Religious persecution is a leading cause of global displacement. In the absence of
supporting evidence, presenting a credible oral asylum claim based on religion is a difficult …

Norway and Denmark have recently adopted active policies of temporary protection
featuring, inter alia, the revocation of residence permits. These policies narrow the space for …

In Finland, a grassroots initiative for accommodating asylum-seeking migrants in local
homes took off in 2015. This hospitable initiative is about offering asylum seekers the …

Notwithstanding punitive implications, immigration detention as an administrative
deprivation of liberty represents a characteristic police measure, targeting deportable …

This contribution introduces the special issue commemorating the 60th anniversary of
International Migration Review. We first review the scholarly themes of articles published in …

Purpose Queer asylum‐seekers should be given an opportunity to have their claim
evaluated in a fair and unbiased manner. Despite this, research shows they risk having their …

Migration studies have long been characterized by cis-and heteronormative assumptions
that all immigrants are cis-gender and heterosexual. Queer migration scholarship has …

In this paper, we take the management crisis in the Finnish Immigration Service, Migri, as an
example to illustrate ambiguous qualities of automated decision making in the context of the …

This article provides an empirically based analysis of the struggle around the use of artificial
intelligence and automated decision-making systems in Finnish public governance. After an …

Asylum seekers are separated from the receiving society by the legislation, marginalising
societal discourses and institutional practices of the reception system. By engaging in …