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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka117
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data89
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK70
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants55
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic52
Earned citizenship and fairness52
‘Not like those Lebs’: intra-ethnic distinction and conditional citizenship in regional Australia50
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies50
Can activation of a shared identity increase cooperation between natives and migrants?45
Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan45
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship41
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced40
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria40
Stay or go? Post-Brexit and COVID-19 dilemmas of Return in British expatriate retiree communities in Spain38
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation37
Embracing whiteness, becoming Western. The case of Polish expatriates in Saudi Arabia34
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration34
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases33
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities33
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries30
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States29
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements29
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?28
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers28
You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras28
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London27
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival26
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process25
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants25
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network25
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city25
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon25
Refugees and claims-making in spaces of urban marginality: Syrian refugees build alliances across racial lines for collective action24
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality24
Posted work as an extreme case of hierarchised mobility24
National register of citizens and citizenship amendment act 2019: following the logic of citizenship securitization in India23
Return migration and employment mobility: a pan-European analysis23
Embodying intimate border violence: collaborative art-research as multipliers of Latin American migrant women’s affects23
Doing nothing? Dynamics of waiting among ageing internally displaced Cameroonians during the anglophone crisis23
One century, two refugee crises in Greece: de-nationalising the past/de-naturalising the present23
To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions22
‘There is a wide path and there is a narrow path’ – transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah’s Witnesses22
Envisioning futures at new destinations: geographical imaginaries and migration aspirations of Nepali migrants moving to Malta22
Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia22
Missing links in migrant enfranchisement studies21
Casting votes or crossing borders? How living abroad reduces mobile Europeans’ likelihood to participate in European elections21
Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime21
Family figurations in displacement: entangled mobilities of refugees towards Germany and beyond21
From ‘migrant’ to ‘refugee’: what changed? Working lives of Ukrainian women in the Czech Republic21
Fake refugee? Yemeni refugees becoming faceless labour in South Korea20
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK20
Understanding digital nomadism: a three-level framework for migration studies20
Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria20
Raising children in the UK: the screams of Zimbabwean migrant parents20
Unpacked narratives on migration governance: missing voices of female migrants in migration policies in West Africa20
Repertoires of sanctuary: building a network of safety at the French–Italian border20
The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden20
Making ‘Best interest’ visible: the role of frontline staff in the care of unaccompanied children20
The politics left behind: how pre-migration and migration experiences shape Syrian refugees’ interest in home-county politics20
The influence of media narratives on political debate: narratives on the 2015 migrant ‘crisis’ in five European countries19
Societies of immigration control: the transactional subject of British borders after Brexit19
Privileged pariahs: agency of Korean expatriate mothers in the UAE19
Reconceiving Asian parenting within intra-Asia migration19
Success as self-determination: a subject-centred analysis of immigrants’ definitions and perceptions of success19
Addendum19
Representing the national self and the cultural other: the Chinese diaspora on Douyin18
How to model the weather-migration link: a machine-learning approach to variable selection in the Mexico-U.S. context18
The developmental migration state17
Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion: Kabaddi and South Asian male migrants in Greece17
Widening the net of immigration control: an analysis of Belgium’s assertive return policy17
Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating17
Friends and foes: the ambivalence of the use of NICT during the migratory journey17
The domestic politics of selective permeability: disaggregating the Canadian migration state17
The discipline of hope: abolishing the prison of immobility in post-Deportation narratives17
Doing and contesting borderwork in Senegal: local implementers of migration information campaigns17
