Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka107
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data76
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London59
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers46
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic46
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network46
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies45
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation45
‘Not like those Lebs’: intra-ethnic distinction and conditional citizenship in regional Australia43
Can activation of a shared identity increase cooperation between natives and migrants?37
Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan36
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship35
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria35
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced35
Stay or go? Post-Brexit and COVID-19 dilemmas of Return in British expatriate retiree communities in Spain34
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality33
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?33
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases33
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon32
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities31
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries27
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States27
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements26
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration26
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city25
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 migrants24
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival24
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK24
You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras24
Refugees and claims-making in spaces of urban marginality: Syrian refugees build alliances across racial lines for collective action23
Earned citizenship and fairness23
From ‘migrant’ to ‘refugee’: what changed? Working lives of Ukrainian women in the Czech Republic23
Posted work as an extreme case of hierarchised mobility23
Return migration and employment mobility: a pan-European analysis23
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants23
Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime22
The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden22
Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria22
Repertoires of sanctuary: building a network of safety at the French–Italian border21
National register of citizens and citizenship amendment act 2019: following the logic of citizenship securitization in India21
The politics left behind: how pre-migration and migration experiences shape Syrian refugees’ interest in home-county politics21
Making ‘Best interest’ visible: the role of frontline staff in the care of unaccompanied children21
Casting votes or crossing borders? How living abroad reduces mobile Europeans’ likelihood to participate in European elections21
Envisioning futures at new destinations: geographical imaginaries and migration aspirations of Nepali migrants moving to Malta21
Understanding digital nomadism: a three-level framework for migration studies20
Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia20
Missing links in migrant enfranchisement studies20
Fake refugee? Yemeni refugees becoming faceless labour in South Korea20
‘There is a wide path and there is a narrow path’ – transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah’s Witnesses19
Doing nothing? Dynamics of waiting among ageing internally displaced Cameroonians during the anglophone crisis19
Raising children in the UK: the screams of Zimbabwean migrant parents19
To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions19
Family figurations in displacement: entangled mobilities of refugees towards Germany and beyond19
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK19
Widening the net of immigration control: an analysis of Belgium’s assertive return policy19
Unpacked narratives on migration governance: missing voices of female migrants in migration policies in West Africa19
Embodying intimate border violence: collaborative art-research as multipliers of Latin American migrant women’s affects19
The domestic politics of selective permeability: disaggregating the Canadian migration state19
Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating18
Spatio-temporal dynamics of platform labour: short-term rental cleaning labour intermediaries and student-migrant-workers18
The influence of media narratives on political debate: narratives on the 2015 migrant ‘crisis’ in five European countries18
Societies of immigration control: the transactional subject of British borders after Brexit18
The discipline of hope: abolishing the prison of immobility in post-Deportation narratives18
Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures18
Addendum18
The relational dynamics of racialised policing: community policing for counterterrorism, suspect communities, and Muslim Americans’ provisional belonging18
Success as self-determination: a subject-centred analysis of immigrants’ definitions and perceptions of success18
Privileged transmigrant motherhood and its practices of distinction18
Privileged pariahs: agency of Korean expatriate mothers in the UAE18
Doing and contesting borderwork in Senegal: local implementers of migration information campaigns17
Role of school wellbeing, personality traits, parental involvement and family norms in relation to immigrant–native educational gaps. A longitudinal study from Denmark17
Working and dwelling in a global city: going-out, public worlds, and the intimate lives of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong17
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
‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel16
Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum16
‘Do not disturb’: patience, social control and good citizenship in the Canadian family reunification process16
The developmental migration state16
How to model the weather-migration link: a machine-learning approach to variable selection in the Mexico-U.S. context16
Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion: Kabaddi and South Asian male migrants in Greece16
Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement16
Friends and foes: the ambivalence of the use of NICT during the migratory journey16
A multi-level mixed-methods research design in studying localised experiences of asylum seekers: challenges and lessons learned16
The feeling of destiny: taqdeer and ‘voluntary’ return in the everyday lives of irregularised Pakistani migrants16
Border times: welfare workers navigating the temporal intersections of migration law and the education system15
