Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Asian and Pacific Migration Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The invisibility of Filipino women in rural Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic27
How Chinese female migrants in South Korea overcome constraints to participate in leisure activities20
Internal Migration in Contemporary India MishraDeepak K. ed. Internal Migration in Contemporary India. London: Routledge2025. 292 pp.: ISBN: 9781032777993.18
Accumulating delay: Filipino Time, COVID-19 and experiences of male returnees in Cebu14
Providers, pioneers, protectors: Sending company identities and practices in Indonesia’s international labor migration12
At home, everywhere and nowhere: Privilege, mobility and the digital nomad paradox in Southeast Asia11
Reforms or deforms? The rise and decline of the rentier middle class in the United Arab Emirates9
Migration characteristics of migrant fathers and their involvement with young children9
Social and economic integration of highly educated/high-skilled migrants in East and Southeast Asia: Overview of the Special Issue8
A reflective study on the intricate history of Chinese immigration in Peninsular Malaysia8
Central Asian migrants at the US-Mexico border: An exploration of causes7
Immigration and labor shortages: Learning from Japan and the United Kingdom6
Navigating social landscapes: Exploring the social well-being of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia6
Who are leaving metropolitan areas in the post-COVID-19 era: An analysis of urban residents’ migration decisions in Japan6
Older women migrants in Malaysia and their left-behind families6
A transition in the Journal5
Tienshi Lara Chen Stateless: Translated by Louis Carlet, National University of Singapore Press Tienshi Lara Chen Stateless: Translated by Louis Carlet, National University of Singapore Press (2023).5
New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers5
Labor exploitation, discrimination and coping tactics of male forced migrants in Türkiye5
Subject Index5
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Saudization in a “Saudi First” kingdom4
Age, wage and vintage: Empirical validation of brain drain in the migration of Indian knowledge workers to the United States of America4
Regulating recruitment and contracting of migrant fishers from Indonesia4
The economic visions of the Gulf states and their approaches to migrants4
The socio-political background of Gulf migration and labor policy reforms4
The embodied waste laborer: Waste, value and labor among Pakistani workers in Hong Kong’s informal street market3
Tales of the sea: Seafarers’ sense of place in the management of socialities and safety culture at sea3
Trustees, delegates and responsiveness: An interpretive case study of Chinese New Zealanders’ participation in representative politics3
Silence, sacrifice, and subordination: Unpacking the gendered migration narratives of policy actors in Malaysia3
Precariousness and vulnerability: Seafarers in the COVID-19 pandemic3
Transnational migration and gender capital: South Korean women’s guesthouse business in the Philippines3
Rethinking the migration-development nexus in the post-COVID-19 era3
Women’s social resilience in the context of male out-migration in Dehradun district, India3
Caring for elderly parents while living away: Sri Lanka’s professional and skilled emigrants3
Book review: Ethnic dissent and empowerment: Economic migration between Vietnam and Malaysia3
Internal student migration in India: Impact of the COVID-19 crisis3
Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics of Play ArnaldoConstancio R.Jr. Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics of Play. New York University Press. New York, 2024, 193
Book review: Migration and development in India: The Bihar experience3
Democracy comprehension and life satisfaction among North Korean defectors: The overlooked role of ideological adaptation3
Neoliberal migration states in the Gulf: High-skilled migrants, domestic socio-legal reforms and the centralized migration management in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates3
Why stay, why return: Mobility choices of Indian scientists and engineers2
The leadership role and collective action of Malayan Chinese in the Nanyang Volunteer Mechanics Organization (1937–1945)2
Digital technologies and migration management in Malaysia: The technology-migration nexus2
In the interstice of health and economy: The discourse of bio-citizenship and the black economy among Filipino migrant domestic workers in Belgium during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Discrimination during COVID-19: Assessing migrant workers’ vulnerability to forced labor in Thailand’s seafood industry2
A gendered analysis of family, work, social spheres and life satisfaction: The case of highly educated migrants in Hong Kong2
Migrant immobilities beyond the pandemic: Changing migration patterns and aspirations2
Skilled but stalled: Understanding disadvantages among highly skilled Indian migrants in Germany2
Book review: Tangled mobilities: Places, affects, and personhood across social spheres in Asian migration Fresnoza-FlotAsuncionLiu-FarrerGracia (eds), Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personho2
COVID-19 and the precarity of Indonesian workers in the oil palm production in Sabah, East Malaysia2
The impact of “Nitaqat” on Indian high-skilled migration to Saudi Arabia2
Which hierarchy matters? Subjective social status, status incongruence and well-being among high-skilled Mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong2
