This paper compares immigration reforms across democratic and autocratic states.
Mobilising two large-scale datasets, it first challenges the prevailing notion that political …

The opening up of sociology to postcolonial and critical race thinking has been
predominantly animated by the relations between western metropoles and their (post) …

This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states,
flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization …

In this paper, I examine the process of migrant subject-making prior to departure based on
the experiences of Sri Lankan women aspiring to become migrant domestic workers …

Immigration control in Russia, one of the world's top five largest immigrant-receiving
countries, is rife with corruption and other informal practices. Instead of framing corruption …

The article examines how newly arrived Syrian refugees experience and navigate their
encounters with street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) in three urban settings: Adana, Turkey; …

Over the last decade, critical migration scholarship has been increasingly concerned with
how state actors in both the Global South and Global North deploy forms of inaction and …

The article brings the concept of the immobile left‐behind population into the migration
infrastructure debates focusing on countries of migrants' origin. Drawing on an analysis of …

Western scholarship on the foreign policies of the post-Soviet Central Asian states has
consistently framed the region as marginalized but ripe for Great Power influence and …

This chapter introduces the reader to the pre-Islamic religion of Tengrism in Central Asia. It
offers an overview of the central ideas of Tengrism, its history, contemporary political …