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Using the framework of racial capitalism in the field of migration, the author examines how "covert carcerality" turns relatively privileged visa-holding immigrants into precarious 'high-income cheap labor," through restrictions on their mobility, employment and family formation. Congratulations!

Covert carcerality for “high‐income cheap labor”: Indian tech workers in the United States In racial capitalism, employers increase their profit by recruiting “cheap labor,” who are typically racialized minorities. States and employers govern these workers by carceral means, variously conf...

Rianka Roy's article "Covert Carcerality for 'High-Income Cheap Labor': Indian Tech Workers in the United States" (2025, doi.org/10.1111/socf...) studies the experience of Indian immigrant tech workers regarding what she calls "covert carcerality."

RC31 congratulates our members on winning awards from Eastern Sociological Society!
Phi Hong Su (Williams College) won Public Sociology Award (Pre-Tenure), jointly with Carolina Bank Muñoz
Rianka Roy (Wake Forest University@riankaroy.bsky.social) won Sociological Forum Inaugural Author Award

We are please to announce that the section call for panels and papers for LASA 2026 (Paris, France, May 26-30, 2026) is open. More information at: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/int...

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Thank you, RC31 members, for attending the Business Meeting at the ISA Forum in Rabat, Morocco! Here are some photos from the day #sociology #migration #SociologyOfMigration #MigrationStudies

After much deliberation we decided that Phi Hong Su’s The #Border Within and Sharon M. Quinsaat’s Insurgent Communities are equally excellent and should be awarded as co-winners of the #best_book award. We also award an Honourable Mention to Zai Liang’s From #Chinatown to Everytown. #RC31_Award

while simultaneously opposing the homeland state government, building solidarity across time and space.

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#migration #sociology

By advancing her concept of the conflict-mobilization-collective identity nexus, she argues that activism and #social_movements are central to processes of #diaspora formation and can work to construct a diasporic sense of homeland attachment and loyalty,

Rich multilingual #ethnography brings to life the solidarities and conflicts of Vietnamese migrants living in East and West Germany before, during and after German reunification.

Insurgent Communities Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests.  When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form ...

#RC31_Award #best_book in #migration studies

Sharon M. Quinsaat’s Insurgent Communities, published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social, provides a sweeping history of #Filipino transnational social #activism in the #Netherlands and US from 1970s to the present day.

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Su theorises ethnic nationhood in #diaspora through a hierarchical structuring and splintering of an imagined community, stratified by geography, political histories, #migration contexts.

The Border Within | Stanford University Press When the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border crossers who had left their homeland after its reunification in 1975. ...

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Phi Hong Su’s The Border Within, published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social, is an exciting and novel account of the lasting Cold War divisions found among contemporary #Vietnamese #German communities. www.sup.org/books/sociol...

#migration #socioology #border #coldwar

Best Book Award Announcement

Huge thanks to all the RC31 members who submitted their nominations for the #RC31_Award for Best Book! All the submissions were of exceptionally high quality, making the reading and judging a true joy for the committee members.

#migration #sogiology #isa

#ISA #migration #sociology #migrants #immigration #climatecrisis #climatechange #climatemigration

#isaforum2025

#RC31 SPECIAL LECTURE

All That is Solid Melts into Mobility: Understanding #Climate related #Migration as the Socio-Ecological Question

Lecture to be delivered by: Thomas FAIST (Bielefeld)
Location: SJES024
Mon, Jul 7, 13:00 - 14:45

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#isaforum2025 #sociology

ISA members! We will be in Rabat this week! Check out the RC31 program here: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/foru...

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We thank all RC31 members who submitted their nominations for the #RC31_Award for Best Article! We received a large number of submissions this year and chose two co-winners, reflecting our main criteria of theoretical robustness and contribution to the field of international migration.

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Reviewers' comments: Focusing on #immigrant legalization, Deisy’s article presents that #legalization is a #transitional process where multilayered interactions between the state regime, opportunity structure, and the permeability of application standards have unequal effects on immigrants

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Congratulations to Deisy Del Real for co-winning this year's #RC31_Award for Best Article! The article, Gradations of Migrant Legality: The Impact of States’ Legal Structures and Bureaucracies on Immigrant Legalization and Livelihoods is available here:
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Reviewers' comments: Karolina connects #anthropology and #MigrationStudies, taking an innovative approach to illustrate how transnational belonging/transnational can be embodied.
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Congratulations to Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła for co-winning this year's #RC31_Award for Best Article! Her article, Embodied Transitional Belonging, was published in International Migration Review.
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The link to the latest newsletter (Dec 2024) below seems to be broken. You can check it out at this link for news on RC31 events, members' awards, publications, events, and more! www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...

Welcome to the ISA 31 page on BlueSky! Here is a link to our most recent newsletter! #ISA_RC31 @isa-rc31.bsky.social /id/urn:aaid:sc:US:d2d9d02b-6c91-403c-b99e-1502c0814f86

Happy to see our work w Natalie Welfens published in the Journal of Refugee Studies

“UNHCR–state relations: transfer of authority over refugee status determination”👇

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Forced Migration in Turkey: Refugee Perspectives, Organizational Assistance, and Political Embedding Turkey hosts more refugees than any other country in the world, with forced migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and other countries converging, either with hopes to settle in Turkey or t...

#ISA_RC31_New_book

Zülfikar Savcı, B. Ş., Pries, L., & Erdoğan, M. M. (Eds.). (2024). Forced migration in Turkey: Refugee perspectives, organizational assistance, and political embedding. Routledge.
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#forcedmigration #Turkey #refugee #belonging #migrationstudies

Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrants: Making and Unmaking Boundaries Digital media are a key part of everyday social life for international migrants. However, we don’t know enough about how these migrants critically understand and cope with the cultures and infrastruct...

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Zhao, X. (2023). Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrants: Making and Unmaking Boundaries. Routledge. www.routledge.com/Social-Media...

#socialmedia #youngmigrants #digitalage #migrationstudies