Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Article	Citations
Stay or go? Post-Brexit and COVID-19 dilemmas of Return in British expatriate retiree communities in Spain	111
Embracing whiteness, becoming Western. The case of Polish expatriates in Saudi Arabia	71
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	65
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	64
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	63
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants	56
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	52
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	52
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	50
Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan	42
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	39
Don’t count me out: erasure of ethnicity and ethnic groups from national censuses	38
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants	38
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	37
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	37
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	37
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process	37
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	35
Earned citizenship and fairness	33
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	32
‘Not like those Lebs’: intra-ethnic distinction and conditional citizenship in regional Australia	30
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation	29
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	28
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	28
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	27

Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	27
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	26
Can activation of a shared identity increase cooperation between natives and migrants?	26
More than resilience: adaptive pragmatism and the everyday navigation of the integration landscape in Belgium	26
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	26
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	25
When a wife is an immigrant: family immigration pathways, employment, and household labour patterns	25
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship	25
Migration experience, hukou status, and political alienation in Chinese grassroots elections	25
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city	25
One century, two refugee crises in Greece: de-nationalising the past/de-naturalising the present	24
Return migration and employment mobility: a pan-European analysis	24
From ‘migrant’ to ‘refugee’: what changed? Working lives of Ukrainian women in the Czech Republic	23
‘There is a wide path and there is a narrow path’ – transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah’s Witnesses	23
Missing links in migrant enfranchisement studies	23
Reconceiving Asian parenting within intra-Asia migration	23
Contradicting processes of migranticisation and citizenisation: analysing the extent of nationality privilege in the context of French migration in Quebec, Canada	23
Security concerns, ethnic relations, and attitudes toward refugees: evidence from Turkey	22
The making of online Kurdistan: redefining nationhood and belonging among Kurdish Generation Z	22
Making ‘Best interest’ visible: the role of frontline staff in the care of unaccompanied children	22
Refugees and claims-making in spaces of urban marginality: Syrian refugees build alliances across racial lines for collective action	22
Casting votes or crossing borders? How living abroad reduces mobile Europeans’ likelihood to participate in European elections	22
Repertoires of sanctuary: building a network of safety at the French–Italian border	21
Understanding digital nomadism: a three-level framework for migration studies	21
Raising children in the UK: the screams of Zimbabwean migrant parents	21
Doing nothing? Dynamics of waiting among ageing internally displaced Cameroonians during the anglophone crisis	21
Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria	21
National register of citizens and citizenship amendment act 2019: following the logic of citizenship securitization in India	21
Family figurations in displacement: entangled mobilities of refugees towards Germany and beyond	20
Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime	20
The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden	20
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK	20
Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia	20
Fake refugee? Yemeni refugees becoming faceless labour in South Korea	19
Citizenship with adjectives: conceptual precision in comparative research	19
The politics left behind: how pre-migration and migration experiences shape Syrian refugees’ interest in home-county politics	19
A multi-level mixed-methods research design in studying localised experiences of asylum seekers: challenges and lessons learned	19
Citizenship and the democratic struggles in Montenegro and Serbia	19
To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions	19
Unpacked narratives on migration governance: missing voices of female migrants in migration policies in West Africa	19
The domestic politics of selective permeability: disaggregating the Canadian migration state	19
‘Human beings should not be deported’: the horn of Africa’s hegemon contests the EU’s norm to readmit	19
Posted work as an extreme case of hierarchised mobility	19
Envisioning futures at new destinations: geographical imaginaries and migration aspirations of Nepali migrants moving to Malta	19
Embodying intimate border violence: collaborative art-research as multipliers of Latin American migrant women’s affects	19
Spatio-temporal dynamics of platform labour: short-term rental cleaning labour intermediaries and student-migrant-workers	18
Representing the national self and the cultural other: the Chinese diaspora on Douyin	18
The discipline of hope: abolishing the prison of immobility in post-Deportation narratives	18
Addendum	18
Privileged transmigrant motherhood and its practices of distinction	18

