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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka111
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data82
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network64
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic50
‘Not like those Lebs’: intra-ethnic distinction and conditional citizenship in regional Australia49
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers49
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies48
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London46
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process44
Can activation of a shared identity increase cooperation between natives and migrants?42
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship38
Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan38
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria37
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced37
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality35
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?34
Stay or go? Post-Brexit and COVID-19 dilemmas of Return in British expatriate retiree communities in Spain34
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases33
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon32
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries28
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities28
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants27
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK27
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States27
Earned citizenship and fairness26
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city25
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements25
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival24
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration24
You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras24
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants24
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation24
Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime23
Posted work as an extreme case of hierarchised mobility23
Refugees and claims-making in spaces of urban marginality: Syrian refugees build alliances across racial lines for collective action23
Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria23
From ‘migrant’ to ‘refugee’: what changed? Working lives of Ukrainian women in the Czech Republic23
Family figurations in displacement: entangled mobilities of refugees towards Germany and beyond22
Raising children in the UK: the screams of Zimbabwean migrant parents22
Understanding digital nomadism: a three-level framework for migration studies21
National register of citizens and citizenship amendment act 2019: following the logic of citizenship securitization in India21
Unpacked narratives on migration governance: missing voices of female migrants in migration policies in West Africa21
Fake refugee? Yemeni refugees becoming faceless labour in South Korea21
Making ‘Best interest’ visible: the role of frontline staff in the care of unaccompanied children21
‘There is a wide path and there is a narrow path’ – transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah’s Witnesses21
The politics left behind: how pre-migration and migration experiences shape Syrian refugees’ interest in home-county politics21
Casting votes or crossing borders? How living abroad reduces mobile Europeans’ likelihood to participate in European elections20
Doing nothing? Dynamics of waiting among ageing internally displaced Cameroonians during the anglophone crisis20
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK20
Envisioning futures at new destinations: geographical imaginaries and migration aspirations of Nepali migrants moving to Malta20
Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia20
Embodying intimate border violence: collaborative art-research as multipliers of Latin American migrant women’s affects20
Missing links in migrant enfranchisement studies20
The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden20
To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions20
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
Repertoires of sanctuary: building a network of safety at the French–Italian border19
Privileged pariahs: agency of Korean expatriate mothers in the UAE19
Widening the net of immigration control: an analysis of Belgium’s assertive return policy19
Success as self-determination: a subject-centred analysis of immigrants’ definitions and perceptions of success19
Addendum19
Return migration and employment mobility: a pan-European analysis19
Representing the national self and the cultural other: the Chinese diaspora on Douyin18
Privileged transmigrant motherhood and its practices of distinction18
Doing and contesting borderwork in Senegal: local implementers of migration information campaigns18
A multi-level mixed-methods research design in studying localised experiences of asylum seekers: challenges and lessons learned17
Friends and foes: the ambivalence of the use of NICT during the migratory journey17
How to model the weather-migration link: a machine-learning approach to variable selection in the Mexico-U.S. context17
The discipline of hope: abolishing the prison of immobility in post-Deportation narratives17
Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum17
Role of school wellbeing, personality traits, parental involvement and family norms in relation to immigrant–native educational gaps. A longitudinal study from Denmark17
Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion: Kabaddi and South Asian male migrants in Greece17
The challenge of low visibility: immigrant activism toward enfranchisement17
Averting, stepping-up or shielding: school strategies and intensive minority parenting among second-generation minority Danish parents17
The developmental migration state16
Spatio-temporal dynamics of platform labour: short-term rental cleaning labour intermediaries and student-migrant-workers16
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
‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel16
‘Do not disturb’: patience, social control and good citizenship in the Canadian family reunification process16
The domestic politics of selective permeability: disaggregating the Canadian migration state16
Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating16
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
Overcoming origin-based preferences by selecting skilled immigrants? Preferences in immigrants’ national origin and social class in Quebec15
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
Intermittent mobility as a livelihood strategy for landless rural people in Andhra Pradesh15
Border times: welfare workers navigating the temporal intersections of migration law and the education system15
