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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London79
Earned citizenship and fairness55
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival44
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic39
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements37
You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras37
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network36
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies36
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States35
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants34
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data33
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka33
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration31
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria31
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK31
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers30
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases28
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship28
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?26
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries25
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city25
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants24
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality24
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced24
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation23
The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden22
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process22
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon22
Embodying intimate border violence: collaborative art-research as multipliers of Latin American migrant women’s affects21
Missing links in migrant enfranchisement studies21
Refugees and claims-making in spaces of urban marginality: Syrian refugees build alliances across racial lines for collective action21
Posted work as an extreme case of hierarchised mobility21
Doing nothing? Dynamics of waiting among ageing internally displaced Cameroonians during the anglophone crisis21
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK21
Family figurations in displacement: entangled mobilities of refugees towards Germany and beyond21
Raising children in the UK: the screams of Zimbabwean migrant parents21
National register of citizens and citizenship amendment act 2019: following the logic of citizenship securitization in India20
Envisioning futures at new destinations: geographical imaginaries and migration aspirations of Nepali migrants moving to Malta20
‘There is a wide path and there is a narrow path’ – transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah’s Witnesses20
The politics left behind: how pre-migration and migration experiences shape Syrian refugees’ interest in home-county politics20
Repertoires of sanctuary: building a network of safety at the French–Italian border20
Return migration and employment mobility: a pan-European analysis19
The (in)significance of citizenship in white British citizens’ narratives of national belonging19
Precarity, work exploitation and inferior social rights: EU citizenship of Polish labour migrants in Norway18
Role of school wellbeing, personality traits, parental involvement and family norms in relation to immigrant–native educational gaps. A longitudinal study from Denmark18
Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria18
To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions18
Addendum18
Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime18
Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia18
Privileged transmigrant motherhood and its practices of distinction18
How to model the weather-migration link: a machine-learning approach to variable selection in the Mexico-U.S. context17
The relational dynamics of racialised policing: community policing for counterterrorism, suspect communities, and Muslim Americans’ provisional belonging17
Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures17
The challenge of low visibility: immigrant activism toward enfranchisement17
‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel17
Doing and contesting borderwork in Senegal: local implementers of migration information campaigns17
Friends and foes: the ambivalence of the use of NICT during the migratory journey17
Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating17
The developmental migration state17
The domestic politics of selective permeability: disaggregating the Canadian migration state16
Spatio-temporal dynamics of platform labour: short-term rental cleaning labour intermediaries and student-migrant-workers16
Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion: Kabaddi and South Asian male migrants in Greece15
The discipline of hope: abolishing the prison of immobility in post-Deportation narratives15
The time politics of migrant deportability: an intersectional analysis of deportation policy for non-citizen children in Belgium and the Netherlands15
Working and dwelling in a global city: going-out, public worlds, and the intimate lives of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong15
Success as self-determination: a subject-centred analysis of immigrants’ definitions and perceptions of success15
Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum15
Averting, stepping-up or shielding: school strategies and intensive minority parenting among second-generation minority Danish parents15
‘Do not disturb’: patience, social control and good citizenship in the Canadian family reunification process15
Media coverage and local cooperation in immigration enforcement14
Temporary labour migration in South Asia: Nepal and its fragmented labour migration sector14
Networked individualism with superficial integration: a study on Chinese entrepreneurs in Ikebukuro, Tokyo14
Peer effects on the educational outcomes of immigrant youth: heterogeneity by generation and school context14
Power and informality in the polycentric governing of transit and irregular migration on EU’s eastern border with Belarus14
Between obligations and aspirations: unaccompanied immigrant teen workers’ transnational lives and imagined futures14
Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement14
Intermittent mobility as a livelihood strategy for landless rural people in Andhra Pradesh14
Consuming conflict as Tamil consciousness: the case of second-generation British Sri Lankan Tamils14
‘We do things together': exploring a household perspective on early integration processes of recent refugees14
Mind the recognition gaps: layers of invisibility of farm migration in Norway14
Towards a ‘low ambition equilibrium’: managing refugee aspirations during the integration process in Switzerland14
Fear, stigma, hope, and desahogó : understanding the role of deportation history and familial ties on the disclosure process of immigration-related experiences14
