Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic93
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements66
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies51
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States42
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network42
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data41
You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras40
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London40
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers39
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?37
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases34
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon34
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities33
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka32
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation32
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria32
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city31
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival30
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries28
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced26
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants25
Earned citizenship and fairness25
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship25
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK25
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process25
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration25
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality24
Refugees and claims-making in spaces of urban marginality: Syrian refugees build alliances across racial lines for collective action24
From ‘migrant’ to ‘refugee’: what changed? Working lives of Ukrainian women in the Czech Republic24
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants24
Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria22
To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions22
Precarity, work exploitation and inferior social rights: EU citizenship of Polish labour migrants in Norway21
The politics left behind: how pre-migration and migration experiences shape Syrian refugees’ interest in home-county politics21
Embodying intimate border violence: collaborative art-research as multipliers of Latin American migrant women’s affects21
Understanding digital nomadism: a three-level framework for migration studies21
‘There is a wide path and there is a narrow path’ – transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah’s Witnesses21
Posted work as an extreme case of hierarchised mobility21
Repertoires of sanctuary: building a network of safety at the French–Italian border21
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK21
Return migration and employment mobility: a pan-European analysis20
Raising children in the UK: the screams of Zimbabwean migrant parents20
The (in)significance of citizenship in white British citizens’ narratives of national belonging20
Missing links in migrant enfranchisement studies20
Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia19
Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime19
The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden19
Doing nothing? Dynamics of waiting among ageing internally displaced Cameroonians during the anglophone crisis19
Envisioning futures at new destinations: geographical imaginaries and migration aspirations of Nepali migrants moving to Malta19
Family figurations in displacement: entangled mobilities of refugees towards Germany and beyond19
Role of school wellbeing, personality traits, parental involvement and family norms in relation to immigrant–native educational gaps. A longitudinal study from Denmark18
The domestic politics of selective permeability: disaggregating the Canadian migration state18
Widening the net of immigration control: an analysis of Belgium’s assertive return policy18
Friends and foes: the ambivalence of the use of NICT during the migratory journey18
Addendum18
Privileged transmigrant motherhood and its practices of distinction18
National register of citizens and citizenship amendment act 2019: following the logic of citizenship securitization in India18
Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion: Kabaddi and South Asian male migrants in Greece18
The challenge of low visibility: immigrant activism toward enfranchisement18
Doing and contesting borderwork in Senegal: local implementers of migration information campaigns17
Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum17
Spatio-temporal dynamics of platform labour: short-term rental cleaning labour intermediaries and student-migrant-workers17
Averting, stepping-up or shielding: school strategies and intensive minority parenting among second-generation minority Danish parents17
The relational dynamics of racialised policing: community policing for counterterrorism, suspect communities, and Muslim Americans’ provisional belonging17
Success as self-determination: a subject-centred analysis of immigrants’ definitions and perceptions of success17
The developmental migration state17
The influence of media narratives on political debate: narratives on the 2015 migrant ‘crisis’ in five European countries17
The discipline of hope: abolishing the prison of immobility in post-Deportation narratives17
Working and dwelling in a global city: going-out, public worlds, and the intimate lives of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong16
How to model the weather-migration link: a machine-learning approach to variable selection in the Mexico-U.S. context16
‘Do not disturb’: patience, social control and good citizenship in the Canadian family reunification process16
Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating16
‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel16
Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures16
Intermittent mobility as a livelihood strategy for landless rural people in Andhra Pradesh15
Between obligations and aspirations: unaccompanied immigrant teen workers’ transnational lives and imagined futures15
Overcoming origin-based preferences by selecting skilled immigrants? Preferences in immigrants’ national origin and social class in Quebec15
Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement15
‘We do things together': exploring a household perspective on early integration processes of recent refugees15
Towards a ‘low ambition equilibrium’: managing refugee aspirations during the integration process in Switzerland15
Societies of immigration control: the transactional subject of British borders after Brexit15
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
Legal and policy relevance of EU mobility partnerships in Morocco and Cape Verde: the role of epistemic communities15
A multi-level mixed-methods research design in studying localised experiences of asylum seekers: challenges and lessons learned15
Fear, stigma, hope, and desahogó : understanding the role of deportation history and familial ties on the disclosure process of immigration-related experiences14
Language as a diasporic stance: Polish in a migrant urban space14
Power and informality in the polycentric governing of transit and irregular migration on EU’s eastern border with Belarus14
Epistemic notions of trust and distrust in institutional encounters with forced migrants in Finland and Sweden14
Border times: welfare workers navigating the temporal intersections of migration law and the education system14
Mind the recognition gaps: layers of invisibility of farm migration in Norway14
Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge: Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya14
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?14
Devices of suspicion. An analysis of Frontex screening materials at the registration and identification center in Moria14
Migration narratives across national media, EU politics, and EU policymaking: a comparative analysis of the 2015 refugee crisis and the 2022 Ukrainian displacement14
Do rights violations deter refugees?14
Temporary labour migration in South Asia: Nepal and its fragmented labour migration sector13
The temporary turn in asylum: a new agenda for researching the politics of deterrence in practice13
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
Pardon my French, Turkish and Arabic! How Flemish headteachers and teachers respond to multilingualism in the classroom13
‘Bad parents’, deportable subjects: borders and deportability in the everyday lives of undocumented families in Belgium13
‘We’re not like the newbies’: belonging among Dubai’s long-term residents13
Peer effects on the educational outcomes of immigrant youth: heterogeneity by generation and school context13
Ethnic diversity and cooperation: evidence from a lost letter experiment13
‘I realise that they are doing it for my own good’: ‘homeland’ education mobilities and intergenerational negotiation in Nigerian diaspora families13
Media coverage and local cooperation in immigration enforcement13
Re-constructing reverse family remittances: the case of new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand13
Cantonese migrant networks, white supremacy, and the political utility of apologies in Canada13
The contradictory effects of South Korean resettlement policy on North Koreans in South Korea12
‘All is not yet lost here.’ The role of aspirations and capabilities in migration projects of Ukrainian migrants in Poland12
How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway12
‘We are like in a jungle trying to survive’; navigating uncertainty by Cameroonian returnees12
Climate disasters and individual migration aspirations: evidence from Senegal and the Gambia12
Becoming white or becoming mainstream?: defining the endpoint of assimilation12
‘Resilient survivors’: narratives of violence against women of refugee background12
Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information12
Money, not protection. Assisted return programmes and the timing of future harm in refugee status determination12
Intersectional recognition: immigrant motherhood in a gentrifying sanctuary city’s schools12
Gender, racialisation, and border regimes: reflections on social positions and positioning in research with young people on the move12
Emigration of the Western European second generation: is having immigrant parents a predictor of international migration?12
Two paths towards the exceptional extension of national voting rights to non-citizen residents12
Refugee secondary migration from small cities: evidence from Utica, New York12
‘I am fine, but my group is not': exploring the meanings of the personal/group discrimination discrepancy among minority and majority populations12
How refugees work together: the politics of solidarity and ‘invisible’ collective action during COVID-1912
Portraits of feminicide: mural painting as protection among migrant women in Quintana Roo, Mexico11
On the deportation charter: using freedom of information research to map the UK’s charter flight operations, 2010–202411
Are you in the club? The contested role of the night for Muslim immigrant youth in Aarhus, Denmark11
‘Stand by me’: competitive subnational regimes and the politics of retaining immigrants11
A narrative approach to displacement, gender and conflict: motivations of Kurdish women to leave Syria in times of lawlessness11
‘Living between here and there’: Trans-local coping with urban marginality among internally displaced persons in urban Ethiopia11
