The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) publishes the results of first-class research on all forms of migration and its consequences, together with articles on ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism, nationalism, citizenship and policies of integration. Contributions to the journal, which are all fully refereed, are especially welcome when they are the result of original empirical research that makes a clear contribution to the field of migration    JEMS has a long-standing interest in informed policy debate and contributions are welcomed which seek to develop the implications of research for policy innovation, or which evaluate the results of previous initiatives. The journal is also interested in publishing the results of theoretical work.

The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) is dedicated to publishing high-quality research results on all forms of migration and their consequences. It also welcomes articles on ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism, nationalism, citizenship, and integration policies. Contributions that stem from original empirical research and make a clear contribution to the field of migration are especially encouraged. JEMS has a long-standing interest in informed policy debate, and contributions that seek to develop the implications of research for policy innovation or evaluate the outcomes of previous initiatives are welcomed. The journal is also open to publishing results from theoretical work.

《Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies》致力于发表关于各种形式的移民及其后果的高水平研究成果，同时也欢迎涉及种族冲突、歧视、种族主义、民族主义、公民身份和融合政策的文章。期刊特别欢迎那些基于原创实证研究的贡献，这些研究能够对移民领域做出明确的贡献。《Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies》长期关注政策辩论，欢迎那些旨在发展研究对政策创新影响的贡献，或评估以往举措成果的文章。期刊也对理论研究成果的发表持开放态度。

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Abstract In China, rapid development has led to massive migration from rural to urban areas. A loosening but still restrictive residency registration system and the disintegration of the Chinese social support system create hurdles for migrants seeking to access health care and maintain adequate health. Using data from a survey of 3,024 rural-to-urban migrant workers across seven Chinese cities, this paper explores the relationship between self-rated health and individual and community social capital for China's migrant workers. Results of ordinal logistic regression indicate that, among individual-focused social capital, friend support and the presence of elderly family members in the home are positively associated with self-rated health. Among community-focused measures, trust in community members, community satisfaction and place attachment are positively associated with self-rated health, while neighbouring and organisational social capital are negatively related. This study suggests that social capital operates in complex and multi-directional ways in China and among Chinese migrants; some forms of social capital may be less useful or signal deficiencies in other types of network or resource. Implications for labour, migration policy, health and conceptualisations of social capital in the Chinese context are discussed. Keywords: Internal MigrationMigrant HealthSocial SupportChina Acknowledgement The authors acknowledge Dr Xinping Guan, Professor and Dean of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at Nankai University and principal investigator of the China Ministry of Education's project 'The Transition of China's Rural Labour to Urban Areas', for access to these data.

Neal Palmer

Qingwen Xu

Social Capital, Migration and Health in the Urban Chinese Context

ABSTRACT Since 2004 significant numbers of post-accession EU migrants have arrived in regional towns and rural areas of England to live and work: places that are unaccustomed to large-scale in-migration. These recent migration patterns mean that new intercultural encounters are taking place in a number of provincial and ‘out of the way’ places [Nayak 2011. “Geography, Race and Emotions: Social and Cultural Intersections.” Social and Cultural Geography 12 (6): 548–562]. This article argues that if we are to fully understand the social interactions and practices of exclusion and inclusion between long-term settled populations and migrants in rural areas that are experiencing new migration flows, it is vital to examine such processes at the local scale. The article draws on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including 30 semi-structured qualitative interviews, to explore English village resident's perceptions of Eastern European migrants who live and work at nearby horticultural nurseries. Village residents’ narratives reveal a discourse of migrants ‘fitting in’ with the collectively held place image of the ‘working village’. However, my findings also reveal that, despite this apparent conviviality, a language of invisibility is used to describe the migrants’ presence. Thus, the place image of the working village serves to mask ambivalent attitudes towards migrants and an unequal power relationship that exists between the two groups.

Helen Moore

Perceptions of Eastern European migrants in an English village: the role of the rural place image

英格兰村庄中东欧移民的看法：乡村地方形象的作用

The interdisciplinary field of migration studies is split into internal and international migration, characterised by different literatures, concepts, methods and policy agendas. Most migration scholars nowadays research international migration, even though, quantitatively, internal migration is more important. Yet the distinction between internal and international moves becomes increasingly blurred, not only because of geopolitical events and the changing nature and configuration of borders, but also because migrants' journeys are becoming increasingly multiple, complex and fragmented. We present a schematic model that sets out 10 migration pathways that combine internal and international migration, and return migration, in various sequenced relationships. We survey the limited literature that attempts to compare and integrate internal and international migration within the same theoretical framework, both general models and some case-study literature from Mexico. We consider three approaches where theoretical transfer seems to hold potential: systems approaches, migrant integration, and the migration–development nexus. We conclude that considerable potential exists for integrating the study of internal and international migration, at both the theoretical and the empirical level. Too often one is studied without reference to the other, yielding a partial analysis. However, we baulk at attempting any 'grand theory' of migration which incorporates all types of migration, in all places and at all times.

Russell King

Ronald Skeldon

‘Mind the Gap!’ Integrating Approaches to Internal and International Migration

“注意差距！”整合国内与国际移民研究方法

The increasing globalization and rising knowledge-based economy have created a higher-than-ever demand for skilled workers. China, among some Global South countries, is joining the race for talent to alleviate the brain drain. Using the conceptual framework of 'intellectual migration', this study examines how the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China is increasingly becoming an 'intellectual gateway' that attracts and retains skilled international migrants. Drawing on 58 semi-structured interviews with skilled US migrants in this region, this article addresses the following research questions: (1) Why do skilled US migrants choose the region as their migration destination; and (2) As a rising intellectual gateway, how does the PRD region shape the integration of skilled US migrants?

