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In a world with over 70 million people registered as forcibly displaced, governing migration has long been high on the European Union's agenda. However, rather than emerging from evidence-based perspectives, policy responses have often been built on simplistic premises regarding how refugees' mobility and decision-making work. Findings from the research project SYRMAGINE can contribute to the revising of these views:
While many Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Turkey strongly long for a return to their native country should the conflict end, returning under current conditions is perceived as unsafe - with individuals fearing military conscription or political persecution upon return, especially those opposed to al-Assad's regime.
Often moderate aspirations to stay in the host country exist, even should the war end. Among refugees in Turkey, strong resistance to the idea of migrating to Europe is also prevalent. The consideration to settle down is based on a preference to remain geographically close to Syria, to live in a culturally familiar context, feelings of relative safety compared to Syria, family ties, and the notion that building a life worth living might be possible where one currently lives.
Factors which influence refugees' decisions to move on to another third country are a combination of insufficient legal safety, financial vulnerability, and inadequate access to health and education services within the host country; views within families about onwards migration; and, refugees' current life satisfaction and future imaginations.
With ongoing violence in Syria alongside the legal and economic vulnerabilities faced by refugees in the Middle East, safe pathways to reaching third countries need to be expanded. In the Middle East itself, policies should focus on improving legal and educational conditions for refugees and supporting anti-discrimination measures. Return campaigns and refoulement have to stop immediately.

Der Artikel thematisiert Vater-Sohn-Dynamiken als einen Aspekt intergenerationaler familialer Beziehungen, der sich für biografische Entwicklungen und Bildungsverläufe junger Männer aus italienischen Migrantenfamilien als besonders bedeutsam erwiesen hat. Das Projekt zeigt, dass sich die Art und Weise, wie die Väter migrationsbedingte Erfahrungen verarbeitet haben, in spezifischer Weise auf die Dynamiken der Vater-Sohn-Beziehung auswirkt. So werden bspw. Trennungserfahrungen, welche die Väter im Zuge der Migration gemacht haben, im Verlauf der adoleszenten Ablösungsprozesse ihrer Söhne wieder virulent. Die Art der Verarbeitung von migrationsbedingten Trennungen und Verlusten seitens der Väter kann für die Explorationsspielräume der adoleszenten Söhne daher sowohl begrenzende als auch ermöglichende Wirkung haben und beeinflusst auch deren Bildungskarrieren.

In this comment on an article published in Critical Asian Studies 43 (1), "Migration in Far West Nepal," the author questions whether the "Bourdieu social practice framework," which Ephraim Poertner, Mathais Junginger, and Ulrike Müller-Böker employ in their article, provides the most appropriate lens through which to view migration. He argues that the authors fail to present convincing evidence of the relevance of its application. Furthermore, he says, a further dichotomy might need to be addressed first: that between French approaches to social theory and Anglo-Saxon approaches such as that of Anthony Giddens, where the timespace dimensions are much more evident, even if problematic, in the examining structure and agency. (Crit As Stud/GIGA)

Migration health is affected by decision making at levels ranging from global to local, both within and beyond the health sector. These decisions impact seeking, entitlements, service delivery, policy making and knowledge production on migration health. It is key that ethical challenges faced by decision makers are recognised and addressed in research and data, clinical practice and policy making on migration health. An ethical approach can provide methods to identify ethical issues, frameworks for systematising information and suggesting ethically acceptable solutions, and guidance on procedural concerns and legitimate decision making processes. By unpacking dilemmas, conflicts of interests and values at stake, an ethical approach is relevant for all who make decisions about migration health policy and practice. Adopting an ethical approach to migration health benefits governments, organisations, policy makers, health workers, data managers, researchers and migrants themselves. First, it highlights the inherent normative questions and trade-offs at stake in migration health. Second, it assists decision makers in deciding what is the ethically justifiable thing to do through an 'all things considered' approach. Third, ethical frameworks and technical guidance set normative and practical standards for decision makers facing ethical questions – from 'bedside rationing' to collection of big data or in policy making – that can ensure that migrants' interests are considered. Fourth, there is a need for greater transparency and accountability in decision making, as well as meaningful participation of migrant groups. An ethical approach connects to public health, economic and human rights arguments and highlights the urgent need to mainstream concerns for migrants in global and national health responses.

Die Autorinnen untersuchen, wie Menschen, deren Asylantrag in Deutschland abgelehnt wurde, Abschiebung und "freiwillige Ausreise" in den Kosovo erleben. In vier qualitativen Untersuchungen widmen sie sich der Frage, welche subjektive Bedeutung diese Erfahrung hat, gehen auf die besondere Situation von Kindern ein und legen dar, wie das Leben nach der Rückkehr weitergeht. Sie zeigen, dass Migration und deren staatliche Regulierung durch Abschiebung und "freiwillige Ausreise" nicht nur politisch brisante Themen darstellen, sondern für die Betroffenen auch kritische Lebensereignisse sind. Der Inhalt Erzählungen von Abschiebung und freiwilliger Ausreise Agency und subjektive Theorien zur Rückkehr Herausforderungen und Ressourcen nach der Rückkehr Die Bedeutung von Kindern bei der Migration Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Psychologie, Migrationsforschung, Politikwissenschaften, Soziologie und Sozialen Arbeit Praktikerinnen und Praktiker der sozialen Arbeit und Migrationsberatung Die Autorinnen Verena Biskup, Maria Jaschick, Kathrin Sautter und Lucia Thumm haben in Osnabrück den Masterstudiengang Interkulturelle Psychologie absolviert und arbeiten derzeit in verschiedenen Beratungsstellen für Geflüchtete sowie in einer Rehabilitationseinrichtung

