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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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Towards a pro-active European labour migration policy : concrete measures for a comprehensive package [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Today, Europe is confronted with a remarkable paradox on its labour market. While many are out of work, there is also a serious need for labour. In addressing labour needs, the first priority for the EU and the Member States will be to reinforce policies
Migration Policy Centre Team   +1 more
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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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Women and migration. Introduction to migration

open access: yes, 2015
Women and migration is part of the Introduction to Migration series from the Integration up North project. The series provides a basic guide to migration for people working in public sector organisations: local authorities (including health services ...
Smith, Kate, Migration Yorkshire
core   +3 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
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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
doaj   +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
doaj   +1 more source

Migrant Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Sri Lankans Abroad

open access: yesDve Domovini, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the unfair and vulnerable situations endured by migrant workers. This article explores the realities of migrant workers stranded overseas during the pandemic. Focusing on evidence from the experiences of Sri Lankan migrants,
Bilesha Weeraratne
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