Pub Date : 2025-08-20DOI: 10.1177/01979183251365924
Paula Folino Juanola
As migration routes and flows shift over time, so do the digital platforms through which migrants communicate and seek information. Among TikTok's billions of users, some individuals have shared footage of their crossing through the Darien gap between Colombia and Panama, offering a never-before-seen perspective to the 160 km jungle. This article explores TikTok's role as a tool for migrants to share unfiltered experiences and navigate the hardships of their journey . Through a comparative ethnographic content analysis (ECA) of 66 TikTok videos and, 7373 comments, this article proposes an original methodology seldom applied in migration research by prioritising migrant voices as a counter-space that actively resists those actors speaking for them. A thematic comparison between migrant-made videos with non-migrant-made videos considers how the latter accentuates narratives of suffering and victimhood; whereas migrant-made videos curate their content to provide practical information to support other migrants, grounded in their personal experience. The themes within migrant-made videos, together with their comments, construct a digital environment conducive to resisting flattening narratives through tools such as empowerment, community building, and practical information sharing. This article contributes beyond a methodological scope by acknowledging how migrant-made videos point to information individuals are seeking concerning their journey: an epistemological gap that, by filling it, could prove conducive to migrant protection strategies. It concludes that the decisive factor between agency-driven versus victimhood-centred content is the storyteller. This article endorses the prioritisation of migrant voices to respond to their requests and steer migration strategies towards a genuinely safe migration.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-19DOI: 10.1177/01979183251363508
Min Ju Kim
Scholarship on immigrant health among Asian Americans in the United States has been limited in its discussion of identities as a useful marker of integration. At the same time, a large volume of research has focused on the foreign-born population, with relatively fewer studies including their native-born counterparts. As a result, little is known about how identities can enhance or risk the health of Asian Americans comparatively across generational status. In recognition of such gaps in existing literature, I use the 2016 National Asian American Survey ( n = 4,242) and examine how Asian/ethnic/American identity centrality moderates the relationship between generational status and self-rated health among Asian American adults, with gender as a key modifier. I find that Asian identity centrality operates as a health protective resource among foreign-born immigrants regardless of gender. In contrast, it functions as a risk to health among second-generation men and third-generation women. American identity centrality is also a risk to health, but specifically among 1.5- and second-generation men and women. Notably, ethnic identity centrality is detrimental to the health of 1.5-generation men. Findings reveal nuanced patterns of Asian American integration into U.S. society and their relationships to health. Future research should continue to advance knowledge on generational disparities in health among Asian Americans, with greater attention to gender specificity and social psychological mechanisms.
{"title":"Generational Status, Gender, and Health: The Role of Identity Centrality among Asian Americans in the United States","authors":"Min Ju Kim","doi":"10.1177/01979183251363508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251363508","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarship on immigrant health among Asian Americans in the United States has been limited in its discussion of identities as a useful marker of integration. At the same time, a large volume of research has focused on the foreign-born population, with relatively fewer studies including their native-born counterparts. As a result, little is known about how identities can enhance or risk the health of Asian Americans comparatively across generational status. In recognition of such gaps in existing literature, I use the 2016 National Asian American Survey ( <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 4,242) and examine how Asian/ethnic/American identity centrality moderates the relationship between generational status and self-rated health among Asian American adults, with gender as a key modifier. I find that Asian identity centrality operates as a health protective resource among foreign-born immigrants regardless of gender. In contrast, it functions as a risk to health among second-generation men and third-generation women. American identity centrality is also a risk to health, but specifically among 1.5- and second-generation men and women. Notably, ethnic identity centrality is detrimental to the health of 1.5-generation men. Findings reveal nuanced patterns of Asian American integration into U.S. society and their relationships to health. Future research should continue to advance knowledge on generational disparities in health among Asian Americans, with greater attention to gender specificity and social psychological mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144901460","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 : 2025-08-14DOI: 10.1177/01979183251365919
Nieves Fernández-Rodríguez
While forced displacement policies are shaped by both international and domestic considerations, little is known about how states navigate conflicting pressures when adopting liberal or restrictive approaches. This article addresses this gap by examining the divergent responses of the two largest recipients of Venezuelan displaced people: Peru under Martín Vizcarra (2018–2020) and Colombia under Iván Duque (2018–2022). Although both Peru and Colombia are middle-income countries with significant emigration and share growing public resentment toward migrants and strained relations with Nicolás Maduro's regime, they pursued opposite policies. In 2019, Peru imposed a visa requirement for Venezuelan migrants, restricting access, whereas in 2021 Colombia created the Temporary Protection Status, allowing for regularization and a path to residency. Using 65 interviews with policymakers and experts, over 200 statements by public officials, and secondary literature, this study identifies the mechanisms behind these contradictory policies. It argues that whether forced displacement is perceived by executive actors as a foreign or domestic issue shapes the nature of policy in countries that would otherwise be expected to respond similarly. These perceptions are ultimately explained by executives’ need for self-preservation and self-legitimation within strategic political contexts. Four key factors—importance given to Venezuela, international reputation, executive strength, and, to a lesser extent, bureaucratic frameworks—determine whether foreign or domestic logics prevail. By showing how Latin American responses integrate both logics rather than fitting neatly into Global North/South binaries, this study challenges dominant dichotomies in migration scholarship.
