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No. 73 | 2013

Declining migration from Morocco to the Netherlands and the diminutive causation of migration

Godfried Engbersen, Erik Snel, Masja van Meeteren

migration, Morocco, the Netherlands, diminutive causation

No. 72 | 2013

Quotidian creolization and diasporic echoes: Resistance and co-optation in Cape Verde and Louisiana

Olivia Sheringham , Robin Cohen

Creolization, diaspora, resistance, co-optation, music, carnival

No. 71 | 2013

Moving Beyond Conflict: Re-framing mobility in the African Great Lakes region

Oliver Bakewell , Ayla Bonfiglio

African migration, African Great Lakes, Democratic Republic of Congo, Norms, Aspirations, Capabilities, Mobility, Forced Migration, Conflict, Crisis, Migration theory, Lifecourse

No. 70 | 2013

Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration

Michel Beine, Christopher Parsons

International migration, Climate change, Natural disasters, Income maximization

No. 69 | 2013

Pushing the creolisation paradigm on the Comorian island of Ngazidja: When does creolisation cease to be?

Iain Walker

creolization, Comoros, slavery, hybridity, language, resistance

No. 68 | 2023

The Globalisation of Migration: Has the world really become more migratory?

Mathias Czaika , Hein de Haas

globalisation, international migration, migration determinants, diversity

No. 67 | 2013

Mexico–US Migration in Time: From Economic to Social Mechanisms

Filiz Garip , Asad L. Asad

social networks, Mexico, United States, migration choices, cumulative causation

No. 66 | 2013

The differential role of social networks: Strategies and routes in Brazilian migration to Portugal and the Netherlands

Masja van Meeteren, Sonia Pereira

social networks, immigration, migration motives, Portugal, Brazil, Netherlands

No. 65 | 2013

Designing a structure/agency approach to transnationalism

Thomas Lacroix

transnationalism, structure and agency, Habermas, migration theory, hometown organisations, collective remittances

No. 64 | 2012

How social media transform migrant networks and facilitate migration

Rianne Dekker , Godfried Engbersen

migration networks, migrant networks, social ties, social capital, the internet, social media

No. 63 | 2012

Moving from war to peace in the Zambia–Angola borderlands

Oliver Bakewell

borderlands, Angola, Zambia, refugee policy, national identity, livelihoods, migration, legal status, socio-legal conventions

No. 62 | 2012

Causality, Contextual Frames and International Migration: Combining Strong Structuration Theory, Critical Realism and Textual Analysis

Rob Stones

theorised contextual frames, hermeneutics, structuration theory

No. 61 | 2012

Structuration, Practice Theory, Ethnography and Migration: Bringing it all together

Karen O’Reilly

practice theory, structuration, emergence, Bourdieu, Giddens, Spain, British, migration

No. 60 | 2012

Re-launching migration systems

Oliver Bakewell

migration system, networks, systems theory, critical realism, social mechanisms, agency, emergence, feedback

No. 59 | 2012

Facts and fabrications: Experiences of law and legality among return migrants in Ukraine

Agnieszka Kubal

return migration, legality, legal culture/consciousness, Ukraine, migration and development

No. 58 | 2012

Conceptualizing semi-legality in migration research

Agnieszka Kubal

semi-legality, illegality, migration, European Union, Morocco, Ukraine, Brazil

No. 57 | 2012

Migration as cause and consequence of aspirations

Mathias Czaika , Marc Vothknecht

Internal migration, migration behaviour, aspirations, Indonesia

No. 56 | 2012

Labour market activity, occupational change and length of stay in the Gulf

Mathias Czaika , María Villares Varela

Migration duration, occupational change, Gulf countries, Indian migration

No. 55 | 2012

Diaspora studies: Past, present and promise

Khachig Tölölyan

diaspora, dispersion, homeland

No. 54 | 2012

The effect of networks and risk attitudes on the dynamics of migration

Janis Umblijs

migration, risks, network, rate