Widening the net of immigration control: an analysis of Belgium’s assertive return policy	18
Friends and foes: the ambivalence of the use of NICT during the migratory journey	18
Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures	17
From commodification to contestation: rethinking citizenship by investment through law and policy	17
Success as self-determination: a subject-centred analysis of immigrants’ definitions and perceptions of success	17
How to model the weather-migration link: a machine-learning approach to variable selection in the Mexico-U.S. context	17
Negotiating belonging in digital gaming environments: Syrian youth under temporary protection in Türkiye	17
Exploring the link between democratisation and citizenship: comparing Kosovo and Albania	17
Unbecoming Indian: the contestation and negotiation of the category ‘Indian’ by South African migrants of Indian descent living in Australia	17
The relational dynamics of racialised policing: community policing for counterterrorism, suspect communities, and Muslim Americans’ provisional belonging	16
Privileged pariahs: agency of Korean expatriate mothers in the UAE	16
Role of school wellbeing, personality traits, parental involvement and family norms in relation to immigrant–native educational gaps. A longitudinal study from Denmark	16
‘Migrant data can never be accurate’: studying migration and borders through the notion of data quality	16
The influence of media narratives on political debate: narratives on the 2015 migrant ‘crisis’ in five European countries	16
Transcendent parenting across borders: transnational repertoires and parental positionality among Chinese ‘ Peidu Mamas ’ in Singapore	16
Averting, stepping-up or shielding: school strategies and intensive minority parenting among second-generation minority Danish parents	16
Doing and contesting borderwork in Senegal: local implementers of migration information campaigns	16
Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating	16
Societies of immigration control: the transactional subject of British borders after Brexit	16
The challenge of low visibility: immigrant activism toward enfranchisement	16
The developmental migration state	16
‘Do not disturb’: patience, social control and good citizenship in the Canadian family reunification process	16
Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum	15
Children’s sex composition and transition to higher-order birth among Turkish migrants in Europe and their non-migrant counterparts in Turkey: does having a son matter?	15
The situated and everyday cultivation of transcultural capital in educational and home settings for migrant youth in Scotland	15
Between obligations and aspirations: unaccompanied immigrant teen workers’ transnational lives and imagined futures	15
‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel	15
Border times: welfare workers navigating the temporal intersections of migration law and the education system	15
Narratives of solidarity: experimental evidence on shifting attitudes towards refugees	15
Migration narratives across national media, EU politics, and EU policymaking: a comparative analysis of the 2015 refugee crisis and the 2022 Ukrainian displacement	15
Fear, stigma, hope, and desahogó : understanding the role of deportation history and familial ties on the disclosure process of immigration-related experiences	15
Intermittent mobility as a livelihood strategy for landless rural people in Andhra Pradesh	15
Epistemic notions of trust and distrust in institutional encounters with forced migrants in Finland and Sweden	15
Overcoming origin-based preferences by selecting skilled immigrants? Preferences in immigrants’ national origin and social class in Quebec	15
Networked individualism with superficial integration: a study on Chinese entrepreneurs in Ikebukuro, Tokyo	14
Language as a diasporic stance: Polish in a migrant urban space	14
Migration narratives in Singapore: from economistic imperatives to counter-narratives and absent narratives on co-ethnic politics and ageing migrants	14
Pathways to external citizenship: the global extension of dual citizenship and voting from abroad	14
Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement	14
Tracing the demand- and supply-side of citizenship in Moldova during undulations of democracy	14
Media coverage and local cooperation in immigration enforcement	14
‘We’re not like the newbies’: belonging among Dubai’s long-term residents	14
Devices of suspicion. An analysis of Frontex screening materials at the registration and identification center in Moria	14
‘We do things together': exploring a household perspective on early integration processes of recent refugees	13
Peer effects on the educational outcomes of immigrant youth: heterogeneity by generation and school context	13
Minority or migrant? loneliness among older immigrants in England	13
The temporary turn in asylum: a new agenda for researching the politics of deterrence in practice	13
Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge: Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya	13
The feeling of destiny: taqdeer and ‘voluntary’ return in the everyday lives of irregularised Pakistani migrants	13
Co-ethnic core intermediaries: Swedish speakers in Finnish party politics	13
Legal and policy relevance of EU mobility partnerships in Morocco and Cape Verde: the role of epistemic communities	13
Discourse and racial integration of migrants: how Polish migrants become ‘integrated’ members of the white English majority	13
International norm dynamics in return and readmission: a research agenda	13
‘Refugees have power and strength’: how refugee agency influenced asylum policy process in Japan	13
Intersectional recognition: immigrant motherhood in a gentrifying sanctuary city’s schools	12
Power and informality in the polycentric governing of transit and irregular migration on EU’s eastern border with Belarus	12
Like parent, like child: how attitudes towards immigrants spill over to the political inclusion of their children	12