{"title":"Foreign or Domestic Affairs? Unpacking Mechanisms Behind Colombia and Peru's Policies on Venezuelan Displacement","authors":"Nieves Fernández-Rodríguez","doi":"10.1177/01979183251365919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251365919","url":null,"abstract":"While forced displacement policies are shaped by both international and domestic considerations, little is known about how states navigate conflicting pressures when adopting liberal or restrictive approaches. This article addresses this gap by examining the divergent responses of the two largest recipients of Venezuelan displaced people: Peru under Martín Vizcarra (2018–2020) and Colombia under Iván Duque (2018–2022). Although both Peru and Colombia are middle-income countries with significant emigration and share growing public resentment toward migrants and strained relations with Nicolás Maduro's regime, they pursued opposite policies. In 2019, Peru imposed a visa requirement for Venezuelan migrants, restricting access, whereas in 2021 Colombia created the Temporary Protection Status, allowing for regularization and a path to residency. Using 65 interviews with policymakers and experts, over 200 statements by public officials, and secondary literature, this study identifies the mechanisms behind these contradictory policies. It argues that whether forced displacement is perceived by executive actors as a foreign or domestic issue shapes the nature of policy in countries that would otherwise be expected to respond similarly. These perceptions are ultimately explained by executives’ need for self-preservation and self-legitimation within strategic political contexts. Four key factors—importance given to Venezuela, international reputation, executive strength, and, to a lesser extent, bureaucratic frameworks—determine whether foreign or domestic logics prevail. By showing how Latin American responses integrate both logics rather than fitting neatly into Global North/South binaries, this study challenges dominant dichotomies in migration scholarship.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898710","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 : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1177/01979183251359170
Cathrine Talleraas, Ida Marie Savio Vammen
This article advances the concept of “rippling effects” as an analytical approach in research on European migration governance in Africa. By adopting a targeted reflexive lens, it adds a conceptual dimension to critical externalization research—a growing yet fragmented field of inquiry that foregrounds Afrocentric, historized, and grounded perspectives. The article examines the far-reaching implications of European externalization interventions in Africa through a review of recent literature and shows how European migration governance extends across new territories and policy domains, engaging stakeholders across scales and fields. These interventions generate effects that reach well beyond their immediate and intended policy outcomes, particularly as they intersect with African actors and realities that simultaneously shape and resist them. By conceptualizing such implications as rippling effects , the article captures the multiscalar, often less visible, and potentially cumulative implications of migration governance, and moves externalization policy assessment beyond the binary of success or failure. Instead, the article offers an analytical approach that captures how interventions trigger local as well as broader political and societal transformations. As an introduction to the Special Issue, The Rippling Effects of European Migration Governance in Africa, we present the articles included in the collection and situate the research discourse on externalization within the increasing securitization of European migration governance, and its intersections with emerging shifts in current African geopolitics.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-31DOI: 10.1177/01979183251359174
Elizabeth Ackert, Matthew Snidal
This study examines the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic composition of schools attended by US Mexican-origin youth. On average, Mexican-origin students are double-segregated in high-minority, high-poverty schools, but the prior literature does not consider how markers of immigrant and residential integration shape differences in school compositional characteristics between Mexican-origin and non-Latino/a white students or how these factors are related to intragroup heterogeneity in Mexican-origin schooling contexts. Using the restricted-use High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), we analyze two school compositional characteristics of Mexican-origin ninth-graders: School percent white and school average peer socioeconomic status (SES). We investigate the extent to which observable factors related to immigrant integration explain school compositional differences between Mexican-origin and non-Latino/a white students, and show how school compositional characteristics differ within the Mexican-origin student