Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries68
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon52
Legitimising detention and deportation of illegalised migrant families: reconstructing public controversies in Belgium and the Netherlands39
Refusing deterrence36
The affective economy of removal: ethnographic perspectives on deportation and (In)voluntary return35
Under pressure: moods, affects and the violence of everyday life in a Spanish migrant detention centre31
Shrinking the space for civil society: (De)Politicizing the obstruction of humanitarian NGOs in EU border management30
Regeneration, predatory inclusion, and migrant experiences in declining rural areas in Spain and Germany29
Getting home during lockdown: migration disruption, labour control and linked lives in India at the time of Covid-1929
Tense times for young migrants: temporality, life-course and immigration status28
Orientalization, or sidewards assimilation of second-generation Russian-speaking migrants in Israel’s urban periphery28
Ethical considerations of ‘going public’: public and media co-dissemination of research findings with refugees27
Leaving terrorism behind? The role of terrorist attacks in shaping migration intentions around the world27
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria27
Work, mobilities and the life course: choices and logistical entanglements in mobile life-careers26
‘Home-grown’ vs. ‘imported’ regionalism? Overlapping dynamics of regional migration governance in post-Soviet Eurasia26
Regional ethnic concentrations and ethnic discrimination in hiring: field experimental evidence from the Netherlands25
The contingent home: how second-generation Arab migrants negotiate belonging in Qatar?24
Care visits: obligations, opportunities and constraints for Vietnamese grandparent visitors in Australia23
‘You are Romanian. This is going to be a problem': class, desire, and educated migrant women in France23
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced23
From criminality to inclusion? Law and media framing of migrants in 1987–1990 and 2016–2019 Japan22
Afghans’ narrowing mobility options in Pakistan and the right to transnational living: a figurational perspective22
The impact of immigrants’ characteristics on anti-immigrant sentiment among the Jewish majority and the Arab minority in Israel21
The diversification of pastoralist herding: navigating socio-climatic risk via mobile technologies20
Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus19
Care-full resistance to slow violence: building radical hope through creative encounters with refugees during the pandemic19
Creative translation pathways for exploring gendered violence against Brazilian migrant women through a feminist translocational lens18
The effects of and support for anonymous job application procedures: evidence from a large-scale, multi-faceted study in the Netherlands18
Same religion, different treatment. The role of origin country characteristics in employers’ decisions to hire Muslims18
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival18
Processing payments, enacting alterity: financial technology in the everyday lives of asylum seekers18
COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers18
‘It’s about mindset’. How do young migrants in Poland build their resilience?18
Assembling exits and returns: the extraterritorial production of repatriation for Filipino migrant workers18
Doing migration studies with an accent17
The politics of (un)counting international migration in Senegal and the Gambia17
The economy of migration. Knowledge, accounting, and debt17
Imperial migration states17
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London16
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime16
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city16
Experiencing forced migration: challenges of arriving after displacement from Ukraine16
Middle class nation building through a tenacious discourse on skills: immigration and Canada15
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants15
Culture’s role in assimilation and integration: the expansion and growing diversity of U.S. popular culture15
‘I’ll be risking myself just to get an education’: how local-level immigration enforcement impacts undocumented students’ pathways to college14
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK14
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka14
Contesting racist talk in families: strategies used, and effects on family practices and social change14
Welcome from the Editor to JEMS volume 4914
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States14
Earned citizenship and fairness14
A ‘win-win exercise’? The effect of westward migration on educational outcomes of Eastern European children14
Do immigrant women spend more time on unpaid labor? Generational differences by race, ethnicity, and household composition in household work within the United States14
Immigration theory between assimilation and discrimination14
Fear, force, and flight: configurations of intimidation and displacement in Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’14
Divergent experiences and patterns of integration: contemporary Chinese immigrants in metropolitan Los Angeles, USA13
National identity, partisanship, and attitudes toward North Korean defectors in South Korea13
On the West–East methodological bias in measuring international migration13
Securing government assistance for temporary migrants during the COVID-19 crisis: analysing the role of policy narratives13
Re-visiting the ‘black box’ of migration: state-intermediary co-production of regulatory spaces of labour migration13
Ties that bind and unbind: charting the boundaries of European Union citizenship13
Leaving the nest in immigrant neighbourhoods: gender and origin differences in France13
Reassembling attachments: place and well-being among Afghan refugees in a small rural town13
How does marriage demand stimulate support for immigration in Asia?13
Immigration and the transformation of American society: politics, the economy, and popular culture13
