This Occasional Paper co-authored with Khalid Koser is the first of two Occasional Papers to be published from the Understanding Irregular Migrants Decision Making Factors in Transit Study. The purpose of this Occasional Paper is to better understand how migrants in transit make decisions about whether to stay, move onwards or return. The term ‘transit’ is ill-defined in the academic literature. In this study, it refers to Greece and Turkey as countries from which the potential for onward … [Read more...]
New Article: Strong ties, weak ties: Exploring the role of networks in domestic worker migration from Ethiopia to the Middle East
This article is based on data collected during my PhD Fieldwork in Ethiopia with retuning domestic workers from the Middle East. My fieldwork was my first introduction to the extreme challenges women face in the Middle East and I was interested in how social networks could assist women in providing further protection. Social network theory provided a cornerstone of the theoretical component of my PhD and in this article I explore how migrating versus a weak or strong tie can assist domestic … [Read more...]
New Article in Migration Policy Practice on Afghan Migration in Turkey and Greece
The first article from our Understandings Irregular Migrants Decision Making Factors in Transit project has just been published in Migration Policy Practice entitled 'Afghans in Greece and Turkey seeking to migrate onward: Decision-making factors and destination choice'. This is a short descriptive overview of the decision making factors of Afghan migrants in Turkey and Greece. The article highlights that the majority of Afghan migrants in Greece and Turkey want to migrate onwards and that … [Read more...]
Book Chapter Released in Adjusting to a World in Motion: Trends in Global Migration and Migration Policy Edited by Douglas J. Besharov and Mark H. Lopez
Metka Hercog and my book chapter "Diaspora Engagement Policies and the Power of the Strong State: India and Ethiopia" is now available in this edited collection. Here is an abstract of our Chapter: Migrant-sending countries are increasingly exploring schemes where the human capital of expatriates can be used for the benefit of the home country’s socioeconomic development. This paper focuses on the mechanisms of emigration management and problematizes government involvement in … [Read more...]
New Working Paper: Rejected Afghan asylum seekers in the Netherlands
Based on work from our Irregular Afghans in the Netherlands project, this working paper co-authored with Melissa Siegel provides an overview of the descriptive results of irregular Afghan migrants in the Netherlands. Abstract: Afghans have been a central asylum seeking group in Europe, and specifically the Netherlands since the conflict in Afghanistan escalated in the 1990s. Many of the Afghan asylum seekers in the Netherlands since 2001 receive a negative decision on their asylum request, … [Read more...]