We employ a triple difference-in-difference approach, using censuses and georeferenced temperature data, to quantify heat effects on internal migration in Central America and the Caribbean. A 1-standard deviation increase in heat would affect the lives of 7,314 and 1,578 unskilled young women and men. The effect is smaller than observed in response to droughts and hurricanes but could increase with climate change. Interestingly, youth facing heat waves are more likely to move to urban centers than when exposed to disasters endemic to the region. Research identifying the implications of these choices and interventions available to minimize distress migration is warranted.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Setting the Stage: Understanding Media Discourses About and Public Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe -- Introduction -- The Pictures in Our Heads and How These Are Shaped -- Purpose and Research Questions -- Immigration Within and Into the Eu -- Refugee Immigration to the Eu -- Taking Stock: What We Do Not Know About Public Perceptions of and Attitudes Toward Migration, the Media... -- Public Attitudes Toward Immigration -- Media Discourses About Migration -- Media Effects On Attitudes Toward Migration -- Introducing the Countries -- Germany -- Hungary -- Poland -- Spain -- Sweden -- The United Kingdom -- Outline of the Book -- Notes -- References -- 2 How to Investigate Media Discourse About and Public Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe: Our Approach -- Introduction -- How We Measured Media Discourses -- Identifying Media Frames and Sentiment -- How We Measured Public Attitudes -- How We Estimated Media Effects -- The Linkage Approach -- The Survey Experiment -- Methodological Challenges -- Migration: A Challenging Concept -- European Country-Comparative Context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Public Attitudes Toward migration Within and Into Europe -- 3 Mapping Public Attitudes Toward Immigration Within and Into Europe -- Introduction -- The Structure(s) of Immigration Attitudes -- Attitudes Toward Different Groups of Immigrants -- Attitudes Based On Different Considerations Regarding Immigration -- Consistency of Immigration Attitude Dimensions Across Countries Or Over Time -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- 4 The Influence of Self-Interested and Sociotropic Perceptions On Immigration Attitudes -- Introduction.

AbstractDespite the large number of migrants at both international and internal scales in developing countries, literature on building the links between the two migration processes is still lacking. Using survey data from China's Fujian Province, we elaborate a novel link between international and internal migration processes by examining the response of internal migration to international migration in the migrant origins. Our findings suggest that emigration of one individual initially deterred the internal migration of other family members. Yet, over time individuals from emigrant‐related households had an increasing propensity to migrate internally. During the internal migration process, emigrants' family members received greater financial returns and had reached farther destinations than other internal migrants. Those emigrant‐related internal migrants with enhanced economic profiles would benefit their domestic destinations in a variety of ways. These benefits support a more optimistic view on the impact of international migration on the development of migrant‐sending countries.

In the discussion on the EU migration policy, it is impossible to evade the issue of the relation between this policy and the EU foreign policy, including EU common foreign and security policy. The subject of this study are selected links between migration issues and the CFSP of the European Union. The presented considerations aim to determine at what levels and in what ways the EU's migration policy is taken into account in the space of the CFSP as a diplomatic and political (and subject to specific rules and procedures) substrate of the EU's external action. ; W dyskusji na temat unijnej polityki migracyjnej nie sposob abstrahować od kwestii jej relacji względem unijnej polityki zagranicznej, w tym wspolnej polityki zagranicznej i bezpieczeństwa (WPZiB). Przedmiotem niniejszego opracowania są wybrane powiązania między kwestiami migracyjnymi a wspolną polityką zagraniczną i bezpieczeństwa Unii Europejskiej. Przedstawione rozważania zmierzają do ustalenia, na jakich płaszczyznach i w jaki sposob polityka migracyjna UE uwzględniana jest w przestrzeni WPZiB jako dyplomatyczno-politycznego i poddanego szczegolnym zasadom i procedurom substratu działań zewnętrznych Unii.

Der Politikbericht 2013 der deutschen nationalen Kontaktstelle für das Europäische Migrationsnetzwerk (EMN) gibt einen Überblick über die wichtigsten politischen Diskussionen und Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Migration, Integration und Asyl in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland für das Jahr 2013. Zentrale migrations-, integrations- und asylpolitische Debatten des Jahres 2013 betrafen die Themen steigende Asylbewerberzahlen und die politischen Reaktionen darauf, Flüchtlingsproteste sowie die Optionspflicht und die Akzeptanz doppelter Staatsangehörigkeit. Besonders befasst sich der Bericht mit Maßnahmen, welche die Bundesrepublik Deutschland zur Umsetzung des Gesamtansatzes für Migration und Mobilität, der EU-Aktion gegen Migrationsdruck, der EU-Strategie zur Bekämpfung des Menschenhandels sowie der Europäischen Agenda zur Integration von Drittstaatsangehörigen getroffen hat. Diese Maßnahmen werden durch weitere Gesetze und Initiativen der Bundesregierung in den Bereichen Migration, Integration und Asyl ergänzt. Zudem stellt der Bericht die allgemeine Struktur des politischen und rechtlichen Systems in Deutschland dar und skizziert die wichtigsten politischen und institutionellen Veränderungen im Jahr 2013.