Migration as conflict risk-management: testing the new economics of labour migration as a framework for understanding refugee decision-making13
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: social reproduction of ‘(low) skill’?13
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality12
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?12
Policy variation and refugee integration: a natural experiment comparing the effects of local integration programs12
EU border externalisation and security outsourcing: exploring the migration industry in Libya12
Language, race, and illegality: indigenous migrants navigating the immigration regime in a new destination12
You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras12
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers12
Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway12
Regions and global migration governance: perspectives ‘from above’, ‘from below’ and ‘from beyond’12
Quality and social justice in refugee education: Syrian refugee students’ experiences of integration into national education systems in Jordan12
Recognizing international protection. How institutional arrangements affect asylum decisions12
Liaison officers as influential ‘immigration risk’ brokers in visa policy implementation: intermediaries across institutional and national borders12
Diaspora activism and citizenship: Algerian community responses during the global pandemic12
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements11
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs11
Tolerated citizenship and FGM-safeguarding: experiences of unbelonging for those of Somali-heritage living in Bristol, UK11
Micro labour, ambivalence and discomfort: how people without a migration background strategically engage with difference in a majority–minority neighbourhood11
Contributors to social well-being from the perspective of older migrants in Australia11
Performing whiteness: Central and Eastern European young people’s experiences of xenophobia and racialisation in the UK post-Brexit11
Spillover dynamics and inter-institutional interactions between CSDP and AFSJ: moving towards a more joined-up EU external migration policy?11
Educational divides and class coalitions: How mainstream party voters divide and unite over immigration issues11
‘Do I really need to check that box?’ Ethnoracial ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States11
Riding on the waves of transformation in the Asia-Pacific: Chinese migration to Australia since the late 1980s11
Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt11
Transversal sanctuary enactments in Sweden: challenges, opportunities and implications11
How do people without migration background experience and impact today’s superdiverse cities?11
Understanding emotion regulation in Venezuelan immigrants to Peru and Peruvian internal migrants: a comparative study10
Treading water in transit: understanding gendered stuckness and movement in Tunisia10
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration10
Debt-financed migration: Agency and the productivity of debt10
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process10
Cultural and social support explanations of the native-migrant gap in the use of day care for pre-school children10
Home-bound precarity: home violence on return Indonesian migrant domestic workers10
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship10
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network10
Experimental evidence on how implicit racial bias affects risk preferences10
Will friends and family still be there after you have left? Evidence from return migrants in Colombia10
The income effects of minority co-ethnic employment: the case of Hungarians in central and Eastern Europe10
When women left their patrie : transborder mobility, women’s sexual agency, and moral panic in Turkey10
Quantifying the role of arrival infrastructures in the labor market integration of refugees10
Brick by brick bias: Arab Muslim experience of intersectionality in housing9
Disentangling assumptions: refugee women’s access to and use of social assistance in Canada9
Atrapados/ trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia9
Present but not counted: highly skilled migrant women in Belgium9
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation9
Introduction: the intellectual migration analytics9
Outsiders within: examining Ethiopian adoptee experiences through a diasporic lens9
Global education trajectories and inequality: STEM workers from China to the US9
Emigration and the care of older people ‘left behind’: the changing role of neighbourhood networks, ethnicity and civil society9
Welfare state bordering as a form of mobility and migration control9
Governing transit and irregular migration: informality and formal policies9
‘There is time to leave, and there is time to come back’. Polish migrants’ decisions about returning from international migration9
From ‘left-behind’ to ‘stay-put’ fatherhood: situating male stayers’ socio-structural positionality in transnationalism9
Intellectual capital and student mobility9
Not-so-subtle subtleties: undocumented migrant (in)visibility, (im)mobility and Dutch public spaces as sites of embodied racialization9
‘Formal informality’ in EU external migration governance: the case of mobility partnerships9
Introduction: EU external migration policy and EU migration governance: introduction9
The role of private sponsorship on refugee resettlement outcomes: a mixed methods study of Syrians in a mid-sized city with a linguistic minority8
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants8
Which individual-level factors explain public attitudes toward immigration? a meta-analysis8
Social trust and support for immigrants’ social rights in Spain8
Immigration, domestic labor, and earnings inequality among native-born women in the US8
Panethnic boundaries and the making of white-collar minority identity in Hawai’i8
