• EU asylum offshoring: an analysis of the limits imposed by European Human Rights Standards. Can the European Union copy Australia in the offshoring of the asylum function?

  Calvo Sierra, Ana (2018)

  In this paper I analyse the externalization of asylum by means of the establishment of processing centres outside the EU from a comparative legal approach. In light of the EU‟s recent steps towards offshoring, I study the ...
• Reciprocity between family generations in Germany: a within-person examination of longitudinal data

  Hämäläinen, Hans; Tanskanen, Antti O.; Danielsbacka, Mirkka; Arpino, Bruno (2018-11-20)

  Although reciprocity of intergenerational support has been widely considered in family studies, empirical investigations are still rather scarce. This study used data from four waves of the Panel Analysis of Intimate ...
• Refugee protests in hotspots : a first comparison between Lampedusa and Lesbos

  Guida, Alessandra (2018)

  In contrast with the narrative of voiceless refugees, this working paper shows the political agency of refugees in hotspots. The hotspot approach was introduced by the EU in 2015 to formerly alleviate pressure from Greece ...
• Do Millennials differ in terms of survey participation?

  Bosch Jover, Oriol; Revilla, Melanie Audrey; Paura, Ezequiel (2018-07)

  Millennials have been the focus of quite some research because of their differences with older cohorts. Besides, young respondents have been considered as a hard target population for surveys. However, to our knowledge, ...
• The role of multiple local actors in shaping immigrants’ civic and political participation in cities: lesson from Italy and Spain

  Cappiali, Teresa M.; Triviño Salazar, Juan Carlos (2018)

  This paper focuses on how multiple actors promote civic and political participation of immigrants locally. The dominant approach in scholarship on political participation of immigrants —the political opportunity ...
• The use of emojis by Millennials

  Bosch Jover, Oriol; Revilla, Melanie Audrey (2018-07)

  The use of emojis has been increasing during the last years. Six billion of emojis are used every day. In addition, emojis, which originally were only present on the Internet, started to invade the offline world too. ...
• What shape great expectations? Gender, social origin and country differences in students’ expectations of university graduation

  Ortiz Gervasi, Luis (2018-04-25)

  Over the last decades, female educational attainment has progressively caught up with male one in many OECD countries. Expectations of university graduation have correspondingly been found to be higher among female adolescents ...
• Machine-learning techniques for family demography: an application of random forests to the analysis of divorce determinants in Germany

  Arpino, Bruno; Le Moglie, Marco; Mencarini, Letizia (2018-04)

  Demographers often analyze the determinants of life-course events with parametric regression-type approaches. Here, we present a class of nonparametric approaches, broadly defined as machine learning (ML) techniques, and ...
• Obstacles and passages to secession in liberal-democratic contexts. Lessons from Catalonia

  Bossacoma Busquets, Pau (2018-04-20)

  This paper aims to show that secession, especially if unilateral, is difficult in contexts of liberal democracy. The empirical difficulties may, however, ease the normative recognition of a right to secede. After some ...
• The impact of fertility and education on changes across cohorts and geographical areas in the demography of grandparenthood: the Italian case

  Di Gessa, Giorgio; Bordone, Valeria; Arpino, Bruno (2018-04)

  Grandparents have always played an important role in the Italian society and in family life; however, little is known about the demography of grandparenthood despite dramatic global demographic changes that are likely ...
• Patterns of settlement following forced migration: the case of bosnians in the United States

  Palmer, John R. B. (2018)

  This article provides a descriptive analysis of the geographic distribution of Bosnian-born U.S. residents using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The data show that Bosnians remain highly ...
• Transnational diaspora entrepreneuship: the case of Moroccans in Catalonia

  Gabrielli, Lorenzo; Franco-Guillén, Núria (Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, 2018)

  This paper is based on empirical research performed in Catalonia in the framework of the international research project DiasporaLink, which analysed the links between transnational diaspora entrepreneurship (TDE), migration ...
• Machine learning for propensity score matching and weighting : comparing different estimation techniques and assessing ifferent balance diagnostics

  Cannas, Massimo; Arpino, Bruno (2018-01)

  Using an extensive simulation exercise, we address two open issues in propensity score analyses: how to estimate propensity scores and how to assess covariates balance. We compare the performance of several machine ...
• Two approaches to evaluate measurement quality in online surveys : an application using the Norwegian Citizen Panel

  DeCastellarnau, Anna; Revilla, Melanie Audrey (2017-05)

  Previous research has shown that measurement errors are large in data collected through surveys. However, the size of these errors varies depending on the language, the mode of data collection, the question‟s characteristics, ...
• Trayectorias de jóvenes de origen diverso en Barcelona: explorando tendencias y patrones

  Gebhardt, Dirk; Zapata Barrero, Ricard; Bria, Vittoria Emanuela (Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, 2017-06)

  The aim of this study is to explore on the ground the trajectories of young children of diverse origin in the city of Barcelona. As main source of information, in-depth biographical interviews were conducted with 10 young ...
• Foreigners, citizens and the tyrannical edges of the ‘vox populi’: empirical and normative evidence from Switzerland

  Arrighi, Jean-Thomas (2017)

  The debate on the tyrannical consequences of direct democratic rule on minority rights is almost as old as democracy itself. Yet, it has regained considerable vigour in recent years, as the ‘plebiscitarian turn’ widely ...
• Mapping the qualitative migration research in Europe: an exploratory analysis

  Yalaz, Evren; Zapata Barrero, Ricard (2017)

  As the dynamics of migration in Europe has been continuously changing, diverse empirical, theoretical, and methodological challenges have defined the landscape of migration research. This paper aims to reflect on the ...
• An opening process: how newcomers are involved in the cultural mainstream associations in Catalonia

  Rovira Martínez, Marta; Saurí Saula, Enric (2017)

  This article introduces the principal findings of research on how mainstream cultural associations in Catalonia are implementing policy for the incorporation of immigrants. During the last ten years, some inclusionary ...
• Multilevel inter-regional governance of mobility between Africa and Europe: towards a deeper and broader externalisation

  Gabrielli, Lorenzo (2016)

  This paper analyses the dynamics of the multilevel governance of migration flows between West Africa and Europe. Firstly, I examine bilateral, multilateral and interregional frames of cooperation on human mobility. ...
• Providing public healthcare to irregular migrants: the everyday politics and local negotiation of formal entitlements and effective access in London and Barcelona

  Schweitzer, Reinhard (2016)

  This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of local processes of policy implementation in areas that are characterised by a high level of politicisation and where decisions are underpinned by conflicting ...

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