Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 3. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices70
Politicising immigration in times of crisis68
Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate52
East–west inequalities and the ambiguous racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans’39
The interplay between structural and systemic vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: migrant agricultural workers in informal settlements in Southern Italy38
On the Coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia38
Defining and transforming local migration policies: a conceptual approach backed by evidence from Germany35
The spiralling of the securitisation of migration in the EU: from the management of a ‘crisis’ to a governance of human mobility?34
Reimagining Chinese diasporas in a transnational world: toward a new research agenda32
Temporary migration: category of analysis or category of practice?31
The centre-right versus the radical right: the role of migration issues and economic grievances30
Understanding why immigrant children underperform: evidence from Italian compulsory education29
Orbán’s political jackpot: migration and the Hungarian electorate29
Immigration, integration and citizenship: elements of a new political demography28
Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? A systematic review of the empirical evidence28
Breaking down the barriers: educational paths, labour market outcomes and wellbeing of children of immigrants27
The centre no longer holds: the Lega, Matteo Salvini and the remaking of Italian immigration politics27
The EU and migration in the Mediterranean: EU borders’ control by proxy26
From illegalised migrant toward permanent resident: assembling precarious legal status trajectories and differential inclusion in Canada26
The dynamics of recent refugees’ language acquisition: how do their pathways compare to those of other new immigrants?26
EU Border technologies and the co-production of security ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’26
Waiting for kin: a longitudinal study of family reunification and refugee mental health in Germany25
White enough, not white enough: racism and racialisation among Poles in the UK25
Being far away from what you need: the impact of dispersal on resettled refugees’ homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands24
Race, racialisation, and the East of the European Union: an introduction24
Centre-right parties and immigration in an era of politicisation24
The academic resilience of native and immigrant-origin students in selected European countries23
Healthcare chauvinism during the COVID-19 pandemic23
Pandemic threat and intergroup relations: how negative emotions associated with the threat of Covid-19 shape attitudes towards immigrants23
EU border externalisation and security outsourcing: exploring the migration industry in Libya23
Regions and global migration governance: perspectives ‘from above’, ‘from below’ and ‘from beyond’22
Anti-displacement mobilities and re-emplacements: alternative climate mobilities in Funafala22
Temporary labour migration by any other name: differential inclusion under Canada’s ‘new' international mobility regime22
‘Our aim is to assist migrants in making a well-informed decision’: how return counsellors in Austria and the Netherlands manage the aspirations of unwanted non-citizens21
Seemingly inclusive liminal legality: the fragility and illegality production of Colombia’s legalization programmes for Venezuelan migrants20
Computational approaches to migration and integration research: promises and challenges19
Against all odds: Thessaloniki’s local policy activism in the reception and integration of forced migrants19
Forced migrants and secure belonging: a case study of Syrian refugees resettled in the United States19
Beyond ethnic solidarity: the diversity and specialisation of social ties in a stigmatised migrant minority19
Past in the present: migration and the uses of history in the contemporary era19
Germany as ‘a country of integration’? The CDU/CSU’s policies and discourses on immigration during Angela Merkel’s Chancellorship18
The Austrian People’s Party: an anti-immigrant right party?18
Missing links in migrant enfranchisement studies18
Migration diplomacy in the Gulf – non-state actors, cross-border mobility, and the United Arab Emirates18
Re-visiting the ‘black box’ of migration: state-intermediary co-production of regulatory spaces of labour migration18
Guilt by association? The criminalisation of sea rescue NGOs in Italian media17
‘Formal informality’ in EU external migration governance: the case of mobility partnerships17
Southeast Asian Chinese engage a rising China: business associations, institutionalised transnationalism, and the networked state17
Illiberal white fantasies and Netflix’sThe Witcher17
Introduction: EU external migration policy and EU migration governance: introduction17
