Book review of Lubit, Amanda J. 2025. Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland: An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement, and Placemaking. New York: Berghahn Books, 205 pp.
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Author: Silje Andresen
‘He Was the Most Important’: How General Practitioners Support Syrian Refugees in Navigating Norway as a Receiving Society
Refugees often face psychological strain related to war trauma, uncertain legal status, and unfamiliar societal expectations. Health challenges may further hinder their ability to engage in employment, education, and civic life. This qualita…
‘I Have Completely Exhausted Myself During This Journey’: Female Citizens’ Experiential Migrantisation in the Face of Their Foreign Spouse’s Deportability
This article examines how a foreign partner’s deportability influences Finnish women. The concept of ‘experiential migrantisation’ offers particular utility for this analysis in that it elucidates the negative impacts of immigration regimes …
Between Proximity and Distance: Adult Migrants’ Belonging in Racialised Social Networks
This article examines how adult migrants in Finland experience belonging through the social networks they form within and beyond institutional contexts. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with 29 adult migrant students an…
Discrimination and Reactive Transnationalism Among Recent Italian, Polish, Turkish, and Syrian Immigrants in Germany
Reactive transnationalism involves immigrants responding to hostility in the receiving society by increasing their connection and interaction with their origin country. The current study builds upon previous examinations of this phenomenon b…
Book review of Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin. 2023. Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders. Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines. New York: Berghahn. 276 pp.
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Kinship Constellations in the Narratives of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Norway
Kinship emerges as a constellation of relational ties for young adults who arrive in Norway as unaccompanied refugee minors, shaped by migration, separation, and the uneven terrain of family reunification. Drawing on long‑term ethnographic f…
The Double‑Edged Swords of Hope and Hopelessness: Ethnographic Insights Among Deportable Refugees in Sweden
This article explores the interplay between hope and hopelessness among refugees in Sweden who have been denied asylum and live under the threat of deportation. Based on ethnographic research conducted in a rural municipality in central Swed…
Book review of Gómez-Ciriano, Emilio José, Cabiati, Elena, and Dedotsi, Sofia (eds.) 2023. Migration and Social Work: Approaches, Visions and Challenges. Bristol: Policy Press, 248 pp.
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Postcolonial Passages: Tiken Jah Fakoly and the Musical Intervention of African Mobility
This study examines how the Ivoirian reggae musician Tiken Jah Fakoly critically engages with issues of African migration, displacement, and postcolonial identity through his music. Drawing on detailed analyses of five selected songs: ‘Le De…
‘More Than Money’: Unpacking the Moral Economies of Remittances Through the Online Advertising of Western Union
That migrant remittances are, or should be, ‘more than money’ is a statement on which different stakeholders, with different interests, would probably agree. While migrants often strive to articulate care and emotional involvemen…
The Constitutionality of the Italy–Albania Protocol of November 2023
In recent years, the management of asylum-seeker flows has increasingly become a subject of political contention, prompting several states to explore the externalization of asylum procedures as a policy response. Within this context, in Nove…
Shaping Immigration Attitudes: The Role of Human Values, Media Engagement and Sociopolitical Events Among European Managers
This article examines how human values, media engagement and sociopolitical events shape immigration attitudes across Europe, with a particular focus on understanding the immigration attitudes of European managers, using other workers as a c…
Self‑Selection Among Sexual Orientation Refugees to Sweden: The Role of Support Organisations in Destination Countries
In recent years, scholarly attention on sexual orientation asylum‑seekers has markedly increased. However, the role of support organisations in destination countries remains unclear. Organisations are central, both as much research relies on…
‘More Than Sufferers’: Digital Boundary‑Making and Belonging Through Work Among Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Finland
Following Russia’s initiation of full‑scale war against Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainian forced migrants in the EU, including Finland, were granted immediate access to the labor market under the Temporary Protection mechanism. This paper exa…
School Grades and Neighbourhoods – A Natural Experiment
Adolescents with an immigrant background have poorer educational performance than their native counterparts, which may partly be explained by the quality of their neighbourhood area upon immigration to Sweden. An important part of neighbourh…
Framing the Future of Climate Migration in Finnish and Dutch News Media: Understanding Future Visions by Investigating Underlying Normative Judgement
In this article, we analyse the kinds of futures envisioned by Finnish and Dutch news media in relation to climate migration. We find four frames that are used to present the future: a catastrophe frame, a migrant‑positioning frame, an injus…
Book review of Sealy, Thomas, Uberoi, Varun and Meer, Nasar (eds.) 2024. The resilience of multiculturalism: Ideas, politics, practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 328 pp.
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Book review of Schimanski, Johan and Nyman, Jopi (eds.) 2023. Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 276 pp.
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Interpreters’ Experiences of Asylum Interviews in Sweden. Working Conditions and Interpreting Literacy
This article seeks to investigate interpreters’ experiences of interpreting in asylum interviews. The empirical basis of the paper is ethnographic interviews with nine public service interpreters in Sweden, collected as part of a large…
Belonging on the Move: A Multi-Method Exploration of Embodied Affect, Place Attachment, and Transnational Mobility in Migrant Lives in Norway
The study investigates how adult migrants to Norway develop a sense of belonging through both attachment and mobility. Building on transnational and mobilities perspectives, it emphasizes embodied affect—the sensory and emotional exper…
Suspicion of Truth: a Genealogical Analysis of Credibility Assessments Within Swedish Migration Authorities
This article is concerned with the institutionalisation of suspicion within migration control regimes, and more specifically the Swedish migration authorities’ practices of credibility assessments from a historical governmentality pers…
At the Edges of the Welfare State: When Front-Line Bureaucrats Meet Migrant Roma Beggars in Norway
Romanian Roma who beg and perform street work represent the most visible and acute form of poverty in today’s Norway, but as EU citizens operating outside formal labour markets, they have limited access to social rights and services. Using a stre…
Book Review of Boccagni, Paolo (ed.) 2023. The Handbook on Home and Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 702.
The main aim of the recent Handbook on Home and Migration was to overcome the case study-based fragmentation of the discussion on homemaking among people on the move, and to elevate it to a substantive thematic, conceptual and theoretical le…
Book Review of Helms, Elissa and Pulkkinen, Tuija. (eds.) 2023. Borders of desire: Gender and sexuality at the eastern borders of Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 181.
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