Migration Studies

Migrations, vieillissement et interdépendances familiales

by Laura Merla

Published in DelphAgora La Lettre 5 mai-août 2012

Une réflexion sur les enjeux, en Belgique, du vieillissement dans un contexte migratoire Une réflexion sur les enjeux, en Belgique, du vieillissement dans un contexte migratoire

Does Selective Migration Explain the Latino Paradox?: A Comparative Analysis of Mexicans in the U.S. and Mexico

by Georgiana Bostean

Published 5/23/2012 (OnlineFirst) in Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Latino immigrants, particularly Mexican, have some health advantages over U.S.-born Mexicans and Whites. Because of... more Latino immigrants, particularly Mexican, have some health advantages over U.S.-born Mexicans and Whites. Because of their lower socioeconomic status, this phenomenon has been called the epidemiologic “Hispanic Paradox.” While cultural theories have dominated explanations for the Paradox, the role of selective migration has been inadequately addressed. This study is among the few to combine Mexican and U.S. data to examine health selectivity in activity limitation, self-rated health, and chronic conditions among Mexican immigrants, ages 18 and over. Drawing on theories of selective migration, this study tested the “healthy migrant” and “salmon-bias” hypotheses by comparing the health of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. to non-migrants in Mexico, and to return migrants in Mexico. Results suggest that there are both healthy migrant and salmon-bias effects in activity limitation, but not other health aspects. In fact, consistent with prior research, immigrants are negatively selected on self-rated health. Future research should consider the complexities of migrants’ health profiles and examine selection mechanisms alongside other factors such as acculturation.

"Eyes the Same Color as the Sea": Santiago's Expatriation from Spain and Ethnic Otherness in Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea

by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

Revisioning Migration: On the Stratifications of Irish Boston in Good Will Hunting

by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

"No Person is Illegal"? Configurations and Experiences of" Illegality" Among Undocumented West African and Filipino Migrant Workers In Tel Aviv, Israel

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2006. "No Person is Illegal"? Configurations and Experiences of "Illegality" among Undocumented West African and Filipino Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv. PhD thesis. Department of Anthropology, Emory University. Atlanta, GA.

“Review of Latino Migrants in a Jewish State by Barak Kalir.”

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. Forthcoming 2012. “Review of Latino Migrants in a Jewish State by Barak Kalir.” Review of Middle East Studies. 46(1).

The Past if Past: The Use of Memories and Self-Healing Narratives in Refugees from the Former Yugoslavia

by Marco Gemignani

Narratives of identity, home, and return of Kosovarian refugees: Steps toward a postmodern sense of agency

by Marco Gemignani

‘We don't do anything’: analysing legitimate knowledge construction in multilingual schools

by Miguel Pérez Milans

In co-authorship with Patiño, A. & Relaño, A.M. (in press). To be published in Journal of Language and Education

This paper focuses on the production of legitimate knowledge in the multicultural and multilingual classrooms of two... more This paper focuses on the production of legitimate knowledge in the multicultural and multilingual classrooms of two different programs intended to “attend diversity” in the Madrid region. Following a critical sociolinguistic approach, we discuss the links between local discursive practices, institutional and wider social and ideological order. Our data analysis reveals the social order (re)produced in what counts as legitimate knowledge and its conditions of production and distribution in the context of two middle schools (i.e. how it is taught, who is considered a legitimate agent in the transmission of knowledge, who decides what the legitimate sources of knowledge are, who bears valid knowledge in the classroom, who knows and who does not, etc.). We also document some of the consequences of this process for a group of students of different immigrant backgrounds recently arrived in the Madrid classrooms, in terms of their academic success and social mobility. 

KEY WORDS: Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography, legitimate knowledge, multilingual schools, de-capitalization.

Marginalizing or blending of transnational workers: Case of the Kingdom of Bahrain

by Magdalena Karolak

Cornish Miners and the Witwatersrand Gold Mines in South Africa, c. 1890-1904

by John Nauright

Published in CORNISH HISTORY an online journal in 2005. Online link seems to be missing now. This article forms part of the work of my Masters Thesis at the University of South Carolina completed in 1988.