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
Epistemic notions of trust and distrust in institutional encounters with forced migrants in Finland and Sweden14
Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge: Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya14
Migration narratives across national media, EU politics, and EU policymaking: a comparative analysis of the 2015 refugee crisis and the 2022 Ukrainian displacement14
Towards a ‘low ambition equilibrium’: managing refugee aspirations during the integration process in Switzerland14
Power and informality in the polycentric governing of transit and irregular migration on EU’s eastern border with Belarus14
Co-ethnic core intermediaries: Swedish speakers in Finnish party politics14
Mind the recognition gaps: layers of invisibility of farm migration in Norway14
Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement14
Language as a diasporic stance: Polish in a migrant urban space14
Networked individualism with superficial integration: a study on Chinese entrepreneurs in Ikebukuro, Tokyo14
Migration narratives in Singapore: from economistic imperatives to counter-narratives and absent narratives on co-ethnic politics and ageing migrants14
Media coverage and local cooperation in immigration enforcement14
Do rights violations deter refugees?13
‘I realise that they are doing it for my own good’: ‘homeland’ education mobilities and intergenerational negotiation in Nigerian diaspora families13
‘We do things together': exploring a household perspective on early integration processes of recent refugees13
‘We’re not like the newbies’: belonging among Dubai’s long-term residents13
Pardon my French, Turkish and Arabic! How Flemish headteachers and teachers respond to multilingualism in the classroom13
Advancing the embedding framework: using longitudinal methods to revisit French highly skilled migrants in the context of Brexit13
Between obligations and aspirations: unaccompanied immigrant teen workers’ transnational lives and imagined futures13
Peer effects on the educational outcomes of immigrant youth: heterogeneity by generation and school context13
Pathways to external citizenship: the global extension of dual citizenship and voting from abroad13
Temporary labour migration in South Asia: Nepal and its fragmented labour migration sector13
Ethnic diversity and cooperation: evidence from a lost letter experiment13
Minority or migrant? loneliness among older immigrants in England13
‘Refugees have power and strength’: how refugee agency influenced asylum policy process in Japan13
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
Money, not protection. Assisted return programmes and the timing of future harm in refugee status determination13
How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway12
Gender, racialisation, and border regimes: reflections on social positions and positioning in research with young people on the move12
Like parent, like child: how attitudes towards immigrants spill over to the political inclusion of their children12
Two paths towards the exceptional extension of national voting rights to non-citizen residents12
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
Constructing categories of ‘desirable migrants’ through bureaucracy in French and Canadian mobility regimes12
‘I am fine, but my group is not': exploring the meanings of the personal/group discrimination discrepancy among minority and majority populations12
How governance under the ‘grand compromise’ affects refugee preferences for relocation: evidence from Syrian refugees in Lebanon12
Climate disasters and individual migration aspirations: evidence from Senegal and the Gambia12
‘All is not yet lost here.’ The role of aspirations and capabilities in migration projects of Ukrainian migrants in Poland12
Who is (un)deserving? Differential healthcare access and the interplay between social and symbolic boundary-drawing towards Syrian refugees in Turkey12
On the deportation charter: using freedom of information research to map the UK’s charter flight operations, 2010–202412
How refugees work together: the politics of solidarity and ‘invisible’ collective action during COVID-1912
Polygyny in Denmark: a study of the instrumentalisation of cultural differences in immigration policies12
‘Resilient survivors’: narratives of violence against women of refugee background12
Portraits of feminicide: mural painting as protection among migrant women in Quintana Roo, Mexico12
Becoming white or becoming mainstream?: defining the endpoint of assimilation12
Brokered bureaucracy: commodified integration in arrival spaces in Istanbul12
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
Constructed objectivity in asylum decision-making through new technologies11
The bi-directional impact of a mixed union. People without a migration background in a union with a partner with a migration background11
The politics of Chinatown development in American cities11
Intersectional recognition: immigrant motherhood in a gentrifying sanctuary city’s schools11
‘We are like in a jungle trying to survive’; navigating uncertainty by Cameroonian returnees11
‘Living between here and there’: Trans-local coping with urban marginality among internally displaced persons in urban Ethiopia11
The moderating effect of context of reception, labour market and education system on the migrant-native gap in university expectations11
Constructing difference in postsocialist Britain: the role of historical memory in media narratives of German and Polish migrants11
Defining, operationalising and translating ‘vulnerability’ in humanitarian work in Jordan11
The contradictory effects of South Korean resettlement policy on North Koreans in South Korea11
Refugee secondary migration from small cities: evidence from Utica, New York11
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
‘We all know the benefits of having our parents and grandparents here with us’: super visas, temporary grand/parent migration, and Canadian nation building11
The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile11
Facilitated but unauthorised return: the role of smugglers in return migration and clandestine border crossings between Malaysia and Indonesia10
Living with ‘thin’ documents: a note on identity documents and liminal citizenship in the chars of Assam, India10
The formation of institutional trust among immigrants: what is the role of democracy?10
Immigration rentier states10
Humanitarian bargains: private refugee sponsorship and the limits of humanitarian reason10
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM10
Boundary integrationism and its subject: shifts and continuities in the EU framework on migrant integration10