Spatial and social im/mobility in forced migration: revisiting class16
No place like home? The International Organization for Migration and the new political imaginary of deportation16
Unpacking the unintended consequences of European migration governance: the case of South American migration policy liberalisation16
‘Stop calling me Murzyn’ – how Black Lives Matter in Poland16
The tactics and strategies of naturalisation: UK and EU27 citizens in the context of Brexit15
In private hands? the markets of migration control and the politics of outsourcing15
Do I deserve to belong? Migrants’ perspectives on the debate of deservingness and belonging15
The foreign bully, the guest and the low-income knowledge worker: performing multiple versions of whiteness in China15
From social capital to social cohesion: Syrian refugees in Turkey and the role of NGOs as intermediaries15
Racialised institutional humiliation through the Kafala15
Divergent experiences and patterns of integration: contemporary Chinese immigrants in metropolitan Los Angeles, USA14
A repertoire of everyday resistance: young Muslims’ responses to anti-Muslim hostility14
Explaining variation in city sanctuary policies: insights from American and European cities14
‘Promising victimhood’: contrasting deservingness requirements in refugee resettlement14
Lives stalled: the costs of waiting for refugee resettlement14
Political elite discourses polarize attitudes toward immigration along ideological lines. A comparative longitudinal analysis of Europe in the twenty-first century14
On a fast-track to adulthood: social integration and identity formation experiences of young-adults of 1.5 generation immigrants14
Unsettling protracted displacement: connectivity and mobility beyond ‘Limbo’14
From governmental success to governmental breakdown: how a new dimension of conflict tore apart the politics of migration of the Swedish centre-right14
Migration management clientelism14
Enforced temporariness and skilled migrants’ family plans: examining the friction between institutional, biographical and daily timescales14
Decolonising civic integration: a critical analysis of texts used in Dutch civic integration programmes14
Depoliticising EU migration policies: the EUTF Africa and the politicisation of development aid13
Resilience, smartphone use and language among urban refugees in the Global south13
Invented, invited and instrumentalised spaces: conceptualising non-state actor engagement in regional migration governance in West Africa13
Performing whiteness: Central and Eastern European young people’s experiences of xenophobia and racialisation in the UK post-Brexit13
Immobility infrastructures: taking online courses and staying put amongst Chinese international students during the COVID-1913
Enfranchising migrants in Chile: a century of politics, elites, and regime changes13
The external dimension of EU migration policy as region-building? Refugee cooperation as contentious politics13
Migration uncertainty in the context of Brexit: resource conservation tactics13
Early career trajectories of first- and second-generation migrant graduates of professional university13
A tale of two cities: digital place-making and elderly Houniao migration in China13
The Asian American assimilation paradox13
Scriptural legitimation and the mobilisation of support for religious violence: experimental evidence across three religions and seven countries13
How do people without migration background experience and impact today’s superdiverse cities?13
On not staying put where they have put you: mobilities disrupting the socio-spatial figurations of displacement in Greece12
Linking internal and international migration in 13 European countries: complementarity or substitution?12
Regulating migrant worker temporariness in Australia: the role of immigration, employment and post-arrival support policies12
Are Muslim immigrants assimilating? Cultural assimilation trajectories in immigrants’ attitudes toward gender roles in Europe12
Health inequalities in Germany: differences in the ‘Healthy migrant effect’ of European, non-European and internal migrants12
Getting home during lockdown: migration disruption, labour control and linked lives in India at the time of Covid-1912
A comparative study of immigrant-native segregation at multiple spatial scales in urban Europe12
Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus12
Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating12
COVID-19 return migration phenomena: experiences from South and Southeast Asia12
Present but not counted: highly skilled migrant women in Belgium12
Waiting as probation: selecting self-disciplining asylum seekers12
Temporariness and the production of policy categories in Canada12
Regional migration and the local multicultural imaginary: the uneasy governance of cultural difference in regional Australia12
Failing through: European migration governance across the central Mediterranean11
