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Welcoming the unwelcome: Migration industries and border control for homeless job-seeking migrants in central Copenhagen by Kristine Juul

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: Making cities through migration industries.

Kristine Juul's new special issue paper examines how the private non-profit charities of central Copenhagen have transformed into migration industries shaped by the logic of the European border regime.

Moving nurses to cities: On how migration industries feed into glocal urban assemblages in the care sector by Felicitas Hillmann, Margaret Walton-Roberts and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: Making cities through migration industries.

This special issue paper by Felicitas Hillmann et al. provides a conceptualisation of the role of the 'migration industry' as part of a changing global business in the field of care work.

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