Giacomo Solano
Biographic Data
| ID | 635958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giacomo Solano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giacomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Solano |
| SIGNATURE | SOLANO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Migration Policy Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2339-8181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The politicisation of state-NGO relations in the field of human rights
This article develops an innovative quantitative analysis of the drivers of state–NGO relations in the field of human rights, specifically focusing on their political drivers. Drawing on cross-national survey data from 2,000+ reported interactions between NGOs, national and EU governmental actors in 26 EU Member States, we examine how national governments’ political orientation, the level of politicisation of human rights issues, and multilevel g…
Digitalization and Migration: Rethinking Socio‐Economic Inclusions and Exclusions
This thematic issue interrogates the relationship between digitalization and the social inclusion or exclusion of migrants in destination countries. Drawing on thirteen articles employing a breadth of methodological approaches across eight national contexts around the globe, it investigates whether digitalization phenomena simply reconfigure pre‐existing socioeconomic inequalities or demonstrate unprecedented, emergent dynamics. Three cross‐cutti…
Digital Technologies and Refugees’ Social Inclusion: The Use of ICTs by NGOs
Numerous studies highlight the direct impact of digital technologies on migrants, shaping their decisions to migrate, their migration trajectories, and their experiences in their destination countries. This article contributes to this emerging literature by exploring the influence of digital technologies on the inclusion of migrants, specifically by examining how non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) use information and communication technologies…
What does Italianness stand for? The use of ethnic resources among Italian migrant entrepreneurs in Brussels
Research on migrant entrepreneurship has extensively focused on the ethnic dimension of these economic activities, especially entrepreneurs’ use of ethnic resources. Many scholars have tended to reify ethnicity and overlook migrant entrepreneurs’ ability to define and use ethnic resources. Adopting a dynamic perspective that acknowledges in-group diversity and entrepreneurs’ agency in utilizing these ethnic resources, we examine how Italian migra…
Globalizations from below: Understanding the spatialities, mobilities and resources of transnational migrant entrepreneurs across the globe
n Contains fulltext :\n 302789.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
An Indicator-Based Approach to Comparative Policy Analysis: Measuring Regional Governance of Migrant Integration
Contains fulltext : 310065.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
The Political Drivers of Horizontal Governance Relations in Small Localities: Evidence from a Cross-Country and Cross-Locality Study Across Seven Western European Countries
Refugee integration in small localities poses complex challenges that must be faced through “horizontal” cooperation between local governments, nonpublic and private actors. This article investigates how frequent and how collaborative/conflictual these horizontal governance relations are and whether, and how, they are influenced by political party control of local executives and the local strength of radical right parties (RRPs). Methodologically…
Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019
Due to a lack of data, quantitative analysis of integration policy trends during the past decade has received limited attention. This research note presents newly collected data from the Migrant Integration Policy Index, which includes information on several different policy areas related to migrant integration in 36 EU and OECD countries between 2010 and 2019. Employing a wide set of methods, we investigate whether migrant integration policies h…
Negative social capital and requests for resources in a developing country: The case of rural–urban migrants in Kampala, Uganda
This article analyses the social networks of rural–urban migrant entrepreneurs in Uganda. While social contacts are often an important asset to access resources for migrants, they are often expected to financially support the members of their social networks. These claims for support are here labelled ‘negative social capital’, following Portes' seminal work. This paper focuses on the kinds of networks that are more likely to produce negative soc…
Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: A local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU
Migrants’ integration process and their labour market inclusion occur within distinct local contexts. However, the existing literature has paid little attention to the role of the local context and its relationship with national-level policy outcomes on migrant integration. This study addresses this gap by using new regional (NUTS-2) data from Eurostat and integration policy data from MIPEX, coupled with multivariate analyses. We investigate how …
Social networks for cross-border business activities: A comparison between transnational and domestic Moroccan migrant entrepreneurs
The existing literature shows that social contacts and resources available through social networks are particularly important for migrant entrepreneurs. This seems to apply also to transnational migrant entrepreneurs, who are migrants involved in entrepreneurial activities crossing national borders. It is still not entirely clear which kind of social contacts they use, nor the differences with migrant entrepreneurs conducting a domestic (namely, …
Regulation of migrant entrepreneurship: The strained conjunction of laws, policies and practices