A narrative approach to displacement, gender and conflict: motivations of Kurdish women to leave Syria in times of lawlessness10
Of prostitutes and thieves: the hyper-sexualisation and criminalisation of Venezuelan migrant women in Peru10
The boundaries of grievability: when do migrant lives matter to political representatives in Slovakia?10
Understanding the diversity of local diversities: an analysis of the (mis)match between policies and diversity configurations in Dutch municipalities10
The making of migration narratives: understanding processes and gauging impacts10
News consumption and immigration attitudes: a mixed methods approach10
Relational (im)mobilities: a case study of Senegalese coastal fishing populations10
Negotiating refugee status: the co-production of labelling and identity among Mbororo pastoralists in Cameroon10
How media narratives on migration become nativist. A case-oriented comparative approach based on journalistic sub-genres10
Immigrant generation, gender, and citizenship: evidence on educational track choices from Italy9
Mandated economic self-sufficiency from state and refugee perspectives: refugee integration policy and practice in Sweden and New Zealand9
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs9
‘If you don’t speak Norwegian well, they think you are stupid’: experiencing and responding to linguistic racism by Polish migrant workers9
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
Decentralization and diaspora capture: transnationalism, autocracy, and hybrid power in federal Ethiopia9
Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway9
Rethinking transnational parenting: Chinese immigrant parents’ family separation during COVID-199
Work, mobilities and the life course: choices and logistical entanglements in mobile life-careers9
COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers9
‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty9
Misperceptions of immigrant flows and their associations with anti-immigrant attitudes9
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
Parental mobility, temporality and migration aspirations among currently non-migrant youth in Indonesia and the Philippines9
Understanding emotion regulation in Venezuelan immigrants to Peru and Peruvian internal migrants: a comparative study9
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: social reproduction of ‘(low) skill’?9
Educational divides and class coalitions: How mainstream party voters divide and unite over immigration issues9
The politics of (un)counting international migration in Senegal and the Gambia9
Atrapados/ trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia9
Forced, regulated and flexible temporariness in return migration9
Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus9
‘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
Emigration and the care of older people ‘left behind’: the changing role of neighbourhood networks, ethnicity and civil society9
Spillover dynamics and inter-institutional interactions between CSDP and AFSJ: moving towards a more joined-up EU external migration policy?9
Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt9
Whose story? Unpacking migration narratives in the East and Horn of Africa9
Quantifying the role of arrival infrastructures in the labor market integration of refugees9
‘Do I really need to check that box?’ Ethnoracial ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States9
National identity, partisanship, and attitudes toward North Korean defectors in South Korea9
Diaspora activism and citizenship: Algerian community responses during the global pandemic9
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime9
Orientalization, or sidewards assimilation of second-generation Russian-speaking migrants in Israel’s urban periphery9
Introduction: mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia9
Variation in the link between income position and union dissolution: an analysis of couples with and without a migrant background in Belgium9
The Sweden paradox: US far-right fantasies of a dystopian utopia8
The detention corridor: ambiguity, space, and uncertainty in immigrant family detention8
Correction8
Labour coercion and commodification: from the British Empire to postcolonial migration states8
Exploring Europe’s external migration policy mix: on the interactions of visa, readmission, and resettlement policies8
Brokering in uncharted terrain: the revocation of protection in Norwegian and Danish asylum cases8
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries: the case of highly educated recent refugees in Norway8
Depoliticisation through employability: entanglements between European migration and development interventions in Tunisia8
Survival over safety: non-reporting of criminalised violence by young migrants excluded from protection8
Migrant youth’s reflective agency and divergent life trajectories in a transborder context: upward-mobile return and other pathways among Brazilian Nikkei youth in Japan8
Mentoring as a grassroots effort for integrating refugees – evidence from a randomised field experiment8
Forging mobilities, becoming ideal workers? Temporary migration and the gig economy8
From participants to citizens? Democratic voting rights and naturalisation behaviour8
Neighbourhood effects and the labour market outcomes of immigrant men in same-sex couples8
Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research8
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: the relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts8
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
Who runs the world? Gender performances and racialized branding among young foreign women digital entrepreneurs in China8
How do second-generation ethnic minority professionals navigate towards higher-earner segments?8
Why bother? Local bureaucrats’ motivations for providing social assistance for refugees8
Encountering the digital border: smartphone screening in the Dutch asylum procedure8
Preparing for climate migration and integration: a policy and research agenda8
Coyotaje in an uncertain social environment: prior coyote experience as a form of migration-specific human capital8
‘It’s not about the information, it’s about the situation’: understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants’ narratives8
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
Transnational trajectories of fear: youth in migrant families in the United States and in Mexico8
(L)earning ‘belonging’: processes of inclusion and exclusion in Malta’s migrant integration programme8
Digital by default: the literacies, legibilities and legacies of the UK’s post-Brexit EU settled status regime8
Socio-spatial inequalities in urban mobility: the immigrant-native travel time gap in German cities – a mixed method study8
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