عنوان

Migration Decision-Making and Immigration Policy:

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انگلیسی

Migration Decision-Making and Immigration Policy:

[Thesis]

Poole, Alicia

A Qualitative Case Study of Migration from Iraq to Canada

Elrick, Jennifer

McGill University (Canada)

2019

90

M.A.

McGill University (Canada)

2019

Drawing on 18 in-depth, narrative interviews, this thesis responds to an emerging theoretical literature which seeks to understand how state immigration policy affects migrant decision-making with an empirical contribution. While economic and refugee migration are generally considered as separate phenomenon, this project samples research participants based on country of origin rather than entry status to Canada. It uses the case study of migration from Iraq to Canada following the 2003 US-invasion which provides an excellent opportunity to examine how immigration policies and migrants' access to capital affect decision making, as those fleeing held high capital endowments and employed diverse mobility strategies to seek safety (Chaterland 2008; Chatty and Mansour 2011b). The thesis finds that immigration policy affects the composition of migrants throughout the migration process along class and gendered lines, and that treating research on economic and refugee migration as part of the same process allows for further understanding of decision-making than is possible when following the dichotomy. It also provides evidence to the suggestion by Fitzgerald and Arar (2018) that a New Economics of Labour Migration Framework, which treats the risk of violence as another risk to be managed by a household, is particularly useful to analyze migration decisions from conflict regions. However, these findings suggest that this framework should also include how legal frameworks affect decisions, how capital affects the options available to potential migrants, and how gender structures mobility and subsequent decisions to migrate.

Censuses

Education

Immigration policy

Migration

Sociology

Tourism

Elrick, Jennifer

Poole, Alicia

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