Migration and Diversity

From Huntington’s Cultural Threats to Empirical Failures: Desecuritizing Trump’s Immigration Policy Through Douglas Massey

2025-03-07T09:55:44+00:00

An “immigration policy” is not just about laws and borders; it deeply affects people’s lives. This paper critically evaluates the “efficiency” and “legitimacy” of restrictive border controls, often justified by claims of a “cultural threat narrative”. It assesses the arguments of scholars like Samuel P. Huntington against the data-driven research of Douglas Massey, which exposes the counterproductive upshots of these policies. The analysis exhibits that harsh enforcement does not stop migration; it fuels social marginalisation, separates families, and undermines basic human rights. This paper calls for policies grounded in compassion with empathetic understanding of immigrants’ perspectives and a realistic policy formulation regarding migration dynamics.

Transnational Grandparenting

2025-04-17T14:35:04+00:00

This study explores the impact of global emigration on the relationships between South African grandparents and their grandchildren born abroad. This study adopts a qualitative approach to examine the emotional challenges of maintaining meaningful connections when physical distance limits grandparents’ ability to be present for cultural rituals or key life events. The discussion of the findings is organised into three key phases of grandparenting, revealing a recurring theme of missing out on important milestones. The findings indicate that geographical separation creates significant barriers to sustaining emotional closeness, particularly during the early years of a grandchild’s life. While modern communication technologies help families to maintain contact, they cannot fully replace the relational depth of face-to-face interactions. Many grandparents struggle to create the same level of intimacy and presence but have adapted by employing long-distance bonding strategies and leveraging virtual tools to remain actively involved in their grandchildren’s lives despite the physical distance.

Transforming Survivor Guilt into Social Activism: Ukrainian Women Refugees in Germany

2025-04-14T08:32:27+00:00

This study examines how Ukrainian women refugees in Germany transform survivor guilt into social activism. Using a meso-sociological and emotional approach, we identify three dimensions of guilt—the sense of injustice, betrayal for leaving Ukraine, and helplessness over their inability to influence events—which foster solidarity, group cohesion, and a strong national identity. Case studies of German families hosting refugees illustrate the interplay between personal trauma and shared historical memory, reinforcing civic engagement, and individual and social changes. We conceptualize this transformation through a spiral model of transformative learning, integrating Mezirow’s theory. Initially confronted with a disorienting dilemma, these women undergo critical reflection and emotional self-examination and get engaged in social interaction, ultimately reframing guilt into purposeful actions. This study underscores the pivotal role of emotions in refugee integration and activism, demonstrating how survivor guilt can catalyze empowerment and social activism.

Exploring Black African Women’s Experiences of Vulnerability and Resistance on the Move: An Analysis of Women’s Stories

2025-05-30T10:33:10+00:00

In the last two decades of the twenty-first century, the world has experienced numerous crises caused by environmental disasters, migratory movements, and pandemics. These disasters impact the population unequally due to differences in vulnerability, exposure, and capacity. Migrants and women are among the groups most affected by disasters, with women being at higher risk when combined with migration and displacement. Despite the large amount of evidence that studies their vulnerability separately, there is a lack of research on the vulnerability of Sub-Saharan migrant women in Morocco. For years, the Moroccan print media has focused on the gender crossing of borders and the challenges these women confront. This article aims to draw attention to the experiences of black Sub-Saharan women migrants in various camps and cities in Morocco as their host country. It also shows how these women produce and maintain their gender roles and identities even in contemporary migratory movements. Through analysing media reports and conducting a fieldwork study, we attempt to highlight women’s experiences that range from resistance to marginalization.