We are struck by a curious paradox: the flourishing discourse on migrant entrepreneurship is replete with references to the regulatory environment; yet the precise ways in which regulations exert influence is rarely spelt out. This task is all the more urgent because policymakers are alighting on the fact that migrants often turn to self‐employment to make their way in destination societies. Yet, the extent to which regulations – comprising laws …
Multifocality and opportunity structure: Towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship
This article addresses transnational migrant entrepreneurship, which refers to migrants involved in cross-border entrepreneurial activities. Previous models and concepts in migrant entrepreneurship studies have not fully succeeded in recognising the role played by differential groups and places in the pursuit of opportunities by transnational migrant entrepreneurs. This is due to a tendency to focus on the country of residence as well as on the i…
Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries
This article provides novel insights into the main factors associated with integration policies at the national level. Existing literature has analysed specific factors in Western countries, while a comprehensive, theoretically informed, and up-to-date overview is missing, especially regarding non-Western countries. This article fills this gap by combining 2014 and 2019 Migrant Integration Policy Index data on integration policies in 56 countries…
Assembling – Not Reinventing – the Wheel. New Developments in the Field of Migration Policy Indices
This special section focuses on the analysis of migration policy and on how to measure the nature of these policies. It aims to take stock of previous studies and build on this knowledge to propose paths for further development
Beyond immigration: Moving from Western to Global Indexes of Migration Policy
Over the last twenty years, researchers have undertaken systematic comparison of migration policy by creating sets of policy indicators/indexes at the national level. These indicators are designed to analyse the differences and trends in migration policy and then be used by the research community to assess the determinants and effects of policy. This article aims to assess the comprehensiveness of current migration policy indicators by analysing …
A level playing field for migrant entrepreneurs? The legal and policy landscape across EU and OECD countries
Migrant entrepreneurship has been recognized as a form of integration in the country of destination and a viable alternative of decent and sustainable employment for migrants. Laws and policies can create barriers or support migrants who start a business in the country of destination. Despite their importance, these laws and policies have received scant attention from academic scholarship. By applying the mixed embedded approach, this article ana…
Integration policies and threat perceptions following the European migration crisis: New insights into the policy-threat nexus
The link between integration policies and intergroup attitudes or threat perceptions has received considerable attention. However, no studies so far have been able to explore how this relationship changed following the European migration crisis due to a lack of recent comparative policy data. Using new MIPEX data, this is the first study to examine mechanisms underlying the policy-threat nexus following the European migration crisis, distinguishi…
Transnationalism and Belonging: The Case of Moroccan Entrepreneurs in Amsterdam and Milan
Research on migrant transnationalism has mostly focused on particular transnational activities, their salience in various contexts and populations, and their relationship with migrant incorporation. Less attention has been paid to the interplay between the different domains of transnationalism (economic, political, and socio-relational) and to the way in which they affect migrants’ identity. This study investigates whether and how one domain of m…
The Integration of Interstate Migrants in India: A 7 State Policy Evaluation
Interstate migration in developing countries is a key income generating strategy for low‐income households. In India, despite the importance of migration between states, interstate migrants continue to face significant integration barriers in their destination states. The impact of state borders on migration within India is significant and large. This study presents one of the first attempts at creating a set of indicators to understand the role …
The mixed embeddedness of transnational migrant entrepreneurs: Moroccans in Amsterdam and Milan
This article addresses transnational migrant entrepreneurship – migrant entrepreneurs establishing businesses that span across borders. The article contributes to this field by applying the mixed embeddedness approach and revisiting it from a transnational perspective. The article uses an overall qualitative approach and analyses the case of Moroccan transnational entrepreneurs in Milan and Amsterdam (N = 35). This illustrates that, on the one ha…
Social capital of entrepreneurs in a developing country: The effect of gender on access to and requests for resources
A personal network approach to the study of immigrant structural assimilation and transnationalism
This paper proposes a personal network approach to the study of structural assimilation and structural transnationalism among international immigrants. Structural assimilation and transnationalism are defined as embeddedness in native social networks of the host society, and in co-national social networks of the origin society, respectively. Data on the personal networks of international immigrants, each including 45 alters, are obtained from two…
The mixed embeddedness of transnational migrant entrepreneurs: Moroccans in Amsterdam and Milan
This article addresses transnational migrant entrepreneurship – migrant entrepreneurs establishing businesses that span across borders. The article contributes to this field by applying the mixed embeddedness approach and revisiting it from a transnational perspective. The article uses an overall qualitative approach and analyses the case of Moroccan transnational entrepreneurs in Milan and Amsterdam (N = 35). This illustrates that, on the one ha…
