SOC MIDTERM key concepts

Match and motive matrix

draws from labor economics and international law to develop a unified framework that identifies priority policies for four types of movements based on who moves and under what circumstances.

Stepwise migration and examples

low-capital migrants can intentionally follow a stepwise international migration trajectory, working their way up a hierarchy of destination countries and accumulating sufficient migrant capital in the process so as to eventually gain legal entry into their preferred destinations (often in the West); paper by Anju Mary Paul

Also a direct response to the tightly regulated and restrictive immigration policies of Western nations.

Why does the phrase “refugees and migrants” undermine policy and protection? (Carling paper)

We need to recognize that every migrant might be a refugee

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