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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

No. 48 | 2011

Migration systems, pioneers and the role of agency

Oliver Bakewell, Hein de Haas, Agnieszka Kubal

migration systems, agency, emergence, pioneer migrants, migrant networks, social capital

No. 47 | 2011

How the Dutch Government stimulated the unwanted immigration from Suriname

Hans van Amersfoort

post-colonial migration, migration control, the Netherlands, Suriname

No. 46 | 2011

The role of welfare systems in affecting out-migration: The case of Central and Eastern Europe

Lucia Kureková

Central and Eastern Europe, labour markets, labour migration, countries of origin, welfare systems

No. 45 | 2011

The effects of structural factors in origin countries on migration: The case of Central and Eastern Europe

Lucia Kureková

Central and Eastern Europe, labour market imbalances, labour migration, structural change, skills, wage differentials

No. 44 | 2011

Studying international migration in the long(er) and short(er) durée: Contesting some and reconciling other disagreements between the structuration and morphogenesis approaches

Ewa Morawska

structuration, morphogenesis, historical sociology, international migration

No. 43 | 2011

A generic conceptual model for conducting realist qualitative research: Examples from migration studies

Theodoros Iosifides

Qualitative research, critical realism, migration studies

No. 42 | 2011

The positive and the negative: Assessing critical realism and social constructionism as post-positivist approaches to empirical research in the social sciences

Justin Cruickshank

critical realism, meta-theory, problem-solving

No. 41 | 2011

African migrants negotiate ‘home’ and ‘belonging’: Re-framing transnationalism through a diasporic landscape

Naluwembe Binaisa

Ugandan migrants, transnationalism, diaspora, diasporic landscape, African, migrants

No. 40 | 2011

The Indian and Polish Transnational Organisational Fields

Thomas Lacroix

Migrant organisations, transnationalism, transnational organisational fields, UK, , Poland, India

No. 39 | 2011

Non-migrant, sedentary, immobile, or ‘left behind’? Reflections on the absence of migration

Gunvor Jónsson

immobility, West Africa, transnationalism, heuristic devices, analytical frameworks, post-structuralism, gender

No. 38 | 2011

Discussing legal adaptations: Perspectives on studying migrants’ relationship with law in the host country

Agnieszka Kubal

immigration law, legal pluralism, legal culture, migrants’ agency, legal, transnationalism

No. 37 | 2011

Internal and international migration as a response to double deprivation: Some evidence from India

Mathias Czaika

relative deprivation, internal and international migration, India

No. 36 | 2011

Migration and social fractionalization: Double relative deprivation as a behavioural link

Mathias Czaika

International migration, social fractionalization, inequality, relative deprivation, social comparisons

No. 35 | 2011

The role of internal and international relative deprivation in global migration

Mathias Czaika , Hein de Haas

internal and international relative deprivation, absolute deprivation, global migration

No. 34 | 2011

Leaving matters: The nature, evolution and effects of emigration policies

Hein de Haas , Simona Vezzoli

emigration, migration policies, migration determinants, effectiveness, emigration states