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Migration, Citizenship and Social Rights
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Migration, Citizenship and Social Rights

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "International Migration".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2025) | Viewed by 1225

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Alexis M. Silver

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Sociology, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY 10577, USA
Interests: international migration and youth (1.5 and second-generation immigrants); immigration policy; national membership and belonging; return migration and deportation; new immigrant destinations; transnational families
Dr. Kara Cebulko

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Faculty of Sociology and Global Studies, Providence College, Providence, RI 02916, USA
Interests: unauthorized migration; Brazilian immigration; 1.5- and second- generation immigrants; transitions to adulthood; latinx studies; law and society

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We invite submissions for a Special Issue on Migration, Citizenship and Social Rights. Social rights, such as the rights to healthcare, food, housing, education and work are generally regarded as fundamental in democratic societies. However, international crackdowns on immigration and immigrants have increasingly restricted access to social rights based on immigration status. For example, asylum seekers are often regarded with suspicion and positioned as burdens lacking legitimate claims to residence or benefits while their applications are processed. This Special Issue aims to explore historical and contemporary issues surrounding the benefits conferred by both citizenship and liminal immigration statuses, as well as those granted and denied to undocumented immigrants. Specifically, we invite submissions that address how social rights are granted or denied at different points in time, and across various legal, institutional and geographic contexts.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:

  • National and transnational legal frameworks impacting migrants’ access to social rights;
  • The influence of political narratives on immigrants’ access to social rights and social incorporation;
  • Shifting conceptions of citizenship during times of heightened political attention to international migration;
  • Influences of neoliberalism, isolationism and populism on immigrants’ access to resources and social rights;
  • The intersection of race, gender and nationality and immigrants’ access to social rights;
  • Historical and comparative perspectives on immigrants’ access to social rights without citizenship;
  • Asylum seekers and their social rights while awaiting asylum decisions;
  • Variable access to social rights at different moments in the life course for noncitizens;
  • Institutional attachments and access to social rights for immigrants;
  • Intergenerational impacts of limited social rights in mixed-status families.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Alexis M. Silver
Dr. Kara Cebulko
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • migration
  • social rights
  • citizenship
  • asylum-seekers
  • immigration policies

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Global Division of Responsibility Sharing: How Refugee Systems Operate Through the Economic Management of Mobility and Immobility
by Austin H. Vo and Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen
Soc. Sci. 2025, 14(7), 434; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14070434 - 15 Jul 2025
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In 2023, there were approximately 32 million refugees globally. Nine out of the ten countries with the highest origins of refugees were in the Global South; conversely, only three of the ten countries hosting the highest numbers of refugees were in the Global [...] Read more.
In 2023, there were approximately 32 million refugees globally. Nine out of the ten countries with the highest origins of refugees were in the Global South; conversely, only three of the ten countries hosting the highest numbers of refugees were in the Global North. In this study, we introduce the conceptual framework of a global division of responsibility sharing to describe how functions of Global North countries as permanent “resettlement” countries and Global South countries as perpetual countries of “asylum” and “transit” constitute unequal burdens with unequal protections for refugees. We illustrate—theoretically and empirically—how the structural positions of state actors in a global network introduce and reify a global division in refugee flows. Empirically, we test and develop this framework with network analysis of refugee flows to countries of asylum from 1990 to 2015 in addition to employing data on monetary donations to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 2017 to 2021. We (1) provide evidence of the structure and role of intermediary countries in refugee flows and (2) examine how UNHCR monetary aid conditions intermediary countries’ role of routing and transit. We illustrate how network constraints and monetary donations affect and constitute a global division in the management of historic and contemporary international refugee flows and explore the consequences of this global division for refugees’ access to resources and social and human rights. Full article
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Hesitation to Seek Healthcare Among Immigrants in a Restrictive State Context
by Elizabeth Aranda, Liz Ventura Molina, Elizabeth Vaquera, Emely Matos Pichardo and Osaro Iyamu
Soc. Sci. 2025, 14(7), 433; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14070433 - 15 Jul 2025
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This article focuses on how rising nativism, manifested through immigrants’ experiences of everyday discrimination, and Florida’s legal context (ascertained through immigrants’ fears of deportation), are related to immigrants’ hesitation when seeking healthcare services. Hesitation to seek healthcare, or healthcare hesitancy, is examined in [...] Read more.
This article focuses on how rising nativism, manifested through immigrants’ experiences of everyday discrimination, and Florida’s legal context (ascertained through immigrants’ fears of deportation), are related to immigrants’ hesitation when seeking healthcare services. Hesitation to seek healthcare, or healthcare hesitancy, is examined in the context of Florida’s SB1718, a law passed in 2023 that criminalized many aspects of being an immigrant. Based on a survey of 466 Florida immigrants and U.S. citizen adult children of immigrants, logistic regression analysis reveals that everyday experiences with discrimination are associated with a reluctance to seek healthcare services among this population. In particular, those with insecure legal immigrant status (i.e., undocumented and temporary statuses), those with financial hardship, and women demonstrate reluctance to engage with healthcare systems when controlling for other sociodemographic factors. Findings from this study exemplify how immigration policies that restrict access to healthcare and social services not only create logistical barriers to seeking care but also foster a climate of fear and exclusion that deters even those with legal status from seeking medical attention. Full article
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