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Understanding future migration

6 Dec 20182 Dec 2020 Jørgen Carling

How does migration that has not yet taken place shape the lives of individuals and the development of societies? Continue reading Understanding future migration

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The End Of Migrants As We Know Them?

20 Sep 201621 Jun 2017 Jørgen Carling

The UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants holds the promise of progress. But ahead of the summit, communications staff were pushing a warped view of migrant diversity. Even the International Organization of Migration (IOM) is straying from its mission to uphold … Continue reading The End Of Migrants As We Know Them?

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Refugees are Also Migrants. And All Migrants Matter

3 Sep 201521 Jun 2017 Jørgen Carling

This post was originally published on the Border Criminologies blog, based at the University of Oxford. (Photo: Carlos Spottorno, British Red Cross, CC BY-NC-ND) The recent debate over word choice has taken turns that undermine humanitarian principles and cloud the … Continue reading Refugees are Also Migrants. And All Migrants Matter

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Why ‘trafficking’ is in the news for the wrong reasons

30 Jul 201514 Jun 2022 Jørgen Carling

In early 2015 there was a spike in new stories about ‘trafficking’ related to migration. But most of the stories described events that had little to do with trafficking. They described smuggling of migrants, primarily across the Mediterranean. Does it … Continue reading Why ‘trafficking’ is in the news for the wrong reasons

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Who is who in migration studies: 107 names worth knowing

1 Jun 201522 Jun 2017 Jørgen Carling

During a recent conversation among migration scholars, a PhD candidate mentioned in passing that ‘I’m not really familiar with the names yet’. It was obvious that many of had a shared mental inventory of migration scholars. So I started wondering how this tacit knowledge … Continue reading Who is who in migration studies: 107 names worth knowing

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How migration spurs battles over women

8 Mar 20158 Mar 2018 Jørgen Carling

Migration affects the lives of women in many ways. One subtle but critical mechanism lies in disputes over ‘who’ migrant women are. Migration researchers can play a role in making the battles apparent and showing how they matter. I have … Continue reading How migration spurs battles over women

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Scripting remittances: making sense of money transfers in transnational relationships

20 Feb 201514 Jan 2019 Jørgen Carling

This article proposes a conceptual framework for studying remittances as social transactions that can take a number of distinct forms. Continue reading Scripting remittances: making sense of money transfers in transnational relationships

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Filipino migration is extraordinary

28 Jul 201427 Feb 2017 Jørgen Carling

The population of the Philippines is surpassing 100 million in late July 2014. That’s a reminder of the country’s importance in global migration. Emigration generally has the strongest impacts in countries with relatively small populations, such as El Salvador, Armenia … Continue reading Filipino migration is extraordinary

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Beyond the insider–outsider divide in migration research

8 Aug 201314 Jan 2019 Jørgen Carling

We engage with the insider–outsider divide in research with migrants and advocate a more dynamic approach to positionality Continue reading Beyond the insider–outsider divide in migration research

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