Averting, stepping-up or shielding: school strategies and intensive minority parenting among second-generation minority Danish parents17
The challenge of low visibility: immigrant activism toward enfranchisement17
A multi-level mixed-methods research design in studying localised experiences of asylum seekers: challenges and lessons learned17
‘Do not disturb’: patience, social control and good citizenship in the Canadian family reunification process17
‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel17
Privileged transmigrant motherhood and its practices of distinction17
Spatio-temporal dynamics of platform labour: short-term rental cleaning labour intermediaries and student-migrant-workers16
Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum16
Role of school wellbeing, personality traits, parental involvement and family norms in relation to immigrant–native educational gaps. A longitudinal study from Denmark16
Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures16
The relational dynamics of racialised policing: community policing for counterterrorism, suspect communities, and Muslim Americans’ provisional belonging16
‘Migrant data can never be accurate’: studying migration and borders through the notion of data quality16
Transcendent parenting across borders: transnational repertoires and parental positionality among Chinese ‘ Peidu Mamas ’ in Singapore16
Intermittent mobility as a livelihood strategy for landless rural people in Andhra Pradesh15
Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge: Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya15
Networked individualism with superficial integration: a study on Chinese entrepreneurs in Ikebukuro, Tokyo15
The feeling of destiny: taqdeer and ‘voluntary’ return in the everyday lives of irregularised Pakistani migrants15
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
Border times: welfare workers navigating the temporal intersections of migration law and the education system15
Legal and policy relevance of EU mobility partnerships in Morocco and Cape Verde: the role of epistemic communities15
Overcoming origin-based preferences by selecting skilled immigrants? Preferences in immigrants’ national origin and social class in Quebec15
Fear, stigma, hope, and desahogó : understanding the role of deportation history and familial ties on the disclosure process of immigration-related experiences15
Power and informality in the polycentric governing of transit and irregular migration on EU’s eastern border with Belarus15
Do rights violations deter refugees?14
Towards a ‘low ambition equilibrium’: managing refugee aspirations during the integration process in Switzerland14
Migration narratives in Singapore: from economistic imperatives to counter-narratives and absent narratives on co-ethnic politics and ageing migrants14
The temporary turn in asylum: a new agenda for researching the politics of deterrence in practice14
Migration narratives across national media, EU politics, and EU policymaking: a comparative analysis of the 2015 refugee crisis and the 2022 Ukrainian displacement14
Minority or migrant? loneliness among older immigrants in England14
Between obligations and aspirations: unaccompanied immigrant teen workers’ transnational lives and imagined futures14
Media coverage and local cooperation in immigration enforcement14
Mind the recognition gaps: layers of invisibility of farm migration in Norway14
‘I realise that they are doing it for my own good’: ‘homeland’ education mobilities and intergenerational negotiation in Nigerian diaspora families14
Money, not protection. Assisted return programmes and the timing of future harm in refugee status determination13
‘Refugees have power and strength’: how refugee agency influenced asylum policy process in Japan13
‘We do things together': exploring a household perspective on early integration processes of recent refugees13
Temporary labour migration in South Asia: Nepal and its fragmented labour migration sector13
Language as a diasporic stance: Polish in a migrant urban space13
Pardon my French, Turkish and Arabic! How Flemish headteachers and teachers respond to multilingualism in the classroom13
Who is (un)deserving? Differential healthcare access and the interplay between social and symbolic boundary-drawing towards Syrian refugees in Turkey13
The situated and everyday cultivation of transcultural capital in educational and home settings for migrant youth in Scotland13
Pathways to external citizenship: the global extension of dual citizenship and voting from abroad13
Devices of suspicion. An analysis of Frontex screening materials at the registration and identification center in Moria13
Epistemic notions of trust and distrust in institutional encounters with forced migrants in Finland and Sweden13
Ethnic diversity and cooperation: evidence from a lost letter experiment13
Peer effects on the educational outcomes of immigrant youth: heterogeneity by generation and school context13
Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement13
‘We’re not like the newbies’: belonging among Dubai’s long-term residents13
Co-ethnic core intermediaries: Swedish speakers in Finnish party politics13
‘They laughed at me, but I left that job’: occupational agency of Latvian migrant workers in the United Kingdom13
How refugees work together: the politics of solidarity and ‘invisible’ collective action during COVID-1912
Refugee secondary migration from small cities: evidence from Utica, New York12
How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway12
Constructing categories of ‘desirable migrants’ through bureaucracy in French and Canadian mobility regimes12
Polygyny in Denmark: a study of the instrumentalisation of cultural differences in immigration policies12
Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information12
‘In Burma, We're Not Called Burmese’: how nation-building and ethnic conflict at home influences ethnic and national identities abroad12
