are disproportionately employed in either large firms — especially multinationals — or small firms and self-employment. Using linked Census and longitudinal employment data, we trace the jobs taken by college students in 2000 during the 2001–2020 period and evaluate four mechanisms shaping sector and firm size placement: geographic clustering, degree specialization, firm capabilities/visas, and ethnic self-employment specialization. Degree fields predict large firm and MNE placement, while ethnic specialization explains small firm sorting. Immigrant students who remain in the United States earn more than their native peers, suggesting the segmentation reflects productive sorting rather than blocked opportunity.
{"title":"Positioned at Extremes: Future Job Placements of Immigrant Students at US Colleges","authors":"Francis Dillon, Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Andrew Wang","doi":"10.1177/01979183251394005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251394005","url":null,"abstract":"Immigrant students who attend US colleges are disproportionately employed in either large firms — especially multinationals — or small firms and self-employment. Using linked Census and longitudinal employment data, we trace the jobs taken by college students in 2000 during the 2001–2020 period and evaluate four mechanisms shaping sector and firm size placement: geographic clustering, degree specialization, firm capabilities/visas, and ethnic self-employment specialization. Degree fields predict large firm and MNE placement, while ethnic specialization explains small firm sorting. Immigrant students who remain in the United States earn more than their native peers, suggesting the segmentation reflects productive sorting rather than blocked opportunity.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"148 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599930","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 : 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1177/01979183251394007
Julie Lacroix, Chia Liu, Mary Abed Al Ahad, Hill Kulu, Gunnar Andersson
International migration has historically been an urban phenomenon. Despite the increasing presence of immigrants in non-urban areas and political initiatives aimed at regionalization, research in Europe continues to exhibit a pronounced urban analytical bias. This paper examines the geographies of immigrant and refugee settlement along the urban–rural continuum in Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland. Using (multistate) event history models, we first examine changes in migration stocks in urban, suburban, and rural municipalities, emphasizing the role of immigrant subgroups in regional population changes. Second, we analyze internal origin–destination flux to enhance our understanding of the spatial adjustment processes of immigrants in the context of new immigrant destinations in Europe. Results suggest that immigrants contribute little to suburbanization and ruralization processes, with both initial settlement and secondary moves predominantly directed toward urban areas. EU and non-EU immigrants exhibit stable trajectories post-arrival; in contrast, refugees subjected to a dispersal policy tend to relocate in significant proportions to urban areas once mobility restrictions are lifted. In the three countries, secondary moves by refugees have resulted in an increased concentration of this population in urban areas, reaching proportions comparable to those of the non-European immigrant group not subjected to this policy. The consistency of this finding across the three countries raises significant questions regarding the effectiveness of the dispersal policy from a demographic perspective. Furthermore, transitions from urban to suburban or rural municipalities remain uncommon and do not demonstrate clear associations with the duration of residence or socioeconomic status, as predicted by the spatial assimilation model.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1177/01979183251394604
Oluwateniola O. Kupolati
{"title":"Book Review: Everyday Futures CanizalesStephanie L.O'ConnorBrendan H.2025. Everyday Futures: Language as Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 240 pp., $26.00.","authors":"Oluwateniola O. Kupolati","doi":"10.1177/01979183251394604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251394604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145554104","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 : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1177/01979183251390572
Stephanie Leutert, Ludovica Gazze, Mary Evans
Since the mid-1980s, the US Border Patrol has positioned itself both as an enforcement agency and a provider of life-saving humanitarian assistance to migrants in distress. Over the past few decades — as the agency ratcheted up border enforcement — the number of migrant deaths along the US–Mexico border simultaneously increased. In response, the Border Patrol launched various humanitarian programs and initiatives, including deploying “rescue beacons” throughout the borderlands. These beacons are small towers that allow migrants to press a button and call for help. While the Border Patrol has championed these beacons as saving lives, there is no systematic evaluation of the relationship between rescue beacons and migrant deaths. This paper aims to better understand the Border Patrol's humanitarian activities and their effects by exploring the relationship between rescue beacons and migrant deaths in Pima County, Arizona from 2001 to 2022. Although the Border Patrol links rescue beacons to saving lives, this quantitative study finds little systematic evidence that the beacons reduce the discovery of recovered migrant remains in their vicinity.
