On the West–East methodological bias in measuring international migration

Gorodzeisky, Anastasia; Leykin, Inna

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2021.1873116

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“…In addition, the migration processes discussed above will also affect official statistics for the estimated percentage of foreign-born residents within these two countries, as these specific migrant groups will count as foreign-born (Gorodzeisky and Leykin, 2021). In order to ensure this does not confound my results, I reestimate my models without including percent foreign-born as a control variable.…”

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Pro-integration policies and the occupational expectations of immigrant youth

Chykina

2022

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Europe is experiencing heightened public attention toward anti-immigration policy reforms and restrictions. Despite the potential importance of these policy changes, we do not know whether these policies influence how immigrant children perceive their futures in their host countries. Employing secondary data analysis of the Program for International Student Assessment and the Migrant Integration Policy Index data, I show that a decrease in policy support for immigrant integration is associated with a decrease in how good of a job immigrant children expect to have when they are adults. Since students’ occupational expectations influence their eventual status attainment, this article shows that a decrease in pro-integration policies has important implications for the integration of immigrants into their host countries and for their life trajectories.

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Pro-integration policies and the occupational expectations of immigrant youth

Chykina

2022

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…In the case of postsocialist societies in Central and Eastern Europe, this dominance is reinforced by both the legacy of the Cold War and the internal hierarchies of Europe, which have consistently construed Eastern Europe as subordinate and inferior to Western Europe (Koobak and Marling, 2014; Krivonos and Näre, 2019). For instance, analytical concepts, tools and models forged in Western European political and social contexts continue to be uncritically applied in social research depicting social realities in Central and Eastern Europe (Gorodzeisky and Leykin, 2022).…”

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“…The inspiration for our critique derives from the scholarly literature problematizing the Euro-and western-centric nature of social scientific knowledge (e.g. Chakrabarty, 2007;Gorodzeisky and Leykin, 2022;Krause, 2016). Postcolonial scholarship has highlighted the inadequacy of accepted scholarly concepts in describing the realities of the Global South, calling for the integration of indigenous social theory, generated outside of the western core, into a sociological canon (Bhambra and de Sousa Santos, 2017;Chakrabarty, 2007;Connell, 1997Connell, , 2007Onwuzuruigbo, 2018;Patel, 2018).…”

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“…On the other hand, and despite their distinct political and historical trajectories of socialism, the geographic proximity of Central and Eastern European countries, and their perceived cultural similarities, make it easier to conceptualize them as part of a larger cultural and political space called Europe. Within this shared yet hierarchical conceptual space, the transfer of analytical models and tools from Western European realities to postsocialist European countries seems as though reasonable (Gorodzeisky and Leykin, 2020, 2022).…”

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Is Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Owned by the Political Right?

Leykin

Gorodzeisky

2023

Sociology

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In political and social scientific discourses, the link between right-wing political orientation and anti-immigrant sentiment is often presented as a universal social fact. Based on a systematic examination of the association between left–right political orientation and attitudes towards migrants, the article demonstrates a clear inconsistency in the strength and direction of this presumed association in postsocialist European countries. We provide two analytical explanations for this inconsistency. The first challenges the western-centric idea that people leaning towards the political right tend to hold conservative views that shape their tendency to express anti-immigrant sentiment. The second explanation pertains to the limited relevance of the left–right political orientation scale for postsocialist subjects, making it difficult to attribute anti-immigrant sentiment to specific political orientations. In conclusion, we discuss specific social identities of the holders of hostile attitudes towards outsiders in postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe, which western-centric analytical models do not capture.

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“…Although they would qualify as migrants according to this deHinition, ofHicial guidelines recommend to not include cross-border workers, diplomatic and military personnel and their dependents and nomads into ofHicial migration statistics (UNSD, 1998: 13). Furthermore, it has been shown that the use of data on country of birth or citizenship for the production of migration statistics implicates the migrantization of millions of people who have never crossed an international border but whose country of usual residence has changed due to geopolitical repercussions such as the dissolution of Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union (Gorodzeisky & Leykin, 2021). However, we believe -and this is our second point -that such liminal cases allow scholars -precisely because of their liminality, ambiguity and contingency -to highlight the implications of the 'national order of things' for people who are labelled and targeted as migrants in order to show that the real problem is not migration, but the volatile and violent nation-state system generating this phenomenon in the Hirst place.…”

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Who is a Migrant? Abandoning the Nation-state Point of View in the Study of Migration

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Tazzioli

2022

Mig. Pol.

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This article develops an alternative definition of a migrant that embraces the perspective of mobility. Starting from the observation that the term ‘migrant’ has become a stigmatizing label that problematizes the mobility or the residency of people designated as such, we investigate the implications of nation-state centered conceptions of migration which define migration as movement from nation-state A to nation-state B. By asking ‘Who is a migrant in Europe today?’ we show that nation-state centered understandings of migration rest on a deeply entrenched methodological nationalism and implicate three epistemological traps that continue to shape much of research on migration: first, the naturalization of the international nation-state order that results, secondly, in the ontologisation of ‘migrants’ as ready-available objects of research, while facilitating, thirdly, the framing of migration as a problem of government. To overcome these epistemological traps, we develop an alternative conception of migration that, inspired by the autonomy of migration approach, adopts the perspective of mobility while highlighting the constitutive role that nation-states’ bordering practices play in the enactment of some people as migrants. Importantly, this definition allows to turn the study of instances of migrantisation into an analytical lens for investigating transformations in border and citizenship regimes.

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On the West–East methodological bias in measuring international migration

Cited by 12 publications

References 52 publications

Pro-integration policies and the occupational expectations of immigrant youth

Pro-integration policies and the occupational expectations of immigrant youth

Is Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Owned by the Political Right?

Who is a Migrant? Abandoning the Nation-state Point of View in the Study of Migration

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