Translocal Activities of Local Governments and Migrant Organizations

Ewijk, Edith van; Nijenhuis, Gery

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21674-4_8

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“…There is also substantial evidence that local government institutions can have positive consequences for the poor, including immigrants (Chetty and Hendren 2018b; Small 2009b). There is wide geographic variation in the nature of local laws, government institutions, and civil-society organizations (Bean et al 2012; de Graauw 2018; Marrow 2009; Pilanti and Morales 2018; Ramakrishnan and Bloemraad 2008; Schiller 2018; van Ewijk and Nijenhuis 2016; Varsanyi 2010), especially in societies with a federal structure of government. Within this component, three subcomponents have been the focus of past research: local laws (Brown 2013; Ellis et al 2014b; Filomeno 2018; Schildkraut et al 2019; Varsanyi 2010), government institutions (Cappiali 2018; de Graauw 2018; Marrow 2009; Van der Leun 2006), and civic organizations (Cordero-Guzmán 2005; de Graauw, Gleeson, and Bloemraad 2013; Mollenkopf and Pastor 2016; Ramakrishnan and Bloemraad 2008).…”

Section: Toward a More Systematic Study Of Contexts Of Integrationmentioning

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Components of Context: Respecifying the Role of Context in Migration Research

Lara-García

2021

International Migration Review

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For a century, scholars have studied immigrant integration in a range of destinations. Yet, the precise role of context in shaping integration outcomes remains poorly understood. Drawing from an analysis of an original database of articles and books in migration studies, I argue that this knowledge gap may be due to two closely related tendencies in the scholarship. First, case selection has relied on criteria such as the immigrant population's size and growth rate that are not clearly connected to integration outcomes. Second, most scholars have studied either heavily urban contexts (with large immigrant populations) or very rural contexts (where the immigrant population is growing rapidly), while much less attention has been given to destinations in-between. To improve the understandings of the role of context in immigrant integration, migration scholars should endeavor to move past population criteria when selecting study sites and to study the full range of contexts where immigrants are settling. To contribute to these efforts, I propose a framework that does not rely on population or newness as criteria for case selection and that focuses, instead, on the components of context that existing research has shown matters for intergenerational mobility. I also introduce a typology of contexts based on possible combinations of four of these components and offer some initial hypotheses of how these context types might affect immigrant integration. The arguments presented here recenter the role of local context in migration studies and contribute to debates about where and how scholars should study context moving forward.

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Section: Toward a More Systematic Study Of Contexts Of Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Components of Context: Respecifying the Role of Context in Migration Research

Lara-García

2021

International Migration Review

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“…This creates room for activities by migrant organizations where Chinese migrants are both actively engaged and the targeted public (for an overview of migrant organizations’ engagement see e.g. van Ewijk and Nijenhuis, ). In the UK, some of the organizations supporting Chinese migrants specifically facilitate Chinese students’ access to the British labour market by providing information on work visas, organizing business training and events, and serving alumni who intend to work in the UK by creating a platform for them to exchange career information.…”

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“…Parallel to state actors, research taking into account civil society organizations based on destination and origin and their impact on migrants’ integration at destination is scarce (van Ewijk and Nijenhuis, ). Existing cross‐national research in migration studies targets migrants as a sample unit, but rarely targets civil society organizations.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Introducing “Integration Constellations”mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their roles are very diverse. They can inform migrants (on healthcare, housing, language or integration courses for instance), help create a transnational emigrants network, or build ties between specific areas of origin and the country of residence (van Ewijk and Nijenhuis, ). Sometimes civil society in the origin country becomes an important stakeholder that deliberately seeks to create a framework designed specifically for emigrants.…”

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“Integration Constellations” – The Interaction between Destination and Origin Countries and Civil Society Organizations in Migrant Integration

Salamońska

Unterreiner

2019

International Migration

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Mainstream migration research examines migrant integration mainly as a function of integration policies in the country of destination, paying relatively little attention to policy frameworks in the country of origin. In this article we introduce the concept of “integration constellations” in order to describe multiple actors and actions involved in migrant integration in Europe. The analysis of such constellations includes policies frameworks produced by countries of destination and by countries of origin along with activities by civil society organizations. Our study encompasses all these actors in examining three empirical cases: Chinese student migration to the UK, Iranian refugees in Sweden, and Ukrainian labour migrants in Poland. These examples illustrate how actions by the states of origin and of destination can either complement or oppose each other. Although we concentrate on just three dimensions of integration (education, labour market and political participation), we point out the multidimensional reality of migrant integration.

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“…Wanneer asielzoekers nog banden hebben met Eritrea, bijvoorbeeld omdat familie daar woont of omdat ze nog bezittingen hebben in Eritrea, is de angst voor represailles tegen hen die in Eritrea zijn achtergebleven, groot. Angst en achterdocht binnen de diaspora vormen een belemmering voor integratie (Ewijk & Nijenhuis, 2016;Keusch & Schuster, 2012;Van San, 2016). Naast de meer algemene belemmeringen voor integratie (door taal, cultuurverschillen, het niet mogen werken en onzekerheid over de asielprocedure) hebben Eritreeërs ook te maken met trauma opgelopen tijdens de reis en/of in Eritrea, wantrouwen en intimidatie.…”

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Veiligheid en welzijn van Eritreeërs in het geding?

Horbach¹,

Rijken²

2017

Tijdschrift Voor Veiligheid

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Translocal Activities of Local Governments and Migrant Organizations

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Components of Context: Respecifying the Role of Context in Migration Research

Components of Context: Respecifying the Role of Context in Migration Research

“Integration Constellations” – The Interaction between Destination and Origin Countries and Civil Society Organizations in Migrant Integration

Veiligheid en welzijn van Eritreeërs in het geding?

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