Impact of Internet and Social Media Usage of Iraqi Asylum Seeker Students in Adaptation Process on Language Skills

2025-05-20T06:11:13+00:00

It is highly important for asylum seekers who leave their country because of social instability and conflict to hold on where they have been and to include in the local society. Because asylum seekers meet with the difficulty of adapting to a new environment about which they are not informed. One of the most basic reasons of these difficulties is the lack of language skills. This study aims to put forward the impact of internet and social media usage of asylum seeker students in adaptation process into Turkish language skills. The study has been carried out with a qualitative method. In the election process of the participants criterion sampling method has been used. As the data collection tool semi structured interview form has been used. Semi structured detailed interviews have been made with nine Iraqi asylum seeker students studying in various secondary education institutions, the data have been analysed with descriptive analysis method. At the end of the study it has been determined that internet and social media present new learning opportunities and contribute to Turkish students importantly such as Turkish vocabulary development, listening, reading comprehension, correspondance, amendment the pronunciation and increasing academic skills. These language competences have been determined to support students‘ cope with difficulties, participation in social life more actively and their adaptation process in a new society importantly. Hence internet and social media are both a learning and an information acquire sources in both acquiring language skills and in adaptation processes. Contrary to researhes indicating social media’s avoiding to communicate with local media and unwilling by adaptation small, closed asylum seeker groups are made up of this research indicate asylum seekers establish these connections via both one to one and in-group interactions. In recent years in social media settings there is an increasing interest on asylum seekers’ usage of dygital technology. Asylum seekers get benefit of medium such as internet and social media enabling themselves to set up a living area to be enough for themselves and enabling them to include in the society in target country where they begin a new life and help them to solve problems. Studies dealing asylum seekers victim of compulsory migration usage of internet and social media on their lives is limited. This study is thought to contribute to fill the gap in its field.

The Effects of Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Fear of Terrorism in Türkiye

2025-05-20T05:58:29+00:00

Two prominent subjects in recent years that have captivated the Turkish public are immigration and terrorism. The profound migration crisis in Türkiye, coupled with a surge in terrorism-related crimes, has forged a substantial association between immigrants and terrorism in the perception of many Turkish people. Along these lines, although there are many academic studies of the relationship in Europe between immigrants and the fear of terrorism, the number of academic studies focusing on Türkiye is insufficient. For this reason, in this study, we use the seventh wave of the World Values Survey (WVS) to focus on the statistical relationship between the fear of terrorism and the view of immigrants in Türkiye. As shown by regression analysis, the rise in fear of terrorism in Türkiye also increases negative attitudes towards immigrants. However, since the results based only on the quantitative regression analysis do not provide in-depth information, we support the quantitative results with face-to-face interviews. In line with the results of the regression analysis, in the interviews, we find that one of the critical factors that increased participants' fear of terrorism is the immigrants who came to Türkiye in recent years.

Building Inclusive Cities: Migrants’ Livelihood Strategies in African Primate Cities

2025-04-29T09:10:02+00:00

Cities attract migrants as they hope to find increased livelihood opportunities, better life, safety, and access to basic urban services. This paper explores various livelihood options of early migrants in primate cities and how they access urban services as a measure of inclusion. Data on migrants’ socio-demographic characteristics, their livelihood options, and their ability to access selected urban services were collected through mixed methods. Specifically, the study employed the use of questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and field observations. Quantitative data from primary sources was computed using SPSS and results were presented in the form of simple tables, charts, and figures. The results of the hypothesis test indicated a statistically significant relationship between the livelihood options that migrants engage in and their sense of belonging in the study area. Qualitative data from interviews was presented in descriptive narration. Findings reveal a male dominance in the early migrant population who engage in various livelihood options such as informal water vending, iron scrap collection, and local tea hawking. These livelihoods are considered very relevant to the host communities and the migrants themselves take pride in their livelihood as they view it as a means of lawful earnings. Migrants’ length of stay in host communities was found to serve as an anchor and a key factor in determining inclusion in terms of access to basic services like health, education, and banking services.

Czech Sport Migration: Push and Pull Variations Between Sports and Cultures

2025-01-03T13:38:19+00:00

The book “Czech Sport Migration: Push and Pull Variations Between Sports and Cultures”, authored by William Crossan and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, explores the diversity of sports migration across disciplines, linking it to cultural significance and the global sports hierarchy.