Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Verma, Monika

doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2026.2664796pmid: N/A

This article examines the evolutionary trajectory of Bangladesh's response to Rohingya migration, tracing how an initially humanitarian approach has progressively transformed into comprehensive securitisation over nearly five decades. Drawing on the temporal securitisation approach and employing longitudinal discourse analysis spanning 1978–2026, combined with ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Cox's Bazar district from September to October 2025, this study identifies four distinct phases in Bangladesh's securitisation evolution: humanitarian exception (1978–1991), managed tolerance (1992–2016), acute securitisation (2017–2020), and institutionalised containment (2021–present). Through semi-structured interviews with Rohingya refugees, this research documents how progressive securitisation has fundamentally reshaped refugees’ lived experiences, systematically constraining mobility, economic participation, and social integration. The analysis reveals that evolutionary securitisation operates as a gradual, layered process characterised by institutional sedimentation, policy accretion, and discursive normalisation. The article contributes to securitisation theory by elaborating the concept of ‘temporal securitisation’ as an analytical framework for understanding how security architectures evolve through feedback loops between discourse, institutional practice, and lived experience over extended time periods. The findings demonstrate how Bangladesh's progressive securitisation has created increasingly restrictive conditions while failing to achieve sustainable solutions, ultimately undermining both human security and state legitimacy.

Reuther, Kevin; Dahle, Yngve

doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2026.2676173pmid: N/A

Migrant entrepreneurs are increasingly recognised as contributors to economic and social development yet often face structural barriers in host countries. Entrepreneurship support (ES) programmes are intended to reduce these barriers, but little is known about the specific combinations of factors that make ES valuable for migrant participants. This paper investigates which programme characteristics, ecosystem factors, and participant profiles contribute to perceived programme value for this segment. Using a set-theoretic approach, we apply qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to 43 cases from nine Norwegian ES programmes, combining semi-structured interviews with digital observational data. Our findings show that programme value does not depend solely on whether a programme is open or targeted, but rather on the alignment between programme design and the embeddedness of the entrepreneur. In particular, whether an entrepreneur is linked primarily to host-country or home-country markets plays a key role. The analysis reveals that migrant entrepreneurs with cross-border embeddedness, i.e. transnational entrepreneurs, benefit most from dedicated migrant programmes with facilitators of non-host-country backgrounds. Conversely, entrepreneurs focused on the host country benefit from integrated programmes alongside non-migrants. These findings highlight the need to move beyond binary categories and to design support that reflects the diversity of migrant entrepreneurial experiences.

Hormozinejad, Sara

doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2026.2676754pmid: N/A

This article examines how migration imaginaries are constructed prior to migration and transformed through the lived experiences of settlement. It conceptualises imagination not as a static or purely individual act but as a dynamic, socially embedded process that shapes aspirations before departure and undergoes transformation in response to lived realities abroad. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 30 middle-class Iranian immigrants and return migrants holding Iranian and Canadian citizenship, the study explores two interlinked dynamics. First, it investigates how a homogeneous, idealised imaginary of the West emerges before migration, captured by the Persian notion of Kharej, and shaped by Western media, the moral economy of departure, and the context of emigration under restrictive mobility regimes. Second, it analyzes how this migration imaginary unravels during settlement in Canada, particularly through the devaluation of cultural capital, experiences of racial discrimination, and exposure to the broader political economy of migration. The article introduces the concept of collective fantasy to theorise imagination not simply as hopeful or liberatory but also as hegemonic, idealising, and at times distorting. In doing so, it reveals how migration imaginaries both shape and complicate mobility aspirations, and how middle-class privilege becomes unstable across borders.