Do rights violations deter refugees?14
Devices of suspicion. An analysis of Frontex screening materials at the registration and identification center in Moria14
Overcoming origin-based preferences by selecting skilled immigrants? Preferences in immigrants’ national origin and social class in Quebec13
Legal and policy relevance of EU mobility partnerships in Morocco and Cape Verde: the role of epistemic communities13
Epistemic notions of trust and distrust in institutional encounters with forced migrants in Finland and Sweden13
‘We’re not like the newbies’: belonging among Dubai’s long-term residents13
‘I realise that they are doing it for my own good’: ‘homeland’ education mobilities and intergenerational negotiation in Nigerian diaspora families13
The temporary turn in asylum: a new agenda for researching the politics of deterrence in practice13
Re-constructing reverse family remittances: the case of new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand13
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?13
The feeling of destiny: taqdeer and ‘voluntary’ return in the everyday lives of irregularised Pakistani migrants13
Co-ethnic core intermediaries: Swedish speakers in Finnish party politics13
Language as a diasporic stance: Polish in a migrant urban space13
Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge: Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya13
‘Bad parents’, deportable subjects: borders and deportability in the everyday lives of undocumented families in Belgium13
Diverging interpretations of humanitarian exceptions: assisting rejected asylum seekers in Norway12
Like parent, like child: how attitudes towards immigrants spill over to the political inclusion of their children12
Refugee secondary migration from small cities: evidence from Utica, New York12
How governance under the ‘grand compromise’ affects refugee preferences for relocation: evidence from Syrian refugees in Lebanon12
Intersectional recognition: immigrant motherhood in a gentrifying sanctuary city’s schools12
Portraits of feminicide: mural painting as protection among migrant women in Quintana Roo, Mexico12
Becoming white or becoming mainstream?: defining the endpoint of assimilation12
The contradictory effects of South Korean resettlement policy on North Koreans in South Korea12
Polygyny in Denmark: a study of the instrumentalisation of cultural differences in immigration policies12
Cantonese migrant networks, white supremacy, and the political utility of apologies in Canada12
Ethnic diversity and cooperation: evidence from a lost letter experiment12
Pardon my French, Turkish and Arabic! How Flemish headteachers and teachers respond to multilingualism in the classroom12
‘Resilient survivors’: narratives of violence against women of refugee background12
‘We are like in a jungle trying to survive’; navigating uncertainty by Cameroonian returnees12
‘They laughed at me, but I left that job’: occupational agency of Latvian migrant workers in the United Kingdom12
Gender, racialisation, and border regimes: reflections on social positions and positioning in research with young people on the move11
‘All is not yet lost here.’ The role of aspirations and capabilities in migration projects of Ukrainian migrants in Poland11
‘I am fine, but my group is not': exploring the meanings of the personal/group discrimination discrepancy among minority and majority populations11
Who is (un)deserving? Differential healthcare access and the interplay between social and symbolic boundary-drawing towards Syrian refugees in Turkey11
Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information11
Money, not protection. Assisted return programmes and the timing of future harm in refugee status determination11
Climate disasters and individual migration aspirations: evidence from Senegal and the Gambia11
Emigration of the Western European second generation: is having immigrant parents a predictor of international migration?11
Facilitated but unauthorised return: the role of smugglers in return migration and clandestine border crossings between Malaysia and Indonesia11
Two paths towards the exceptional extension of national voting rights to non-citizen residents11
Advancing the embedding framework: using longitudinal methods to revisit French highly skilled migrants in the context of Brexit11
How refugees work together: the politics of solidarity and ‘invisible’ collective action during COVID-1911
Risk perception and desire in decision-making: the case of Syrians’ sea migration to Europe11
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM10
Migratory dreams, prophecies, and intuitions: experiential religion in Ghanaian migration aspirations10
Boundary integrationism and its subject: shifts and continuities in the EU framework on migrant integration10
Humanitarian bargains: private refugee sponsorship and the limits of humanitarian reason10
Relational (im)mobilities: a case study of Senegalese coastal fishing populations10
Understanding the diversity of local diversities: an analysis of the (mis)match between policies and diversity configurations in Dutch municipalities10
The bi-directional impact of a mixed union. People without a migration background in a union with a partner with a migration background10
‘Living between here and there’: Trans-local coping with urban marginality among internally displaced persons in urban Ethiopia10
A narrative approach to displacement, gender and conflict: motivations of Kurdish women to leave Syria in times of lawlessness10
Defining, operationalising and translating ‘vulnerability’ in humanitarian work in Jordan10
Negotiating refugee status: the co-production of labelling and identity among Mbororo pastoralists in Cameroon10
The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile10
The politics of Chinatown development in American cities10
La Caminata del Migrante: a social movement10
The moderating effect of context of reception, labour market and education system on the migrant-native gap in university expectations10
The formation of institutional trust among immigrants: what is the role of democracy?10
Are you in the club? The contested role of the night for Muslim immigrant youth in Aarhus, Denmark10
National identity, partisanship, and attitudes toward North Korean defectors in South Korea9
Immigration rentier states9
‘If you don’t speak Norwegian well, they think you are stupid’: experiencing and responding to linguistic racism by Polish migrant workers9
Educational divides and class coalitions: How mainstream party voters divide and unite over immigration issues9
Work, mobilities and the life course: choices and logistical entanglements in mobile life-careers9
Immigration, domestic labor, and earnings inequality among native-born women in the US9
Living with ‘thin’ documents: a note on identity documents and liminal citizenship in the chars of Assam, India9
