International Migration and the Adaptation Process

Dear Colleagues,

International migration can be divided into three major areas of research, why the migrants leave their countries of origin, what the migration process is like, and how they fair in the receiving country. This Special Issue on “International Migration and the Adaptation Process”, focuses on how immigrants fare in the receiving countries. The adaptation process can refer to many outcomes, such as economic mobility, employment, social integration, housing, and access to health care, and migrants arriving in a new country can have many different experiences, which depend on a variety of factors. The mode of incorporation may lead to a variety of outcomes at their destination and how migrants get to their destination may result in different employment outcomes, since legal status can act as a bridge to “good jobs” while being undocumented may limit economic adaptation. The mode of incorporation may also determine class status upon arrival, which could be consequential for adaptation. Selectivity among migrants means that they may bring a variety of types of capital with them which may impact the adaptation process, such as, for example, social capital, cultural capital, physical capital, human capital, and other factors that could contribute to better/worse adaptation. This Special Issue will be open to all scholars studying the process of adaptation—the destination and migrant group is international in focus and not specific to any country.  Moreover, this Special Issue is open to any empirical approach, using quantitative or qualitative analysis. Below are a few possible topics that would be appropriate for this Special Issue:

• The impact of legal status on labor market outcomes;
• The role of social networks in labor market performance;
• The role of selectivity (human capital, social capital, cultural capital, and wealth) in determining adaptation;
• The impact of mode of incorporation on the adaptation process;
• The role of race in adaptation processes.

Contributions should follow one of the three categories of papers (article, conceptual paper, or review) and address the topic of the Special Issue.

Dr. Michael Aguilera
Guest Editor

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• international migration
• adaptation processes
• mobility
• labor market
• social networks