Investment across borders: How diaspora firms weigh financial returns and emotional-social drivers2
Maternal strategies and embodied practices: The making of transnational identity for mixed-ethnic children of Vietnamese marriage migrant mothers in Taiwan1
Subject Index1
New immigrant destinations and the role of the migration industry: Moving Filipino domestic workers to Mainland China1
Infection, temporality and inequality: Sanitizing foreign bodies and protecting public health in Taiwan1
The logics of staying for highly skilled Asian migrants in Japan1
“I don’t really feel a big difference between an international and the locals”: Exploring educational migrants’ experience of New Zealand as a study and migration destination1
Employment as an anchor: The prospects of emerging East Asian skilled migration regimes through the lens of migrants’ access to the labor market1
Spatial spillover effects of fiscal expenditure and economic opportunity on internal migration in Taiwan1
Trapped in the COVID-19 pandemic: Seafarers and the global crew change crisis1
Book review: The Politics of International Marriage in Japan1
The realities of return migration: Reintegrating women migrant domestic workers in Sri Lanka1
Can technology break the invisible wall? Exploring mobile application needs and preferences among North Korean refugees in South Korea1
Integration of international marriage migrants: Russian-speaking female marriage migrants in Japan and South Korea1
Chinese guardian mothers in Thailand: Cultural constraints, societal obstacles and tactical changes1
Filipino technical interns and specified skilled workers in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic: A typology of (im)mobility patterns1
Navigating relationship-building among young North Korean defectors in South Korea: From structural isolation to strategic connections1
Book review: Migrant Workers in Singapore. Lives and Labor in a Transient Migration Regime1
Exploring the interplay of migrant entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence and social integration of marriage migrant women in South Korea1
Mediating effects of religious coping on acculturative stress and life satisfaction: Focus on Sri Lankan migrant workers in Korea1
When nomads become migrants: A case study of Mongolia1
Reflections on the multi-sectoral response to COVID-19 in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps1
Encounters of Syrian refugees and locals in the informal garment sector of Esenler district, Istanbul0
Book review: Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Coexistence, Japan Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Coexistence, Japan. Edited by: de FerrantiHughShishikuraMasayaYoneno-ReyesMichiyo. Singapo0
“Hill coolies” in colonial Mauritius 1834 –18400
Economic, social and psychological drivers of labor trafficking and its impacts: A case study on returned Bangladeshi survivors0
State restrictions and gender-based violence in cross-border marriages: The case of Kyrgyz women in Türkiye0
Navigating rural borders: How do multicultural families adapt to life in Korea?0
Filipino seafarers’ experiences and perceptions of psychosocial interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Assessing skills gaps in a post-pandemic landscape: Insights from Oman and Kuwait0
Young North Korean defectors’ new media practices in response to stereotypes by South Korean society0
From doing essential work to social good: Filipino racialized labor and social agency during the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Canada0
Social networks as providers of social protection to urban migrants in Delhi0
Ethnic identity of children from multicultural families in the Global South: Korean-Vietnamese adolescents in Vietnam0
The path to inclusion for undocumented migrant children in South Korea0
Asia Pacific and the global maritime industry: Hierarchies, vulnerabilities, solidarities0
Understanding employment incorporation from the perspective of Asian immigrants in Sweden0
Constructions of labor market integration by Afghan migrants in Iran0
Chinese seafarers’ use of the Internet and social media to promote labor rights0
Emerging port infrastructure and advocacy networks for migrant fishers in Taiwan0
Cross-country analysis of negative attitudes towards immigrants and immigration in Southeast Asia: A case of Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand0
Criminality, chaos and corruption: Analyzing the narratives of labor migration dynamics in Malaysia0
Return reimagined: Diaspora interactions with protracted internal displacement in post-war Sri Lanka0
Shifting borders and migrant workers’ im/mobility: The case of Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Seeking greener pastures: Conceptualizing rahar and badhyata in Nepali culture of migration0
Remittance investment climate analysis: Ascertaining the local development potential of overseas remittances in Philippine rural hometowns0
Migration of high-skilled and STEM professionals from India: Addressing Global Compact for Migration objective 10
Sanitizing the national body: COVID-19 and the revival of Japan’s “Closed Country” strategy0
Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mariñas, Antje Missbach, and Max Walden (eds), Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia: Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty (Foreword by Erika Feller). Berghahn Books: New York.0
Harvesting precarity: The regimes governing migrant labor in Türkiye’s agricultural sector0
Promoting hospitality and protection: The role of faith-based organizations in the arrival of Rohingya refugees in Aceh, Indonesia0
