Pub Date : 2025-07-28DOI: 10.1177/01979183251360686
Vanessa L. Banta, Kidjie Saguin
Recently, the Philippines’ migrant reintegration program has gained some renewed attention. In this article, we draw from the infrastructural lens often used in migration studies to foreground the ways in which key reintegration policies and regulation practices have been conceptualized and enacted over the past decades. Adopting the view that policies and ways of implementation are never static nor inert, we highlight two emerging developments in the field of Philippine reintegration. First, we trace and examine the shifting contours of an emerging infrastructure for migrant reintegration in the Philippines. Second, we situate reintegration policies alongside the more familiar, diaspora strategies. We do this to reveal what we contend as the growing classed nature of reintegration, whereby state's biases of the balikbayan (returnee from the diaspora) as more deserving than the migrant worker could effectively foreclose more nuanced policy and programs attendant to the differing needs of various returnees.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1177/01979183251360677
Thomas Wimark
Using credibility assessment methods in determining refugee status for asylum claimants is a widely used practice. Scholars tend to argue that this is inappropriate when sexual orientation forms the basis of the claim. Detailedness, consistency, and plausibility in sexual orientation narratives are hard to establish, as the narratives relate to identity and inner emotions rather than solely to external events. We have yet to determine which parts of the credibility assessments can affect refugee status outcomes. To address this gap, this article uses a representative sample of sexual orientation asylum decisions from Sweden, aiming to test which credibility aspects influence asylum determination outcomes. The findings reveal that case assessors put emphasis on detailedness and inconsistencies to determine whether statements are truthful. This emphasis on detail and consistency poses challenges in verifying the credibility of sexual orientation claims, as it is susceptible to deception. These insights underscore the need for a deeper understanding of credibility assessment methods to ensure a fairer treatment of sexual orientation claimants in asylum processes.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1177/01979183251359171
Yasmin Y. Ortiga, Roderick Galam
This article examines skill as an integral yet understudied aspect of emigration governance. To date, migration studies have mainly focused on how the demand for migrant skills drive people's movements across borders, shaping the conditions for entry into popular destinations in the West. In contrast, less is known as to how skills also shape the way governments manage emigration, pushing would-be migrants to acquire certain capacities well before they leave their countries of origin. Drawing from the case of the Philippines, this article discusses how state agencies have used skills training to dominate specific markets for migrant professionals and demand higher wages for Filipino workers abroad. Yet, this emphasis on skilling has also worsened existing inequalities within the country, creating social problems that state officials are unable to fully address and control. We argue that such issues stem from the private schools and training companies who dominate skills provision for aspiring migrants. Such actors remain largely overlooked in current scholarship, despite their increasing influence on workers’ migration trajectories. This paper highlights the challenges of producing workers for labor markets beyond borders, as well as its implications on how we understand migration governance as a whole.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1177/01979183251352404
Andrea Lisette Aparicio Castro, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Dilek Yildiz, Michaela Potančoková
South America and Europe have a history of reversals in the directionality of migration. While South America was a major destination for European migrants in the early twentieth century, migration flows have reversed in recent decades, with increasing South American emigration to Europe. However, inconsistencies in bilateral migration data hinder empirical assessments of migration systems between these regions. This study addresses this gap by (1) estimating a complete, comparable, reliable, and consistent time series of bilateral migration flows between South America and Europe from 1985 to 2018 and (2) generating conditional forecasts until 2050. Using a two-level hierarchical Bayesian model, it integrates one-year and five-year transition census data, corrects for undercounting of native-born migrants, adjusts for census approaches and data quality, and incorporates key migration drivers, including demographics, socioeconomic disparities, historical ties, and environmental factors. By producing reliable migration data, this study provides a robust foundation for analyzing the persistence and evolution of migration patterns between South America and Europe across time. It contributes to migration systems theory by integrating theoretical insights with empirical modeling, assessing whether South America–Europe flows form a structured, evolving network, whilst also serving as a valuable reference for analyzing future migration trajectories.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1177/01979183251359176
Anna Triandafyllidou
