Immigrants tend to be more negatively affected by economic crisis than natives, particularly when governments apply strict immigration controls. With the onset of the financial crisis in the latter half of 2008, there were widespread concerns: would migrants return to sending countries and...

Migrant remittances are an important source of external finance for developing countries. The current financial crisis is believed to have influenced migrant remittance flows as well as volume and patterns of use of remittances. In this special issue, a collection of cases from around the world...

The root causes of international migration have been the subject of a considerable number of studies for many years, a vast majority of them being based on development theories dominated by economy-oriented perspectives. An underlying assumption is that poverty breeds migration. The results, and...

The growth in the numbers of asylum seekers to Western European countries over the past decade has underlined the significance of quot;politicalquot; and other non-economic factors in shaping migration flows, drawing attention to the inadequacy of theoretical explanations based on socio-economic...

This paper explores the Kurdish population as an ethnic minority within the Turkish context. In this regard, it is the first investigation of the Kurdish population in Turkey to be based on a nation-wide representative survey supplemented by other data sources and previous studies.This study...