‘We do things together': exploring a household perspective on early integration processes of recent refugees15
Fear, stigma, hope, and desahogó : understanding the role of deportation history and familial ties on the disclosure process of immigration-related experiences15
The temporary turn in asylum: a new agenda for researching the politics of deterrence in practice15
Intermittent mobility as a livelihood strategy for landless rural people in Andhra Pradesh15
Legal and policy relevance of EU mobility partnerships in Morocco and Cape Verde: the role of epistemic communities15
‘Bad parents’, deportable subjects: borders and deportability in the everyday lives of undocumented families in Belgium15
Overcoming origin-based preferences by selecting skilled immigrants? Preferences in immigrants’ national origin and social class in Quebec15
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
Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge: Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya14
Co-ethnic core intermediaries: Swedish speakers in Finnish party politics14
Mind the recognition gaps: layers of invisibility of farm migration in Norway14
Do rights violations deter refugees?14
Epistemic notions of trust and distrust in institutional encounters with forced migrants in Finland and Sweden14
Migration narratives across national media, EU politics, and EU policymaking: a comparative analysis of the 2015 refugee crisis and the 2022 Ukrainian displacement14
Media coverage and local cooperation in immigration enforcement14
Re-constructing reverse family remittances: the case of new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand14
Language as a diasporic stance: Polish in a migrant urban space14
‘We’re not like the newbies’: belonging among Dubai’s long-term residents14
Towards a ‘low ambition equilibrium’: managing refugee aspirations during the integration process in Switzerland14
‘I realise that they are doing it for my own good’: ‘homeland’ education mobilities and intergenerational negotiation in Nigerian diaspora families13
Networked individualism with superficial integration: a study on Chinese entrepreneurs in Ikebukuro, Tokyo13
‘Refugees have power and strength’: how refugee agency influenced asylum policy process in Japan13
Pardon my French, Turkish and Arabic! How Flemish headteachers and teachers respond to multilingualism in the classroom13
Temporary labour migration in South Asia: Nepal and its fragmented labour migration sector13
Migration narratives in Singapore: from economistic imperatives to counter-narratives and absent narratives on co-ethnic politics and ageing migrants13
Pathways to external citizenship: the global extension of dual citizenship and voting from abroad13
Peer effects on the educational outcomes of immigrant youth: heterogeneity by generation and school context13
Between obligations and aspirations: unaccompanied immigrant teen workers’ transnational lives and imagined futures13
Power and informality in the polycentric governing of transit and irregular migration on EU’s eastern border with Belarus13
Devices of suspicion. An analysis of Frontex screening materials at the registration and identification center in Moria13
‘They laughed at me, but I left that job’: occupational agency of Latvian migrant workers in the United Kingdom13
Constructing categories of ‘desirable migrants’ through bureaucracy in French and Canadian mobility regimes12
On the deportation charter: using freedom of information research to map the UK’s charter flight operations, 2010–202412
Money, not protection. Assisted return programmes and the timing of future harm in refugee status determination12
Polygyny in Denmark: a study of the instrumentalisation of cultural differences in immigration policies12
Like parent, like child: how attitudes towards immigrants spill over to the political inclusion of their children12
‘All is not yet lost here.’ The role of aspirations and capabilities in migration projects of Ukrainian migrants in Poland12
Ethnic diversity and cooperation: evidence from a lost letter experiment12
The contradictory effects of South Korean resettlement policy on North Koreans in South Korea12
Advancing the embedding framework: using longitudinal methods to revisit French highly skilled migrants in the context of Brexit12
Brokered bureaucracy: commodified integration in arrival spaces in Istanbul12
How governance under the ‘grand compromise’ affects refugee preferences for relocation: evidence from Syrian refugees in Lebanon12
Gender, racialisation, and border regimes: reflections on social positions and positioning in research with young people on the move12
How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway12
Intersectional recognition: immigrant motherhood in a gentrifying sanctuary city’s schools12
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, Mexico12
Who is (un)deserving? Differential healthcare access and the interplay between social and symbolic boundary-drawing towards Syrian refugees in Turkey12
The politics of Chinatown development in American cities11
Becoming white or becoming mainstream?: defining the endpoint of assimilation11
Refugee secondary migration from small cities: evidence from Utica, New York11
‘Resilient survivors’: narratives of violence against women of refugee background11
Are you in the club? The contested role of the night for Muslim immigrant youth in Aarhus, Denmark11
Constructed objectivity in asylum decision-making through new technologies11
The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile11
Living with ‘thin’ documents: a note on identity documents and liminal citizenship in the chars of Assam, India11
Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information11
‘We are like in a jungle trying to survive’; navigating uncertainty by Cameroonian returnees11
Emigration of the Western European second generation: is having immigrant parents a predictor of international migration?11
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
‘Stand by me’: competitive subnational regimes and the politics of retaining immigrants11
Defining, operationalising and translating ‘vulnerability’ in humanitarian work in Jordan11
The moderating effect of context of reception, labour market and education system on the migrant-native gap in university expectations11
‘Living between here and there’: Trans-local coping with urban marginality among internally displaced persons in urban Ethiopia11
Climate disasters and individual migration aspirations: evidence from Senegal and the Gambia11
Two paths towards the exceptional extension of national voting rights to non-citizen residents11
‘I am fine, but my group is not': exploring the meanings of the personal/group discrimination discrepancy among minority and majority populations11
News consumption and immigration attitudes: a mixed methods approach11