group by these markers of integration. We find that several observable factors, including household SES, parental race/ethnicity, and school type and location explain around three-quarters of differences in school percent white and school SES levels between Mexican-origin and white students. School percent white and SES levels increase among Mexican-origin students whose households exhibit indicators of integration. One exception to these patterns is for parental nativity, which does not play an important role in explaining school compositional differences between Mexican-origin and white youth, or contribute to intragroup heterogeneity in Mexican-origin school composition patterns, once other markers of integration are considered. In sum, Mexican-origin students whose families exhibit socioeconomic integration, parental racial/ethnic mixing, engagement in school choice, and geographic dispersion attend less minority-concentrated and higher-SES schools.
{"title":"Integration or Exclusion? The Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Composition of US Schools Attended by Mexican-Origin Youth","authors":"Elizabeth Ackert, Matthew Snidal","doi":"10.1177/01979183251359174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251359174","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic composition of schools attended by US Mexican-origin youth. On average, Mexican-origin students are double-segregated in high-minority, high-poverty schools, but the prior literature does not consider how markers of immigrant and residential integration shape differences in school compositional characteristics between Mexican-origin and non-Latino/a white students or how these factors are related to intragroup heterogeneity in Mexican-origin schooling contexts. Using the restricted-use High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), we analyze two school compositional characteristics of Mexican-origin ninth-graders: School percent white and school average peer socioeconomic status (SES). We investigate the extent to which observable factors related to immigrant integration explain school compositional differences between Mexican-origin and non-Latino/a white students, and show how school compositional characteristics differ within the Mexican-origin student group by these markers of integration. We find that several observable factors, including household SES, parental race/ethnicity, and school type and location explain around three-quarters of differences in school percent white and school SES levels between Mexican-origin and white students. School percent white and SES levels increase among Mexican-origin students whose households exhibit indicators of integration. One exception to these patterns is for parental nativity, which does not play an important role in explaining school compositional differences between Mexican-origin and white youth, or contribute to intragroup heterogeneity in Mexican-origin school composition patterns, once other markers of integration are considered. In sum, Mexican-origin students whose families exhibit socioeconomic integration, parental racial/ethnic mixing, engagement in school choice, and geographic dispersion attend less minority-concentrated and higher-SES schools.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144748177","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 : 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1177/01979183251359172
Brienna Perelli-Harris, Orsola Torrisi
Launched by President Putin to ostensibly “protect” the people living in the predominantly Russian-speaking Eastern regions, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 produced the largest population displacement in Europe since World War II. Using unique data from a rapidly deployed online survey conducted throughout Ukraine and Europe from April to July 2022 (N = 7,974), this study examines how language and exposure to violence may have influenced trajectories of forced migration shortly after Russia's invasion. By exploiting the timing of the survey, it examines how contextual and conflict-specific factors shaped the (un)certainty of migration movements and beliefs about return. Results show that exposure to conflict in the form of witnessing or being injured by a blast explosion was associated with shorter-distance moves within Ukraine. Findings suggest disparate trajectories of displacement by language identities. Although the survey was only available in Ukrainian, and did not include those who fled (or were deported) to Russia, Ukrainian respondents who reported speaking Russian as both their “native” and “home” language (25% of the sample) had the highest probability of relocating to nonbordering countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom. Independent of their origin and destination, Russian-speakers were also more likely to be in transit or uncertain about their destination, and less hopeful about a potential return. Thus, Russia's invasion created profound uncertainty for Russian-speaking Ukrainians and appears to have pushed them even farther away.