Advanced digital technologies are transforming the way we work, connect, participate, and even live. Their impact is most visible in the migration field where they facilitate decoupling the place of work and the place of residence, potentially leading to whole new opportunities and challenges. Today, digital nomads can travel while they work, while labor migrants, particularly those with temporary status, may find themselves trapped in digital platform work. Contributions to this special Issue shed light on these seemingly opposed phenomena of digital nomadism and migrant worker engagement in digital platforms. This introductory paper offers a critical review of the notion of quality of work, arguing that its contours have been fundamentally shifting in recent times. Empirical insights arising from research on digital platforms (particularly immigrant employment in those) and work on digital nomadism reveal new elements valued by migrant and digital nomad workers. This paper and the other contributions included in this special issue point to the ambivalence of these new configurations, which create vulnerable workers but also agentic subjects who seek to negotiate better career aspirations, whether through digital nomadism or engagement in digital platform work.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-16DOI: 10.1177/01979183251357863
Nancy Foner
{"title":"Book Review: Lives in Motion DecimoFrancesca. 2024. Lives in Motion: The Transnational Making of Population between Morocco and Italy. Palgrave Macmillan, 142 pages. $55.50.","authors":"Nancy Foner","doi":"10.1177/01979183251357863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251357863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144640053","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 : 2025-07-11DOI: 10.1177/01979183251350953
Tri Susanto
{"title":"Book Review: The Human Factor SinnerAlejandroCarrerasCèsarHoutenPieter. 2024. The Human Factor: The Demography of the Roman Province of Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 512 pp., $169.99.","authors":"Tri Susanto","doi":"10.1177/01979183251350953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251350953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144603066","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}
Our article uses a socio-legal lens to examine the construction of precarity among migrant food delivery workers in Turin, Italy. We argue that the Italian migration system, and the way it is implemented, narrows the range of sources of income, and pushes migrants into a condition of liminal legality, formatting the malleable workforce upon which food delivery platforms deploy their biopower. We thus suggest that the commodification of migrant labor in the platform food delivery sector in Turin, while driven by platform logics, is rooted in, and compounded by, the contradictions and opacity of the Italian immigration regime. We thus advance the novel concept of algorithmic–bureaucratic precarization which allows an understanding of how the interaction of the legal and the digital causes migrant workers to be held on the outermost margins of employment. By drawing on ethnographic data collected during the Covid-19 pandemic, we chart the growing centrality of food delivery platforms in the political economy of migration. In so doing, we show how the interaction between shifting migration policies, information asymmetries of digital platforms and legal loopholes exacerbates the socio-economic vulnerability of migrant workers. We unpack algorithmic–bureaucratic precarization by describing the entanglement of legal and procedural failures that illegalize migrants and asylum seekers and put them at risk of exploitation. Through the specific case of migrant food delivery workers in Turin, we contribute to the legal geography literature on precarization by highlighting how the platform economy is reshaping the nexus of neoliberal flexibilization and restrictive migration policies.
{"title":"The Algorithmic–Bureaucratic Precarization of Migrant Food Delivery Workers in Italy","authors":"Gianluca Iazzolino, Eleonora Celoria, Amarilli Varesio","doi":"10.1177/01979183251343886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251343886","url":null,"abstract":"Our article uses a socio-legal lens to examine the construction of precarity among migrant food delivery workers in Turin, Italy. We argue that the Italian migration system, and the way it is implemented, narrows the range of sources of income, and pushes migrants into a condition of liminal legality, formatting the malleable workforce upon which food delivery platforms deploy their biopower. We thus suggest that the commodification of migrant labor in the platform food delivery sector in Turin, while driven by platform logics, is rooted in, and compounded by, the contradictions and opacity of the Italian immigration regime. We thus advance the novel concept of algorithmic–bureaucratic precarization which allows an understanding of how the interaction of the legal and the digital causes migrant workers to be held on the outermost margins of employment. By drawing on ethnographic data collected during the Covid-19 pandemic, we chart the growing centrality of food delivery platforms in the political economy of migration. In so doing, we show how the interaction between shifting migration policies, information asymmetries of digital platforms and legal loopholes exacerbates the socio-economic vulnerability of migrant workers. We unpack algorithmic–bureaucratic precarization by describing the entanglement of legal and procedural failures that illegalize migrants and asylum seekers and put them at risk of exploitation. Through the specific case of migrant food delivery workers in Turin, we contribute to the legal geography literature on precarization by highlighting how the platform economy is reshaping the nexus of neoliberal flexibilization and restrictive migration policies.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144594486","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 : 2025-07-07DOI: 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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