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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

No. 169 | 2020

Migration and Social Transformation in a Small Frisian Town: The Case of Bolsward, the Netherlands

Siebert Wielstra

migration transition, social transformation, replacement migration, industrialisation, agricultural mechanisation, education, the Netherlands

No. 168 | 2020

State Expansion, Mobility and the Aspiration to Stay in Western French Guiana

Mathis Osburg

Development, state expansion, education, family, social transformations, migration aspirations, mobility transition, French Guiana

No. 167 | 2020

A History of Global Migration Governance: Challenging Linearity

Elaine Lebon-McGregor

migration governance, international organizations, multilateralism, United Nations

No. 166 | 2020

Social Transformation

Hein de Haas, Sonja Fransen, Katharina Natter, Kerilyn Schewel, Simona Vezzoli

social theory, social transformation, social change, development, modernisation

No. 165 | 2020

State expansion, development imaginaries and mobility in a peripheral frontier: the case of Caracaraí, Brazil

Naiara Rodriguez-Pena

state expansion, migration aspirations, internal migration, non-migratory mobility, collective imaginaries, ‘good life’, social transformation

No. 164 | 2020

Social Transformation, Resistance and Migration in the Italian Peninsula over the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Simona Vezzoli

internal migration, international migration, social transformation, inequality, hope, Italy

No. 163 | 2020

Drivers of migration: A synthesis of knowledge

Mathias Czaika, Constantin Reinprecht

Migration drivers, driver taxonomy, meta-analysis

No. 162 | 2020

Return aspirations and coerced return: A case study on Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon

Lea Müller-Funk, Sonja Fransen

forced displacement, Syria, return migration, aspirations

No. 161 | 2020

Who aspires to stay? Immobility aspirations among youth in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

Kerilyn Schewel, Sonja Fransen

Aspirations, immobility, development

No. 160 | 2020

Using or Inducing Return Aspirations? On the role of return counsellors in the implementation of ‘assisted voluntary return’ policies in Austria and the Netherlands

Laura Cleton, Reinhard Schweitzer

assisted voluntary return, return counselling, migration aspirations, migration governance, Austria, the Netherlands

No. 159 | 2020

Migration, Development and the Urbanization of the Good Life: Mobility Transitions in Rural Ethiopia

Kerilyn Schewel

migration, development, Ethiopia, aspirations, urbanization

No. 158 | 2020

State Expansion, Changing Aspirations and Migration: The Case of Cisternino, Southern Italy

Simona Vezzoli

state formation, agricultural economy, economic restructuring, social transformation, cultural transformation, migration aspirations, internal migration, international migration

No. 157 | 2019

Paradoxes of Migration and Development

Hein de Haas

Migration, development, social transformation, migration theory

No. 156 | 2019

The Volume and Geography of Forced Migration

Sonja Fransen , Hein de Haas

Refugee migration, global patterns

No. 155 | 2019

Immigrants, Markets, Brokers, and States: The Politics of Illiberal Migration Governance in the Arab Gulf

Helene Thiollet

illiberal governance, immigration policies, diplomacy, labour market, brokerage, differential exclusion, rights-washing, Middle East, Gulf

No. 154 | 2019

Adapting to staying, or imagining futures elsewhere: Migration decision-making of Syrian refugees in Turkey

Lea Müller-Funk

migration decision-making, urban refugees, hope, imaginations, aspirations, Syria, Turkey

No. 153 | 2019

‘Supermaids’: Hyper-resilient Subjects in Neoliberal Migration Governance

Liberty Chee

Resilience, migrant domestic workers, neoliberal migration governance, social reproduction, migration industry, Southeast Asia