Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Article	Citations
Embracing whiteness, becoming Western. The case of Polish expatriates in Saudi Arabia	122
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	80
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	74
Don’t count me out: erasure of ethnicity and ethnic groups from national censuses	73
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	69
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	62
Can activation of a shared identity increase cooperation between natives and migrants?	57
More than resilience: adaptive pragmatism and the everyday navigation of the integration landscape in Belgium	55
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	55
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship	46
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	44
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	42
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process	42
Earned citizenship and fairness	42
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	40
‘Not like those Lebs’: intra-ethnic distinction and conditional citizenship in regional Australia	39
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	39
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	39
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city	34
Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan	33
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	30
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Stay or go? Post-Brexit and COVID-19 dilemmas of Return in British expatriate retiree communities in Spain	29
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	29
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	28

Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	28
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	26
Return migration and employment mobility: a pan-European analysis	26
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation	26
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	26
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants	26
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	26
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	26
Migration experience, hukou status, and political alienation in Chinese grassroots elections	26
‘There is a wide path and there is a narrow path’ – transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah’s Witnesses	25
Casting votes or crossing borders? How living abroad reduces mobile Europeans’ likelihood to participate in European elections	25
One century, two refugee crises in Greece: de-nationalising the past/de-naturalising the present	25
Contradicting processes of migranticisation and citizenisation: analysing the extent of nationality privilege in the context of French migration in Quebec, Canada	25
Security concerns, ethnic relations, and attitudes toward refugees: evidence from Turkey	24
Children or productive adults? Infantilisation and exploitation of refugees in Germany and Austria	24
National register of citizens and citizenship amendment act 2019: following the logic of citizenship securitization in India	23
The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden	23
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK	23
Citizenship and the democratic struggles in Montenegro and Serbia	22
The politics left behind: how pre-migration and migration experiences shape Syrian refugees’ interest in home-county politics	22
Citizenship with adjectives: conceptual precision in comparative research	22
‘Human beings should not be deported’: the horn of Africa’s hegemon contests the EU’s norm to readmit	22
Reconceiving Asian parenting within intra-Asia migration	21
Repertoires of sanctuary: building a network of safety at the French–Italian border	21
Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime	21
Embodying intimate border violence: collaborative art-research as multipliers of Latin American migrant women’s affects	21
From hospitality to hostility: the evolutionary securitisation of Rohingya migration in Bangladesh	21
Navigating hope and deterrence: the ambivalence of legal support in post-Brexit Calais	21
Making ‘Best interest’ visible: the role of frontline staff in the care of unaccompanied children	21
Fake refugee? Yemeni refugees becoming faceless labour in South Korea	21
Unpacked narratives on migration governance: missing voices of female migrants in migration policies in West Africa	21
Doing nothing? Dynamics of waiting among ageing internally displaced Cameroonians during the anglophone crisis	20
Refugees and claims-making in spaces of urban marginality: Syrian refugees build alliances across racial lines for collective action	20
Understanding digital nomadism: a three-level framework for migration studies	20
When a wife is an immigrant: family immigration pathways, employment, and household labour patterns	20
Raising children in the UK: the screams of Zimbabwean migrant parents	20
