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Pre-Employment Mentoring Programs and Immigrant Labor Market Integration
Employment is one of the priorities for immigrants upon arrival in the receiving country. However, the job search process is often challenging, and...
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Immigrant Organizations and Labor Market Integration: The Case of Sweden
In line with recent trends in sociology of migration, the paper presents major research findings on Swedish immigrant organizations (SIOs) and their...
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The labor market integration of immigrant women in Europe: context, theory, and evidence
In this overview, we seek to provide a comprehensive resource for scholars of female immigrant labor market integration in Europe, to act both as a...
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Home care allowance and labor market participation of immigrant and native-born mothers
Most countries still have a significant gender gap in labor force participation, and this gap is especially large for immigrants. Despite this gap,...
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Does Immigrant Selection Policy Matter? Labor Market Integration of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel and the United States
Immigration policy debates currently focus on restricting immigration in favor of the highly skilled with the assumption that highly skilled...
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Exploring the Labor Market Integration of Skilled African Immigrants in Quebec (Canada)
Skilled African immigrants migrate, intending to integrate socioeconomically in Quebec. Even though African immigrants have high credentials, they...
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Zoning as a labor market regulation
An instrument of wealth accumulation and racial segregation in housing markets, the intersections between zoning and labor are often overlooked....
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Breaking into the Labor Market in the Face of Racism and Oppression: Resiliency and Well-Being of Highly Skilled African Immigrants in Quebec
The integration of highly skilled immigrants into the Canadian labor market is a complex endeavor, fraught with challenges that necessitate the...
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Taking Time Seriously: Biographical Circumstance and Immigrant Labor Integration Experience
The article offers a re-conceptualization of the labor integration process which takes temporality into account as a relevant feature that, rather...
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The effect of co-ethnic social capital on immigrants' labor market integration: a natural experiment
Empirically identifying the causal effect of social capital on immigrants’ economic prospects is a challenging task due to the non-random residential...
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Beyond “Economic Immigration”: Understanding the Role of Labor Market and Lifestyle Expectations in Technology Sector Newcomer Experiences in Canada
Canada has long sought to disperse skilled immigration across the country, with the goal of promoting economic development, improving cultural...
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“It is not just about my work, my identities count”: the Influence of Intersectional Identities on the Employment Experiences of Black African Immigrant Women in Ontario, Canada
Existing research on immigrants in Canada has identified singular aspects of identity (such as race) that causes inequities in their employment...
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Religious Diversity, Islam, and Integration in Western Europe—Dissecting Symbolic, Social, and Institutional Boundary Dynamics
Religious diversity and, in particular, the presence of Islam is often perceived as a threat to national solidarity and social cohesion across...
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Informal Volunteering and Immigrant Generations: Exploring Overlooked Dimensions in Immigrant Volunteering Research
Volunteering by immigrants provides dual a contribution: To civil society, immigrant volunteers can add an untapped human and social capital, social...
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Economic Integration of Afro–Latin American Immigrants in Mexico
Despite Mexico’s increase as a destination country (although < 1% of its population was born abroad, and most immigrants are U.S.–born minors of...
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Labor shortages and the unmaking of class in Mississippi’s poultry plants
Following 2019 immigration raids at seven Mississippi poultry plants and the beginning of mass infection in meatpacking plants early in the 2020...
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Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth
This study investigates the role of migration background in the saving behavior of youth, with a focus on immigrant generation, national origin, and...
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Occupation–Education Mismatch of Immigrant Women in Europe
Against the background of continuing gains in female education and labour market participation and rising migration, we investigate whether women...
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Exploring Sixty-Two Years of Research on Immigrants’ Integration Using Structural Topic Modeling-Based Bibliometric Analysis
The research on immigrant integration is a dynamic interdisciplinary domain with rich and diverse literature. Considering the numerous studies in...
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Integration, cultural preservation and transnationalism through state supported immigrant organizations: a study of Sweden’s national ethnic associations
This paper explores the activities of Swedish state supported ethnic associations (most of which are immigrant organizations), thus shedding...