Reinventing the politics of knowledge production in migration studies: introduction to the special issue11
Work visas and return migration: how migration policy shapes global talent11
The role of non-state actors’ cognitions in the spiralling of the securitisation of migration: prejudice, narratives and Italian CAS reception centres11
Spheres of sanctuary: introduction to special issue11
Introduction: the intellectual migration analytics11
Class in camps or the camped class? The making and reshaping of socio-economic inequalities in the refugee camps of north-western Tanzania11
Imagined mobilities and the materiality of migration: the search for ‘anchored lives’ in post-recession Europe11
Double burden of representation: how ethnic and refugee categorisation shapes Syrian migrants’ artistic practices in Austria11
The last straw? Experiences and future plans of returned migrants in the India-GCC corridor11
You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras11
Gender, race, and crisis-driven institutional growth: discourses of ‘migration crisis’ and the expansion of Frontex11
Two paths towards the exceptional extension of national voting rights to non-citizen residents11
Aspirations among young refugees in Turkey: social class, integration and onward migration in forced migration contexts11
Revisiting the EU’s new mobility regime: the impact of mobility and policies on labour market hierarchies within and across the EU11
On the West–East methodological bias in measuring international migration11
The time politics of migrant deportability: an intersectional analysis of deportation policy for non-citizen children in Belgium and the Netherlands10
Diasporic placemaking: the internationalisation of a migrant hometown in post-socialist China10
Inclusion through irregularisation? Exploring the politics and realities of internal bordering in managing post-crisis labour migration in the EU10
The il/liberal paradox: conceptualising immigration policy trade-offs across the democracy/autocracy divide10
Forever foreign? Is there a future for Chinese people in Africa?10
Predictive modelling of movements of refugees and internally displaced people: towards a computational framework10
Between integration and repatriation – frontline experiences of how conflicting immigrant integration policies hamper the integration of young refugees in Denmark10
The power of symbolic sanctuary: insights from Wales on the limitations and potential of a regional approach to sanctuary10
Beyond appreciation and rejection: reactions of Europeans without a migration background to being an ethnic minority10
La Caminata del Migrante: a social movement10
Urban home: young male migrants constructing home in the city10
Middle class nation building through immigration?10
Reimagining German identity through the politics of history: changing interpretations of German past migrations during the ‘Refugee crisis’, 2015/201610
Our migration story: history, the national curriculum, and re-narrating the British nation10
Relational (im)mobilities: a case study of Senegalese coastal fishing populations10
Racial capitalism and the production of difference in Helsinki and Warsaw10
Nativist understandings. The presence of the past in contemporary Dutch debates on national identity10
Infrastructures of migrant precarity: unpacking precarity through the lived experiences of migrant workers in Malaysia9
Conceptualizing displacement: the importance of coercion9
A system-thinking approach for migration studies: an introduction9
Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students’ experiences in Singapore and the UK9
Which individual-level factors explain public attitudes toward immigration? a meta-analysis9
Challenging the Muslimification of Muslims in research on ‘liberal democratic values’: why culture matters beyond religion9
Moving across (Im)mobility categories: the importance of values, family and adaptation for migration9
Policy, office, votes – and integrity. The British Conservative Party, Brexit, and immigration9
The domestic politics of selective permeability: disaggregating the Canadian migration state9
Shadows of the past: violent conflict and its repercussions for second-generation Bosnians in the diaspora9
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants9
‘The war has divided us more than ever’: Syrian refugee family networks and social capital for mobility through protracted displacement in Jordan9
Advancing the embedding framework: using longitudinal methods to revisit French highly skilled migrants in the context of Brexit9
The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labour market hierarchies9
Working and dwelling in a global city: going-out, public worlds, and the intimate lives of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong9
The relationship between ethnic school composition, school diversity climate and students’ competences in dealing with differences9
COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers9
