Predatory rentierism in irregular migration: how debts, threats, and rackets shape lives on the move [0.03%]
不规则移民中的掠夺食租者行为：债务、威胁和敲诈如何影响移民生活
Cyril Bennouna
Cyril Bennouna
This article introduces the framework of predatory rentierism to account for pervasive but under-theorized forms of violence and their perpetrators across the process of irregular migration. Predatory rentierism is the practice of deriving ...
Mixed methods, mixed feelings: a review of hurdles faced and vaulting poles to apply when wanting to do and publish mixed methods research [0.03%]
混合方法，复杂心情：当进行和发表混合方法研究时所遇到的困难与对策综述
Niels Spierings,Nella Geurts
Niels Spierings
Sometimes 'mixed methods designs' are considered a winner for obtaining research grants, but a close-to-certain reject when publishing. Evidently, reality is more complex. At the same time, these considerations are grounded in actual experi...
'As if the soul returns to the body': affect, stuckedness, and (in)voluntary return to Nicaragua from Spain [0.03%]
恍如灵魂归位：尼加拉瓜移民在西班牙的情感、困顿与返乡
Elise Hjalmarson
Elise Hjalmarson
This article attends to the emotional resonances of 'stuckedness' and (in)voluntary return as experienced by Nicaraguan migrants stranded in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Feeling both figuratively and literally trapped in a context of...
Same, same but different? A Discourse Network Analysis of the EU's framings of refugee arrivals in 2015 and 2022 [0.03%]
同中有异？话语网络分析在2015年和2022年欧盟对难民到来的建构
Lara Sosa Popovic,Natalie Welfens
Lara Sosa Popovic
The European Union (EU) experienced two major instances of refugee influx: in 2015, refugees, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq fled civil war, persecution, and dire conditions in neighbouring countries and in 2022, Ukrainians fled fr...
Playing dirty: the shady governance and reproduction of migrant illegality [0.03%]
黑白之外：移民“非法身份”的制度渊源与社会生产
Stephan Scheel
Stephan Scheel
State authorities in Europe invest immense resources in what the EU insists on calling the 'fight against illegal migration'. Based on ethnographic research in two German cities, this paper shows that a tough approach towards illegalised mi...
Lisa Marie Borrelli,Annika Lindberg
Lisa Marie Borrelli
The European migration control regime claims to strife for 'orderly' and safe conditions of migration, yet systematically generates the opposite. This paper explores the role of informality in creating solutions to enable control and produc...
Unaccompanied minors from the Northern Central American countries in the migrant stream: social differentials and institutional contexts [0.03%]
北中美洲国家无人陪伴未成年人的移民境遇：社会差异与机构语境
Nestor Rodriguez,Ximena Urrutia-Rojas,Luis Raul Gonzalez
Nestor Rodriguez
The migration of minors unaccompanied by adults from the northern countries of Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) to the United States has risen sharply in recent years, surpassing the numbers that migrated during the po...
Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures [0.03%]
数据提取的认知霸权：质疑生物识别和手机数据分析在庇护程序中的使用
Stephan Scheel
Stephan Scheel
In a growing number of destination countries state authorities have started to use various digital devices such as analysis of data captured from mobile phones to verify asylum seekers' claimed country of origin. This move has prompted some...
A "Win-Win Exercise"? The Effect of Westward Migration on Educational Outcomes of Eastern European Children [0.03%]
“双赢之举”？西部化导致的东部欧洲儿童教育成果研究
Nathan I Hoffmann
Nathan I Hoffmann
Since the end of the Cold War, millions of migrants from Eastern Europe have sought better opportunities in Western European countries, yet few studies have assessed the impact of such moves on these migrants' children. In the aim of isolat...
Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States: Temporal and Spatial Dimensions [0.03%]
美国华人创业的社会空间属性与历史动态性研究
Han Liu,Zai Liang,Miao David Chunyu
Han Liu
Focusing on transnational entrepreneurship and immigrant businesses in new destinations, this paper studies entrepreneurship of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. using data from three surveys. In the analysis of transnational connections, we f...