Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Commercial actors in travel and migration are the private entities that facilitate and mediate migration. The specific characteristic of these actors is that their actions are based on financial rather than altruistic motives. Therefore, they request a remuneration for their services. This category of actors includes service providers such as travel agencies, labour recruitment agencies, visa brokers, marriage agencies, financial services firms, employers of transit migrants, pre-departure health assessment centers, language schools providing language certificates, au-pair or nanny agencies, student recruitment agencies etc. Intermediaries can be active in different fields of migration such as work migration, marriage migration or student mobility. It is difficult to draw a clear line between regular and irregular actors. While intermediaries usually act within the limits of the law, some actors find themselves in a semi-regular space, providing both regular and irregular services.

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The Dynamics of Brokering in Second Generation Transnationalism

Authors Armand Gutierrez
Year 2020
Journal Name Social Problems
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From Migrant Worker to Migrant Broker: The Grey Zone of Transnational Recruitment between Canada and Guatemala

Authors Mylene Coderre, Mylène Coderre
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
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2 Journal Article

School Employees as Health Care Brokers for Multiply-Marginalized Migrant Families

Authors Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, Heide Castaneda
Year 2019
Journal Name MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Citations (WoS) 14
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3 Journal Article

“They’d Better Really Treat Her Nice”: Gendered Dynamics of Care and Control in Filipina Migrant-Broker Relations in Chile

Authors Carol Chan, Carol Chan
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
Citations (WoS) 1
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4 Journal Article

Structuring Mr. Nice: Entrepreneurial opportunities and brokerage positioning in the cannabis trade

Authors C Morselli
Year 2001
Journal Name Crime, Law and Social Change
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5 Journal Article

Maria Rye and Hegemonic Femininity: Case Study of a Victorian Migration Broker

Authors Marie Ruiz, Marie Ruiz
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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6 Journal Article

Psychological Well-Being and Brokerage in Friendship Networks of Young Swedes

Authors Gerald Mollenhorst, Christofer Edling, Jens Rydgren
Year 2015
Journal Name Social Indicators Research
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7 Journal Article

Urban planners as boundary spanners: Steering perceptions of asylum seeker accommodations in Germany

Authors Maria Schiller
Year 2021
Journal Name Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
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8 Journal Article

Culture broker, tourism

Authors Noel B. Salazar
Year 2014
Book Title Encyclopedia of Tourism
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9 Book Chapter

Brokerage in Cross-Border Mobility: Social Mechanisms and the (Re)Production of Social Inequalities

Authors Thomas Faist
Year 2014
Journal Name Social Inclusion
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10 Journal Article

The Education‐Migration Industry: International Students, Migration Policy and the Question of Skills

Authors Michiel Baas
Year 2019
Journal Name International Migration
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11 Journal Article

The Key to Success? Social Network Brokerage in Buddy Programmes for Newly Arrived Migrants in the Flemish Region of Belgium

Authors Gaelle Mortier, Gaëlle Mortier, Stijn Oosterlynck, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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14 Journal Article

The Industry of Illegal Migration: Social Network Analysis of the Brazil‐US Migration System

Authors Dimitri Fazito, Weber Soares
Year 2013
Journal Name International Migration
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15 Journal Article

Aspirational Infrastructure: Everyday Brokerage and the Foreign-Employment Recruitment Agencies in Nepal

Authors Tina Shrestha
Year 2018
Journal Name Pacific Affairs
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16 Journal Article

Yet another black box: brokering agencies in the evolving market for live-in migrant care work in Austria and Germany

Authors Simone Leiber, Verena Rossow, August Oesterle, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARE AND CARING
Citations (WoS) 9
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17 Journal Article

Cultural brokerage: Creating linkages between voices of lifeworld and medicine in cross-cultural clinical settings

Authors Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo
Year 2010
Journal Name Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
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18 Journal Article

Danger on the exchange: How counterparty risk was managed on the Paris exchange in the nineteenth century

Authors Angelo Riva, Eugene N. White
Year 2011
Journal Name EXPLORATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
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19 Journal Article

The Contact Zone and Dialogical Positionalities in “Non-Normative” Childhoods: How Children Who Language Broker Manage Conflict

Authors Sarah Crafter, Humera Iqbal
Year 2020
Journal Name Review of General Psychology
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20 Journal Article

Implications of Collection of Excessive Brokerage Fees for Migrant Workers in the Domestic Care Sector in Israel