The impact of parental migration on psychological well-being of children in Ghana8
Intellectual capital and student mobility8
The facts of return migration in the wake of COVID-19: a policy framework for reintegration of Pakistani workers8
Revisiting the established-outsider constellation in a gentrifying majority-minority neighbourhood8
Foreign labour migration in Nepal in relation to COVID-19: analysis of migrants’ aspirations, policy response and policy gaps from disaster justice perspective8
Social class and forced migrants’ perception of the value of international mobility8
Political opportunities, not migration flows: why the EU cooperates more broadly on migration with some neighbouring states8
Catalyst of hate? Ethnic insulting on YouTube in the aftermath of terror attacks in France, Germany and the United Kingdom 2014–20178
Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion: Kabaddi and South Asian male migrants in Greece8
Local welfare system response to refugees: between innovations, efficiency, and creating unequal opportunities8
On the formation of content for 'political remittances': an analysis of Polish and Romanian migrants comparative evaluations of 'here' and 'there'8
The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden8
Cross-border im/mobility of skilled migrants from the U.S. to China: a capital-mobility framework8
Are golden visas a golden opportunity? Assessing the economic origins and outcomes of residence by investment programmes in the EU8
Spillover dynamics and inter-institutional interactions between CSDP and AFSJ: moving towards a more joined-up EU external migration policy?8
Is translocality a hidden solution to overcome protracted displacement in the DR Congo?8
Deservingness in context: perspectives toward refugees and asylum seekers in Canada8
The developmental migration state8
Forced migrants in higher education: ‘sanctuary scholarships’ in a hostile environment8
‘He must be a man'. Uncovering the gendered vulnerabilities of young Sub-Saharan African men in their journeys to and in Libya8
Birth tourism and migrant children’s agency: the ‘double not’ in post-handover Hong Kong8
‘People of Color’ as a category and identity in the United States8
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK8
Overcoming borders: the Europeanization of civil society activism in the ‘refugee crisis’8
Local-scale residential concentration and income inequalities of the main foreign-born population groups in the Spanish urban space. Reaffirming the model of a divided city8
Who prefers to stay? voluntary immobility among youth in Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam8
Transnational welfare within and beyond the nation-state: civil society responses to the migration crisis in Greece8
‘Good life is first of all security, not to live in fear’: a qualitative exploration of female refugees’ quality of life in the United Kingdom8
Mobility power in the migration industry: Polish workers’ trajectories in the Netherlands8
How to model the weather-migration link: a machine-learning approach to variable selection in the Mexico-U.S. context8
Entangled migration states: mobility and state-building in France and Algeria8
Crossing borders: the intersectional marginalisation of Bulgarian Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers in Berlin8
Refugee women’s establishment in the rural north of Sweden: cultural capital in meeting local labour market needs8
Exploring the dynamics of neighbourhood ethnic segregation with agent-based modelling: an empirical application to Bradford, UK8
The occupational attainment and job security of immigrant children in Spain8
To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions8
The impact of physical separation from parents on the mental wellbeing of the children of migrants8
From Mobility Partnerships to Migration Compacts: security implications of EU-Jordan relations and the informalization of migration governance8
Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge: Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya7
Sanctuary city as mobilising metaphor: how sanctuary articulates urban governance7
Forced, regulated and flexible temporariness in return migration7
‘Ways to stick around’: im/mobility strategies of ageing, temporary migrants in Dubai7
Gender, modern slavery and labour exploitation: experiences of male Polish migrants in England7
Welfare state bordering as a form of mobility and migration control7
Colonial continuities and colonial unknowing in international migration management: the International Organization for Migration reconsidered7
Immigration rentier states7
Beyond ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’: the simultaneous impacts of co-agency in migration*7
Migration governance and the role of the third sector in small-sized towns in Italy7
How strategies of refugee host states are perceived by donor states: EU interpretations of Jordanian migration diplomacy7