Of prostitutes and thieves: the hyper-sexualisation and criminalisation of Venezuelan migrant women in Peru9
The politics of (un)counting international migration in Senegal and the Gambia9
Present but not counted: highly skilled migrant women in Belgium9
Atrapados/ trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia9
Parental mobility, temporality and migration aspirations among currently non-migrant youth in Indonesia and the Philippines9
News consumption and immigration attitudes: a mixed methods approach9
‘Stand by me’: competitive subnational regimes and the politics of retaining immigrants9
Quantifying the role of arrival infrastructures in the labor market integration of refugees9
Emigration and the care of older people ‘left behind’: the changing role of neighbourhood networks, ethnicity and civil society9
Understanding emotion regulation in Venezuelan immigrants to Peru and Peruvian internal migrants: a comparative study9
Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway9
Introduction: mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia8
COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers8
Integration through crossing circles natives’ opportunity pools and diversification of friendships in a transforming Europe8
Social trust and support for immigrants’ social rights in Spain8
Mandated economic self-sufficiency from state and refugee perspectives: refugee integration policy and practice in Sweden and New Zealand8
Variation in the link between income position and union dissolution: an analysis of couples with and without a migrant background in Belgium8
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs8
Decentralization and diaspora capture: transnationalism, autocracy, and hybrid power in federal Ethiopia8
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: social reproduction of ‘(low) skill’?8
Misperceptions of immigrant flows and their associations with anti-immigrant attitudes8
Depoliticisation through employability: entanglements between European migration and development interventions in Tunisia8
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime8
Forced, regulated and flexible temporariness in return migration8
Rethinking transnational parenting: Chinese immigrant parents’ family separation during COVID-198
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: the relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts8
Exploring Europe’s external migration policy mix: on the interactions of visa, readmission, and resettlement policies8
‘Do I really need to check that box?’ Ethnoracial ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States8
Spillover dynamics and inter-institutional interactions between CSDP and AFSJ: moving towards a more joined-up EU external migration policy?8
Labour coercion and commodification: from the British Empire to postcolonial migration states8
‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty8
Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus8
‘Not having a real life’: psychosocial functions of using and selling drugs among young Afghan men who came to Sweden as unaccompanied minors8
Orientalization, or sidewards assimilation of second-generation Russian-speaking migrants in Israel’s urban periphery8
‘Our aim is to assist migrants in making a well-informed decision’: how return counsellors in Austria and the Netherlands manage the aspirations of unwanted non-citizens8
Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt8
The occupational attainment and job security of immigrant children in Spain8
Locked out, but not disconnected: multilingual community engagement in Australia8
Diaspora activism and citizenship: Algerian community responses during the global pandemic8
Contested regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: the case of the Bali Process and the protection of refugees8
Socialisation and ethnic majorities’ attitudes towards ethnic minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlational evidence8
Correction7
Refugee women’s establishment in the rural north of Sweden: cultural capital in meeting local labour market needs7
The Sweden paradox: US far-right fantasies of a dystopian utopia7
Poverty among migrant, mixed, and non-migrant households: the role of non-teleworkability and single-earnership in Germany7
Unpacking the unintended consequences of European migration governance: the case of South American migration policy liberalisation7
Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research7
Who runs the world? Gender performances and racialized branding among young foreign women digital entrepreneurs in China7
The detention corridor: ambiguity, space, and uncertainty in immigrant family detention7
(Mis)representing climate mobilities: lessons from documentary filmmaking7
Why bother? Local bureaucrats’ motivations for providing social assistance for refugees7
Singing, moving and laughing together: engaging the senses for a cosmopolitan atmosphere7
‘Giving back’ through mobility trajectories: motivations for engaging in development encounters in Ghana among transnational youth7
From participants to citizens? Democratic voting rights and naturalisation behaviour7
Bride kidnapping and gendered labor migration: evidence from Kyrgyzstan7
Visa journeys and permanent temporariness: navigating welfare state borders and precarious status in Australia7
When fear spreads: individual- and group-level predictors of deportation worry among Latino immigrants7
Aspirations among young refugees in Turkey: social class, integration and onward migration in forced migration contexts7
Brokering in uncharted terrain: the revocation of protection in Norwegian and Danish asylum cases7
Forging mobilities, becoming ideal workers? Temporary migration and the gig economy7
Transnational trajectories of fear: youth in migrant families in the United States and in Mexico7
Immigrant generation, gender, and citizenship: evidence on educational track choices from Italy7
Migratory class-making in global Asian cities: the European mobile middle negotiating ambivalent privilege in Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai7
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries: the case of highly educated recent refugees in Norway7
‘It’s not about the information, it’s about the situation’: understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants’ narratives7
Neighbourhood effects and the labour market outcomes of immigrant men in same-sex couples7
Exploring financial reverse remittances. A quantitative study in the Italian context7
Wartime (im)mobilities: effects of aspirations-capabilities on displaced Ukrainians in Canada and Germany and their viewpoints on those who remain in Ukraine7
Preparing for climate migration and integration: a policy and research agenda7
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
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