Integration policies and threat perceptions following the European migration crisis: New insights into the policy-threat nexus
The link between integration policies and intergroup attitudes or threat perceptions has received considerable attention. However, no studies so far have been able to explore how this relationship changed following the European migration crisis due to a lack of recent comparative policy data. Using new MIPEX data, this is the first study to examine mechanisms underlying the policy-threat nexus following the European migration crisis, distinguishi…
The Integration of Interstate Migrants in India: A 7 State Policy Evaluation
Interstate migration in developing countries is a key income generating strategy for low‐income households. In India, despite the importance of migration between states, interstate migrants continue to face significant integration barriers in their destination states. The impact of state borders on migration within India is significant and large. This study presents one of the first attempts at creating a set of indicators to understand the role …
Regulation of migrant entrepreneurship: The strained conjunction of laws, policies and practices
We are struck by a curious paradox: the flourishing discourse on migrant entrepreneurship is replete with references to the regulatory environment; yet the precise ways in which regulations exert influence is rarely spelt out. This task is all the more urgent because policymakers are alighting on the fact that migrants often turn to self‐employment to make their way in destination societies. Yet, the extent to which regulations – comprising laws …
Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019
Due to a lack of data, quantitative analysis of integration policy trends during the past decade has received limited attention. This research note presents newly collected data from the Migrant Integration Policy Index, which includes information on several different policy areas related to migrant integration in 36 EU and OECD countries between 2010 and 2019. Employing a wide set of methods, we investigate whether migrant integration policies h…
Multifocality and opportunity structure: Towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship
This article addresses transnational migrant entrepreneurship, which refers to migrants involved in cross-border entrepreneurial activities. Previous models and concepts in migrant entrepreneurship studies have not fully succeeded in recognising the role played by differential groups and places in the pursuit of opportunities by transnational migrant entrepreneurs. This is due to a tendency to focus on the country of residence as well as on the i…
A level playing field for migrant entrepreneurs? The legal and policy landscape across EU and OECD countries
Migrant entrepreneurship has been recognized as a form of integration in the country of destination and a viable alternative of decent and sustainable employment for migrants. Laws and policies can create barriers or support migrants who start a business in the country of destination. Despite their importance, these laws and policies have received scant attention from academic scholarship. By applying the mixed embedded approach, this article ana…
An Indicator-Based Approach to Comparative Policy Analysis: Measuring Regional Governance of Migrant Integration
Contains fulltext : 310065.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Negative social capital and requests for resources in a developing country: The case of rural–urban migrants in Kampala, Uganda
This article analyses the social networks of rural–urban migrant entrepreneurs in Uganda. While social contacts are often an important asset to access resources for migrants, they are often expected to financially support the members of their social networks. These claims for support are here labelled ‘negative social capital’, following Portes' seminal work. This paper focuses on the kinds of networks that are more likely to produce negative soc…
Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: A local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU
Migrants’ integration process and their labour market inclusion occur within distinct local contexts. However, the existing literature has paid little attention to the role of the local context and its relationship with national-level policy outcomes on migrant integration. This study addresses this gap by using new regional (NUTS-2) data from Eurostat and integration policy data from MIPEX, coupled with multivariate analyses. We investigate how …
Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries
This article provides novel insights into the main factors associated with integration policies at the national level. Existing literature has analysed specific factors in Western countries, while a comprehensive, theoretically informed, and up-to-date overview is missing, especially regarding non-Western countries. This article fills this gap by combining 2014 and 2019 Migrant Integration Policy Index data on integration policies in 56 countries…
Transnationalism and Belonging: The Case of Moroccan Entrepreneurs in Amsterdam and Milan
Research on migrant transnationalism has mostly focused on particular transnational activities, their salience in various contexts and populations, and their relationship with migrant incorporation. Less attention has been paid to the interplay between the different domains of transnationalism (economic, political, and socio-relational) and to the way in which they affect migrants’ identity. This study investigates whether and how one domain of m…
Social networks for cross-border business activities: A comparison between transnational and domestic Moroccan migrant entrepreneurs
