Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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 LGBTQ+ org…
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 November 2023, …
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 involvement through t…
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 comparison g…
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 examines what …
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 neighbourhood quality…
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 injustice frame …
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 larger study dur…
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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…
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 perspective. Th…
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 experiences aris…
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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 level. This i…
Migration policy in the Nordic welfare states is increasingly marked by restrictiveness. Although research has studied the consequences of this policy trend, there is limited knowledge about how it affects stress levels and the well-being of migrants. …
Starting in 2015, Sweden embarked upon a series of policy changes designed to reduce the number of migrants arriving to Sweden. Even though the effect of these policies on migrant arrivals remained unclear and a number of societal actors warned of nega…
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
This paper examines how Scandinavian border and coast guards seconded to Frontex operations understand their participation in them. Drawing on interviews with Swedish and Danish border and coast guards, the paper introduces the notion of Nordic excepti…
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research