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Migrant and Refugee Retention in Regional Australia at the Intersection of Structure and Agency
This article examines the question of migrant and refugee retention in small and medium-sized towns referred to as ‘regional towns’ in Australia as a...
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Migration-related Factors and Settlement Service Literacy: Findings from the Multi-site Migrants’ Settlement Study
Migrants’ access and effective utilisation of settlement services depend on their level of settlement service literacy (SSL). However, SSL is...
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The Port Macquarie Settlement, New South Wales, 1821–1847: Interconnections within Landscapes of Convict Labor and Industry
This article explores the convict-punishment settlement of Port Macquarie on the mid-north coast of New South Wales between 1821 and 1847....
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Unfamiliarities, Uncertainties, and Ambivalent Long-Term Intentions: Conceptualizing International Student-Migrant Settlement and Integration
International students (IS) are increasingly positioned as “ideal” economic immigrants for their supposedly limited settlement and integration needs,...
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Head for the Hills: Nucleated Hilltop Settlement in the Irish Bronze Age
In Bronze Age Ireland, the settlement record almost exclusively comprises individual, isolated farmsteads dotted throughout the island (Ginn in Emania,...
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Multi-level Migration and Multiculturalism Governance Meets Migrant and Refugee Agency in Regional Australian Towns
A range of federal, state, and local policies in Australia have encouraged migration to, and settlement in, regional towns and cities over the past...
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Exploring Environmental Determinism with Agent-Based Simulation of Settlement Choice
Archaeology and the related fields of geography and anthropology have a long history of debate of environmental determinism going beyond discussing...
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The Evolution of Human Settlement, Inhabitation, and Travel Environment Theory
The evolution of human settlement, inhabitation, and travel environment theory has experienced several periods as (1) The budding period of “Human...
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Local Immigrant Councils as a Form of Participation and Governance: How Institutional Design and Agency Matter
Over the past decades, Western European municipalities increasingly reacted to the presence of immigrants with efforts to include these new residents...
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Human Settlement, Inhabitation, and Travel Environment Construction Theory and Technology
Human settlement, inhabitation, and travel environment construction theory and technology include (1) resources protection and development: from 3 to...
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Agency, Inclusion and Political Mobilisation of Irregular Migrants
The literature on irregular migration often deals with migration policies and the role of states. A smaller body of literature focuses on the role...
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Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement
A new theoretical approach to medieval rural settlement, built on the concept of intensity, is proposed. It is argued that analysing settlements as...
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Urban marginality: Everyday practice of building resilience to flood in the informal Settlement of Dar es Salaam
Over decades now, urban scholars have highlighted the limitations of floods control measures in facilitating resilience especially in the cities of...
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The Intersections of Structural Violence and Social Agency in Plantation Geographies
This paper explores the intersections between the structural oppressions and violence of slavery and the social agency of captive people in the US...
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LGBTQ+ Forced Migrants: Precarious Experiences of Arrival and Settlement in Wales
The refugee crisis has brought to the fore conversations on ‘asylum-seekers’ and ‘refugees’, terms that suggest a linear progression through the...
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Refugee’s agency and co** strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives
The global spread of the coronavirus pandemic has particularly dramatic consequences for the lives of migrants and refugees living in already...
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Finding the Gap: Immigrant Integration Outcomes and Settlement Service Provision in the Republic of Ireland
Immigrant integration is increasingly assessed through integration outcomes, which assess the degree of convergence of the experiences of immigrants...
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Picturing Settlement Experiences: Immigrant Women’s Senses of Comfortable and Uncomfortable Places in a Small Urban Center in Canada
Small cities tend to have modest immigrant settlement services and cultural amenities, engendering a distinct sense of place among immigrants and...
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Examining Non-EU Migrants and Refugees’ Agency When Navigating the British Labour Markets
Migrants’ agency is a promising analytical tool and approach in migration and refugee studies as it shifts the focus of analysis (and attention) from...
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The Settlement Ecology of Emerging Commercial Dairy Farming in the Nineteenth-Century Northeast
This research examines when, how, and why farmers in the town of Fenner, New York, began a transition that helped to create one of the most...