Authors Gal Talit, Yoram Ida, Sigal Levy
Year 2019
Journal Name International Migration
Citations (WoS) 1
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21 Journal Article

Fuzzy borders

Authors Natasha Raheja
Year 2023
Journal Name American Ethnologist
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22 Journal Article

Foreign exchange markets with Last Look

Authors Alvaro Cartea, Sebastian Jaimungal, Jamie Walton
Year 2019
Journal Name MATHEMATICS AND FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
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23 Journal Article

Portrait of a human smuggler : race, class, and gender among facilitators of irregular migration on the US – Mexico border

Authors Gabriella SANCHEZ
Year 2018
Book Title [Migration Policy Centre]
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24 Book Chapter

Child Language Brokering in Healthcare: Exploring the Intersection of Power and Age in Mediation Practices

Authors Humera Iqbal, Sarah Crafter
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Child and Family Studies
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25 Journal Article

International doctoral students as knowledge brokers: reciprocity, trust and solidarity in transnational networks

Authors BAŞAK BILECEN, THOMAS FAIST
Year 2014
Journal Name Global Networks
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26 Journal Article

Migration Infrastructure and Brokerage in Victorian Female Emigration Societies

Authors Marie Ruiz, Marie Ruiz
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Migration History
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27 Journal Article

Cultivating Clients: Reputation, Responsiveness, and Ethnic Indifference in India's Slums

Authors Adam Michael Auerbach, Tariq Thachil
Year 2019
Journal Name American Journal of Political Science
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28 Journal Article

Brokering International Education and (re)producing Class in Mumbai

Authors Nonie Tuxen, Shanthi Robertson
Year 2018
Journal Name International Migration
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29 Journal Article

What Makes a Good Human Smuggler? The Differences between Satisfaction with and Recommendation of Coyotes on the US-Mexico Border

Authors Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martinez
Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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30 Journal Article

Experiences of discrimination and language brokering: Exploring risks and protective factors.

Authors Vanja Lazarevic, Shu-Sha Angie Guan, Robert S. Weisskirch
Year 2024
Journal Name Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
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32 Journal Article

"I Want to Be Trafficked so I Can Migrate!": Cross-Border Movement of North Koreans into China through Brokerage and Smuggling Networks

Authors Kyunghee Kook
Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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33 Journal Article

Brokerage from within: A conceptual framework

Authors Birgit Brauechler, Kathrin Knodel, Ute Roeschenthaler
Year 2021
Journal Name CULTURAL DYNAMICS
Citations (WoS) 14
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34 Journal Article

On the edge of empire

Authors LAWRENCE BRAGGE, ULRIKE CLAAS, PAUL ROSCOE
Year 2006
Journal Name American Ethnologist
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35 Journal Article

Opening the Black Box of Migration: Brokers, the Organization of Transnational Mobility and the Changing Political Economy in Asia INTRODUCTION

Authors Johan Lindquist, Biao Xiang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Year 2012
Journal Name Pacific Affairs
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37 Journal Article

Brokers and the Organization of Recruitment of 'Global Talent' by Japanese Firms-A Migration Perspective

Authors Harald Conrad, Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
Year 2018
Journal Name Social Science Japan Journal
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39 Journal Article

Brokerage-based attack on real world temporal networks

Authors Souvik Sur, Niloy Ganguly, Animesh Mukherjee
Year 2016
Journal Name Network Science
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40 Journal Article

When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal

Authors Nathalie E. Williams, Christina Hughes, Prem Bhandari, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name International Migration Review
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41 Journal Article

State‐mediated Brokerage System in China's Self‐funded Study Abroad Market

Authors Shanshan Lan
Year 2018
Journal Name International Migration
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42 Journal Article

State‐mediated Brokerage System in China's Self‐funded Study Abroad Market

Year 2018
Journal Name International Migration
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43 Journal Article

Experiences in Broker-Facilitated Participatory Cross-Cultural Research: Overcoming Practical and Ethical Challenges

Authors Stephanie P. Kowal, Tania Bubela, Cynthia Jardine
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Qualitative Methods
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44 Journal Article

Embedded and External Brokers: The Distinct Roles of Intermediaries in Workplace Inequality

Authors Laura Lopez-Sanders
Year 2014
Journal Name American Behavioral Scientist
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45 Journal Article

Brokers in straitjackets: The moral quandaries of refugee support organisations in Slovakia