Review of Russian press on labor migration (9 April - 13 May, 2012)

by Larisa Kosygina

The ‘Dudley Mosque Project’: a Case of Islamophobia and Local Politics

by Tahir Abbas

co-authored with Frank Reeves and Dulce Pedroso

The Post-Soviet Jewish Emigration

by Mark Tolts

Paper presented at the European Population Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 7-9 June, 2001

La perspectiva de la migración internacional en el marco de las Relaciones Internacionales: Las remesas sociales, una nueva reflexión

by Isabel Rosales

Labour migration and integration in selected EU Member States Poland, Germany, UK, Ireland and Estonia

by Aleksandra Krawczak

Western residents in the Aegean Sea: the case of Tinos’island

by Pierre Sintès

Méditerranée, n°113, 2009, pp.79-89

Since the early 1990s, Greece has become a country of mass immigration as have other countries of southern Europe. The... more Since the early 1990s, Greece has become a country of mass immigration as have other countries of southern Europe. The upsurge of large migrant groups from Albania, Bulgaria and Romania has thus been one of the major issues regarding the social development of Greece since 1922 and the exchanges of population with Turkey. In this new context, the migration of Western residents, often retired, has also increased significantly. Although more discrete as regards media attention, its impact on some of the modern Greek territories are yet numerous. The study of the island of Tinos, in the very heart of the Aegean Sea, gives us an opportunity to understand certain aspects of contemporary migrations in the Mediterranean.

Marriages of Convenience, and Inconvenient Marriages: regulating spousal migration to Britain

by Michaela Benson

Charsley, K. and Benson, M. (2012) 'Marriages of Convenience, and Inconvenient Marriages: regulating spousal migration to Britain'. Journal of Immigration,  Asylum and Nationality Law 26(1): 10-26.

In the context of the European Convention on Human Rights obligation to respect family life, the UK governments stated... more In the context of the European Convention on Human Rights obligation to respect family life, the UK governments stated aim of significantly reducing immigration is challenged by the volume of marriage-related migration and settlement. In this context, increased immigration policy attention has focussed on the genuineness of marriages involving migrants. The resulting attempts to define, identify and combat marriages of convenience are, however, based on a binary of genuine and sham marriages, and sometimes normative criteria for evaluating the authenticity of relationships. These may not adequately account for the diversity of marital practices involving migration, and risk producing discriminatory outcomes. With the assistance of previously unpublished UKBA material, this article explores recent developments surrounding sham marriages to highlight areas of particular concern, before setting out an agenda for urgently needed research in this under-studied but increasingly critical area.

Beyond representations and into everyday life: exploring why and how British migrants stay in rural France

by Michaela Benson

I will be presenting this paper at the RGS-IBG conference in Edinburgh in July 2012

British migration to rural France, as in the case of other pro-rural migrations, is influenced by socio-cultural... more British migration to rural France, as in the case of other pro-rural migrations, is influenced by socio-cultural representations that valorize rural living. Drawing on an ethnographic study of the British residents of the Lot, an inland department in southwest France, this paper demonstrates how, in life following migration, such representations play a more-than-representational role in the migrants’ lives, with ideas about what constitutes rural living becoming increasing refined and significant to individuals as they engage in an ongoing quest for a better way of life. As the paper demonstrates, following migration representations of rural living transmute into reflections on how to live an authentic life, embedded more widely within the context of individual migration and life histories. While these are, in part, caught up with concerns over how to distinguish their lives and lifestyles from those of their middle-class compatriots also living in rural France, such reflections additionally express a concern with self-authenticity. As this paper argues, recurrent reflections on how to live reveal how their migration to rural France is part of an ongoing life project, articulated in the sense that there is always something more to life, in which concerns over class position and self-identity intersect.

Kraj bez wyjścia? Migracje z Polski 1949-1989

by Dariusz Stola

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