Migration Letters

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Volume 15, issue 4, 2018

Highly Skilled or Highly Wanted Migrants? Conceptualizations, Policy Designs and Implementations of High-skilled Migration Policies pp. 453-460

Metka Hercog and Laure Sandoz

How policies select immigrants: The role of the recognition of foreign qualifications pp. 461-475

Monica Andriescu

Being called “skilled”: a multi-scalar approach of migrant doctors’ recognition pp. 477-490

Joana Sousa Ribeiro

Changes in Highly Skilled Migration Policies: Turkish-German Medical Migration since the 1960s pp. 491-502

Lisa Peppler

Selecting the highly skilled: norms and practices of the Swiss admission system for non-EU immigrants pp. 503-515

Metka Hercog and Laure Sandoz

The Dutch battle for highly skilled migrants: policy, implementation and the role of social networks pp. 517-532

Isik Kulu-Glasgow, Djamila Schans and Monika Smit

Highly skilled asylum seekers: Case studies of refugee students at a Swiss university pp. 533-544

Katrin Sontag

A migration industry for skilled migrants: the case of relocation services pp. 545-559

Florian Tissot

Book reviews pp. 561-562

Shengyu Pei

Volume 15, issue 3, 2018

Editorial - Approaching Migration: The Dynamic Nature of Human Mobility pp. 301-302

Jeffrey H. Cohen

Investment Expenditure Behavior of Remittance Receiving Households: An Analysis Using Reserve Bank of India Data pp. 303-320

Bharati Basu and Irudaya Rajan

From Irregular Stay to Removal through Detention: The Case of Spain as a Member State of the European Union pp. 321-332

Rut Bermejo

Westphalia, Migration, and Feudal Privilege pp. 333-346

Harald Bauder

Emerging Patterns of migration streams in India: A State Level Analysis of 2011 Census pp. 347-360

Rabiul Ansary

Religion and Mental Health among Central Asian Muslim Immigrants in Chicago Metropolitan Area pp. 361-376

Natalia Zotova

Reporting Violence Against Children: Social Norms in Nyarugusu Refugees Camp pp. 377-388

Erin Fletcher, Seth Gitter and Savannah Wilhelm

Credit constraints and Rural Migration: Evidence from Six Villages in Uttar Pradesh pp. 389-398

Ruchi Singh

Migrant-family background and subjective well-being: Evidence using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition pp. 398-408

Edsel L Beja

21st Century Slowdown: The Historic Nature of Recent Declines in the Growth of the Immigrant Population in the United States pp. 409-422

Peter Norlander and Todd Sorensen

Four voices of refugee solidarity along the Balkan Route: An exploratory pilot study on motivations for mobilisation pp. 423-436

Nicolas Parent

Employment of Return Migrants in Turkey: Evidence from the Labour Force Survey pp. 437-451

Deniz Yetkin Aker and Ayhan Görmüş

Volume 15, issue 2, 2018

Editorial - New Directions in Research on Immigration, Crime, Law, and Justice pp. 139-146

Robert M. Adelman, Charis E. Kubrin, Graham C. Ousey and Lesley W. Reid

Investigating the Offending Histories of Undocumented Immigrants pp. 147-166

Bianca Bersani, Adam D. Fine, Alex R. Piquero, Laurence Steinberg, Paul J. Frick and Elizabeth Cauffman

The Migration-Crime Nexus and the Press in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom pp. 167-181

Alexander A Caviedes

'Bad Hombres': The Effects of Criminalizing Latino Immigrants through Law and Media in the Rural Midwest pp. 182-196

Andrea Gomez Cervantes, Daniel Alvord and Cecilia Menjívar

Immigration and Violent Crime in California, 1980-2012: Contextualization by Temporal Period and Race/Ethnicity pp. 197-214

Ben Feldmeyer, Darrell Steffensmeier, Casey T. Harris and Shahin Tasharrofi

Arresting Immigrants: Unemployment and Immigration Enforcement pp. 215-238

Kara Joyner

Violent Crime and Immigrant Removals: Reasons and Determinants of Immigrant Deportations, 1908-1986 pp. 239-254

Ryan D. King and Denise Obinna

Crimmigration, Deportability and the Social Exclusion of Noncitizen Immigrants pp. 255-265

Shirley P. Leyro and Daniel L. Stageman

Recent Shifts in the Volume, Nature, and Scope of State Immigration Policies in the United States pp. 266-283

Lisa Marie Pierotte, Min Xie and Eric Baumer

Felons, not Families”: Criminalized illegality, stigma, and membership of deported “criminal aliens pp. 284-300

Heidy Sarabia

Volume 15, issue 1, 2018

When "expatriation" is a matter of family. Opportunities, barriers and intimacies in international mobility pp. 1-16

Flavia Cangià and Tania Zittoun

Family, Boundaries and Transformation. The International Mobility of Professionals and Their Families pp. 17-31

Flavia Cangià, Déborah Levitan and Tania Zittoun

The role of family relationships in migration decisions: a reconstruction based on implicit starting points in migrants’ justifications pp. 33-44

Sara Greco

"We live a life in periods" - Perceptions of mobility and becoming an expat spouse pp. 45-54