Authors Eva-Maria Walther
Year 2021
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47 Journal Article

Education, real estate, immigration: brokerage assemblages and Asian mobilities

Authors Shanthi Robertson
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 7
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48 Journal Article

Birth Registration and Protection for Children of Transnational Labor Migrants in Indonesia

Authors Jessica Ball, Leslie Butt, Harriot Beazley
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
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49 Journal Article

The middle space of migration: A case study on brokerage and recruitment agencies in Nepal

Authors Alice Kern, Ulrike Müller-Böker
Year 2015
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 24
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50 Journal Article

The Recruitment Agent in Internationalized Higher Education: Commercial Broker and Cultural Mediator

Authors Anna Robinson-Pant
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Studies in International Education
Citations (WoS) 1
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51 Journal Article

Indigenous Youth Graduating from Intercultural Universities: Capability Building Through Intercultural Higher Education in Veracruz, Mexico

Authors Laura Selene Mateos Cortes
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
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52 Journal Article

Research Contexts

Authors Danièle Joly, James A. Beckford, Farhad Khosrokhavar
Book Title Muslims in Prison
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53 Book Chapter

Communitarian tourism - Hosts and mediators in Peru

Authors Elayne Zorn, Linda Clare Farthing
Year 2007
Journal Name Annals of Tourism Research
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54 Journal Article

Brokerage in urban networks on diversity and inclusion: The case of Rotterdam

Authors M. Schiller, M. Schiller, I. Awad, ...
Year 2023
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Citations (WoS) 5
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55 Journal Article

The Effect of Bilateral Agreements on Migrant Workers in the Construction Industry in Israel

Authors Yoram Ida, Yoram Ida, Gal Talit, ...
Year 2023
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56 Journal Article

Language Brokering Among Mexican-Immigrant Families in the Midwest

Authors Alejandro Morales, Oksana F. Yakushko, Antonio J. Castro
Year 2012
Journal Name The Counseling Psychologist
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57 Journal Article

The creation of governments-in-waiting: The Arab Uprisings and legitimacy in the international system

Authors Glen Rangwala
Year 2015
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 4
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58 Journal Article

Navigating health care: brokerage and access for undocumented Latino immigrants under the 2010 Affordable Care Act

Authors Laura López-Sanders
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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59 Journal Article

Bringing in State Regulations, Private Brokers, and Local Employers: A Meso-Level Analysis of Labor Trafficking in Israel

Authors Adriana Kemp, Rebeca Raijman
Year 2014
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 10
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60 Journal Article

Negotiating Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performing Migrant Domestic Work in Contentious Conditions

Authors Satveer Kaur-Gill, Yeo Qin-Liang, Samira Hassan
Year 2021
Journal Name AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST
Citations (WoS) 17
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61 Journal Article

Ethnicity and accommodation in the New Brunswick party system

Authors W Cross, Stewart
Year 2002
Journal Name Journal of Canadian Studies
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62 Journal Article

Regulation on Migrant Workers’ Employment in the Israeli Construction Sector

Authors Yoram Ida, Gal Talit
Year 2015
Journal Name International Migration
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63 Journal Article

Composing Lusophonia: Multiculturalism and National Identity in Lisbon’s 1998 Musical Scene

Authors R. Timothy Sieber
Year 2002
Journal Name Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
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67 Journal Article

Re-interpreting: Narratives of childhood language brokering over time

Authors Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Ann Phoenix
Year 2017
Journal Name Childhood
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68 Journal Article

Bilingual communicators within the health care setting

Authors M Johnson, C Noble, C Matthews, ...
Year 1999
Journal Name Qualitative Health Research
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69 Journal Article

Using evidence to reconstruct second-language learning policies in Estonia

Authors Tatjana Kiilo, Dagmar Kutsar
Year 2015
Journal Name Contemporary Social Science
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70 Journal Article

Vietnamese Migrants in Russia

Authors Lan Anh Hoang
Year 2020
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72 Book

Moral A-Listers in a Moral Economy of Suspicion: Promoting Gender Projects, Re-establishing the Gender Order, and Forging Gendered Subjectivities on Online US Spousal Reunification Forums

Authors Gina Marie Longo
Year 2024
Journal Name Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
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73 Journal Article

Mental wellbeing and ethnic brokerage in friendship networks of adolescents in German secondary schools

Authors Kathrin Lämmermann
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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74 Journal Article

