Seeking the views of irregular migrants: Decision-making, drivers and migration journeys

McAuliffe, Marie

doi:10.22459/lwg.12.2017.05

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“…Half of the publications identified from the grey search were peer-reviewed publications (4/8, 50.0%), see Tables 2 and 3 . Overall, this review includes 16 peer-reviewed publications [ 18 , 19 , 23 – 27 , 31 , 34 , 36 , 38 – 40 ], one non-peer reviewed protocol report [ 30 ], and three governmental reports [ 28 , 29 , 37 ]; see Table 2 . The latter four reports were identified during the grey literature search.…”

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A systematic review of studies with a representative sample of refugees and asylum seekers living in the community for participation in mental health research

Enticott

Shawyer

Vasi

et al. 2017

BMC Med Res Methodol

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BackgroundThe aim was to review the literature to identify the most effective methods for creating a representative sample of refugee and asylum seeker groups living in the community to participate in health and mental health survey research.MethodsA systematic search of academic and grey literature was conducted for relevant literature with ‘hidden’ groups published between January 1995 and January 2016. The main search used Medline, PsycINFO, EMBASE, CINAHL and SCOPUS electronic databases. Hidden groups were defined as refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons or hard/difficult to reach populations. A supplementary grey literature search was conducted. Identified articles were rated according to a created graded system of ‘level of evidence for a community representative sample’ based on key study factors that indicated possible sources of selection bias. Articles were included if they were assessed as having medium or higher evidence for a representative sample. All full-text papers that met the eligibility criteria were examined in detail and relevant data extracted.ResultsThe searches identified a total of 20 publications for inclusion: 16 peer-reviewed publications and four highly relevant reports. Seventeen studies had sampled refugee and asylum seekers and three other hidden groups. The main search identified 12 (60.0%) and the grey search identified another eight (40.0%) articles. All 20 described sampling techniques for accessing hidden groups for participation in health-related research. Key design considerations were: an a priori aim to recruit a representative sample; a reliable sampling frame; recording of response rates; implementation of long recruitment periods; using multiple non-probability sampling methods; and, if possible, including a probability sampling component. Online social networking sites were used by one study. Engagement with the refugee and asylum seeker group was universally endorsed in the literature as necessary and a variety of additional efforts to do this were reported.ConclusionsThe strategies for increasing the likelihood of a representative sample of this hidden group were identified and will assist researchers when doing future research with refugee groups. These findings encourage more rigorous reporting of future studies so that the representativeness of samples of these groups in research can be more readily assessed.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12874-017-0312-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic review of studies with a representative sample of refugees and asylum seekers living in the community for participation in mental health research

Enticott

Shawyer

Vasi

et al. 2017

BMC Med Res Methodol

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“…Thus for instance, Sri Lankans will not apply for asylum in Indonesia because they know that their likelihood of being granted asylum and later be relocated through UNHCR to Australia is extremely low. They will rather mobilize both material and social resources to organize their travel via Indonesia to Australia with the help of smugglers (see Hugo, Tan, &Napitupulu, 2017, andJayasuriya &McAuliffe, 2017). Similar issues were documented by Schuster (2011) with regard to Afghans in France and can also be seen in the irregular migration/asylum seeking arrivals in Italy (Triandafyllidou & Mantanika, 2017).…”

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“…This brief critical analysis of the role of third countries in the externalization and securitization of migration and asylum management to countries of origin and transit shows how much this type of policy approach, which has long prevailed in Australia and is gaining ground in the EU too, disregards the complexity of migrant and asylum seeker motivations. McAuliffe and Koser's book (2017) offers particularly interesting insights in this area through a number of chapters, notably the chapter by Loschmann, Kuschminder, and Siegel (2017) on Afghan migration to Australia, the chapter by Jayasuriya and McAuliffe (2017) on Sri Lankan maritime arrivals, McAuliffe's (2017) own chapter on decision making, and Hugo and Dissanayake's (2017) chapter which successfully discusses the many faces of Sri Lankan migration to Australia, showing the porosity of migration categories (such as student migrant, labor migrant, irregular labor migrant, and asylum seeker) and the role of diasporas in forging links and networks that facilitate movement.…”

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Governing Irregular and Return Migration in the 2020s: European Challenges and Asian Pacific Perspectives

Triandafyllidou

Ricard-Guay

2019

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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Most research on irregular migration in Europe has so far developed with a Eurocentric focus not sufficiently engaging with parallel policy and research developments in other world regions. The publication of McAuliffe and Koser's (2017) A Long Way to Go, Irregular Migration Patterns, Processes, Drivers and Decision-Making and Taylor and Lee's (2017) Mobilities of Return: Pacific Perspectives on the Asia Pacific regional challenges of irregular migration and complex mobility offer a welcome opportunity to reflect on related research findings and common challenges for migration and asylum governance in Europe and the Asia Pacific.

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“…In line with MacAuliffe's () and Mainwaring's () findings, our informants use available information to plan ahead or Triandafyllidou and McAuliffe (2018). The smuggler emerges as a key figure that makes the navigation of the policy restrictions and the crossing of international borders possible.…”

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confidence: 69%

The Migration Archipelago: Social Navigation and Migrant Agency

Triandafyllidou

2018

International Migration

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This paper is inscribed into a new line of scholarly work seeking to cast light to the ways in which migrants convert their motivations into action within a policy framework that is characterised by many restrictions and limited opportunities to move. Drawing on recent fieldwork (2013‐2014) on irregular migrants from Afghanistan, Albania, Georgia, Pakistan and the Ukraine, in Greece, we investigate how they perceive opportunities and navigate restrictions eventually crossing borders whether unlawfully (from unguarded border areas or with fake documentation) or legally (abusing the terms of their entry/stay). The paper adopts the notion of social navigation as a heuristics tool to conceptualise the social, temporal and spatial character of the migration journey, its nodal points, and the interaction of migrants with different actors and factors that shape their migration plans and explores different types of migrant agency (recuperation, resilience and resistance) developed during the navigation process.

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Seeking the views of irregular migrants: Decision-making, drivers and migration journeys

Cited by 23 publications

References 20 publications

A systematic review of studies with a representative sample of refugees and asylum seekers living in the community for participation in mental health research

A systematic review of studies with a representative sample of refugees and asylum seekers living in the community for participation in mental health research

Governing Irregular and Return Migration in the 2020s: European Challenges and Asian Pacific Perspectives

The Migration Archipelago: Social Navigation and Migrant Agency

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