Julia Büchele

Moving to paradise for the children’s sake pp. 55-65

Mari Korpela

Family configurations and arrangements in the transnational mobility of early-career academics: Does gender make twice the difference? pp. 67-84

Alina Toader and Janine Dahinden

Femininities and masculinities in highly skilled migration: Peruvian graduates’ narratives of employment transitions and binational marriages in Switzerland pp. 85-98

Romina Seminario

Temporary international mobility, Family Timing, Dual Career and family democracy. A case of Swedish medical professionals pp. 99-111

Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Magnus Öhlander and Helena Pettersson

Temporarily protected Syrians’ access to the healthcare system in Turkey: Changing policies and remaining challenges pp. 113-124

Basak Bilecen and Dilara Yurtseven

Exploring the ‘Third Coast’ and ‘Second City’: Background and research on African migration in the Midwestern U.S. and Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area pp. 125-138

C. Kevin Taber

Volume 14, issue 3, 2017

Editorial pp. 329-330

Ibrahim Sirkeci

Migration and the Internet pp. 331-342

Thomas John Cooke and Ian Shuttleworth

Health, well-being, and urban refugees: an agenda paper pp. 343-354

Kelly Ann Yotebieng

The new ‘diaspora trap’ framework: Explaining return migration from South Africa to Zimbabwe beyond the ‘failure-success’ framework pp. 355-370

Divane Nzima and Philani Moyo

In this paper a case is made for the necessity of an inter-disciplinary treatment of the migration phenomenon pp. 371-383

Islam Ahmed

Climate change and migration in the rural sector of northern Mexico (Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí) pp. 383-395

Ana María Aragonés Castañer and Uberto Salgado Nieto

Towards a Migration Letters Index: the most influential works and authors in Migration Studies pp. 397-424

Ibrahim Sirkeci, Jeffrey H. Cohen and Andrej Přívara

Volume 14, issue 2, 2017

Editorial pp. 187-188

Carla De Tona

Diaspora policies and co-development: A Comparison between India, China and Mexico pp. 189-203

Camelia Tigau, Amba Pande and Yan Yuan

Determinants of migration and the gravity model of migration – application on Western Balkan emigration flows pp. 204-220

Visar Malaj and Stefano de Rubertis

Eliciting salient beliefs of engineers in Malaysia on migrating abroad pp. 221-236

Balu Ramoo, Chong Yee Lee and Cheng Ming Yu

Human Capital Theory and Internal Migration: Do Average Outcomes Distort Our View of Migrant Motives? pp. 237-250

Martin Korpi and William A.V. Clark

Explaining the labor market gaps between immigrants and natives in the OECD pp. 251-262

Andreas Bergh

Memory, nostalgia and the creation of “home”: a returnee woman’s journey pp. 263-272

Johanna Zulueta

Multi-professional work practices in the field of immigrant integration – examples of collaboration between the police and social work pp. 273-284

Sari Vanhanen and Elli Heikkilä

Can international migration forecasting be improved? The case of Australia pp. 285-299

Tom Wilson

Gender and youth migration for empowerment: migration trends from Tanzania pp. 300-317

Gemma Joan Nifasha Todd, Benjamin Clarke, Millie Marston, Mark Urassa and Jim Todd

President Trump and US Migration after 100 Days pp. 319-328

Philip L. Martin

Volume 14, issue 1, 2017

Transnational migrant families: navigating marriage, generation and gender in multiple spheres pp. 1-10

Mulki Mulki Al-Sharmani, Marja Tiilikainen and Sanna Mustasaari

Marriage conclusion in Belgian Muslim families: Navigating transnational social spaces of normativity pp. 11-24

Kim Lecoyer

Ruling on belonging: transnational marriages in Nordic immigration laws pp. 25-37

Sanna Mustasaari

Marriage and transnational family life among Somali migrants in Finland pp. 38-49

Mulki Mulki Al-Sharmani and Abdirashid A Ismail

Twice as many helpers: Unpacking the connection between marriage migration and older labour immigrants’ access to family support pp. 50-62

Anika Liversage

‘Whenever mom hands over the phone, then we talk’: Transnational ties to the country of descent among Canadian Somali youth pp. 63-74

Marja Tiilikainen

1.5-generation immigrant adolescents’ autonomy negotiations in transnational family contexts pp. 75-87

Elina Turjanmaa, Anne Alitolppa-Niitamo and Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti

Transnationalism, social capital and gender – young Pakistani Muslim women in Bradford, UK pp. 88-100

Gurchathen S Sanghera and Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert

Searching for ‘success’: generation, gender and onward migration in the Iranian diaspora pp. 101-112

Melissa Kelly

A new era for labour migration in the GCC? pp. 113-126

Philip L. Martin and Froilan Malit

Turkey’s refugees, Syrians and refugees from Turkey: a country of insecurity pp. 127-144

Ibrahim Sirkeci

News discourse and ideology: critical analysis of Copenhagen gang wars’ online news pp. 145-160

Pınar Yazgan and Deniz Eroğlu Utku

Election of Donald Trump and Migration pp. 161-171

Philip L. Martin

Book Reviews pp. 172-179

Jonathan Liu, Vildan Mahmutoglu, Zana Vathi and Işık Kulu-Glasgow