Versatile brokerage: migrant-provider relationships in the third net of the U.S. Healthcare system

Authors Erin Hoekstra, Anthony Michael Jimenez
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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75 Journal Article

Conflict resolution as cultural brokerage: how refugee leaders mediate disputes in Uganda’s refugee settlements

Authors Sarah Vancluysen, Bert Ingelaere
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 5
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76 Journal Article

The making and unmaking of precarious, ideal subjects – migration brokerage in the Global South

Authors Priya Deshingkar
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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77 Journal Article

New economics of transnational living

Authors Marta Bivand Erdal, Jørgen Carling
Year 2020
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78 Journal Article

Infrastructuring repatriation: The Philippine sending state and the return of migrant workers caught in disruptions

Authors Karen Anne S. Liao, Karen Anne S. Liao
Year 2023
Journal Name International Migration
Citations (WoS) 2
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79 Journal Article

Overcoming and Reproducing Inequalities: Mediated Migration in the “Global South”

Authors Katharine Jones, Heila Sha, Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan
Year 2024
Book Title The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality
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80 Book Chapter

SCOTICITAS: REFRAMING "SCOTUS" IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

Authors J. Michel Reaux Colvin
Year 2022
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81 Journal Article

‘Reproduction mobility’ and motherhood construction: Chinese education migrants in Chiang Mai

Authors Li Jiangyu, Guo Sisi, Aranya Siriphon
Year 2022
Journal Name Global Networks
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82 Journal Article

Minority Vulnerability in Privileged Occupations: Why Do African American Financial Advisers Earn Less than Whites in a Large Financial Services Firm?

Authors Wiliam T. Bielby
Year 2012
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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83 Journal Article

Scientific Man vs. Power Politics: A Pamphlet and Its Author between Two Academic Cultures

Authors Hartmut Behr
Year 2016
Journal Name ETHICS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
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84 Journal Article

Labour migration brokerage and Dalit politics in Andhra Pradesh: a Dalit fabric of labour circulation

Authors David Picherit
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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85 Journal Article

Working with interpreters in the family violence sector in Australia: “It's very hard to be in between”

Authors Claire Sullivan, Claire Sullivan, Karen Block, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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87 Journal Article

Household Help? Ethiopian Women Domestic Workers' Labor Migration to the Gulf Countries

Authors Bina Fernandez
Year 2011
Journal Name Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
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88 Journal Article

International Refugee Law between Scholarship and Practice

Authors Rosemary Byrne, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
Year 2020
Journal Name International Journal of Refugee Law
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89 Journal Article

Seasoned Long Enough in Concentration: Suburbanization and Transnational Citizenship in Southern California's South Bay

Authors Hillary Jenks
Year 2014
Journal Name JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY
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90 Journal Article

Globalization and player recruitment: How teams from European top leagues broker migration flows of footballers in the global transfer network

Authors Thijs A. Velema
Year 2020
Journal Name INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT
Citations (WoS) 8
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91 Journal Article

Reframing migrant smuggling as a form of knowledge : the view from the US-Mexico border

Authors Gabriella SANCHEZ, Nicholas NATIVIDAD
Year 2017
Book Title [Migration Policy Centre]
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92 Book Chapter

Making the hard sale: Migrant sales agents and the precarious labours of Philippine real estate brokerage

Authors Vanessa L Banta
Year 2024
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
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94 Journal Article

Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection

Authors Alexandra Voivozeanu, Jean‐Michel Lafleur
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95 Journal Article

Historicizing Mobility: Coyoterismo in the Indigenous Ecuadorian Migration Industry

Authors Victoria Stone-Cadena, Soledad Alvarez Velasco
Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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96 Journal Article

A case study on a generalist service delivery model for street children in Durban, South Africa: Insights from the capability approach

Authors Laura Van Raemdonck, Mariam Seedat‐Khan
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97 Journal Article

Multiple Facets of Borderwork. Urban Actors Between Migrants’ Struggles and State Control

Authors Margit Fauser, Corinna A. A. Di Stefano, Elena Fattorelli
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Im/migrant Well-Being Part II: Race, Ethnicity, and Legal Challenges to Incorporation and Well-Being

Authors Elizabeth Vaquera, Thomas J. Rachko Jr
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99 Journal Article

Resonance beyond regimes: Migrant’s alternative infrastructuring practices in Athens

Authors Mirjam Wajsberg, Joris Schapendonk
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100 Journal Article
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