The Many Forms of Multiple Migrations: Evidence from a Sequence Analysis in Switzerland, 1998 to 2008
- Zufferey, Jonathan ORCID
- Steiner, Ilka Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
- Ruedin, Didier University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- 2020-4-15
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- International Migration Review. - SAGE Publications. - 2020, p. 019791832091423
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This article provides estimates of different kinds of contemporary migration trajectories, highlighting multiple or repeated migrations. Using sequence analysis on linked longitudinal register data, we identify different migration trajectories for three cohorts (1998, 2003, and 2008) of 315,000 immigrants in Switzerland. Multinomial regression analysis reveals the demographic characteristics associated with specific migration trajectories. We demonstrate high heterogeneity in migration practices, showing that direct and definitive settlement in the destination country remains a common trajectory and that highly mobile immigrants are less common. We conclude that accounts of a fundamental “mobility turn” have been overstated.
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- DOI 10.1177/0197918320914239
- ISSN 0197-9183
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