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No. 113 | 2015

Broadcast feedback as causal mechanisms for migration

Oliver Bakewell, Dominique Jolivet

No. 112 | 2015

State Policies and Pakistani Migrant Organisations in Toronto and New York City

Ali R. Chaudhary , Luis Eduardo Guarnizo

Immigration Organisations, Multiculturalism, Transnational Organisations, Non-Profit Sector, Contexts of Reception, Institutional Completeness, Pakistani Migrants, New York, Toronto

No. 111 | 2015

Unpacking the figure of the ‘foreign criminal’: Race, gender and the victim-villain binary

Luke de Noronha

No. 110 | 2015

The gravity of high-skilled migration policies

Mathias Czaika, Christopher Parsons

High-skilled immigration, human capital, immigration policy

No. 109 | 2015

The making of the Irish Traveller Community: Mobility discourse, settlement policies and the Irish state 1950-2010

Ina Ruckstuhl

Irish Travellers, internal mobility, national identity, settlement policy, class-poverty, culture-ethnicity

No. 108 | 2015

Path-dependency in International Academic Careers

Mathias Czaika, Sorana Toma

Academic mobility, path-dependency, Indian higher education

No. 107 | 2015

Understanding the Aspiration to Stay: A Case Study of Young Adults in Senegal

Kerilyn Schewel

migration, aspirations, immobility, decision-making, Senegal

No. 106 | 2014

The evolution of Surinamese emigration across and beyond independence: The role of origin and destination states

Simona Vezzoli

Suriname, emigration, independence, border regime, migration policies, non-migration policies, migration determinants

No. 105 | 2014

African Migration: Exploring the role of development and states

Marie-Laurence Flahaux, Hein de Haas

No. 104 | 2014

Conceptualising International High-Skilled Migration

Christopher Parsons, Sebastien Rojon, Farhan Samanani, Lena Wettach

High Skill, Human Capital, International Migration, Labour

No. 103 | 2014

The Importance of Access Policies in South-South Migration: Ecuador's Policy of Open Doors as a Quasi Experiment

Luisa Feline Freier

No. 102 | 2014

The role of the state in international migration: Exploring the transition from colony to independence

Simona Vezzoli

Migration policies, non-migration policies, migration determinants, emigration, independence, non-sovereignty

No. 101 | 2014

Financial Constraints, Social Policy and Migration: Evidence from Indonesia

Edo Mahendra

financial constraints, migration, social policy, Indonesia, social protection, public services, cash transfers

No. 100 | 2014

Migration Theory: Quo Vadis?

Hein de Haas

migration, aspirations, capabilities

No. 99 | 2014

Migrant workers and labour agency: Social actors or submissive players?

Sónia Pereira

migrant workers, labour agency, migration, labour geography, labour struggles, exploitation

No. 98 | 2014

Trade Liberalisation and Migration Hump: NAFTA as a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Edo Mahendra

trade, migration, migration hump, NAFTA, synthetic control method

No. 97 | 2014

Does Shelter Assistance reduce Poverty in Afghanistan?

Craig Loschmann, Christopher Parsons , Melissa Siegel

Craig Loschmann, Christopher Parsons, Melissa Siegel

No. 96 | 2014

Growing restrictiveness or changing selection? The nature and evolution of migration policies

Hein de Haas, Katharina Natter , Simona Vezzoli

migration policies, international migration, restrictiveness, selection, database

No. 95 | 2014

Fifty years of Maghreb emigration: How states shaped Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian emigration

Katharina Natter

Maghreb, emigration, migration policies, state

No. 94 | 2014

The effects of independence, state formation and migration policies on Guyanese migration

Simona Vezzoli

migration, policy, colonialism, post-colonialism, Guyana, independence, state