Variation in the link between income position and union dissolution: an analysis of couples with and without a migrant background in Belgium8
A not-so ‘natural’ decision: impact of bureaucratic trajectories on forced migrants’ intention and ability to naturalise8
Racial and gender stereotypes in immigration attitudes: evidence from China8
Rethinking transnational parenting: Chinese immigrant parents’ family separation during COVID-198
On not staying put where they have put you: mobilities disrupting the socio-spatial figurations of displacement in Greece8
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies8
Assimilation and integration in the twenty-first century: where have we been and where are we going? Introduction to a special issue in honour of Richard Alba8
The impact of parental migration on psychological well-being of children in Ghana8
Re-thinking assimilation and why it matters: an intellectual, career and life journey – Richard Alba in conversation with Paul Statham8
Moral geographies and their application among diasporic Somalis’8
Linked fate, cumulative discrimination, and panethnic identification: awareness and use of ‘Latinx’ among a nationally representative sample of Hispanics/Latinos8
Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime8
Transnational resources through trajectories and temporalities of migrant youth mobility between Ghana and Europe8
Encounters with kindness: everyday and extraordinary kind interventions in the lives of forced migrant survivors of SGBV8
Gender, modern slavery and labour exploitation: experiences of male Polish migrants in England8
Uncertain future, unsettled present: suspending and embracing engagement with life among newcomers in Toronto, Canada8
How do global crises affect privileged migrants? Return migration of German emigrants one year into the Covid-19 pandemic8
Couples’ housework division among immigrants and natives – the role of women’s economic resources8
Decentralization and diaspora capture: transnationalism, autocracy, and hybrid power in federal Ethiopia8
An emerging ‘camp labour regime’: refugees’ labour between production and reproduction8
Ambivalent meanings of the past: state critique and memory politics in 1980s (pro-)Refugee struggles in the Federal Republic of Germany8
‘Ways to stick around’: im/mobility strategies of ageing, temporary migrants in Dubai8
Parental mobility, temporality and migration aspirations among currently non-migrant youth in Indonesia and the Philippines8
Labour coercion and commodification: from the British Empire to postcolonial migration states8
Embodying intimate border violence: collaborative art-research as multipliers of Latin American migrant women’s affects7
COVID-19 return migration phenomena: experiences from South and Southeast Asia7
The migration motive and transnational engagement nexus. A case study of transnational families between Cuba and Germany7
A paradise without people. Ambivalence in representations of migration and its outcomes when Syrian refugees talk about secondary migration to Europe7
Spheres of sanctuary: introduction to special issue7
The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden7
Badhyata and dukha : emotions, labour and migration across education migration to Australia and labour migration to Qatar from Nepal7
Perceived group threats and right-wing political party membership as driving forces of negative descriptions in Turkish Parliamentary debates (1983–2018)7
Locked out, but not disconnected: multilingual community engagement in Australia7
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries: the case of highly educated recent refugees in Norway7
Animating migration journeys from Colombia to Chile: expressing embodied experience through co-produced film7
The last straw? Experiences and future plans of returned migrants in the India-GCC corridor7
Poverty among migrant, mixed, and non-migrant households: the role of non-teleworkability and single-earnership in Germany7
‘It’s not about the information, it’s about the situation’: understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants’ narratives7
Sideways moves to adult life: the transnational mobility and transitions of young Italians to Australia7
Centre-right parties and immigration in an era of politicisation7
The neoliberal welfare state and its discontents. Slow violence against irregular migrants in Norway7
Making (in)formality work in a multi-scalar European border regime7
Crossing borders, casting votes: examining migrant electoral turnout in Chile (2012–2020)7
At your service: the mobilities, rhythms and everyday lives of migrant labour in the gig economy7
Mind the Gap! Revisiting the migration optimism/pessimism debate7
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK7
Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students’ experiences in Singapore and the UK7
Shades of protracted displacement: reconciling citizenship and the status of internally displaced in Eastern Ukraine7
The vulnerability of Central & Eastern European and Zimbabwean migrant home care workers’ wellbeing in the UK: the intersectional effects of migration and social care systems7
Does the apple fall far from the tree? The role of parental influence on sociability among the children of immigrants7
Revisiting the EU’s new mobility regime: the impact of mobility and policies on labour market hierarchies within and across the EU7
Precarity, work exploitation and inferior social rights: EU citizenship of Polish labour migrants in Norway7
Attitudes in motion: acculturation in views on family, sexuality and gender roles among immigrant-background youth in Sweden7
‘Not having a real life’: psychosocial functions of using and selling drugs among young Afghan men who came to Sweden as unaccompanied minors7
Chinese immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States: temporal and spatial dimensions7
Envisioning futures at new destinations: geographical imaginaries and migration aspirations of Nepali migrants moving to Malta7
Depoliticisation through employability: entanglements between European migration and development interventions in Tunisia6