{"title":"Rescue Beacons and Migrant Deaths in Southern Arizona","authors":"Stephanie Leutert, Ludovica Gazze, Mary Evans","doi":"10.1177/01979183251390572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251390572","url":null,"abstract":"Since the mid-1980s, the US Border Patrol has positioned itself both as an enforcement agency and a provider of life-saving humanitarian assistance to migrants in distress. Over the past few decades — as the agency ratcheted up border enforcement — the number of migrant deaths along the US–Mexico border simultaneously increased. In response, the Border Patrol launched various humanitarian programs and initiatives, including deploying “rescue beacons” throughout the borderlands. These beacons are small towers that allow migrants to press a button and call for help. While the Border Patrol has championed these beacons as saving lives, there is no systematic evaluation of the relationship between rescue beacons and migrant deaths. This paper aims to better understand the Border Patrol's humanitarian activities and their effects by exploring the relationship between rescue beacons and migrant deaths in Pima County, Arizona from 2001 to 2022. Although the Border Patrol links rescue beacons to saving lives, this quantitative study finds little systematic evidence that the beacons reduce the discovery of recovered migrant remains in their vicinity.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"174 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145535540","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 : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1177/01979183251394003
Richard M. Wood
Small-boat crossing of the English Channel is a relatively new phenomenon, with relatively sporadic attempts prior to 2020 preceding the 148,998 migrant arrivals in the five years since. While this has elevated the issue to a major political priority in the UK, little remains known about the factors which influence the number of crossings. This IMR Dispatch from the Field combines various sources of public data to calibrate a statistical model for explaining daily migrant arrivals along this route. To account for a preponderance of zero-arrival days and overdispersion, a zero-inflated negative binomial regression was used. This essentially composes two models. The first estimates the probability of a day being ‘viable’ (possible for crossings to occur) and quantifies – for the first time – the specific contributions of wave height, sea temperature, and wind direction and speed. The second model estimates the number of migrant arrivals on such viable days, revealing – alongside weather-related effects – the impact of past EU illegal immigration (affecting the candidate pool) and new and defunct migrant-return agreements (representing deterrents). Plausible associations with other variables were also identified, although they did not achieve statistical significance. In addition to the inferential analysis, predictive modelling of several hypothetical scenarios for 2025 was also performed. Reported insights may have value at an operational level in supporting intelligent deployment of enforcement agencies based on forecasted conditions, and at a strategic level in guiding government policy based on evidenced deterrents.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-14DOI: 10.1177/01979183251390567
Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul
Critical migration scholars have noted the rise of neoliberalization of immigration and citizenship policies in the Global North, where citizenship is increasingly reconceptualized not as a right, but a privilege to be earned or a commodity to be “purchased.” However, this literature is in sufficiently explored in relation to statelessness governance and in the Global South contexts. This article examines the shift in the Thai state's governance of statelessness in the last two decades through the lens of neoliberal citizenship and belonging. Drawing on policy analysis and long-term ethnographic research in northern Thailand, I argue that what emerges in place of a previous regime of total exclusion and marginalization of ethnic “other” is a new regime of belonging that operates simultaneously on two levels. Firstly, neoliberal citizenship logics (such as contributions through financial and human capital, citizenship-as-investment, self-responsibilitization, deservedness and earned citizenship) are becoming central to mediating legal status for stateless persons. In particular, educated stateless youth, who are “products” of the Thai educational system, have come to understand citizenship in these terms. Secondly, immigration policies and related registration practices continue to create and sustain temporariness and precarity for labor migrants and their children. My preliminary findings suggest that a neoliberal regime of belonging has resulted in a new hierarchy among stateless persons—those with higher social and cultural capital are more likely to successfully navigate their way out of legal precarity. As a result of this regime of stratified belonging, I observe that statelessness in Thailand will not likely be eradicated despite the Thai state's public commitments.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1177/01979183251393996
Rina Agarwala
{"title":"Book Review: Temporary Measures LeeSuzy K. 2024. Temporary Measures: Migrant Workers and the Developmental State in the Philippines and South Korea. New York: Oxford University Press. 199 pp.","authors":"Rina Agarwala","doi":"10.1177/01979183251393996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251393996","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"223 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145509271","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 : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1177/01979183251393997
Benedicte Brahic
{"title":"Book Review: Sideways Migration Reed-DanahayDeborah2025. Sideways Migration: Being French in London. New York: Routledge. 178 pp. £135.00.","authors":"Benedicte Brahic","doi":"10.1177/01979183251393997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251393997","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145509275","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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