In just two decades, the number of states that have adopted external voting policies has boomed. Today, these policies, which allow emigrants to take part in home country elections from abroad, are ...widely found in Europe and Latin America. Looking at the cases of Italy, Mexico, and Bolivia, this book examines the motivations and consequences for states that enfranchise citizens abroad. This analysis sheds light on the impact of emigrants in home country politics, the motivations for emigrants to take part in the elections of a country where they no longer reside, and the consequences of this practice on receiving societies.
With a multi-disciplinary approach, this book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, political science, legal studies, international relations, migration, and transnationalism.
Starting in 2011, the Syrian conflict caused a large influx of refugees into Jordan. In 2015, there were an estimated 1.3 million Syrians in a country with just 6.6 million Jordanians. This paper ...investigates the impact of the Syrian refugee influx on the Jordanian labor market. Panel data from 2010 to 2016 combined with information on where the refugee influx was concentrated allow us to identify the impact of refugees on Jordanians’ labor market outcomes. Overall, we find that Jordanians living in areas with a high concentration of refugees have had no worse labor market outcomes than Jordanians with less exposure to the refugee influx.
•Since 2011, the Syrian conflict led to a large refugee influx into Jordan.•We identify the impact of Syrians from local variation in the influx and panel data.•A higher concentration of Syrians did not worsen Jordanians' labor market outcomes.•The labor supply shock appears to have been offset by additional labor demand.
Despite the growing volume of research on multiculturalism, disagreements abound regarding whether multiculturalism is truly effective for the integration of immigrant youth. However, little effort ...has been made to make sense of these disagreements. In the present study, we raise the possibility that multiculturalism is more likely to achieve its intended goal in countries that have developed egalitarian structures of opportunity. Cross-national multilevel data were used to analyze the occupational aspirations of 41,235 immigrant adolescents from 31 countries. The data reveal that immigrant adolescents tend to show a higher level of occupational aspirations in countries with stronger multiculturalism, but this pattern holds only among countries that have developed egalitarian economic systems. We conclude that the aspirations of immigrant adolescents depend not only on the “politics of identity” but also on its interplay with the “politics of opportunity”—the politico-economic landscape of the distribution of opportunities.
The number of immigrants and refugees in the United States is growing, yet many trainees and clinicians feel unprepared to manage the diverse needs of this population. This perspective piece ...describes the development of the Immigrant Partnership and Advocacy Curricular Kit (I-PACK) by the Midwest Consortium of Global Child Health Educators. I-PACK is an adjunct to the Consortium's sugarprep.org global health curricular materials. Using Kern's six-step approach to curriculum development, they developed eight modules in immigrant and refugee health that incorporate interactive learning activities. The I-PACK was launched as an open-access resource in September 2020. As of September 2021, the curriculum has been freely available at sugarprep.org/i-pack and downloaded from educators in 15 countries. The I-PACK curriculum can address a growing need in medical education to empower learners and clinicians to provide competent and compassionate care for immigrants and refugees.
This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States. Since 1990, ...immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy reveals that that the corporatization of health care delivery and immigration policies are deeply connected in rural America. Drawing from fieldwork that centers on Maryland's sparsely populated Eastern Shore, Sangaramoorthy shows how longstanding issues of precarity among rural health systems along with the exclusionary logics of immigration have mutually fashioned a "landscape of care" in which shared conditions of physical suffering and emotional anxiety among immigrants and rural residents generate powerful forms of regional vitality and social inclusion. Sangaramoorthy connects the Eastern Shore and its immigrant populations to many other places around the world that are struggling with the challenges of global migration, rural precarity, and health governance. Her extensive ethnographic and policy research shows the personal stories behind health inequity data and helps to give readers a human entry point into the enormous challenges of immigration and rural health.
Imigrantų socialiniai-teisiniai santykiai priimančioje valstybėje gali susiklostyti ne tik sklandžiai, bet ir būti paženklinti įvairių iššūkių. Tokiais atvejais, atvykusieji ieško papildomų žinių, ...stengiasi patys išspręsti susidariusią situaciją bei kreipiasi pagalbos į asmenis ar organizacijas. Atliktas mokslinis tyrimas siekia pažvelgti į tai, kokios yra trečiosios šalies (asmens) įsitraukimo į šiuos teisnius santykius formos bei tai, kokį rezultatą jos generuoja. Mokslinio tyrimo įžvalgos remiasi Lietuvoje atliktų 34 kokybių interviu duomenimis. Jie atskleidžia, kad imigrantai teisiniuose santykiuose yra pažeidžiami, nes, dažnu atveju, priklauso nuo trečiojo asmens įsitraukimo ir jo profesionalumo, o tai gali lemti ne tik teigiamas, bet ir neigiamas pasekmes. Pastarosios yra sietinos su a) itin didele priklausomybe nuo trečiojo asmens, kuri sąlygoja sumenkusias galimybes atvykusiam spręsti iššūkius individualiai; b) menkesnėmis galimybėmis kontroliuoti teisinių santykių pasekmes, kada susiduriama su trečiojo (informuojančio/konsultuojančiojo) asmens profesionalumo ar įsitraukimo stoka. Neigiamos trečiojo asmens įsikišimo pasekmės trikdo imigravusiųjų integracijos procesą bei neskatina pasitikėti priimančios valstybės teisinės sistemos efektyvumu. Teigiamos trečiojo asmens įsitraukimo į imigranto teisinius santykius pasekmės įgalina atvykusįjį efektyviau naudotis turimomis teisėmis bei tinkamai atlikti pareigas. Tyrimo rezultatai taip pat atskleidžia, kad trečiųjų šalių įsitraukimo į teisinius santykius poreikį sąlygoja priimančios valstybės teisinio informavimo ir konsultavimo sistemos bruožai.
Immigrants' health (dis) advantages are increasingly recognized as not being uniform, leading to calls for studies investigating whether immigrant health outcomes are dependent on factors that ...exacerbate health risks. We answer this call, considering an outcome with competing evidence about immigrants' vulnerability versus risk: childhood obesity. More specifically, we investigate obesity among three generations of Mexican–origin youth relative to one another and to U.S.–born whites. We posit that risk is dependent on the intersection of generational status, gender, and age, which all influence exposure to U.S. society and weight concerns. Analyses of National Health and Nutrition Examination Studies (NHANES) data suggest that accounting for ethnicity and generation alone misses considerable gender and age heterogeneity in childhood obesity among Mexican–origin and white youth. For example, secondgeneration boys are vulnerable to obesity, but the odds of obesity for first–generation girls are low and on par with those of white girls. Findings also indicate that age moderates ethnic/generational differences in obesity among boys but not among girls. Overall, ethnic/generational patterns of childhood obesity do not conform to a "one size fits all" theory of immigrant health (dis) advantage, leading us to join calls for more research considering how immigrants' characteristics and contexts differentially shape vulnerability to disease and death.
Few studies have followed immigrant-origin individuals from adolescence to adulthood or examined their spousal choices. Using longitudinal data from Add Health, we present a life-course model that ...examines the differences in racial assortative mating between children of immigrants and non-immigrants. The results reveal substantial variation in racial endogamy from generation to generation. Racial endogamy was highest in the third generation, but this is due entirely to high racial endogamy among whites. Out-marriage was most pronounced among first- and second-generation immigrants. Our life-course approach shows that the effects of race and generation on intermarriage were mediated by family background (e.g. language proficiency and residence) and educational attainment (at time of marriage), a finding largely indicative of processes of marital assimilation that unfold over time and generation. Evidence of acculturation and structural assimilation, however, could not fully account for the large, persistent, and uneven effects of race and generation on interracial marriage.
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