Emigration of the Western European second generation: is having immigrant parents a predictor of international migration?12
‘I am fine, but my group is not': exploring the meanings of the personal/group discrimination discrepancy among minority and majority populations12
Portraits of feminicide: mural painting as protection among migrant women in Quintana Roo, Mexico12
Climate disasters and individual migration aspirations: evidence from Senegal and the Gambia12
Like parent, like child: how attitudes towards immigrants spill over to the political inclusion of their children12
‘We are like in a jungle trying to survive’; navigating uncertainty by Cameroonian returnees12
On the deportation charter: using freedom of information research to map the UK’s charter flight operations, 2010–202412
Gender, racialisation, and border regimes: reflections on social positions and positioning in research with young people on the move12
How governance under the ‘grand compromise’ affects refugee preferences for relocation: evidence from Syrian refugees in Lebanon12
Brokered bureaucracy: commodified integration in arrival spaces in Istanbul12
Becoming white or becoming mainstream?: defining the endpoint of assimilation12
The contradictory effects of South Korean resettlement policy on North Koreans in South Korea11
Two paths towards the exceptional extension of national voting rights to non-citizen residents11
The moderating effect of context of reception, labour market and education system on the migrant-native gap in university expectations11
The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile11
The bi-directional impact of a mixed union. People without a migration background in a union with a partner with a migration background11
Intersectional recognition: immigrant motherhood in a gentrifying sanctuary city’s schools11
‘All is not yet lost here.’ The role of aspirations and capabilities in migration projects of Ukrainian migrants in Poland11
Risk perception and desire in decision-making: the case of Syrians’ sea migration to Europe11
Migratory dreams, prophecies, and intuitions: experiential religion in Ghanaian migration aspirations11
The politics of Chinatown development in American cities11
Are you in the club? The contested role of the night for Muslim immigrant youth in Aarhus, Denmark11
Advancing the embedding framework: using longitudinal methods to revisit French highly skilled migrants in the context of Brexit11
‘Resilient survivors’: narratives of violence against women of refugee background11
‘Living between here and there’: Trans-local coping with urban marginality among internally displaced persons in urban Ethiopia11
Constructed objectivity in asylum decision-making through new technologies11
‘We all know the benefits of having our parents and grandparents here with us’: super visas, temporary grand/parent migration, and Canadian nation building11
Constructing difference in postsocialist Britain: the role of historical memory in media narratives of German and Polish migrants10
Immigration rentier states10
National identity, partisanship, and attitudes toward North Korean defectors in South Korea10
Defining, operationalising and translating ‘vulnerability’ in humanitarian work in Jordan10
Living with ‘thin’ documents: a note on identity documents and liminal citizenship in the chars of Assam, India10
‘Stand by me’: competitive subnational regimes and the politics of retaining immigrants10
Facilitated but unauthorised return: the role of smugglers in return migration and clandestine border crossings between Malaysia and Indonesia10
Humanitarian bargains: private refugee sponsorship and the limits of humanitarian reason10
Communication is socialization: understanding family socialization patterns across three generations of Somali-American refugee families10
Understanding the diversity of local diversities: an analysis of the (mis)match between policies and diversity configurations in Dutch municipalities10
A narrative approach to displacement, gender and conflict: motivations of Kurdish women to leave Syria in times of lawlessness10
The formation of institutional trust among immigrants: what is the role of democracy?10
Relational (im)mobilities: a case study of Senegalese coastal fishing populations10
‘If you don’t speak Norwegian well, they think you are stupid’: experiencing and responding to linguistic racism by Polish migrant workers10
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM10
The boundaries of grievability: when do migrant lives matter to political representatives in Slovakia?10
Negotiating refugee status: the co-production of labelling and identity among Mbororo pastoralists in Cameroon10
The making of migration narratives: understanding processes and gauging impacts10
Boundary integrationism and its subject: shifts and continuities in the EU framework on migrant integration10
The politics of (un)counting international migration in Senegal and the Gambia10
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: social reproduction of ‘(low) skill’?10
Of prostitutes and thieves: the hyper-sexualisation and criminalisation of Venezuelan migrant women in Peru10
News consumption and immigration attitudes: a mixed methods approach10
How media narratives on migration become nativist. A case-oriented comparative approach based on journalistic sub-genres10
‘Do I really need to check that box?’ Ethnoracial ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States9
Work, mobilities and the life course: choices and logistical entanglements in mobile life-careers9
Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt9
‘Not having a real life’: psychosocial functions of using and selling drugs among young Afghan men who came to Sweden as unaccompanied minors9
Socialisation and ethnic majorities’ attitudes towards ethnic minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlational evidence9