Envisioning futures at new destinations: geographical imaginaries and migration aspirations of Nepali migrants moving to Malta	20
The making of online Kurdistan: redefining nationhood and belonging among Kurdish Generation Z	20
From ‘migrant’ to ‘refugee’: what changed? Working lives of Ukrainian women in the Czech Republic	19
Posted work as an extreme case of hierarchised mobility	19
‘[The U.S.] sent us to Mexico until the next court hearing.’ Central American mothers’ expulsion and third-country liminality	19
Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia	19
Missing links in migrant enfranchisement studies	19
From commodification to contestation: rethinking citizenship by investment through law and policy	19
To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions	19
Doing and contesting borderwork in Senegal: local implementers of migration information campaigns	19
Societies of immigration control: the transactional subject of British borders after Brexit	18
Privileged transmigrant motherhood and its practices of distinction	18
Privileged pariahs: agency of Korean expatriate mothers in the UAE	18
Success as self-determination: a subject-centred analysis of immigrants’ definitions and perceptions of success	18

Role of school wellbeing, personality traits, parental involvement and family norms in relation to immigrant–native educational gaps. A longitudinal study from Denmark	18
A multi-level mixed-methods research design in studying localised experiences of asylum seekers: challenges and lessons learned	18
Friends and foes: the ambivalence of the use of NICT during the migratory journey	18
The discipline of hope: abolishing the prison of immobility in post-Deportation narratives	18
Unbecoming Indian: the contestation and negotiation of the category ‘Indian’ by South African migrants of Indian descent living in Australia	17
Averting, stepping-up or shielding: school strategies and intensive minority parenting among second-generation minority Danish parents	17
Negotiating belonging in digital gaming environments: Syrian youth under temporary protection in Türkiye	17
Addendum	17
Exploring the link between democratisation and citizenship: comparing Kosovo and Albania	17
The influence of media narratives on political debate: narratives on the 2015 migrant ‘crisis’ in five European countries	17
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?	16
Transcendent parenting across borders: transnational repertoires and parental positionality among Chinese ‘ Peidu Mamas ’ in Singapore	16
Widening the net of immigration control: an analysis of Belgium’s assertive return policy	16
‘Migrant data can never be accurate’: studying migration and borders through the notion of data quality	16
Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating	16
The developmental migration state	16
‘Do not disturb’: patience, social control and good citizenship in the Canadian family reunification process	16
Representing the national self and the cultural other: the Chinese diaspora on Douyin	16
How to model the weather-migration link: a machine-learning approach to variable selection in the Mexico-U.S. context	16
Epistemic domination by data extraction: questioning the use of biometrics and mobile phone data analysis in asylum procedures	16
‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel	16
Intermittent mobility as a livelihood strategy for landless rural people in Andhra Pradesh	16
The challenge of low visibility: immigrant activism toward enfranchisement	16
Spatio-temporal dynamics of platform labour: short-term rental cleaning labour intermediaries and student-migrant-workers	16
Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum	16
The relational dynamics of racialised policing: community policing for counterterrorism, suspect communities, and Muslim Americans’ provisional belonging	16
The domestic politics of selective permeability: disaggregating the Canadian migration state	16
Between obligations and aspirations: unaccompanied immigrant teen workers’ transnational lives and imagined futures	15
‘We’re not like the newbies’: belonging among Dubai’s long-term residents	15
Language as a diasporic stance: Polish in a migrant urban space	15
Migration narratives across national media, EU politics, and EU policymaking: a comparative analysis of the 2015 refugee crisis and the 2022 Ukrainian displacement	15
Pathways to external citizenship: the global extension of dual citizenship and voting from abroad	15
Tracing the demand- and supply-side of citizenship in Moldova during undulations of democracy	15
The situated and everyday cultivation of transcultural capital in educational and home settings for migrant youth in Scotland	15
Overcoming origin-based preferences by selecting skilled immigrants? Preferences in immigrants’ national origin and social class in Quebec	15
Devices of suspicion. An analysis of Frontex screening materials at the registration and identification center in Moria	15
