'Promising victimhood': contrasting deservingness requirements in refugee resettlement

N Welfens - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In today's migration and refugee governance, refugees are increasingly required to
demonstrate both vulnerability and assimilability to be considered deserving of protection …

Ukrainian Refugees' Differentiated Treatment: A Critical and Systematic Review

TB Mickelsson - Global Networks, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
This review examines the distinct treatment of millions of displaced Ukrainians amidst the
ongoing conflict, compared to previous refugee groups in Europe, presenting a synthesis of …

Internal bordering and debordering in urban humanitarian health care

CA Di Stefano - Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Current literature on internal bordering has suggested understanding health care as a key
migration control field. This article takes a closer look at the humanitarian medical offices in …

Securitisation, humanitarian responses and the erosion of everyday rights of displaced Venezuelan women in Brazil

P Riggirozzi, N Cintra, J Grugel… - Journal of Ethnic and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores the gendered securitisation of humanitarianism through the lens of
Venezuelan women who have fled to Brazil, as part of the largest migration flow in South …

Systems analysis of the effects of the 2014-16 Ebola crisis on WHO-reporting nations' policy adaptations and 2020-21 COVID-19 response: a systematized review

J Hanson-DeFusco, M Shi, Z Du, O Zounon… - Globalization and …, 2023 - Springer
Background Recent case studies indicate that the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak, one of the
worst pre-2020 global biological catastrophes in modern history, helped some nations to …

Ukrainian refugees' reception in Swedish sports clubs:'deservingness' and 'promising victimhood'

T Blomqvist Mickelsson - European journal of social work, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
An emergent discourse along with a small, but growing, body of empirical research
scrutinises how Ukrainian refugees are being treated differently compared to other refugee …

Applying the CARIN criteria to migrant settlement: Cross-national validation of the Migrant Deservingness Scale

D De Coninck, M Duque, SJ Schwartz… - Journal of Immigrant …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
According to social policy literature, people utilize five criteria–Control, Attitude, Reciprocity,
Identity, Need–to distinguish the deserving from the undeserving. Most studies rely on proxy …

Administrative literacy in the digital welfare state: migrants navigating access to public services in Finland

N Safarov - Social Policy and Society, 2023 - cambridge.org
The digitalisation of public services brought challenges for their access and use. This article
looks at the migrants as claimants of the public services to analyse the problems with the …

Migrants' relational experiences with the welfare state at the street level: A focus on the role of language

C Nordberg, A Simola - Social Policy and Society, 2024 - cambridge.org
While previous research has highlighted the significant role of language in conditioning
migrants' access to key institutions of the welfare state, the question of how individual …

Asylum, Racism, and the structural production of Sexual Violence against racialised women in Exile in Paris

J Freedman, N Sahraoui, E Tyszler - Social Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The recent arrival of refugees from Ukraine has thrown into sharp focus the racialised
colonial underpinnings of the French asylum and refugee system, as the open-door …