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Ebook • From arrival to settlement. Vulnerabilities of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe
Italy, one of the strategic entry points into Europe for refugees and asylum seekers, is facing increasing arrivals with a reception system that is not always adequate and not always … Read more
The health trajectories of refugees and how they differ from those of other migrants
Alessandro Ferrara investigates whether refugees arriving in Germany during the 2010s follow the same health trajectories as other migrants. He finds that, like other newcomers, refugees arrive with strong physical … Read more
First births in Britain: parental class and partnership context
Using UK birth cohorts (1940–1989), Alessandro Di Nallo shows that parental occupational class predicts whether first births occur in marriage, cohabitation, or while single – and at what ages. Despite … Read more
Who is an Internally Displaced Person?
unhcr.org/internally-displaced-people Internally displaced people (IDPs) have not crossed a border to find safety. Unlike refugees, they are on the run at home. IDPs stay within their own country and remain … Read more
Why has migrant fertility in Norway declined?
Fertility among immigrants has declined in many Western countries. In Norway, Marianne Tønnessen finds that the successful integration of immigrants is not the main driver of the decline since 2000, … Read more
Migrant mortality advantage and the selection hypothesis
We frequently hear that international migrants are a selected subgroup of their origin populations. The veracity of this statement is generally just assumed or inferred from comparison on some specific … Read more
The significance of age to the study of ethnic residential segregation
In the study of ethnic residential segregation, global measures are typically used. However, while useful as summary indicators, these measures miss important and distinctive age-specific and birth-cohort trends. Albert Sabater and … Read more
Are U.S. whites ‘hunkering down’ in racially-diverse cities and neighborhoods?
America’s new racial diversity has upended conventional empirical approaches to residential segregation based on simple binary notions of the color line: white–black, white–nonwhite, or black–nonblack.Multiculturalism, pluralism, and racial hierarchy are … Read more
The demography of Trump’s wall
A major feature of the presidential campaign of Donald Trump was his pledge to build a wall on the southern border of the United States that would stop once and … Read more
Did you know?
The global population of forcibly displaced people has increased substantially in the past two decades, rising from 37.3 million in 1996 to 65.3 million in 2015. “We are facing the … Read more
The many faces of migration. A short film
“What is migration: A short film” is the illustration of the migration situation that we are living in the world right now. Millions of refugees running away from their homes … Read more
Migration in movies. An innovative database
1. EMFD: European Migratory Film Database. Construction, Description and Reliability The aim of our work is to produce a database and to investigate in what way the phenomenon of migration … Read more