Disgraceful return: Gulf migration and shifting national narratives amid COVID-197
‘Giving back’ through mobility trajectories: motivations for engaging in development encounters in Ghana among transnational youth7
Labour coercion and commodification: from the British Empire to postcolonial migration states7
Care circulations between Singapore and Myanmar: balancing eldercare work abroad with care for ageing parents back home7
Culture’s role in assimilation and integration: the expansion and growing diversity of U.S. popular culture7
Imperial migration states7
Tacking towards freedom? Bringing journeys out of slavery into dialogue with contemporary migration7
Religious norms and homeownership among Norwegian Muslim women7
Racialisation of Polish migrants in the UK and in Spain (Catalonia)7
From culturalisation to individuation: the role of urban spaces in shaping intergroup contacts and symbolic boundary perceptions7
Let’s hit the road! Environmental hazards, materialities, and mobility justice: insights from Tajikistan’s Pamirs7
Should I stay or should I go? Analysing returnee overseas Filipino workers’ reintegration measures given the COVID-19 pandemic7
Family figurations in displacement: entangled mobilities of refugees towards Germany and beyond7
Ageing and mobilities in transnational space: the British-Bangladeshi experience7
Riding on the waves of transformation in the Asia-Pacific: Chinese migration to Australia since the late 1980s7
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city7
Care visits: obligations, opportunities and constraints for Vietnamese grandparent visitors in Australia7
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM7
Oppositional culture revisited. Friendship dynamics and the creation of social capital among Turkish minority adolescents in Germany7
Neoliberal nationalism and immigration policy7
Diaspora citizenship in practice: identity, belonging and transnational civic activism amongst Zimbabweans in the UK7
Understanding minority feeling among people without a migration background: evidence from five majority-minority European cities7
Local context and immigrant bureaucratic incorporation: insights from Amsterdam and New York City6
Attitudes in motion: acculturation in views on family, sexuality and gender roles among immigrant-background youth in Sweden6
China-born scholars’ intellectual capital: a network approach6
Micro labour, ambivalence and discomfort: how people without a migration background strategically engage with difference in a majority–minority neighbourhood6
Immigrant selectivity, academic culture and college enrollment among Asian Americans6
‘When my children were born, I started to love Belgium’: Moroccan migrant mothers’ narratives of affective citizenship in the Belgian citizenisation context6
Demand for migrant workers: institutional system effects beyond national borders6
Cosmopolitanism ‘from below’ and claim-making in the Global South6
Silencing inconvenient memories: refugees from Asia Minor in Greek historiography6
Actions speak louder than claims: humanitarian corridors, civil society and asylum policies6
The challenge of low visibility: immigrant activism toward enfranchisement6
The vulnerability of Central & Eastern European and Zimbabwean migrant home care workers’ wellbeing in the UK: the intersectional effects of migration and social care systems6
Navigating bureaucratic violence in Canada’s two-step immigration system6
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality6
Migration as conflict risk-management: testing the new economics of labour migration as a framework for understanding refugee decision-making6
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced6
Cantonese migrant networks, white supremacy, and the political utility of apologies in Canada6
Temporary migration and middle class nation building in Canada6
Analysing community reaction to refugees through text analysis of social media data6
Migration networks and the intensity of global migration flows, 1990–20156
Hiring discrimination on the basis of skin colour? A correspondence test in Switzerland6
The illiberalism of liberalism: schools and fundamental controversial values6
At your service: the mobilities, rhythms and everyday lives of migrant labour in the gig economy6
Older immigrants – new poverty risk in Scandinavian welfare states?6
Reassembling attachments: place and well-being among Afghan refugees in a small rural town6
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime6
Diversity-mainstreaming in times of ageing and migration: implementation paradoxes in municipal aged care provision6
Re-constructing reverse family remittances: the case of new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand6
Legal and policy relevance of EU mobility partnerships in Morocco and Cape Verde: the role of epistemic communities6
“Exit Italy”? social and spatial (im)mobilities as conditions of protracted displacement6
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