{"title":"The Uncertainty of Forced Displacement: How Language and Violence Shaped Displacement Trajectories During Russia's Invasion of Ukraine","authors":"Brienna Perelli-Harris, Orsola Torrisi","doi":"10.1177/01979183251359172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251359172","url":null,"abstract":"Launched by President Putin to ostensibly “protect” the people living in the predominantly Russian-speaking Eastern regions, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 produced the largest population displacement in Europe since World War II. Using unique data from a rapidly deployed online survey conducted throughout Ukraine and Europe from April to July 2022 (N = 7,974), this study examines how language and exposure to violence may have influenced trajectories of forced migration shortly after Russia's invasion. By exploiting the timing of the survey, it examines how contextual and conflict-specific factors shaped the (un)certainty of migration movements and beliefs about return. Results show that exposure to conflict in the form of witnessing or being injured by a blast explosion was associated with shorter-distance moves within Ukraine. Findings suggest disparate trajectories of displacement by language identities. Although the survey was only available in Ukrainian, and did not include those who fled (or were deported) to Russia, Ukrainian respondents who reported speaking Russian as both their “native” and “home” language (25% of the sample) had the highest probability of relocating to nonbordering countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom. Independent of their origin and destination, Russian-speakers were also more likely to be in transit or uncertain about their destination, and less hopeful about a potential return. Thus, Russia's invasion created profound uncertainty for Russian-speaking Ukrainians and appears to have pushed them even farther away.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144748186","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 : 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1177/01979183251360631
Mohamad Zreik
{"title":"Book Review: Strangers in the Land LuoMichael. 2025. Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America. Broadway, NY: Doubleday. 560 pp. $23.95 / £17.80.","authors":"Mohamad Zreik","doi":"10.1177/01979183251360631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251360631","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144748185","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 : 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1177/01979183251359175
Stephanie Schwartz
How do states avoid hosting refugees? Whereas scholars have documented at length the strategies that rich democracies use to avoid hosting refugees, conventional wisdom holds that states in the Global South have no choice but to host refugees. This article presents a novel typology of state strategies to evade asylum obligations, demonstrating that just as rich democracies can feign compliance with the letter of international law without upholding the spirit, states in the Global South can manipulate liberal asylum policies towards illiberal ends. Identifying how they do so, however, requires looking to the governance of refugee return. Using a descriptive typology and inductive case study, the article identifies and describes a common but under-recognized tactic that states use to avoid asylum responsibilities. I call this strategy “return-without- refoulement ” because states seek to coerce refugees to return without technically violating non-refoulement , the international legal prohibition against states returning refugees to dangerous places. Conceptualizing return-without- refoulement alongside other well-studied state responses to asylum-seeking evinces the continued strength of non-refoulement in shaping state behavior—just to perverse ends. In so doing, the article advances both the research agendas on state responses to displacement and international norm compliance.
{"title":"Refugee Return without Refoulement : Rethinking State Strategies to Evade Asylum Norms","authors":"Stephanie Schwartz","doi":"10.1177/01979183251359175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251359175","url":null,"abstract":"How do states avoid hosting refugees? Whereas scholars have documented at length the strategies that rich democracies use to avoid hosting refugees, conventional wisdom holds that states in the Global South have no choice but to host refugees. This article presents a novel typology of state strategies to evade asylum obligations, demonstrating that just as rich democracies can feign compliance with the letter of international law without upholding the spirit, states in the Global South can manipulate liberal asylum policies towards illiberal ends. Identifying how they do so, however, requires looking to the governance of refugee return. Using a descriptive typology and inductive case study, the article identifies and describes a common but under-recognized tactic that states use to avoid asylum responsibilities. I call this strategy “return-without- <jats:italic>refoulement</jats:italic> ” because states seek to coerce refugees to return without technically violating <jats:italic>non-refoulement</jats:italic> , the international legal prohibition against states returning refugees to dangerous places. Conceptualizing return-without- <jats:italic>refoulement</jats:italic> alongside other well-studied state responses to asylum-seeking evinces the continued strength of <jats:italic>non-refoulement</jats:italic> in shaping state behavior—just to perverse ends. In so doing, the article advances both the research agendas on state responses to displacement and international norm compliance.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144748189","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 : 2025-07-28DOI: 10.1177/01979183251359168
