Working Papers
The IMI working papers series presents current research in the field of international migration. In particular, the series aims to: analyse migration as part of broader global change; contribute to new theoretical approaches; and advance understanding of the multi-level forces driving migration.
All of our working papers are all available to download in full for free. You can also download a complete list of the series titles.
- WP-70-2013: 'Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration', Michel Beine and Christopher Parsons
- WP-69-2013:'Pushing the creolisation paradigm on the Comorian island of Ngazidja:When does creolisation cease to be?', Iain Walker
- WP-68-2013: 'The Globalisation of Migration: Has the world really become more migratory?', Mathias Czaika and Hein de Haas
- WP-67-2013: 'Mexico–US Migration in Time: From Economic to Social Mechanisms', Filiz Garip and Asad L. Asad
- WP-66-2013: 'The differential role of social networks: strategies and routes in Brazilian migration to Portugal and the Netherlands', Masja van Meeteren and Sonia Pereira
- WP-65-2013: 'Designing a structure agency approach to transnationalism', Thomas Lacroix
- WP-64-2012: 'How social media transform migrant networks and facilitate migration', Rianne Dekker and Godfried Engbersen
- WP-63-2012: 'Moving from war to peace in the Zambia–Angola borderlands', Oliver Bakewell
- WP-62-2012: 'Causality, contextual frames and international migration:combining strong structuration theory, critical realism and textual analysis', Rob Stones
- WP-61-2012: 'Structuration, practice theory, ethnography and migration: bringing it all together', Karen O'Reilly
- WP-60-2012: 'Relaunching migration systems', Oliver Bakewell
- WP-59-2012: 'Facts and fabrications: experiences of law and legality among return migrants in Ukraine', Agnieszka Kubal
- WP-58-2012: 'Conceptualizing semi-legality in migration research', Agnieszka Kubal
- WP-57-2012 'Migration as cause and consequence of aspirations', Mathias Czaika and Marc Vothknecht
- WP-56-2012 'Labour market activity, occupational change and length of stay in the Gulf', Mathias Czaika and María Villares Varela
- WP-55-2012 'Diaspora studies: past, present and promise', Khachig Tölölyan
- WP-54-2012 'The effects of networks and risk attitudes on the dynamics of migration', Janis Umblijs
- WP-53-2012 'Israel and the diaspora: problems of cognitive dissonance', William Safran
- WP-52-2012 'Migration in times of uncertainty: On the role of economic prospects', Mathias Czaika
- WP-51-2011 'Paths to viability: transnational strategies among Ghana's small-scale ICT entrepreneurs', Linnet Taylor
- WP-50-2011 'Migration, mobility and the African city', Oliver Bakewell and Gunvor Jόnsson
- WP-49-2011 'Contextualizing immigrant inter-wave dynamics and the consequences for migration processes: Ukrainians in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands', Agnieszka Kubal and Rianne Dekker
- WP-48-2011 'Migration systems, pioneers and the role of agency', Oliver Bakewell, Hein de Haas and Agnieszka Kubal
- WP-47-2011 'How the Dutch Government stimulated the unwanted immigration from Suriname', Hans van Amersfoort
- WP-46-2011 'The role of welfare systems in affecting out-migration: the case of Central and Eastern Europe', Lucia Kureková
- WP-45-2011 'The effects of structural factors in origin countries on migration: the case of Central and Eastern Europe', Lucia Kureková
- WP-44-2011 'Studying international migration in the long(er) and short(er) durée: Contesting some and reconciling other disagreements between the structuration and morphogenesis approaches’, Ewa Morawska
- WP-43-2011 'A generic conceptual model for conducting realist qualitative research: Examples from migration studies', Theodoros Iosifides
- WP-42-2011 'The positive and the negative: Assessing critical realism and social constructionism as post-positivist approaches to empirical research in the social sciences', Justin Cruickshank
- WP-41-2011 'African migrants negotiate "home" and "belonging"', Naluwembe Binaisa
- WP-40-2011 'The Indian and Polish transnational organisational fields', Thomas Lacroix
- WP-39-2011 'Non-migrant, sedentary, immobile or 'left behind'?: Reflections on the absence of migration', Gunvor Jonsson
- WP-38-2011 'Discussing legal adaptations: perspectives on studying migrants' relationship with law in the host country', Agnieszka Kubal
