Conceptual contours of migration studies in and from Asia

Remittances Review is a new journal that offers a quality outlet for exchanges between academics, researchers, and policy makers. There are more journals dealing with migration than ever before, and most have similar mandates to publish research for researchers. There has been a proliferation of journals in migration studies in the last five to ten years. However, most have grown with similar mandates that replicate breadth and interests. Remittances Review is the first international academic peer reviewed journal dedicated to money transfers, migrant remittances and the challenges and issues related to these flows across borders. Remittances Review invites contributions that include new data, rigorous research, and thoughtful analysis. We expect quality contributions that advance theory and methods as well as drawing implications for policy and practice. Readers will benefit from cutting edge research conceptual innovations, and reviews and reports.

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Book Reviews

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v9i3.99 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 289-296

Author(s):

Elizabeth Allen ◽

Evinc Dogan ◽

Anna Hjalm ◽

Ibrahim Sirkeci ◽

Bradley Saunders

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Qualitative Methods ◽

Labour Market ◽

Global Perspective ◽

Migration Studies ◽

Ashgate Publishing

Helen Vella Bonavita (ed.), Negotiating Identities: Constructed Selves and Oth-ers, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011, 217 pp., (ISBN: 978-90-420-3400-6) (pa-per).Theodoros Iosifides, Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies, A Critical Real-ist Perspective, Oxford: Ashgate Publishing, 2011, 278 pp., (ISBN13: 978-1-4094-0222-0), (paper).Puschmann, Paul, Casablanca. A Demographic Miracle on Moroccan Soil?, Leuven: Acco Academic, 2011, 170 pp., (ISBN13: 9789033480683), (paper).Myna German and Padmini Banerjee (eds.), Migration, Technology, and Transculturation: a Global Perspective, St Charles, MO, USA: Lindenwood University Press, 2011, 288 pp., (ISBN13: 978-0984630745), (paper). Reza Hasmath, The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market, Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (2012) 130pp. (ISBN 978-1-4094-0211-4).

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Migration, Gender and Visual Culture:

MedienJournal ◽

10.24989/medienjournal.v37i3.118 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 32-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ksenija Vidmar Horvat

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

Visual Culture ◽

Critical Angle ◽

Visual Representations ◽

Public Culture ◽

Migration Studies ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Current Field ◽

Shared Interest ◽

European Migration

This paper investigates visual representations of migrants in Slovenia. The focus is on immigrant groups from China and Thailand and the construction of their ‘ethnic’ presence in postsocialist public culture. The aim of the paper is to provide a critical angle on the current field of cultural studies as well as on European migration studies. The author argues that both fields can find a shared interest in mutual theoretical and critical collaboration; but what the two traditions also need, is to reconceptualize the terrain of investigation of Europe which will be methodologically reorganized as a post- 1989 and post-westernocentric. Examination of migration in postsocialism may be an important step in drawing the new paradigm.

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Women's rural-urban migration in Lebanon

10.26756/th.2020.158 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

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Sally N. Youssef

Keyword(s):

Internal Migration ◽

Low Income ◽

Lived Experiences ◽

Urban Migration ◽

Structural Factors ◽

Migrant Women ◽

Migration Studies ◽

Rural Urban Migration ◽

Low Income Women ◽

The Impact

Women’s sole internal migration has been mostly ignored in migration studies, and the concentration on migrant women has been almost exclusively on low-income women within the household framework. This study focuses on middleclass women’s contemporary rural-urban migration in Lebanon. It probes into the determinants and outcomes of women’s sole internal migration within the empowerment framework. The study delves into the interplay of the personal, social, and structural factors that determine the women’s rural-urban migration as well as its outcomes. It draws together the lived experiences of migrant women to explore the determinants of women’s internal migration as well as the impact of migration on their expanded empowerment.

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Methodological Issues Pertaining to the Application of Qualitative Techniques in Forced Migration Studies

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3450034 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Pinnawala Sangasumana

Keyword(s):

Forced Migration ◽

Migration Studies ◽

Methodological Issues

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How far can we compare? Migration studies, comparative urbanism and the potential of a trans‐Mediterranean perspective

International Migration ◽

10.1111/imig.12840 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Nick Dines

Keyword(s):

Migration Studies ◽

Comparative Urbanism

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Reframing ‘integration’: acknowledging and addressing five core critiques

Comparative Migration Studies ◽

10.1186/s40878-021-00226-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Spencer ◽

Katharine Charsley

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Recent Criticism ◽

Heuristic Model ◽

Migration Studies ◽

Methodological Nationalism ◽

Narrow Focus ◽

The Subject ◽

The Rich ◽

Definition Of

AbstractEmpirical and theoretical insights from the rich body of research on ‘integration’ in migration studies have led to increasing recognition of its complexity. Among European scholars, however, there remains no consensus on how integration should be defined nor what the processes entail. Integration has, moreover, been the subject of powerful academic critiques, some decrying any further use of the concept. In this paper we argue that it is both necessary and possible to address each of the five core critiques on which recent criticism has focused: normativity; negative objectification of migrants as ‘other’; outdated imaginary of society; methodological nationalism; and a narrow focus on migrants in the factors shaping integration processes. We provide a definition of integration, and a revised heuristic model of integration processes and the ‘effectors’ that have been shown to shape them, as a contribution to a constructive debate on the ways in which these challenges for empirical research can be overcome.

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