Are remittances “resilient?” Evidence from Sri Lanka between COVID-19 and the crisis0
Living across Connectivity: Intimacy, Entrepreneurship, and Activism of East Asian Migrants Online and Offline ZaniBeatriceCockelIsabelle (eds.), Living across Connectivity: Intimacy, Entrepreneurship0
Precarity among transient migrants: Mainland Chinese workers in Brunei Darussalam during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Informal employment and irregular migration status: A double whammy for migrant workers in Thailand0
A summary of the conference Framing Migration: The Role of Religious Actors in the Production of International Law at the National University of Singapor0
Transformative perspectives on migration from and in the Global South: Let data, information and statistics on India speak0
Ambiguity and migration governance in the satellite city of Duzce, Türkiye0
Sanitized boundaries, sanitized homes: COVID-19 and the sporadic hyper-precarity of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong0
Floating care as institutional positioning: Professional reclassification of domestic work in the pilot foreign caregiver project in South Korea0
Strengthened by struggle: Homeland attachment in the Karen diaspora after the 2021 Myanmar coup0
Intersectional disadvantages? Labor market integration of skilled Pakistani migrant women in Australia0
Gendered precarity of migrant women in the satellite city of Isparta, Türkiye0
Fostering sustainable livelihoods: Evaluating the skillsets of refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia0
State responsibility: Explaining the UK’s exclusive citizenship provision to Hong Kong British National Overseas0
Dunki migration from Pakistan to Italy: Aspirations, intermediaries, and the expectation – reality gap0
Drivers and patterns of disaster-induced migration in Southeast Asia0
Concession, cooperation and contestation: Filipino undocumented migrant domestic workers in the UK and the Netherlands navigating the COVID-19 pandemic0
The politics of sanitization: Pandemic crisis, migration and development in Asia-Pacific0
Book review: Coming home to a foreign country: Xiamen and returned overseas Chinese, 1843–19380
Drivers of return of Sri Lankan migrants in the skill spectrum from the Gulf region0
Contesting migrant precarity in the Global South? Informal labor markets, high-risk coping strategies and low-income Filipino migrants in the United Arab Emirates0
Aeneas Zi Wang, Aimi Muranaka, and Florian Coulmas (eds.) Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies: How Attractive for Migrants are Japan and Germany? London and New York: Routledge, 2025, 0
Book review: Women migrants in Southern China and Taiwan: Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions0
Foreign labor in Japan: Assessing economic and cultural threat in the midst of a rapidly aging population0
The precarious lives and survival strategies of unaccompanied Afghan youth in Türkiye0
Migrant worker policies and the spillover effects on educational outcomes and employment aspirations of national children in the Gulf0
Household registration, employment status and health: Their impact on the employment quality of elderly migrant workers in China0
Mobility of the educated: Taiwanese migrants in Dongguan and Jakarta0
Intra-urban migration and perceptions of neighborhood cohesion in urban China: The case of Guangzhou0
A gendered analysis of Palestinian refugee women’s experiences of migration from Syria to Türkiye0
Nuancing COVID-19 pandemic experiences of vulnerable people: The case of (ir)regular Filipino migrants in Paris0
Gendered remittance practices among migrants in Japan0
Subject Index0
Europe as model, mirror, and mirage: Asian eyes on migration, policy, and symbolic geographies0
Connecting worlds: Filipino and Indonesian sojourns to Saudi Arabia0
Entry visa categories, current experiences and future expectations of highly educated migrants and their intention to stay0
Desiring home: Return migration of Indonesian migrant domestic workers0
Consumption, ongoingness and everyday-life embeddedness: Lifestyle experiences of Chinese transient migrants in Chiang Mai, Thailand0
Comparison of the economic performance of the China- and India-born immigrants with US natives0
Vietnamese diaspora in Thailand and the making of transnationality0
Magnified precarity, re-enhanced agency: The COVID-19 pandemic experiences of Filipino migrant workers in different contexts0
The middle-class Pakistanis’ experience of everyday integration in Dubai: Beyond the Western-centric approach0
Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora NguyễnNHC ed (2024) Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora. London and New York: Routledge. ISBNs: 9780367463960 (Hardcover, 250 USD), 9781003036100
Classic assimilation, self-selection and parent status: An analysis of the central–local political trust among highly educated Mainland migrants in Hong Kong0
Sri Lanka’s entanglements with transnational migration: Emerging trends and overlooked facets0
Transnational migration and dual citizenship: The conundrum of social and economic rights of dual citizens in Pakistan0
Precarity and survival of migrants in Türkiye: An overview of the divide between migration policy and practice0
Migrant labor and citizens in Kuwait: (Mis)managing Kuwaitization and the demographic imbalance0
Employment of highly-skilled migrants during the pandemic: Focus on internal migration in Indonesia0
Re-mobilizing immobilized labor: Pandemic concessions and migrant farmworkers in Japan0
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