Dynamic Migration Intentions and the Impact of Socio-Institutional Environments: A Transit Migration Hub in Turkey

Wissink, Marieke; Düvell, Franck; Eerdewijk, A.H.J.M. van

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2013.778026

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“…3. Their entanglement with other life spheres resonates well with the approach taken by Wissink, Düvell, and van Eerdewijk (2013), which identifies socioinstitutional environments as crucial for the social positioning within a society. It builds on Carling's concept and perceives the legal frameworks, the state authorities acting upon these frameworks as well as NGOs' and other actors' interventions as part of such a socio-institutional environment.…”

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Conceptualising the social positioning of refugees reflections on socio-institutional contexts and agency with a focus on work

Scheibelhofer

2019

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Presently, European and other countries are facing public (and scholarly) discussions surrounding the possibilities of successfully integrating refugees into their respective national labour markets. Such debates often disregard the complex circumstances under which refugees are received in a given nationstate. For this conceptually oriented article, we draw on the example of Austria as a receiving state, as it shares many characteristics with other receiving nation-states in the global north. Theoretically, we base our argument on the assumption that societies are socially unequal. Such inequality is institutionally co-constructed, as we will show in this article. Yet empirical examples assist in understanding how refugees are also actors who are not only exposed to such institutional and varying social environments. Rather, they also reinforce and/or change these circumstances by their own agency.

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Conceptualising the social positioning of refugees reflections on socio-institutional contexts and agency with a focus on work

Scheibelhofer

2019

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“…Migrants' trajectories often involve more than two locations and in some cases the migrants' destinations turn into transit places during the process of movement. Using data from a transit migration hub in Turkey, Wissink, Düvell, and van Eerdewijk (2013) show that transit migration is not necessarily simply a pause in a linear migration pathway but offers a context in which new migratory intentions arise as a consequence of changed social networks and policy interventions. Schuster (2005) documents the high mobility of migrants from Italy to other European countries, attributing this behaviour to the increasing likelihood of asylum claims being rejected.…”

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From hell to heaven? Evidence of migration trajectories from an Italian refugee centre

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Wolff²

2018

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BACKGROUNDIn recent years, large numbers of migrants have attempted to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Italy plays a central role as a receiving country, particularly because of its relative proximity to the coast of North Africa. OBJECTIVEThis paper investigates the trajectories of migrants from their entry into a refugee centre to their departure, with evidence on the timing of the departure decision. METHODSUsing 2008-2014 data from a reception centre for refugees and asylum seekers located in Calabria (Italy), we use survival analysis tools to explore the timing and reasons for departure from the centre. RESULTSWe find large variation in migrant inflows, with peaks associated with political crises and wars in certain countries. There are substantial differences in outflows between groups of countries, in both the timing and reasons for departure. CONCLUSIONSOur results provide a better understanding of migrants' trajectories from a reception centre in Italy. They show that a huge number of migrants leave the centre voluntarily. CONTRIBUTIONOverall, our study contributes to knowledge of displaced migrants, providing detailed empirical evidence on migrants' trajectories.

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“…Several larger themes are furthermore subsumed under the conception of transit migration, which need to be taken into consideration, such as humanitarian concerns, statistics, legal conditions, use of new technologies and the geopolitical significance of migration (COLLYER et al 2014, p. 21f). WISSINK et al (2013) offered an interesting case study on migrants in Turkey's transit hub, Izmir. Their case study exemplifies how migrants' intentions are determined by complex processes of conditions, opportunities, and experiences made en route.…”

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“…The actual flight, the mobility phase, and the experiences of "being en route" however, have hardly been discussed in research literature. Only a few ethnographic contributions deal with forced migrants' experiences made during the flight or in transit (CONLON 2011;WISSINK et al 2013;KALLIUS et al 2016). In 2014, Franck DÜVELL and his colleagues brought the concept of "transit migration" into focus, aiming to show its potential usage within the general field of migration .…”

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“Being en Route”: Flight Experiences of Forced Migrants in Austria and Turkey

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2017

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Dynamic Migration Intentions and the Impact of Socio-Institutional Environments: A Transit Migration Hub in Turkey

Cited by 51 publications

References 14 publications

Conceptualising the social positioning of refugees reflections on socio-institutional contexts and agency with a focus on work

Conceptualising the social positioning of refugees reflections on socio-institutional contexts and agency with a focus on work

From hell to heaven? Evidence of migration trajectories from an Italian refugee centre

“Being en Route”: Flight Experiences of Forced Migrants in Austria and Turkey

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