Like parent, like child: how attitudes towards immigrants spill over to the political inclusion of their children11
Who is (un)deserving? Differential healthcare access and the interplay between social and symbolic boundary-drawing towards Syrian refugees in Turkey11
Advancing the embedding framework: using longitudinal methods to revisit French highly skilled migrants in the context of Brexit11
The moderating effect of context of reception, labour market and education system on the migrant-native gap in university expectations11
‘If you don’t speak Norwegian well, they think you are stupid’: experiencing and responding to linguistic racism by Polish migrant workers11
Migratory dreams, prophecies, and intuitions: experiential religion in Ghanaian migration aspirations11
How governance under the ‘grand compromise’ affects refugee preferences for relocation: evidence from Syrian refugees in Lebanon11
Polygyny in Denmark: a study of the instrumentalisation of cultural differences in immigration policies11
Constructing categories of ‘desirable migrants’ through bureaucracy in French and Canadian mobility regimes11
Risk perception and desire in decision-making: the case of Syrians’ sea migration to Europe11
The politics of Chinatown development in American cities11
Negotiating refugee status: the co-production of labelling and identity among Mbororo pastoralists in Cameroon11
Understanding the diversity of local diversities: an analysis of the (mis)match between policies and diversity configurations in Dutch municipalities11
Diverging interpretations of humanitarian exceptions: assisting rejected asylum seekers in Norway11
Facilitated but unauthorised return: the role of smugglers in return migration and clandestine border crossings between Malaysia and Indonesia10
Defining, operationalising and translating ‘vulnerability’ in humanitarian work in Jordan10
The formation of institutional trust among immigrants: what is the role of democracy?10
Immigration rentier states10
News consumption and immigration attitudes: a mixed methods approach10
Emigration and the care of older people ‘left behind’: the changing role of neighbourhood networks, ethnicity and civil society10
The making of migration narratives: understanding processes and gauging impacts10
Living with ‘thin’ documents: a note on identity documents and liminal citizenship in the chars of Assam, India10
Boundary integrationism and its subject: shifts and continuities in the EU framework on migrant integration10
How media narratives on migration become nativist. A case-oriented comparative approach based on journalistic sub-genres10
Of prostitutes and thieves: the hyper-sexualisation and criminalisation of Venezuelan migrant women in Peru10
Relational (im)mobilities: a case study of Senegalese coastal fishing populations10
Constructed objectivity in asylum decision-making through new technologies10
Work, mobilities and the life course: choices and logistical entanglements in mobile life-careers10
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM10
The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile10
The bi-directional impact of a mixed union. People without a migration background in a union with a partner with a migration background10
Constructing difference in postsocialist Britain: the role of historical memory in media narratives of German and Polish migrants10
Humanitarian bargains: private refugee sponsorship and the limits of humanitarian reason10
Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway10
Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus10
National identity, partisanship, and attitudes toward North Korean defectors in South Korea9
COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers9
Orientalization, or sidewards assimilation of second-generation Russian-speaking migrants in Israel’s urban periphery9
Immigration, domestic labor, and earnings inequality among native-born women in the US9
‘Do I really need to check that box?’ Ethnoracial ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States9
Quantifying the role of arrival infrastructures in the labor market integration of refugees9
Present but not counted: highly skilled migrant women in Belgium9
Diaspora activism and citizenship: Algerian community responses during the global pandemic9
Parental mobility, temporality and migration aspirations among currently non-migrant youth in Indonesia and the Philippines9
Rethinking transnational parenting: Chinese immigrant parents’ family separation during COVID-199
Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt9
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: social reproduction of ‘(low) skill’?9
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime9
Decentralization and diaspora capture: transnationalism, autocracy, and hybrid power in federal Ethiopia9
Educational divides and class coalitions: How mainstream party voters divide and unite over immigration issues9
Atrapados/ trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia9
Exploring Europe’s external migration policy mix: on the interactions of visa, readmission, and resettlement policies8
The detention corridor: ambiguity, space, and uncertainty in immigrant family detention8
Socialisation and ethnic majorities’ attitudes towards ethnic minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlational evidence8
Labour coercion and commodification: from the British Empire to postcolonial migration states8
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries: the case of highly educated recent refugees in Norway8
‘It’s not about the information, it’s about the situation’: understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants’ narratives8