‘If you don’t speak Norwegian well, they think you are stupid’: experiencing and responding to linguistic racism by Polish migrant workers11
The making of migration narratives: understanding processes and gauging impacts10
A narrative approach to displacement, gender and conflict: motivations of Kurdish women to leave Syria in times of lawlessness10
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
Emigration and the care of older people ‘left behind’: the changing role of neighbourhood networks, ethnicity and civil society10
‘We all know the benefits of having our parents and grandparents here with us’: super visas, temporary grand/parent migration, and Canadian nation building10
Negotiating refugee status: the co-production of labelling and identity among Mbororo pastoralists in Cameroon10
The boundaries of grievability: when do migrant lives matter to political representatives in Slovakia?10
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM10
Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway10
The politics of (un)counting international migration in Senegal and the Gambia10
The formation of institutional trust among immigrants: what is the role of democracy?10
The bi-directional impact of a mixed union. People without a migration background in a union with a partner with a migration background10
Immigration rentier states10
Relational (im)mobilities: a case study of Senegalese coastal fishing populations10
Boundary integrationism and its subject: shifts and continuities in the EU framework on migrant integration10
Work, mobilities and the life course: choices and logistical entanglements in mobile life-careers10
Understanding the diversity of local diversities: an analysis of the (mis)match between policies and diversity configurations in Dutch municipalities10
Facilitated but unauthorised return: the role of smugglers in return migration and clandestine border crossings between Malaysia and Indonesia10
How media narratives on migration become nativist. A case-oriented comparative approach based on journalistic sub-genres10
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
Exploring Europe’s external migration policy mix: on the interactions of visa, readmission, and resettlement policies9
Locked out, but not disconnected: multilingual community engagement in Australia9
COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers9
Parental mobility, temporality and migration aspirations among currently non-migrant youth in Indonesia and the Philippines9
Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt9
‘Do I really need to check that box?’ Ethnoracial ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States9
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs9
Spillover dynamics and inter-institutional interactions between CSDP and AFSJ: moving towards a more joined-up EU external migration policy?9
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime9
Misperceptions of immigrant flows and their associations with anti-immigrant attitudes9
Atrapados/ trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia9
Diaspora activism and citizenship: Algerian community responses during the global pandemic9
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
Decentralization and diaspora capture: transnationalism, autocracy, and hybrid power in federal Ethiopia9
National identity, partisanship, and attitudes toward North Korean defectors in South Korea9
Present but not counted: highly skilled migrant women in Belgium9
Whose story? Unpacking migration narratives in the East and Horn of Africa9
Mandated economic self-sufficiency from state and refugee perspectives: refugee integration policy and practice in Sweden and New Zealand9
Fetishised and fictionalised: invisibility as a veil and obstruction for femme-presenting queer refugee women in Lebanon9
Educational divides and class coalitions: How mainstream party voters divide and unite over immigration issues9
Quantifying the role of arrival infrastructures in the labor market integration of refugees9
Rethinking transnational parenting: Chinese immigrant parents’ family separation during COVID-199
Understanding emotion regulation in Venezuelan immigrants to Peru and Peruvian internal migrants: a comparative study9
Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus9
Residual temporariness and the limits of citizenship for Syrian doctors in Turkey9
Variation in the link between income position and union dissolution: an analysis of couples with and without a migrant background in Belgium8
Unpacking the unintended consequences of European migration governance: the case of South American migration policy liberalisation8
Integration into diversity theory renewing – once again – assimilation theory8
Wartime (im)mobilities: effects of aspirations-capabilities on displaced Ukrainians in Canada and Germany and their viewpoints on those who remain in Ukraine8
Who runs the world? Gender performances and racialized branding among young foreign women digital entrepreneurs in China8
Socialisation and ethnic majorities’ attitudes towards ethnic minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlational evidence8
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
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
Visa journeys and permanent temporariness: navigating welfare state borders and precarious status in Australia8
(L)earning ‘belonging’: processes of inclusion and exclusion in Malta’s migrant integration programme8
The detention corridor: ambiguity, space, and uncertainty in immigrant family detention8
Correction8
Brokering in uncharted terrain: the revocation of protection in Norwegian and Danish asylum cases8
Educational strategies across borders: the proactive, the reliant, and the disconnected8
Introduction: mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia8
‘Not having a real life’: psychosocial functions of using and selling drugs among young Afghan men who came to Sweden as unaccompanied minors8
Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research8
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: the relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts8
Neighbourhood effects and the labour market outcomes of immigrant men in same-sex couples8
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
Transnational trajectories of fear: youth in migrant families in the United States and in Mexico8
Exploring financial reverse remittances. A quantitative study in the Italian context8
Forced, regulated and flexible temporariness in return migration8
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries: the case of highly educated recent refugees in Norway8
‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty8
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
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