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    Fragmented Lives in Times of War: Displacement Within and From Ukraine
    (transcript Verlag, 2026-06-30) Kuzemska, Lidia; Kuzemska, Lidia
    What are the challenges faced by forced migrants within and from Ukraine due to the Russian invasion? The interdisciplinary contributors shed light on the lives of displaced persons, which are divided ‒ in terms of time, space, and social context ‒ into a »before« and »after« the war. They analyse the uncertainties faced by war migrants and those who have decided to remain in Ukraine, and how people navigate these uncertainties in everyday life. The volume presents case studies from various European countries that make an important contribution to the growing literature on forced migration from Ukraine and provides new insights into the under-researched areas of internal displacement and voluntary immobility in Ukraine.
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    Visas in Migration and Asylum Law: The Key that Opens the Door
    (Routledge, 2026-06-21) Gatta, Francesco Luigi; Savino, Mario; Gatta, Francesco Luigi; Savino, Mario
    This book explores and discusses the different perspectives stemming from the visa as a tool of international mobility. A visa has a multifaced nature. It is a `key’ which allows foreign nationals to reach the door of the State. It is also a tool for the State to govern migration and border control. In humanitarian and international protection terms, it is also a tool for human rights protection. Against this background, this book assesses the legal and socio-political implications arising from the multipurpose nature and scope of visas. It is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the visa as an instrument for migration control, contextualizing the rationale behind its invention and the legal challenges it raises. The second part focuses on the visa as a tool for asylum, examining its use for humanitarian purposes, including resettlement schemes and emergency-related evacuation initiatives put in place in different legal systems. It will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Migration and Asylum Law, International Human Rights Law and Political Science.
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    Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri’s language options: how voice assistants reproduce monoglossic language ideologies
    (Springer, 2025-06-19) Lau, Mandy
    Voice assistants are increasingly pervasive and popular. Yet, little attention has been paid to how language is conceptualized in voice assistants. My study addresses this gap by demonstrating how the language framings of Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri reinforce monoglossic language ideologies from the disciplinary lens of language policy. Through a qualitative content analysis of the voice assistants' language options and related corporate and texts, this study shows the endurance of standard language ideologies, official and de facto national language policies, English linguistic imperialism, native speakerism, monolingual norms, and language as commodity. This paper aligns with the special issue by understanding voice assistants as shaped by human language traditions, cultural values, and power asymmetries. Voice assistants’ language options are a powerful mechanism for reproducing hegemonic language beliefs, expressing the capitalist desires of technology companies. The recirculation of dominant language ideologies will continue to impact language practices, reproduce social inequities, and generate new material conditions, forms of language labor, and configurations of governmentality.
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    Transit migration entrepreneurship: Explaining Nicaragua’s state-controlled, profit-seeking transit migration industry
    (Oxford Academic, 2026-06-25) Shalaby, Alena; Thaler, Kai M.
    How and why do governments develop profit-seeking migration industries around transit migration? Restrictive international migration policies, such as border externalization and migrant rentierism, compel migrants to transit through multiple countries to reach their final destinations, creating new dilemmas and opportunities for transit country governments. Between 2021 and 2025, thousands of migrants from across the globe arrived in Nicaragua via charter and commercial flights, aiming to then reach the United States. Nicaragua’s authoritarian Ortega-Murillo regime actively facilitated and profited from this influx by eliminating visa requirements and partnering with foreign brokers to coordinate flights, generating revenue amid economic instability and patronage needs. Using Nicaragua as a case study, we introduce the concept of transit migration entrepreneurship (TME), a phenomenon in which governments capitalize on migrants’ desires to reach nearby countries by proactively developing a profit-seeking transit migration industry. Engaging with research on weaponized migration, migrant and refugee instrumentalization, and the broader migration industry, we argue that TME is most likely to emerge in authoritarian or other illiberal contexts characterized by economic incentives for new revenue, indifference to international pressure, and a political will to exploit transit migration for economic gain. In an era of global migration, other countries may follow Nicaragua’s example.
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    Scripts homosexuels et sport en contexte postcolonial : expériences sportives « au pays » d’hommes gays originaires d’Afrique francophone et demandant l’asile en France
    (Université Laval, 2024-01-23) Bouchet-Mayer, Cyriac; Ferez, Sylvain
    À partir d’entretiens sociobiographiques auprès d’hommes demandant l’asile en France au motif de leur orientation sexuelle ou de leur identité de genre, ou des deux à la fois, les auteurs explorent, dans cet article, le rôle pluriel des pratiques ludo-sportives dans les processus de socialisation sexuelle et genrée. Ils donnent à voir la manière dont les expériences sportives sont tantôt le lieu d’imposition d’un script culturel hétérosexiste hérité de la période coloniale et renforcé depuis, tantôt le lieu de construction de scripts interpersonnels et intrapsychiques homosexuels. Ces deux mouvements, a priori contradictoires, peuvent coexister et s’alimenter réciproquement. Ils sont subis ou maîtrisés par les enquêtés en fonction de leurs dispositions individuelles.