IMI Working Papers

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

No. 53 | 2012

Israel and the diaspora: Problems of cognitive dissonance

William Safran

Jewish identity, Zionism, Israel, Orthodoxy, anti-Semitism, Holocaust, secular culture

No. 52 | 2012

Migration in times of uncertainty: On the role of economic prospects

Mathias Czaika

migration prospect theory, economic prospects, intra-European migration flows

No. 51 | 2011

Paths to viability: Transnational strategies among Ghana’s small-scale ICT entrepreneurs

Linnet Taylor

migration, QCA, entrepreneurship, Africa, ICTs, internet

No. 50 | 2011

Migration, mobility and the African city

Oliver Bakewell , Gunvor Jónsson

international mobility and migration in Africa, urban Africa, global cities, integration

No. 49 | 2011

Contextualizing immigrant inter-wave dynamics and the consequences for migration processes: Ukrainians in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

Agnieszka Kubal, Rianne Dekker

migration system, cumulative causation, Ukrainian migration, pioneer migrants, migration waves, United Kingdom, Netherlands