States and refugee integration: A comparative analysis of France, Germany, and Switzerland

S Feinstein, C Poleacovschi, R Drake… - Journal of International …, 2022 - Springer
The Syrian civil war led to mass migration and Europe becoming a potential site of refuge.
How have Syrians experienced refuge in Europe? Drawing on 58 interviews with Syrian …

The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy

M Jelínková, M Plaček, F Ochrana - Policy Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Czech Republic has received the largest number of Ukrainian refugees per
capita. An underdeveloped migrant integration policy and limited experience with large …

Daring to aspire: theorising aspirations in contexts of displacement and highly constrained mobility

L Müller-Funk, A Üstübici, M Belloni - Journal of Ethnic and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Binary distinctions between 'refugees' and 'economic migrants' continue to prevail in
humanitarian discourse, with asylum policies heavily focusing on refugees' vulnerabilities …

“I Will Return Strong”: The Role of Life Aspirations in Refugees' Return Aspirations

L Müller-Funk, S Fransen - International Migration Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article studies how return migration aspirations are formed and realized in the context of
protracted displacement. Drawing on a mixed-methods study that included survey research …

Challenges in navigating the education-migration pathways, and subjective well-being of highly educated immigrants: the case of Indian student immigrants in the …

S Udayanga - Frontiers in Sociology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Migration is generally considered to be a driver of enhancing the subjective well-being of
immigrants; however, personal characteristics such as educational attainment, migration …

[HTML][HTML] (Im) mobilities, waiting and professional aspirations: The career lives of highly skilled Syrian refugees in Switzerland

F Cangià, E Davoine, S Tashtish - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
This article contributes to emerging research on the dynamics of mobility and immobility in
forced migration through a special focus on the experience of waiting in refugees' …

Violence, life aspirations and displacement trajectories in civil war

L Müller‐Funk - International Migration, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Drawing on qualitative data from the civil wars in Syria and Libya since 2011, this paper
seeks to build a better understanding of immobility and of displacement trajectories within …

Career rewind: professional trajectories of pharmacists with a refugee background

M van Riemsdijk - Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article conceptualises and examines the notion of the 'career rewind'that highly skilled
refugees experience after arrival in a receiving country; in this case Sweden. Rather than a …

The Impact of Temporary Residence Permits on Young Refugees' Abilities to Build a Life in Sweden

J Lind, C Hansen, N Khoury - Social Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Drawing on interviews with young refugees, 20–30 years old, mainly from Syria and
Afghanistan, we discuss the effects that temporary residence permits have on their ability to …

Migration aspirations in forced transnational families: the case of Syrians in Turkey

D Schiefer, F Düvell, AZ Sağıroğlu - Migration Studies, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Increasingly high numbers of migrants around the globe have led migration scholars
attempting to understand determinants of migration aspirations for many years. This study …