Polygyny in Denmark: a study of the instrumentalisation of cultural differences in immigration policies	12
Gender, racialisation, and border regimes: reflections on social positions and positioning in research with young people on the move	12
Emigration of the Western European second generation: is having immigrant parents a predictor of international migration?	12
Norms, not just interests: public support for migrant rights protections in Europe–Africa cooperation on irregular migration	12
‘Resilient survivors’: narratives of violence against women of refugee background	12
Lost in space (and time): the disrupted intimacies of Pacific and Timorese guestworkers in Australia	12
‘I realise that they are doing it for my own good’: ‘homeland’ education mobilities and intergenerational negotiation in Nigerian diaspora families	12
‘I am fine, but my group is not': exploring the meanings of the personal/group discrimination discrepancy among minority and majority populations	12
The contradictory effects of South Korean resettlement policy on North Koreans in South Korea	12
On the deportation charter: using freedom of information research to map the UK’s charter flight operations, 2010–2024	12
Portraits of feminicide: mural painting as protection among migrant women in Quintana Roo, Mexico	12
How refugees work together: the politics of solidarity and ‘invisible’ collective action during COVID-19	12
Ethnic diversity and cooperation: evidence from a lost letter experiment	12
Towards a ‘low ambition equilibrium’: managing refugee aspirations during the integration process in Switzerland	12
Mind the recognition gaps: layers of invisibility of farm migration in Norway	12
Refugee secondary migration from small cities: evidence from Utica, New York	12
How governance under the ‘grand compromise’ affects refugee preferences for relocation: evidence from Syrian refugees in Lebanon	12
Two paths towards the exceptional extension of national voting rights to non-citizen residents	12
Ethnopopulism and genocidal eliminationism: a discourse analysis of hate speech in the 1994 Rwandan genocide	11
Communication is socialization: understanding family socialization patterns across three generations of Somali-American refugee families	11
Living with hope, living with uncertainty: sustained, strained, and fatigued hope among former Filipino entertainers in Japan	11
Migratory dreams, prophecies, and intuitions: experiential religion in Ghanaian migration aspirations	11
Brokered bureaucracy: commodified integration in arrival spaces in Istanbul	11

Organised forced migration and the external drivers of eliminationist politics	11
Money, not protection. Assisted return programmes and the timing of future harm in refugee status determination	11
‘In Burma, We're Not Called Burmese’: how nation-building and ethnic conflict at home influences ethnic and national identities abroad	11
Risk perception and desire in decision-making: the case of Syrians’ sea migration to Europe	11
The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile	11
Living with ‘thin’ documents: a note on identity documents and liminal citizenship in the chars of Assam, India	11
Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information	11
Climate disasters and individual migration aspirations: evidence from Senegal and the Gambia	11
Becoming white or becoming mainstream?: defining the endpoint of assimilation	11
How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway	11
Constructing categories of ‘desirable migrants’ through bureaucracy in French and Canadian mobility regimes	11
The moderating effect of context of reception, labour market and education system on the migrant-native gap in university expectations	11
Facilitated but unauthorised return: the role of smugglers in return migration and clandestine border crossings between Malaysia and Indonesia	11
Constructed objectivity in asylum decision-making through new technologies	11
Pardon my French, Turkish and Arabic! How Flemish headteachers and teachers respond to multilingualism in the classroom	11
‘A citizen at last’: return migrants transcending identity and citizenship in Mexico's racialized regime	11
‘All is not yet lost here.’ The role of aspirations and capabilities in migration projects of Ukrainian migrants in Poland	11
‘Do I really need to check that box?’ Ethnoracial ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States	10
Decentralization and diaspora capture: transnationalism, autocracy, and hybrid power in federal Ethiopia	10
The making of migration narratives: understanding processes and gauging impacts	10
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM	10
The boundaries of grievability: when do migrant lives matter to political representatives in Slovakia?	10
A narrative approach to displacement, gender and conflict: motivations of Kurdish women to leave Syria in times of lawlessness	10
Constructing difference in postsocialist Britain: the role of historical memory in media narratives of German and Polish migrants	10
The bi-directional impact of a mixed union. People without a migration background in a union with a partner with a migration background	10
Redefining the demos: a tool for ethnodemographic security or a sign of backsliding? Evidence from Abkhazia	10
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs	10
Parental mobility, temporality and migration aspirations among currently non-migrant youth in Indonesia and the Philippines	10
Negotiating refugee status: the co-production of labelling and identity among Mbororo pastoralists in Cameroon	10
National identity, partisanship, and attitudes toward North Korean defectors in South Korea	10
‘We all know the benefits of having our parents and grandparents here with us’: super visas, temporary grand/parent migration, and Canadian nation building	10
Defining, operationalising and translating ‘vulnerability’ in humanitarian work in Jordan	10
The politics of Chinatown development in American cities	10
Boundary integrationism and its subject: shifts and continuities in the EU framework on migrant integration	10