Educational strategies across borders: the proactive, the reliant, and the disconnected8
Visa journeys and permanent temporariness: navigating welfare state borders and precarious status in Australia8
Understanding emotion regulation in Venezuelan immigrants to Peru and Peruvian internal migrants: a comparative study8
Spillover dynamics and inter-institutional interactions between CSDP and AFSJ: moving towards a more joined-up EU external migration policy?8
Misperceptions of immigrant flows and their associations with anti-immigrant attitudes8
Introduction: mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia8
Brokering in uncharted terrain: the revocation of protection in Norwegian and Danish asylum cases8
Who runs the world? Gender performances and racialized branding among young foreign women digital entrepreneurs in China8
Correction8
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: the relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts8
Depoliticisation through employability: entanglements between European migration and development interventions in Tunisia8
Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research8
‘Not having a real life’: psychosocial functions of using and selling drugs among young Afghan men who came to Sweden as unaccompanied minors8
‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty8
Mandated economic self-sufficiency from state and refugee perspectives: refugee integration policy and practice in Sweden and New Zealand8
The politics of (un)counting international migration in Senegal and the Gambia8
Forced, regulated and flexible temporariness in return migration8
Unpacking the unintended consequences of European migration governance: the case of South American migration policy liberalisation8
Singing, moving and laughing together: engaging the senses for a cosmopolitan atmosphere8
Neighbourhood effects and the labour market outcomes of immigrant men in same-sex couples8
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
Integration through crossing circles natives’ opportunity pools and diversification of friendships in a transforming Europe8
Contested regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: the case of the Bali Process and the protection of refugees8
Variation in the link between income position and union dissolution: an analysis of couples with and without a migrant background in Belgium8
Locked out, but not disconnected: multilingual community engagement in Australia8
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs8
Preparing for climate migration and integration: a policy and research agenda7
On a fast-track to adulthood: social integration and identity formation experiences of young-adults of 1.5 generation immigrants7
Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left: Muslim activists as ‘racialised outsiders’7
Coloniality non/belonging and aspirations of racialised migrant youth7
Migratory class-making in global Asian cities: the European mobile middle negotiating ambivalent privilege in Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai7
The Shelter Multiple: How Humanitarianisms Hang Together at a Mexican Non-governmental Migrant Shelter7
(Mis)representing climate mobilities: lessons from documentary filmmaking7
Wartime (im)mobilities: effects of aspirations-capabilities on displaced Ukrainians in Canada and Germany and their viewpoints on those who remain in Ukraine7
Integration into diversity theory renewing – once again – assimilation theory7
Why bother? Local bureaucrats’ motivations for providing social assistance for refugees7
Digital by default: the literacies, legibilities and legacies of the UK’s post-Brexit EU settled status regime7
Aspirations among young refugees in Turkey: social class, integration and onward migration in forced migration contexts7
Is translocality a hidden solution to overcome protracted displacement in the DR Congo?7
Understanding minority feeling among people without a migration background: evidence from five majority-minority European cities7
Imported conflict? Regime change in Sudan as a trigger for unity amongst Sudanese in Israel7
How do second-generation ethnic minority professionals navigate towards higher-earner segments?7
Forging mobilities, becoming ideal workers? Temporary migration and the gig economy7
From participants to citizens? Democratic voting rights and naturalisation behaviour7
When fear spreads: individual- and group-level predictors of deportation worry among Latino immigrants7
Transnational trajectories of fear: youth in migrant families in the United States and in Mexico7
(L)earning ‘belonging’: processes of inclusion and exclusion in Malta’s migrant integration programme7
The Sweden paradox: US far-right fantasies of a dystopian utopia7
Exploring financial reverse remittances. A quantitative study in the Italian context7
Fostering togetherness in superdiverse Catholic parishes7
Intersectional (In)visibility: experiences of irregular migrants in Barcelona7
‘People of Color’ as a category and identity in the United States7
Mentoring as a grassroots effort for integrating refugees – evidence from a randomised field experiment7
Socio-spatial inequalities in urban mobility: the immigrant-native travel time gap in German cities – a mixed method study7
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?7
Migrant youth’s reflective agency and divergent life trajectories in a transborder context: upward-mobile return and other pathways among Brazilian Nikkei youth in Japan7
‘Giving back’ through mobility trajectories: motivations for engaging in development encounters in Ghana among transnational youth7
Survival over safety: non-reporting of criminalised violence by young migrants excluded from protection7
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