04 September 2026

Regional Focus: Europe - Pt. 2

New open access books:

Diasporic Marginalities and the Second-Best Destination: Exploring Migration from Turkey to Italy (Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2026) [open access]
- "Drawing on decade-long ethnographic fieldwork and more than 100 interviews with families and second-generation young adults, the book traces trajectories of arrival, through asylum, irregular transit, family reunification, and work networks, and the gradual consolidation of lives in which onward-migration remains a live horizon. Through the concepts of 'learning to stay' and 'diasporic marginalities', the analysis moves between intimate family routines and wider transnational social fields. It examines gendered labor, religious and associational infrastructures, and the digital comparisons through which migrants position Italy against more established diasporic centers in Europe. Destinations, the book argues, are structurally produced positions, not chosen endpoints, a reframing that opens new ground for understanding how precarity, aspiration, and belonging are negotiated across mobile lives."

Migration Governance in Central and Eastern European Cities Post-2015 (Springer, Aug. 2026) [open access]
- "For decades, CEE cities were primarily shaped by emigration. However, more than a decade of unprecedented change—from the 2015 European refugee reception crisis to the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which triggered the largest forced displacement in Europe since World War II—has transformed the region into one of Europe’s most dynamic new immigrant destinations. This volume offers the first comprehensive account of how nine diverse CEE cities across Poland, Czechia, Hungary, and Romania are navigating this new reality. Moving beyond traditional Western-centric models, the book explores the ‘local turn’ in migration studies through the experiences of capital cities such as Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest. It also examines rapidly diversifying second-tier cities like Kraków and Brno, as well as border and shrinking cities including Lublin, Oradea, Płock, and Łomża. Readers are introduced to the innovative CEE Local Migrant Governance Index (CEELMiG), a novel tool designed to measure and compare local policies across CEE cities—capturing integration strategies, coordination mechanisms, migrant participation, research on diversity, and the funding schemes of inclusive measures. From ‘mainstreaming by accident’ to the rise of grassroots solidarity, the book highlights how local administrators, activists, and residents are bridging service gaps and redefining urban citizenship in contexts marked by crisis and illiberal pressures."

Journal articles:

"Displaced citizenship: war-driven political action and temporalities of displacement among Ukrainians," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 26 Aug. 2026 [open access]

"Rank, Degrading Treatment, and the Italy-Albania Agreement," International Migration, vol. 64, no. 5 (Sept. 2026) [open access]

"Un/making protection: EU temporary protection and the governance of the Ukrainian displaced in Vienna in a global perspective," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 30 Aug. 2026 [open access]

"Well-being Consequences of Irregularization: A Counterfactual Analysis to Explain Differences in Life Satisfaction Between Rejected and Recognized Asylum Seekers in Germany," Social Indicators Research, 184:33 (Aug. 2026) [open access]

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