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Do Employer-Sponsored Immigrants Fare Better in Labor Markets Than Family-Sponsored Immigrants?

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
Debates about revising U.S. legal immigration policies tend to question the economic value of immigrants sponsored by family members rather than by employers. To date, little evidence has been cited.
Julia Gelatt
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The struggle over migration policy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Population Economics, 2005
We analyze the endogenous determination of migration quota, viewing it as an outcome of a two-stage political struggle between two interest groups: those in favor and those against the proposed migration quota. First, we compare the proposed policies of the two interest groups under random behavior of the government, with and without lobbying.
Epstein, Gil S., Nitzan, Shmuel
openaire   +2 more sources

Challenging the Nation-State from within: The Emergence of Transmunicipal Solidarity in the Course of the EU Refugee Controversy

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2019
In the context of the so-called refugee crisis, political disputes about solidarity become a central issue with member states applying competing concepts.
Christiane Heimann   +3 more
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Beauty and Beautification in Refugees’ Lives and Their Implications for Refugee Policy

open access: yesRefuge, 2023
This article seeks to understand the significance of everyday beauty in refugees’ lives and its implications for refugee policy; it is one of the first pieces of scholarship to explore this subject in this context. A review of the existing literature on
Stephanie Acker
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A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration

open access: yesComparative Migration Studies, 2022
The need for strategic communication in migration policymaking is increasingly widely recognised. Whereas until recently there was relatively little academic evidence of what forms of immigration communication are effective, the past few years have seen ...
James Dennison
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Measuring and explaining cross-country immigration policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The intensified international migration pressures of the recent decades prompted many developed countries to revise their immigration regulations and increase border controls.
Rayp, Glenn   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring

open access: yesComparative Migration Studies, 2023
Building on the case of visa procedures, this article analyses the relationship between border bureaucracies and intermediaries understood as actors, organisations and knowledge that facilitate, shape, and enable human mobility.
Federica Infantino
doaj   +1 more source

Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the MENA region

open access: yesComparative Migration Studies, 2022
Why do individuals vary in their desire to emigrate? Why are some willing to emigrate irregularly? This article tests four theoretical approaches—socio-demographics; economic and political context; access to migrant networks; and psychological factors ...
James Dennison
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Migration energy aware reconfigurations of virtual network function instances in NFV architectures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a new network architecture framework that implements network functions in software running on a pool of shared commodity servers.
Ammar, Mostafa   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Introducing the Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization (HIEF) Dataset: Accounting for Longitudinal Changes in Ethnic Diversity

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data, 2020
Dramatic changes in the ethnic composition of countries in the last decades have sparked new interest among social scientists in studying and uncovering the role of ethnic diversity on social, political and economic outcomes.
Lenka Drazanova
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