Mandated economic self-sufficiency from state and refugee perspectives: refugee integration policy and practice in Sweden and New Zealand9
(Im)migrant emotive maternal temporalities & cultural splicing in Coorg mothering9
Parental mobility, temporality and migration aspirations among currently non-migrant youth in Indonesia and the Philippines9
Forced, regulated and flexible temporariness in return migration9
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs9
Residual temporariness and the limits of citizenship for Syrian doctors in Turkey9
Immigration, domestic labor, and earnings inequality among native-born women in the US9
Educational divides and class coalitions: How mainstream party voters divide and unite over immigration issues9
Whose story? Unpacking migration narratives in the East and Horn of Africa9
Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research9
Variation in the link between income position and union dissolution: an analysis of couples with and without a migrant background in Belgium9
Fetishised and fictionalised: invisibility as a veil and obstruction for femme-presenting queer refugee women in Lebanon9
Locked out, but not disconnected: multilingual community engagement in Australia9
Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway9
Spillover dynamics and inter-institutional interactions between CSDP and AFSJ: moving towards a more joined-up EU external migration policy?9
Diaspora activism and citizenship: Algerian community responses during the global pandemic9
Decentralization and diaspora capture: transnationalism, autocracy, and hybrid power in federal Ethiopia9
Rethinking transnational parenting: Chinese immigrant parents’ family separation during COVID-199
COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers9
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime9
Exploring Europe’s external migration policy mix: on the interactions of visa, readmission, and resettlement policies9
Misperceptions of immigrant flows and their associations with anti-immigrant attitudes9
‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty9
Transnational mothering and the complexities of childhood among migrant Filipina domestic workers9
Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus9
Atrapados/ trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia9
Orientalization, or sidewards assimilation of second-generation Russian-speaking migrants in Israel’s urban periphery9
Quantifying the role of arrival infrastructures in the labor market integration of refugees9
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries: the case of highly educated recent refugees in Norway8
Integration through crossing circles natives’ opportunity pools and diversification of friendships in a transforming Europe8
Visa journeys and permanent temporariness: navigating welfare state borders and precarious status in Australia8
Transnational trajectories of fear: youth in migrant families in the United States and in Mexico8
Divide et impera: fragmented employment and racial management in Austrian parcel logistics8
The Sweden paradox: US far-right fantasies of a dystopian utopia8
The detention corridor: ambiguity, space, and uncertainty in immigrant family detention8
Labour coercion and commodification: from the British Empire to postcolonial migration states8
Immigrant generation, gender, and citizenship: evidence on educational track choices from Italy8
Poverty among migrant, mixed, and non-migrant households: the role of non-teleworkability and single-earnership in Germany8
Homing infrastructures: Central and Eastern European families between precarity and cosmopolitan identity in post-Brexit Britain8
Correction8
Brokering in uncharted terrain: the revocation of protection in Norwegian and Danish asylum cases8
(Mis)representing climate mobilities: lessons from documentary filmmaking8
‘People of Color’ as a category and identity in the United States8
Who runs the world? Gender performances and racialized branding among young foreign women digital entrepreneurs in China8
Introduction: mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia8
Coyotaje in an uncertain social environment: prior coyote experience as a form of migration-specific human capital8
Educational strategies across borders: the proactive, the reliant, and the disconnected8
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: the relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts8
(L)earning ‘belonging’: processes of inclusion and exclusion in Malta’s migrant integration programme8
Forging mobilities, becoming ideal workers? Temporary migration and the gig economy8
When fear spreads: individual- and group-level predictors of deportation worry among Latino immigrants8
Wartime (im)mobilities: effects of aspirations-capabilities on displaced Ukrainians in Canada and Germany and their viewpoints on those who remain in Ukraine8
Preparing for climate migration and integration: a policy and research agenda8
Depoliticisation through employability: entanglements between European migration and development interventions in Tunisia8
‘It’s not about the information, it’s about the situation’: understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants’ narratives8
Fostering togetherness in superdiverse Catholic parishes7
On a fast-track to adulthood: social integration and identity formation experiences of young-adults of 1.5 generation immigrants7
Local news monopolies increase misperceptions about immigration7
Determinants of refugees’ generalised and institutional trust: evidence from Germany7
Nationhood as ethical orientation among Polish Catholic migrants in Denmark7
‘I’m not a complete mother’: childcare choices of migrant women in Cambodia7
Intersectional (In)visibility: experiences of irregular migrants in Barcelona7
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