The existing literature shows that social contacts and resources available through social networks are particularly important for migrant entrepreneurs. This seems to apply also to transnational migrant entrepreneurs, who are migrants involved in entrepreneurial activities crossing national borders. It is still not entirely clear which kind of social contacts they use, nor the differences with migrant entrepreneurs conducting a domestic (namely, …
Globalizations from below: Understanding the spatialities, mobilities and resources of transnational migrant entrepreneurs across the globe
n Contains fulltext :\n 302789.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Social capital of entrepreneurs in a developing country: The effect of gender on access to and requests for resources
A personal network approach to the study of immigrant structural assimilation and transnationalism
This paper proposes a personal network approach to the study of structural assimilation and structural transnationalism among international immigrants. Structural assimilation and transnationalism are defined as embeddedness in native social networks of the host society, and in co-national social networks of the origin society, respectively. Data on the personal networks of international immigrants, each including 45 alters, are obtained from two…
Transnationalism and Belonging: The Case of Moroccan Entrepreneurs in Amsterdam and Milan
Research on migrant transnationalism has mostly focused on particular transnational activities, their salience in various contexts and populations, and their relationship with migrant incorporation. Less attention has been paid to the interplay between the different domains of transnationalism (economic, political, and socio-relational) and to the way in which they affect migrants’ identity. This study investigates whether and how one domain of m…
The Integration of Interstate Migrants in India: A 7 State Policy Evaluation
Interstate migration in developing countries is a key income generating strategy for low‐income households. In India, despite the importance of migration between states, interstate migrants continue to face significant integration barriers in their destination states. The impact of state borders on migration within India is significant and large. This study presents one of the first attempts at creating a set of indicators to understand the role …
The mixed embeddedness of transnational migrant entrepreneurs: Moroccans in Amsterdam and Milan
This article addresses transnational migrant entrepreneurship – migrant entrepreneurs establishing businesses that span across borders. The article contributes to this field by applying the mixed embeddedness approach and revisiting it from a transnational perspective. The article uses an overall qualitative approach and analyses the case of Moroccan transnational entrepreneurs in Milan and Amsterdam (N = 35). This illustrates that, on the one ha…
Assembling – Not Reinventing – the Wheel. New Developments in the Field of Migration Policy Indices
This special section focuses on the analysis of migration policy and on how to measure the nature of these policies. It aims to take stock of previous studies and build on this knowledge to propose paths for further development
Beyond immigration: Moving from Western to Global Indexes of Migration Policy
Over the last twenty years, researchers have undertaken systematic comparison of migration policy by creating sets of policy indicators/indexes at the national level. These indicators are designed to analyse the differences and trends in migration policy and then be used by the research community to assess the determinants and effects of policy. This article aims to assess the comprehensiveness of current migration policy indicators by analysing …
A level playing field for migrant entrepreneurs? The legal and policy landscape across EU and OECD countries
Migrant entrepreneurship has been recognized as a form of integration in the country of destination and a viable alternative of decent and sustainable employment for migrants. Laws and policies can create barriers or support migrants who start a business in the country of destination. Despite their importance, these laws and policies have received scant attention from academic scholarship. By applying the mixed embedded approach, this article ana…
Integration policies and threat perceptions following the European migration crisis: New insights into the policy-threat nexus
The link between integration policies and intergroup attitudes or threat perceptions has received considerable attention. However, no studies so far have been able to explore how this relationship changed following the European migration crisis due to a lack of recent comparative policy data. Using new MIPEX data, this is the first study to examine mechanisms underlying the policy-threat nexus following the European migration crisis, distinguishi…
Multifocality and opportunity structure: Towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship
This article addresses transnational migrant entrepreneurship, which refers to migrants involved in cross-border entrepreneurial activities. Previous models and concepts in migrant entrepreneurship studies have not fully succeeded in recognising the role played by differential groups and places in the pursuit of opportunities by transnational migrant entrepreneurs. This is due to a tendency to focus on the country of residence as well as on the i…
Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries
This article provides novel insights into the main factors associated with integration policies at the national level. Existing literature has analysed specific factors in Western countries, while a comprehensive, theoretically informed, and up-to-date overview is missing, especially regarding non-Western countries. This article fills this gap by combining 2014 and 2019 Migrant Integration Policy Index data on integration policies in 56 countries…
Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: A local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU
