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Arrived, Yet In-between: Experiences of Iranian Asylum-Seeker Women Living with Insecure Residency in Australia
The plight of asylum seekers is a politically contested issue in Australia. Iranian women have been the largest number of asylum-seekers/Many have...
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Are College Graduate Immigrants on Work Visa Cheaper Than Natives?
The use of H-1B and other work visas to hire foreign professionals in the United States has been controversial and has caused policy debates. Using...
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The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring
Building on the case of visa procedures, this article analyses the relationship between border bureaucracies and intermediaries understood as actors,...
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Youth as Temporary Workers Abroad: The Experiences of Australia, Canada and New Zealand
As globalization reshapes labour markets, young people increasingly look abroad for opportunities to pursue work and training, develop their careers...
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Migration Pathways: Popular Visas, Streams and Tactics
This chapter explores the ways in which the ‘survival’ and ‘achievement’ migrants migrate, the migration streams, tactics and pathways they choose to...
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Three Echoes of Antisemitism in Colombia from 1945 to 1948
Following the end of World War II, when the world learned about the Holocaust, manifestations of antisemitism grew in Colombia as echoes of what was...
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Saved by the Seminary: German Refugee Rabbis’ Careers During and After the Holocaust—A Transnational Perspective
This article explores the flight of German refugee rabbis to the United States after 1933; it particularly highlights the joint rescue effort of the...
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Australia’s Hard-Line Approach to Asylum Seekers
This chapter offers an overview of the impacts of the Australian federal government’s immigration policies, and the related public perceptions such...
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Lived Experiences of Skilled Indian Women Immigrants (SIWI) Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic: Immigration Trajectories to Canada
The present study aims to explore the challenges faced by Skilled Indian Women Immigrants (SIWI) when navigating COVID-19 pandemic and their use of...
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Migration Diplomacy and Multi-actor Governance
Various forms of migration diplomacy have now developed, which make use of several tools. This typically involves bilateral and multilateral...
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Migration and International Relations IMISCOE Short Reader
This open access short reader investigates how migration has become an increasingly important issue in international relations since the turn of the...
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Practices of External Control: Is There a North-South Divide?
In the making of the European Union, external border and migration control are key concerns. While uniform legal frameworks have been designed to...
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‘Somehow I’m an Expat and He’s a Migrant’: Intersectional Identities, Multiple Migrations and Family Decision-Making Amongst Middling Migrant Couples
This chapter offers a critical reframing of how migration decision-making can shift between partners over time and space. Told through the lens of...
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Youth as Temporary Workers Abroad: The Experiences of Australia, Canada and New Zealand
As globalization reshapes labour markets, young people increasingly look abroad for opportunities to pursue work and training, develop their careers...
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‘I Will Call Australia My Home’: Migration and Housing Tenure
This chapter looks at Australian migration since the 1980s and examines the interplay between institutional determinants of migrant choice (changing...
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European Interventions: On the Externalization of Migration Control
In Europe, the discussion focuses on illegal migration from African countries. This is an extremely truncated idea, because firstly, the majority of...
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Labor: Working Conditions, Employment Trends, and the Job Market in the Theme Park Industry
This chapter discusses labor practices prevalent in theme parks across the globe. The chapter first introduces the theme park industry’s general...
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Gender Bias in Skills Definition, Labour Market Dynamics and Skills Recognition
The labour market is a key site of gender discrimination. The interaction of immigration and labour regulation amplifies some of the classic forms of...
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The Impact of Immigration Regulations and Visa Policies on the Gendered Nature of International Migration
Visa requirements are a strong indicator of the objectives and priorities of a country’s immigration policy. This chapter explores the gendered...
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Europe Without Internal Borders: A Long Initial Phase
The debates about a “Europe without borders” after the Second World War must be seen against the backdrop of the protracted development of...