Non-Belonging: borders, boundaries, and bodies at the interface of migration and citizenship studies6
Stratified financial inclusion in China based on hukou and its interaction with city and province development6
Transnational welfare within and beyond the nation-state: civil society responses to the migration crisis in Greece6
Making sense of hate: young Muslims’ understandings of online racism in Norway6
Opening a door to politics? Labour market entrance and political candidacy among refugees6
Older immigrants – new poverty risk in Scandinavian welfare states?6
A longitudinal investigation of integration/multiculturalism policies and attitudes towards immigrants in European countries6
Return migration and employment mobility: a pan-European analysis6
Refugees and claims-making in spaces of urban marginality: Syrian refugees build alliances across racial lines for collective action6
Revocation nation: the rule of law and precarious legal status in Norway6
Ageing and mobilities in transnational space: the British-Bangladeshi experience6
Writing code, decoding culture: digital skills and the promise of a fast lane to decent work among refugees and migrants in Berlin6
Misperceptions of immigrant flows and their associations with anti-immigrant attitudes6
Immigrant generation, gender, and citizenship: evidence on educational track choices from Italy6
Convoluted mobility: on the precarious movements of transnational migrant workers6
‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty6
From hospitality to dwelling: a lens for migrant homesharing in Italy6
Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research6
Homo Emigraturus vs. Anti Emigraturus : the rise of involuntary immobility in Iran and its consequences6
Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria6
Did exposure to asylum seeking migration affect the electoral outcome of the ‘Alternative für Deutschland’ in Berlin? Evidence from the 2019 European elections6
La Lucha: framing the struggle for survival, double consciousness and the economy of identity for undocumented Latina/os6
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 city6
The Asian American assimilation paradox6
Are golden visas a golden opportunity? Assessing the economic origins and outcomes of residence by investment programmes in the EU6
The external dimension of EU migration policy as region-building? Refugee cooperation as contentious politics6
Forced, regulated and flexible temporariness in return migration6
Examining labour market hierarchies in Slovakia from the perspective of intra-EU migration and return6
Do languages open doors? A theoretical model of linguistic capital and (im)mobility and its application in Spanish youth migration6
Structured encounters and immigrant experiences of integration in Sweden6
Integration through crossing circles natives’ opportunity pools and diversification of friendships in a transforming Europe6
Framing justice in struggles over cultural heritage: the case of Black Pete in the ‘postcolonial’ Netherlands6
Doing nothing? Dynamics of waiting among ageing internally displaced Cameroonians during the anglophone crisis6
Raising children in the UK: the screams of Zimbabwean migrant parents6
Student immigration, migration, and teacher preparation6
The politics left behind: how pre-migration and migration experiences shape Syrian refugees’ interest in home-county politics6
Porosity on the Thailand-Myanmar border: before and after Myanmar’s 2021 coup6
Navigating bureaucratic violence in Canada’s two-step immigration system6
The strength of strong ties: wasta and migration strategies among the Mappila Muslims of northern Kerala, India6
Family figurations in displacement: entangled mobilities of refugees towards Germany and beyond5
Decolonising civic integration: a critical analysis of texts used in Dutch civic integration programmes5
On the formation of content for 'political remittances': an analysis of Polish and Romanian migrants comparative evaluations of 'here' and 'there'5
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Contested regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: the case of the Bali Process and the protection of refugees5
Mandated economic self-sufficiency from state and refugee perspectives: refugee integration policy and practice in Sweden and New Zealand5
Alternating temporalities experienced by North African unaccompanied minors in The Netherlands: a story of waiting and hypermobility5
My values, their values: how value conceptualisations influence attitudes towards immigration5
The nexus between attitudes towards migration and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 11 European countries5
‘There is a wide path and there is a narrow path’ – transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah’s Witnesses5
‘I am still waiting for my papers but ʾinna Allāha maʿa al-ṣābirīn ’: on religious temporality and agency in female marriage migrants’ precarious migration experiences5
Salsa and the (Eternal) City. Rethinking the pleasure periphery5
Shadows of the past: violent conflict and its repercussions for second-generation Bosnians in the diaspora5
From broken windows to broken doors: rethinking the politics of immigration policing and the sociology of sanctuary5
Immigration, integration and citizenship: elements of a new political demography5
The occupational attainment and job security of immigrant children in Spain5
(Un)deserving victims: the race-gender-geopolitics nexus of migration discourses in Poland5
Invented, invited and instrumentalised spaces: conceptualising non-state actor engagement in regional migration governance in West Africa5
Employment outcomes of refugee women and men: multiple gender gaps and the importance of high-skill jobs5
Enacted but neither regulated nor applied: exploring emigrant enfranchisement in deviant cases5
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: the relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts5
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