Temporary togetherness: South Asian expatriate parents keeping their children in the UAE for university	10
From colonial control to democratic citizenship: unpacking Taiwan’s legal reform and indigenous rights	10
Humanitarian bargains: private refugee sponsorship and the limits of humanitarian reason	10
Spillover dynamics and inter-institutional interactions between CSDP and AFSJ: moving towards a more joined-up EU external migration policy?	10
Immigration, domestic labor, and earnings inequality among native-born women in the US	10
Hierarchised labour mobilities beyond the EU: intra-EU posting of third-country nationals and power resources in semi-peripheral EU countries	10
How media narratives on migration become nativist. A case-oriented comparative approach based on journalistic sub-genres	10
Immigration rentier states	10
Understanding the diversity of local diversities: an analysis of the (mis)match between policies and diversity configurations in Dutch municipalities	10
How class shapes rural migration for young people	10
The formation of institutional trust among immigrants: what is the role of democracy?	10
Quantifying the role of arrival infrastructures in the labor market integration of refugees	10
‘If you don’t speak Norwegian well, they think you are stupid’: experiencing and responding to linguistic racism by Polish migrant workers	10
‘Living between here and there’: Trans-local coping with urban marginality among internally displaced persons in urban Ethiopia	10
‘Stand by me’: competitive subnational regimes and the politics of retaining immigrants	10
Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway	10
Misperceptions of immigrant flows and their associations with anti-immigrant attitudes	9
Variation in the link between income position and union dissolution: an analysis of couples with and without a migrant background in Belgium	9
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime	9
Coyotaje in an uncertain social environment: prior coyote experience as a form of migration-specific human capital	9
Rethinking transnational parenting: Chinese immigrant parents’ family separation during COVID-19	9
Orientalization, or sidewards assimilation of second-generation Russian-speaking migrants in Israel’s urban periphery	9
COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers	9
Reconstructing intimacy in displacement: Syrian refugees and the re-making of home in Lebanon	9
Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt	9
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: the relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts	9
Fetishised and fictionalised: invisibility as a veil and obstruction for femme-presenting queer refugee women in Lebanon	9
Twenty-Five years on: anti-trafficking, shifting policy regimes and failure	9
The politics of (un)counting international migration in Senegal and the Gambia	9
Democratic participation, constitutions and the making of citizens: lessons from Kenya and Tanzania	9
Editorial welcome 2026	9
Digital activism and intergenerational perspectives on social justice and racial equity among multicultural youth	9
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: social reproduction of ‘(low) skill’?	9
(Im)migrant emotive maternal temporalities & cultural splicing in Coorg mothering	9
Poverty among migrant, mixed, and non-migrant households: the role of non-teleworkability and single-earnership in Germany	9
Homing infrastructures: Central and Eastern European families between precarity and cosmopolitan identity in post-Brexit Britain	9
Residual temporariness and the limits of citizenship for Syrian doctors in Turkey	9
Educational divides and class coalitions: How mainstream party voters divide and unite over immigration issues	9
Whose story? Unpacking migration narratives in the East and Horn of Africa	9
Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus	9
Atrapados/ trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia	9
Transnational mothering and the complexities of childhood among migrant Filipina domestic workers	9
Migratory class-making in global Asian cities: the European mobile middle negotiating ambivalent privilege in Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai	8
The affective dimensions of child-raising in cross-national families in Singapore	8
Return to what? Reimagining home and belonging after conflict and refugee status cessation among Liberians in Nigeria	8
Chessboard politics: the contested emergence of EU return and readmission norms	8
Socio-spatial inequalities in urban mobility: the immigrant-native travel time gap in German cities – a mixed method study	8
‘People of Color’ as a category and identity in the United States	8
Divide et impera: fragmented employment and racial management in Austrian parcel logistics	8
Forging mobilities, becoming ideal workers? Temporary migration and the gig economy	8
Labour market hierarchies between intra-EU migrants: why do mobile workers from the EU-West obtain better jobs and wages than those from the EU-East?	8
Family privilege and the politics of desirability: Russian birth mobilities to Brazil	8
Aspirations among young refugees in Turkey: social class, integration and onward migration in forced migration contexts	8
Survival over safety: non-reporting of criminalised violence by young migrants excluded from protection	8
(L)earning ‘belonging’: processes of inclusion and exclusion in Malta’s migrant integration programme	8
Inherited Crisis: Uganda 1972 and second-generation East African Muslims	8
Ambiguous elimination: Jordan’s denationalisation of West Bank Palestinians	8
Forced migrants’ agency between victimhood and self-efficacy – biographies of Syrians in Turkey	8
Who runs the world? Gender performances and racialized branding among young foreign women digital entrepreneurs in China	8
From participants to citizens? Democratic voting rights and naturalisation behaviour	8
Boundary work in the interpretations of French and Italian lifestyle migrants to Morocco	8