Migrants’ integration process and their labour market inclusion occur within distinct local contexts. However, the existing literature has paid little attention to the role of the local context and its relationship with national-level policy outcomes on migrant integration. This study addresses this gap by using new regional (NUTS-2) data from Eurostat and integration policy data from MIPEX, coupled with multivariate analyses. We investigate how …
Social networks for cross-border business activities: A comparison between transnational and domestic Moroccan migrant entrepreneurs
The existing literature shows that social contacts and resources available through social networks are particularly important for migrant entrepreneurs. This seems to apply also to transnational migrant entrepreneurs, who are migrants involved in entrepreneurial activities crossing national borders. It is still not entirely clear which kind of social contacts they use, nor the differences with migrant entrepreneurs conducting a domestic (namely, …
Regulation of migrant entrepreneurship: The strained conjunction of laws, policies and practices
We are struck by a curious paradox: the flourishing discourse on migrant entrepreneurship is replete with references to the regulatory environment; yet the precise ways in which regulations exert influence is rarely spelt out. This task is all the more urgent because policymakers are alighting on the fact that migrants often turn to self‐employment to make their way in destination societies. Yet, the extent to which regulations – comprising laws …
Globalizations from below: Understanding the spatialities, mobilities and resources of transnational migrant entrepreneurs across the globe
n Contains fulltext :\n 302789.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
An Indicator-Based Approach to Comparative Policy Analysis: Measuring Regional Governance of Migrant Integration
Contains fulltext : 310065.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
The Political Drivers of Horizontal Governance Relations in Small Localities: Evidence from a Cross-Country and Cross-Locality Study Across Seven Western European Countries
Refugee integration in small localities poses complex challenges that must be faced through “horizontal” cooperation between local governments, nonpublic and private actors. This article investigates how frequent and how collaborative/conflictual these horizontal governance relations are and whether, and how, they are influenced by political party control of local executives and the local strength of radical right parties (RRPs). Methodologically…
Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019
Due to a lack of data, quantitative analysis of integration policy trends during the past decade has received limited attention. This research note presents newly collected data from the Migrant Integration Policy Index, which includes information on several different policy areas related to migrant integration in 36 EU and OECD countries between 2010 and 2019. Employing a wide set of methods, we investigate whether migrant integration policies h…
Negative social capital and requests for resources in a developing country: The case of rural–urban migrants in Kampala, Uganda
This article analyses the social networks of rural–urban migrant entrepreneurs in Uganda. While social contacts are often an important asset to access resources for migrants, they are often expected to financially support the members of their social networks. These claims for support are here labelled ‘negative social capital’, following Portes' seminal work. This paper focuses on the kinds of networks that are more likely to produce negative soc…
Digital Technologies and Refugees’ Social Inclusion: The Use of ICTs by NGOs
Numerous studies highlight the direct impact of digital technologies on migrants, shaping their decisions to migrate, their migration trajectories, and their experiences in their destination countries. This article contributes to this emerging literature by exploring the influence of digital technologies on the inclusion of migrants, specifically by examining how non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) use information and communication technologies…
What does Italianness stand for? The use of ethnic resources among Italian migrant entrepreneurs in Brussels
Research on migrant entrepreneurship has extensively focused on the ethnic dimension of these economic activities, especially entrepreneurs’ use of ethnic resources. Many scholars have tended to reify ethnicity and overlook migrant entrepreneurs’ ability to define and use ethnic resources. Adopting a dynamic perspective that acknowledges in-group diversity and entrepreneurs’ agency in utilizing these ethnic resources, we examine how Italian migra…
The politicisation of state-NGO relations in the field of human rights
This article develops an innovative quantitative analysis of the drivers of state–NGO relations in the field of human rights, specifically focusing on their political drivers. Drawing on cross-national survey data from 2,000+ reported interactions between NGOs, national and EU governmental actors in 26 EU Member States, we examine how national governments’ political orientation, the level of politicisation of human rights issues, and multilevel g…
Digitalization and Migration: Rethinking Socio‐Economic Inclusions and Exclusions
This thematic issue interrogates the relationship between digitalization and the social inclusion or exclusion of migrants in destination countries. Drawing on thirteen articles employing a breadth of methodological approaches across eight national contexts around the globe, it investigates whether digitalization phenomena simply reconfigure pre‐existing socioeconomic inequalities or demonstrate unprecedented, emergent dynamics. Three cross‐cutti…
Political science (19 works) · Economics (18 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Economic geography (11 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Geography (8 works)