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No. 33 | 2011

The effectiveness of immigration policies: A conceptual review of empirical evidence

Mathias Czaika, Hein de Haas

immigration, migration policy, migration determinants, effectiveness, political discourse

No. 32 | 2011

The determinants of international migration: Conceptualising policy, origin and destination effects

Hein de Haas

migration, migration determinants, theory, structure, agency, migration policy, , states, effectiveness, substitution effects

No. 31 | 2011

Creating and destroying diaspora strategies

Alan Gamlen

New Zealand, diaspora strategies, multi-sited ethnography, extra-territorial, citizenship, creative destruction, neoliberalism

No. 30 | 2011

Cultural and symbolic dimensions of the migration-development nexus The salience of community

Gabriele Tomei

Migration and development, community, identity, social theory, structureagency

No. 29 | 2011

Sharing the dirty job on the southern front? Italian–Libyan relations on migration and their impact on the European Union

Emanuela Paoletti , Ferruccio Pastore

Libya, Italy, European Union, migration

No. 28 | 2010

Hometown Organisations and Development Practices

Thomas Lacroix

transnationalism, development, remittances, hometown organisations, migrant associations

No. 27 | 2010

Bonding Collective? The moral infrastructures of transnational hometown networks

Thomas Lacroix

transnationalism, development, remittances, hometown organisations, migrant associations

No. 26 | 2010

Blinded by security: Reflections on the hardening of migratory policies in central Sahara

Julien Brachet

migratory policy, intra-african migration, border, trade, development, Sahara, Niger

No. 25 | 2010

The discursive framework for development: From discourses and concrete political actions to the range of actions by deportee associations

Anaik Pian

No. 24 | 2010

Migration transitions: A theoretical and empirical inquiry into the developmental drivers of international migration

Hein de Haas

migration theory, migration determinants, migration transitions, development, capabilities, structure-agency

No. 23 | 2010

Les migrations internationales en Afrique de l’Ouest: Une dynamique de régionalisation articulée à la mondialisation

Mandiogou Ndiaye , Nelly Robin,

No. 22 | 2010

Migration and development: Lessons from the Mexico-US and Morocco-EU experiences

Hein de Haas , Simona Vezzoli

International migration, development, transformation, Mexico, Morocco, US, EU, policy

No. 21 | 2010

The environmental factor in migration dynamics: A review of African case studies

Gunvor Jónsson

international migration, environmental change, Sahel, case studies, review

No. 20 | 2010

Tanzanian Migration Imaginaries

Noel B. Salazar

Migration imaginaries, anthropology, ethnography, the West, media, Tanzania

No. 19 | 2009

Migration System Formation and Decline: A theoretical inquiry into the self-perpetuating and self-undermining dynamics of migration processes

Hein de Haas

migration theory, system feedback, networks, social capital, cumulative causation

No. 18 | 2009

The Crisis and Migrants’ Remittances: A Look at Hispanics in the US

Isabel Ruiz, Carlos Vargas-Silva,

migration, remittances, financial crisis

No. 17 | 2009

Intra-household tensions and conflicts of interest in migration decision making: A case study of the Todgha valley, Morocco

Hein de Haas, Tineke Fokkema

No. 16 | 2009

Incident Reporting: Experimental Data Collection Methods and Migration Governance

Darshan Vigneswaran

No. 15 | 2009

South-South Migration and Human Development: Reflections on African Experiences

Oliver Bakewell, Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles, Simona Vezzoli, Gunvor Jónsson

migration, south-south migration, Africa, human development

No. 14 | 2009

Mobility and Human Development

Hein de Haas, Oliver Bakewell, Stephen Castles, Simona Vezzoli, Gunvor Jónsson

migration, development