International Migration in an Era of Neoliberal Social Transformation

Cubas, Magdalena Arias; Ozkul, Derya; Castles, Stephen

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“…Research examining migration's impact on migrant-sending households has focused on the role of remittances in increasing household income and avoiding poverty (Ullah and Huque 2019; de Haas and van Rooij 2010; Castles 2015). Migration's impact on left-behind households has generally been examined through the lens of international migration, with the distinction between internal and international migration not fully considered (King and Skeldon 2010).…”

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Internal and International Migration and the Mental Health of “Left-Behind” Older Parents

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Kornhaber

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International Migration Review

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Despite evidence of the impact of adult children's migration on left-behind older parents, the comparison of left-behind older parents’ mental health and psychological well-being between internal and international migration is limited. This article examines how the relationship between adult children's migration and parent's mental health differs according to the migrant's destination — only internal migration, only international migration, or hybrid migration (at least one child who migrated internally and at least one child who migrated internationally). Drawing on a 2019 cross-sectional population-based survey of 697 left-behind older adults (≥ 60 years) in Nepal, we assessed the mental health of older parents, using the 21-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scales and a range of socio-demographic, health, lifestyle, and child-related characteristics. Multilevel mixed-method linear regression was performed to examine the effect of adult children's migration on left-behind older parents’ depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. Results showed that parents whose children had all migrated internationally were at higher risk of mental health problems, particularly anxiety and stress, compared to parents whose children had all migrated internally. Older parents from the hybrid group (having both internal and international migrant adult children) had higher levels of anxiety, compared to parents whose children had all migrated internally, with no significant difference in depression and stress symptoms. Further, mothers of internationally migrated children were at higher risk of mental health symptoms than fathers. Interventions aiming to improve left-behind older parents’ mental health and psychological well-being should specifically target parents whose children have migrated internationally.

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Internal and International Migration and the Mental Health of “Left-Behind” Older Parents

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Kornhaber

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International Migration Review

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“…Anticipation is a way to handle the future, premised on attempts at predicting, responding to, and shaping behaviors. The dimension of time is central to international migration governance (Jacobsen, Karlsen, and Khosravi 2021; Robertson 2015; Tazzioli 2018), most notably when it comes to predict and shape migration futures (Griffiths 2021). The organizations involved in the governance of international migration focus their activities on forecasting the future, to assess and manage “risks,” and to preempt and/or respond to potential behaviors (such as migratory decisions) before they surface.…”

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Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies

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2023

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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This article shows how the organizational activities that filter people through borders are shaped by anticipation of migrants’ agency. Through ethnographic research in the United Kingdom’s two largest immigration detention centers, I analyze implementation practices carried out by frontline workers of the Home Office. I question the underexamined relationship between time and organizational action. I find that implementation practices are systematized, in part, by assessments of the future, and are aimed at anticipating and countering detainees’ responses to the possibility of deportation, even before these responses surface. Detainees’ responses can slow the ideal progression of the bureaucratic processes of detention and expulsion, even as speeding up those processes remains a crucial concern of the Home Office organization, largely because of a political fantasy of cost-effectiveness. I argue that more knowledge about these sorts of implementation dynamics allows for reappraisals of policies that remain salient, despite their failures and costs.

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International Migration in an Era of Neoliberal Social Transformation

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Internal and International Migration and the Mental Health of “Left-Behind” Older Parents

Internal and International Migration and the Mental Health of “Left-Behind” Older Parents

Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies

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