It has been suggested that ‘ethnic penalties’ exist in British labour markets, whereby members of ethnic minority groups fail to get into occupations commensurate with their qualifications. Often these analyses of occupational attainment by education treat minority groups as homogeneous, not...

Ethnic conflicts and wars have been a significant factor determining minority populations’ outflow from Iraq. Turk-men as such minority have been subjected to oppression. Limited economic opportunities combined with the effects of wars imposed an environment of insecurity on Turkmen. This has...

Yaghmaian puts together a brilliant collection of migration stories gathered through his journey amongst clandestine migrants from the Middle East to the West.

The White Australia Policy has been Australia’s immigration policy and more broadly its national identity from the 1850s onwards. Tavan aims in this book at filling gaps in research by assessing the legacy of the White Australia Policy and the slow political process by which it was eventually...

Families Caring Across Borders, Migration, Ageing and TransnationalCaregiving by Baldassar, Loretta; Baldock Vellekoop Cora and Wilding Raelene, (2007) Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 259 pp.Contemporary Polish Migration in Europe, Complex Patterns of Movement and Settlement Edited by Anna...

Tanner proposes a typology based on three attributes of international organisations: type of membership, whether state or non-state, the scope of agenda, and power over members. He thus creates a model of nine types of organisations borrowing names from the animal kingdom. His typology is...

BOOK REVIEW Centering the Margin, Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands Alexander Horstmann and Reed L. Wadley (eds.)(2006) Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford, (ISBN 1-84545-019-1, hardcover)

Migration Letters is a recently launched new journal. After a long period of preparations we eventually managed to put to-gether a selected set of research papers for this very first issue.

In this paper, I discuss transnational mobility using a perspective that emphasises conflicts at macro, mezzo and micro levels while seeking ways in which such a conflict model of migration can be developed. I outline areas involving different degrees of conflict which are better seen on a...

The article examines trends in voting preferences and voting behaviour of Turkish- Migration is a dynamic and changing phenomenon so too is migration scholarship and research. While we understand that migration experience has always been responsive to political and economic environments we...