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Migration Studies is a leading journal of the determinants, processes, and outcomes of human migration. Impact Factor: 2.7 (2024). https://academic.oup.com/migration
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow can longitudinal qualitative panels (LQPs) advance migration research? Drawing on Ukrainians who fled to Germany in 2022, @M.Nowicka and @K. Mozetic show why understandings of change matter for panel design and findings, offering suggestions for scholars.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialWhat happens when researcher positionality becomes part of the method? Drawing on research with skilled Chinese immigrant women in Canada, @Chen J. Wang introduces “situational reflexivity” to show how positionality can become an active resource in knowledge production.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow do pre-migration values shape migrant communities abroad? Studying highly skilled Chinese migrants in Germany, @X. Wu, @B. Bilecen, and @R. Wittek show how power, security, and tradition values can weaken trust, collective support, and community cohesion.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow do precarious Vietnamese migrants use language to contest and reappropriate illegality? In the UK and Germany, @S.Rumsby and @T.Nguyen show how status terms can reproduce stigma or be reappropriated to justify migrants’ position and contest marginalization.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow do Asian migrants understand middle class identity across borders? Studying Chinese and Indian grads in Australia, @S.Ang and @E.Weng show how class is context dependent across borders, while “Asian class as method” decentres Western understandings of class.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialWho pays the moral price of the “care crisis”? In Switzerland’s Jura Arc, @E. Charmillot and @J. Dahinden show how recruitment is reframed as mobility or integration, while these moral logics legitimize and obscure structural asymmetries in transnational care.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow do borders govern time through practices of remembrance? Drawing on fieldwork in Tunisia, @Corina Tulbure shows how border objects carry memories of missing migrants, while institutionalized practices of “un-knowing” work to dilute them.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow does intermediation shape migrant domestic and care work in Turkey? @U.Sunata, @A.Ceylan, and @I.Uslu frame it as a multi layered infrastructure linking households, platforms, and migrant networks, shaped by welfare regimes, crises, and digitalization.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow do female migrants affect native women’s labour outcomes? Comparing Costa Rica and Chile, @V.Lentini, @D.Moya, and @C.Loschmann find employment gains in Costa Rica and wage gains in Chile, but negative effects mainly when migrants are more skilled.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialWhat shaped diasporic return during COVID 19? Studying Taiwanese Americans returning to Taiwan, @Y. Chien, @J.C. Liu, and @Y.T. Li introduce the “space time health nexus” to show how health risks, mobility opportunities, and geopolitical anxieties shaped return and identity.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialWhat drives public support for border violence? Using a US survey experiment, @B.Sonmez, @V.Donnaloja, and @S.Lo Iacono show that approval rises when migrants cross in large groups, without children, or with weapons, while race, and criminal record do not affect preferences.
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@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow can faith based care both support and restrict migrant agency? Challenging dominant narratives, @R. Udor and @S. Yoon show how undocumented migrants’ dependence on church networks in South Korea can expose them to unaccountable forms of migration governance.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow can Indigenous wisdoms inform decolonial efforts in migration studies? Drawing on South Africa, @M.Ocadiz and @P.K.Mbasalaki showing how these Indigenous wisdoms link knowledge production with relational care while structural inequalities both enable and constrain.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow do immigration rules shape immigrants’ sense of belonging? Drawing on narratives from Norway, @T.M. Liodden, @H. Eggebø, and @M.S. Leirvik show how regulation can make even “wanted” immigrants feel unwanted, conditionally accepted, and less attached to the state.
@migrationjrnl.bsky.socialHow do immigration threat perceptions relate to policy preferences and political behaviour? @J.Dennison shows that threat perceptions are multidimensional, driven by threat sensitivity and migrant cues, shaping policy preferences and influencing behaviour indirectly.