- WP-37-2011 'Internal and international migration as a response to double deprivation: some evidence from India', Mathias Czaika
- WP-36-2011 'Migration and social fractionalization: double relative deprivation as a behavioural link', Mathias Czaika
- WP-35-2011 'The role of internal and international relative deprivation in global migration', Mathias Czaika and Hein de Haas
- WP-34-2011 'Leaving matters: the nature, evolution and effects of emigration policies', Hein de Haas and Simona Vezzoli
- WP-33-2011 'The effectiveness of immigration policies: a conceptual review of empirical evidence', Mathias Czaika and Hein de Haas
- WP-32-2011 'The determinants of international migration: conceptualizing policy, origin and destination effects', Hein de Haas
- WP-31-2011 'Creating and destroying diaspora strategies', Alan Gamlen
- WP-30-2011 'Cultural and symbolic dimensions of the migration-development nexus: the salience of community', Gabriele Tomei
- WP-29-2010 'Sharing the dirty job on the southern front? Italian-Libyan relations on migration and their impact on the European Union', Emanuela Paoletti and Ferruccio Pastore
- WP-28-2010 'Hometown organisations and development practices', Thomas Lacroix
- WP-27-2010 'Bonding collective? The moral infrastructures of transnational hometown networks', Thomas Lacroix
- WP-26-2010 'Blinded by security: reflections on the hardening of migratory policies in central Sahara', Julien Brachet
- WP-25-2010 'Le cadre discursif du développement. Des discours et actions politiques concrètes, aux répertoires d’action des associations de refoulés', Anaik Pian (also available in English)
- WP-24-2010 'Migration transitions - a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the developmental drivers of international migration', Hein de Haas
- WP-23-2010 'Les migrations internationales en Afrique de l’Ouest : Une dynamique de régionalisation articulée à la mondialisation', Mandiogou Ndiaye & Nelly Robin
- WP-22-2010 'Migration and development: lessons from the Mexico-US and Morocco-EU experiences', Hein de Haas & Simona Vezzoli
- WP-21-2010 'The environmental factor in migration dynamics: a review of African case studies', Gunvor Jonsson
- WP-20-2010 'Tanzanian migration imaginaries', Noel B. Salazar
- WP-19-2009 'Migration system formation and decline: a theoretical inquiry into the self-perpetuating and self-undermining dynamics of migration processes', Hein de Haas
- WP-18-2009 'The crisis and migrants' remittances: a look at Hispanics in the US', Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva
- WP-17-2009 'Intra-household tensions and conflicts of interest in migration decision-making: a case study of the Todgha valley, Morocco', Hein de Haas
- WP-16-2009 'Incident reporting: experimental data collection methods and migration governance', Darshan Vigneswaran
- WP-15-2009 'South-South migration and human development: reflections on African experiences', Oliver Bakewell
- WP-14-2009 'Mobility and human development', Hein de Haas
- WP-13-2009 'The recession and migration: alternative scenarios', Philip Martin
- WP-12-2009 'The political economy of migration processes: an agenda for migration research and analysis', Sarah Collinson
- WP-11-2008 'Insertion au marché du travail : les expériences des immigrants sénégalais à Montréal', Maguemati Wabgou
- WP-10-2008 'Migration aspirations and immobility in a Malian Soninke village', Gunvor Jonsson
- WP-9-2007 'Migration and development: a theoretical perspective', Hein de Haas
- WP-8-2007 'Keeping them in their place: the ambivalent relationship between migration and development in Africa', Oliver Bakewell
- WP-7-2007 'Comparing the experience of five major emigration countries', Stephen Castles
- WP-6-2007 'North African migration systems: evolution, transformations and development linkages', Hein de Haas
- WP-5-2007 'The meaning and use of identity papers: handheld and heartfelt nationality in the borderlands of North West Zambia', Oliver Bakewell
- WP-4-2007 'Circular migration: the way forward in global policy?', Steven Vertovec
- WP-3-2007 'Impact of international migration on social and economic development in Moroccan sending regions: a review of empirical literature', Hein de Haas
- WP-2-2006 'Turning the tide? Why 'development instead of migration' policies are bound to fail', Hein de Haas
- WP-1-2006 'Back to the future? Can Europe meet its labour needs through temporary migration?', Stephen Castles