Border times: welfare workers navigating the temporal intersections of migration law and the education system	14
The feeling of destiny: taqdeer and ‘voluntary’ return in the everyday lives of irregularised Pakistani migrants	14
Discourse and racial integration of migrants: how Polish migrants become ‘integrated’ members of the white English majority	14
Narratives of solidarity: experimental evidence on shifting attitudes towards refugees	14
Migration narratives in Singapore: from economistic imperatives to counter-narratives and absent narratives on co-ethnic politics and ageing migrants	14
Co-ethnic core intermediaries: Swedish speakers in Finnish party politics	14
Networked individualism with superficial integration: a study on Chinese entrepreneurs in Ikebukuro, Tokyo	14
Peer effects on the educational outcomes of immigrant youth: heterogeneity by generation and school context	14
‘We do things together': exploring a household perspective on early integration processes of recent refugees	14
Mind the recognition gaps: layers of invisibility of farm migration in Norway	14
Minority or migrant? loneliness among older immigrants in England	13
Fear, stigma, hope, and desahogó : understanding the role of deportation history and familial ties on the disclosure process of immigration-related experiences	13
‘I realise that they are doing it for my own good’: ‘homeland’ education mobilities and intergenerational negotiation in Nigerian diaspora families	13
The temporary turn in asylum: a new agenda for researching the politics of deterrence in practice	13
Negotiating class positions in proximate places of refuge: Syrians in Egypt and Somalians in Kenya	13
‘Resilient survivors’: narratives of violence against women of refugee background	13
Refugee secondary migration from small cities: evidence from Utica, New York	13
Selective multiple acculturation: institutional change in Surinamese-Hindustani dance traditions in The Netherlands	13
Towards a ‘low ambition equilibrium’: managing refugee aspirations during the integration process in Switzerland	13
Legal and policy relevance of EU mobility partnerships in Morocco and Cape Verde: the role of epistemic communities	13
Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement	13
Power and informality in the polycentric governing of transit and irregular migration on EU’s eastern border with Belarus	13
Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information	13
Epistemic notions of trust and distrust in institutional encounters with forced migrants in Finland and Sweden	13
Media coverage and local cooperation in immigration enforcement	13
Lost in space (and time): the disrupted intimacies of Pacific and Timorese guestworkers in Australia	13
International norm dynamics in return and readmission: a research agenda	13
‘Refugees have power and strength’: how refugee agency influenced asylum policy process in Japan	13
Ethnic diversity and cooperation: evidence from a lost letter experiment	13
Like parent, like child: how attitudes towards immigrants spill over to the political inclusion of their children	13
Organised forced migration and the external drivers of eliminationist politics	12
Emigration of the Western European second generation: is having immigrant parents a predictor of international migration?	12
‘A citizen at last’: return migrants transcending identity and citizenship in Mexico's racialized regime	12
Brokered bureaucracy: commodified integration in arrival spaces in Istanbul	12
Constructing categories of ‘desirable migrants’ through bureaucracy in French and Canadian mobility regimes	12
‘I am fine, but my group is not': exploring the meanings of the personal/group discrimination discrepancy among minority and majority populations	12
The contradictory effects of South Korean resettlement policy on North Koreans in South Korea	12
Norms, not just interests: public support for migrant rights protections in Europe–Africa cooperation on irregular migration	12
Gender, racialisation, and border regimes: reflections on social positions and positioning in research with young people on the move	12
‘In Burma, We're Not Called Burmese’: how nation-building and ethnic conflict at home influences ethnic and national identities abroad	12
How refugees work together: the politics of solidarity and ‘invisible’ collective action during COVID-19	12
Ethnopopulism and genocidal eliminationism: a discourse analysis of hate speech in the 1994 Rwandan genocide	12
How governance under the ‘grand compromise’ affects refugee preferences for relocation: evidence from Syrian refugees in Lebanon	12
Money, not protection. Assisted return programmes and the timing of future harm in refugee status determination	12

Pardon my French, Turkish and Arabic! How Flemish headteachers and teachers respond to multilingualism in the classroom	12
Becoming white or becoming mainstream?: defining the endpoint of assimilation	12
On the deportation charter: using freedom of information research to map the UK’s charter flight operations, 2010–2024	12