Yining Tan

Wei Li

Skilled US migrants in the Pearl River Delta region: the rise of an intellectual gateway in China

珠江三角洲地区的熟练美国移民：中国知识门户的崛起

The conditions which determine the acquisition of skills by migrants are still poorly understood. This paper addresses two of those conditions: the temporality of the acquisition of competences, whether the number and duration of migrations matter, as well as the spatiality, or the variation across countries of origin and return. Based on a large-scale online panel survey of returned young migrants in nine European countries, the significance of time (duration) and space (number of migrations) in the acquisition of skills and competences are examined. The findings reveal that young European returnees' experiences gained abroad result in largely positive outcomes but with significant differences between formal qualifications, language skills and personal and cultural competences. However, their acquisition of skills and competences is mediated by temporality – the combination of number of trips, and duration of migration. Spatiality is also important, with outcomes depending on the destination countries, and whether migration and return are from or to rural versus urban areas. These indicate that structural considerations continue to shape individual migration experiences within the EU's freedom of movement space.

Hania Janta

Calvin Jephcote

Allan M. Williams

Gang Li

Returned migrants acquisition of competences: the contingencies of space and time

返乡移民的技能获取：空间与时间的偶然性

In this paper I review recent research on climate migration, including estimates of the numbers of future migrants owing to climate change. I introduce a typology of climate migration including strategic, disaster, managed relocation and trapped populations. I draw on migration theory and findings on the integration of immigrants and refugees to suggest that a good way to manage and prepare for climate migration is for rich countries to allocate extra visas to poorer countries that are suffering the effects of climate migration, partly as reparations for climate injustice. These visas will allow strategic migrants to seed further migration by tying the countries together through social networks, and eventually will provide a co-ethnic community for disaster migrants and relocated communities. I also review research on refugees to suggest questions for researchers to answer on how best to integrate disaster migrants going forward. Finally, I review the growing intersection of climate denialism and anti-immigrant sentiment among right-wing movements. I suggest that planning for the successful integration of large numbers of migrants fleeing climate change should be a top priority not least because this success will help to preserve the social trust that is necessary for successful climate mitigation efforts.

Mary C. Waters

Preparing for climate migration and integration: a policy and research agenda

准备气候移民与融合：政策与研究议程

Melissa Blanchard

Bloodline gateways: Italian ancestral citizenship as a resource to bypass European migration policies

血缘门户：意大利祖先公民身份作为绕过欧洲移民政策的一种资源

The challenges encountered by refugees in resource-low settings has led to increased calls for new approaches to understanding the role of digital literacies in enhancing resilience by building on the experiences of refugees in the Global South. Moreover, there have been repeated calls from within academic circles and the humanitarian sector for more inclusive approaches which de-centre outsider assumptions about refugees' lived experience. This paper addresses these gaps in the current landscape of migration studies with an account of refugee-led participatory research with a focus on how language as a source of capital is used to enhance resilience across refugee networks when mediating health literacies. Drawing on concepts from critical multilingualism which deconstruct and decentre otherwise privileged language practices, the study illustrates how refugee family members outside Syria mediate complex health literacies as part of their everyday digital literacies for non-refugee members inside Syria, thereby enhancing the resilience of transnational family members across the network. The findings reveal how refugee-led research is best facilitated when refugees' own language practices are a priority in research design. Working in this way illustrates how research teams negotiate power relations in their research by foregrounding research dynamics and structural hierarchies within interdisciplinary research.

Tony Capstick

Mediating digital literacies across transnational refugee networks: language and resilience inside and outside Syria

跨国难民网络中的数字素养中介：叙利亚内外语言与韧性

Despite centuries of shifting borders, European nations and states still do not perfectly align. Where they do not align, how the kin-state can aid ethnic kin in neighbouring countries may become a fraught issue in party competition. However, we know little about how the EU influences party uses of these kin-state appeals, despite their persistence over time and after EU accession. Using qualitative process tracing for the most different cases of Ireland and Hungary, I find that a country's deeper relationship with the EU reduces the saliency and intensity of kin-state appeals, although this is contingent on the relevant neighbouring countries also being EU members. This is because proximity to EU membership reduces voter demand for urgent 'solutions' to the ethnic kin issue and policy discretion in implementing these solutions.

Samuel A. T. Johnston

Reduced urgency, fewer options? How the EU influences kin-state politics in contemporary Europe

减少紧迫性，减少选择？欧盟如何影响当代欧洲的亲属国家政治

This article analyzes how transnational actors navigate the tensions between federal policy, more localized power structures, and informal forms of authority in Ethiopia's Somali Regional State (SRS). The concept of 'diaspora capture' foregrounds the efforts of state officials and transnational elites to take control of processes through which diaspora identities and patterns of coordination are formed and negotiated within webs of kinship and economic relations. Somali social structure has often been described as essentially 'stateless' or democratic to the point of anarchy, and Somali transnationalism is marked by webs of kinship-based reciprocity and informal economic practice. Nevertheless, we show that in eastern Ethiopia, post-conflict diaspora engagement since 2010 is characterized by persistent efforts of government elites and diaspora actors to gain influence over each other, reshaping the transnational terrain. We argue for more attention in transnational studies to how the conflicts and tensions between national or federal policy environments and subnational authority structures can create new fields of transnational interaction and unexpected collaborations between local governments (including autocratic ones) and diaspora constituents.

Abbreviation	J. Ethn. Migr. Stud.
Journal Impact	2.75
Quartiles(Global)	ETHNIC STUDIES(Q1)

ISSN	1369-183X, 1469-9451
h-index	117
Top Journals	Yes

Publication Information	Publisher: Routledge，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1971，Proportion of original research papers: 99.47%，Self Citation Rate:10.70%， Gold OA Rate: 38.05%

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