IMI Working Papers

No. 148 | 2019

Why Ethiopian women go to the Middle East: An aspiration-capability analysis of migration decision-making

Kerilyn Schewel

migration, aspirations, capability, Ethiopia, Middle East

No. 147 | 2018

Autocratic immigration policymaking: The illiberal paradox hypothesis

Katharina Natter

immigration policy, policymaking, political regimes, political practices, democracy, autocracy

No. 146 | 2018

The Globalisation of Scientific Mobility, 1970– 2014

Mathias Czaika, Sultan Orazbayev

Migration of Scientists, global migration patterns, migration barriers, visa restrictions

No. 145 | 2018

Immigration Policy Theory: Thinking Beyond the ‘Western Liberal-Democratic’ Box

Katharina Natter

immigration policy, theory, policymaking, political regimes, democracy, autocracy

No. 144 | 2018

Formal Education and Migration Aspirations in Ethiopia

Kerilyn Schewel, Sonja Fransen

migration, aspirations, education, Ethiopia, development

No. 143 | 2018

Counting migrants’ deaths at the border: From civil society counter-statistics to (inter)governmental recuperation

Charles Heller, Antoine Pécoud

Border control, deaths at the border, migration crisis, International Organization for Migration, humanitarian border.

No. 142 | 2018

International Migration: Trends, determinants and policy effects

Hein de Haas, Mathias Czaika, Marie-Laurence Flahaux, Edo Mahendra, Katharina Natter, Simona Vezzoli, María Villares-Varela

international migration, migration determinants, migration policies, policy effectiveness, state, development

No. 141 | 2018

Social transformation and migration: An empirical inquiry

Hein de Haas, Sonja Fransen

Social transformation, development, international migration, migration theory

No. 140 | 2017

Renegotiating Religious Transnationalism: Fractures in Transnational Chinese Protestantism

Jonathan Tam

Chinese, Canada, Christianity, diaspora, religious transnationalism, ethnicity

No. 139 | 2017

Immigration policy effects – A conceptual framework

Liv Bjerre

Immigration policy, immigration policy effects, categories of immigrants, interplay, regular migration, irregular migration, asylum

No. 138 | 2017

The Geography of Anti-Immigrant Attitudes across Europe, 2002-2014

Mathias Czaika and Armando Di Lillo

Anti-immigrant attitudes, Social Impact Theory, Migration, EU

No. 137 | 2017

Hopes and fears of migrants’ contribution to political change: A Tunisian case study

Marieke van Houte

Transnationalism, Political change, Migration, Mobility, Tunisia

No. 136 | 2017

The Migration&Development Apparatus: Contradictions between international discourse, institutional practices, and migrants’ perspectives

Laura Stielike

migration and development, apparatus, Foucault, contradictions, Cameroon, Germany

No. 135 | 2017

Global migration futures: Exploring the future of international migration with a scenario methodology

Simona Vezzoli, Ayla Bonfiglio, Hein de Haas

migration futures, scenarios, scenario methodology, uncertainties, migration research

No. 134 | 2017

The global evolution of travel visa regimes: An analysis based on the DEMIG VISA database

Mathias Czaika, Hein de Haas and María Villares-Varela

mobility, travel, visa, exit, migration, policy

No. 133 | 2017

How do Syrian refugee workers challenge supply chain management in the Turkish garment industry?

Emre Eren Korkmaz

Syrian refugees, Turkish textile-apparel sector, supply chain management, child labour, ethical trade, labour networks

No. 132 | 2017

Is there a ‘pig cycle’ in the labour supply of doctors? How training and immigration policies respond to physician shortages

Yasser Moullan, Xavier Chojnicki

physician shortages, international migration of doctors, medical graduates, foreign-trained physicians

No. 131 | 2016

Managing migrant labour in the Gulf: Transnational dynamics of migration politics since the 1930s

Hélène Thiollet

migration, labour, oil firms, recruitment, segregation, public policy, transnational, Arab Gulf, Middle East

No. 130 | 2016

Transnational transformations: Coupling migration and change

Marieke van Houte

migration, change, transnationalism, political engagement, framework

No. 129 | 2016

Triadic political opportunity structures: Re-conceptualising immigrant transnational politics

Ali R Chaudhary, Dana M Moss

Transnational political action, political opportunity structure, electoral politics, organisational, non-institutional collective action