IMI Working Papers

No. 189 | 2025

The Societal Determinants of Climate Risk: A Refugee Corridor Analysis of Hazard Exposure, Vulnerability and Coping Capacity

Sonja Fransen and Kerilyn Schewel

climate risk, forced migration, refugee, vulnerability, migration corridors, climate hazards

No. 188 | 2025

The Counter-Judicialization of Migration and Asylum Controls: Safe Third Country in Comparative Context

Geoffrey Cameron, Kiran Banerjee

judicialization, counter-judicialization, asylum policy, immigration control

No. 187 | 2025

Tracing the Early Origins of Africa’s Migration Transition: From Precolonial Times to the Present

Michiel de Haas, Ewout Frankema

African migration, mobility transition theory, colonial history, Sub-Saharan Africa, development

No. 186 | 2025

Theorising Mobility Transitions and Social Transformation: Evidence from Five Case Studies

Kerilyn Schewel, Hein de Haas, Simona Vezzoli

mobility transition, migration, development, social transformation, aspiration, capability, case study research

No. 185 | 2025

Between Knowledge and Assumptions: The Migrant in the Eyes of the Policymaker

Katharina Natter, Riccardo Biggi, Niels Ike , Merel van Assem

Evidence-based Policymaking, Knowledge, Migration Policy, Assumptions, Narratives, Decision-making, Migrant Behavior

No. 184 | 2025

The Implications of Welfare Generosity and Welfare Access for Migration Strategies

Martin Guzi, Lucia Mýtna Kureková

welfare generosity, welfare access, migration flow, African migration, return migration

No. 183 | 2024

Mapping Global Migration Governance

Antoine Pécoud

migration governance, migration politics, global migration

No. 182 | 2024

Non-Migration Policies and Mobility Decisions

Oliver Bakewell , Lucia Mýtna Kureková , Lucia Kováčová

migration, policy, mobility, decision-making, agriculture, transport, education, social welfare

No. 181 | 2024

Changing the Migration Narrative: On the Power of Discourse, Propaganda and Truth Distortion

Hein de Haas

migration policy, migration narratives, public engagement

No. 180 | 2024

The Impact of Covid-19 on NGOs’ Provision of Primary Healthcare and Its Utilisation by Irregular Migrants in Italy

Giulia Mori

Covid-19, Healthcare, Irregular migration, Italy, NGOs

No. 179 | 2024

Researching the Politics of Knowledge in Migration Policy

Katharina Natter

migration policy, knowledge, power

No. 178 | 2024

Researching Decisions to Stay and Migrate: A Temporal Multilevel Analysis framework

Simona Vezzoli, Lucia Mýtna Kureková, Kerilyn Schewel

migration decision-making, social change, life course, migration models

No. 177 | 2023

Immigration attitudes, national identity, and development in mainland China

Tabitha Speelman

immigrant reception, development, migrant privilege, Global South, China

No. 176 | 2022

Voluntary Immobility: A Global Analysis of Staying Preferences

Alix Debray, Ilse Ruyssen, Kerilyn Schewel

Immobility, Staying Preferences, Migration Aspirations, Retain Factors

No. 175 | 2022

Mobilization trajectories as a tool to study migration and protest intentions: An illustration from Morocco

Astrid Bodini, Evelyn Ersanilli, Jacquelien van Stekelenburg

Migration, protest, aspirations, intentions, exit, voice, youth, Morocco

No. 174 | 2022

Migration aspirations and preferences to stay in a Brazilian frontier town: Tranquility, hope and relative endowment

Simona Vezzoli

migration aspirations, preference to stay, relative endowment, economic decline, internal migration, frontier migration, hope, public employment, state

No. 173 | 2022

Managing Migration through Detention and Information-Giving Practices: the Case of the Italian Hotspot and Relocation System

Roberto Calarco

migration management, irregular migration, detention, information, central Mediterranean

No. 172 | 2022

A Transnational Social Contract: How the South Indian State of Kerala justifies Social Protection Policies towards Non-Resident Keralites

Mira Burmeister-Rudolph

Social protection, emigration, migration policy, welfare state expansion, subnational government, India, Kerala

No. 171 | 2021

Social Transformations and Migrations in Morocco

Mohamed Berriane, Hein de Haas, Katharina Natter

Morocco, social transformation, development, migration, mobility transition

No. 170 | 2020

Welfare and Migration: Unfulfilled Aspirations to “Have Rights” in the South- Moroccan Todgha Valley

Dominique Jolivet

Welfare magnet, culture of migration, migration drivers, social transformations, Morocco