Omer Faruk Cingir
International migration management regimes have gained importance worldwide with the acceleration and intensification of global migration and mobility. This article examines the governance of irregular migration in Sabah, Malaysia, with a particular focus on the role of Alternative Learning Centers (ALCs) with the case study of Indonesian and Filipino irregular immigrants. It critically explores the structural challenges of migration governance, Malaysia's deep reliance on migrant labor, through repertoires of migration governance. Given the persistent influx of irregular migrants into Sabah, this study highlights the pressing need for research on migrants’ restricted access to fundamental rights, particularly in the areas of education and social integration. Additionally, it seeks to understand the role of ALCs as key facilitators in addressing migration challenges and fostering community resilience. Employing a qualitative research approach, this study integrates ethnographic fieldwork with semistructured interviews conducted with irregular immigrants, grassroots organization members, and civil society activists. By examining migration policies, international legal frameworks, and the perspectives of both migrants and nongovernmental organizations, the findings reveal that ALCs and grassroots initiatives play a pivotal role in bridging the gaps left by formal migration governance structures. The analysis demonstrates that ALCs in Sabah serve as critical institutions for education and social inclusion among irregular migrant children. This study advocates for the adoption of human-centered policies that prioritize the dignity and well-being of irregular migrants and calls for the implementation of more comprehensive, rights-based migration governance frameworks in Sabah, Malaysia.
{"title":"Bridging Governance Gaps: The Role of Alternative Learning Centers in Sabah, Malaysia, as Repertoires of Migration Governance","authors":"Omer Faruk Cingir","doi":"10.1177/01979183251359168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251359168","url":null,"abstract":"International migration management regimes have gained importance worldwide with the acceleration and intensification of global migration and mobility. This article examines the governance of irregular migration in Sabah, Malaysia, with a particular focus on the role of Alternative Learning Centers (ALCs) with the case study of Indonesian and Filipino irregular immigrants. It critically explores the structural challenges of migration governance, Malaysia's deep reliance on migrant labor, through repertoires of migration governance. Given the persistent influx of irregular migrants into Sabah, this study highlights the pressing need for research on migrants’ restricted access to fundamental rights, particularly in the areas of education and social integration. Additionally, it seeks to understand the role of ALCs as key facilitators in addressing migration challenges and fostering community resilience. Employing a qualitative research approach, this study integrates ethnographic fieldwork with semistructured interviews conducted with irregular immigrants, grassroots organization members, and civil society activists. By examining migration policies, international legal frameworks, and the perspectives of both migrants and nongovernmental organizations, the findings reveal that ALCs and grassroots initiatives play a pivotal role in bridging the gaps left by formal migration governance structures. The analysis demonstrates that ALCs in Sabah serve as critical institutions for education and social inclusion among irregular migrant children. This study advocates for the adoption of human-centered policies that prioritize the dignity and well-being of irregular migrants and calls for the implementation of more comprehensive, rights-based migration governance frameworks in Sabah, Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144715263","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 : 2025-07-28DOI: 10.1177/01979183251352434
Joyce Opare-Addo, Karen Farquharson
This comparative analysis examines the historical trajectories and contemporary trends of immigration policies in Canada and Australia, elucidating the enduring influence of past practices on current frameworks. Focusing on the pre-1960s through post-2000s eras, the study reveals how both nations’ migration policies have shifted from racially based to skills-based approaches, with a recent emphasis on language proficiency as a key selection criterion. Drawing on institutional isomorphism theory, the study argues that Canada and Australia exhibit normative and mimetic isomorphic processes, reflecting cultural values and mutual learning in policy development. It contends that these isomorphic practices are rooted in colonial legacies and may perpetuate historical hierarchies. Through an analysis of key events and occurrences, the study highlights the convergence of legal and regulatory regimes between the two nations, characterizing it as colonial isomorphism. This comprehensive examination provides insights into the sociocultural and historical factors shaping immigration policies, showing that migration policies in different nations appear to follow normative, coercive and mimetic isomorphic processes.
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