The boundaries of grievability: when do migrant lives matter to political representatives in Slovakia?	11
Understanding the diversity of local diversities: an analysis of the (mis)match between policies and diversity configurations in Dutch municipalities	11
Temporary togetherness: South Asian expatriate parents keeping their children in the UAE for university	11
Constructing difference in postsocialist Britain: the role of historical memory in media narratives of German and Polish migrants	11
Constructed objectivity in asylum decision-making through new technologies	11
A narrative approach to displacement, gender and conflict: motivations of Kurdish women to leave Syria in times of lawlessness	11
Climate disasters and individual migration aspirations: evidence from Senegal and the Gambia	11
‘We all know the benefits of having our parents and grandparents here with us’: super visas, temporary grand/parent migration, and Canadian nation building	11
‘All is not yet lost here.’ The role of aspirations and capabilities in migration projects of Ukrainian migrants in Poland	11
Polygyny in Denmark: a study of the instrumentalisation of cultural differences in immigration policies	11
Is the International Organization for Migration legitimate? Rights-talk, protection commitments and the legitimation of IOM	11
Humanitarian bargains: private refugee sponsorship and the limits of humanitarian reason	11
The bi-directional impact of a mixed union. People without a migration background in a union with a partner with a migration background	11
Living with ‘thin’ documents: a note on identity documents and liminal citizenship in the chars of Assam, India	11
The politics of Chinatown development in American cities	11
‘If you don’t speak Norwegian well, they think you are stupid’: experiencing and responding to linguistic racism by Polish migrant workers	11
Between residential and economic settlement: internal migration and employment of asylum migrants in Belgium	11
Portraits of feminicide: mural painting as protection among migrant women in Quintana Roo, Mexico	11
Defining, operationalising and translating ‘vulnerability’ in humanitarian work in Jordan	11
How media narratives on migration become nativist. A case-oriented comparative approach based on journalistic sub-genres	11
‘Stand by me’: competitive subnational regimes and the politics of retaining immigrants	11
From colonial control to democratic citizenship: unpacking Taiwan’s legal reform and indigenous rights	11
Living with hope, living with uncertainty: sustained, strained, and fatigued hope among former Filipino entertainers in Japan	11
Redefining the demos: a tool for ethnodemographic security or a sign of backsliding? Evidence from Abkhazia	11
The moderating effect of context of reception, labour market and education system on the migrant-native gap in university expectations	11
Two paths towards the exceptional extension of national voting rights to non-citizen residents	11
How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway	11
The vulnerabilities of skilled irregular Venezuelan migrants and entrepreneurs in Chile	10
Risk perception and desire in decision-making: the case of Syrians’ sea migration to Europe	10
Essential and disposable: racial capitalism and Polish migrant workers	10
Reconstructing intimacy in displacement: Syrian refugees and the re-making of home in Lebanon	10
Atrapados/ trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia	10
(Im)migrant emotive maternal temporalities & cultural splicing in Coorg mothering	10
Quantifying the role of arrival infrastructures in the labor market integration of refugees	10
Immigration, domestic labor, and earnings inequality among native-born women in the US	10
Negotiating refugee status: the co-production of labelling and identity among Mbororo pastoralists in Cameroon	10
‘Living between here and there’: Trans-local coping with urban marginality among internally displaced persons in urban Ethiopia	10
The making of migration narratives: understanding processes and gauging impacts	10
The formation of institutional trust among immigrants: what is the role of democracy?	10
COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers	10
Orientalization, or sidewards assimilation of second-generation Russian-speaking migrants in Israel’s urban periphery	10
Parental mobility, temporality and migration aspirations among currently non-migrant youth in Indonesia and the Philippines	10
Spillover dynamics and inter-institutional interactions between CSDP and AFSJ: moving towards a more joined-up EU external migration policy?	10
Whose story? Unpacking migration narratives in the East and Horn of Africa	10
Immigration rentier states	10
Boundary integrationism and its subject: shifts and continuities in the EU framework on migrant integration	10
How class shapes rural migration for young people	10
Communication is socialization: understanding family socialization patterns across three generations of Somali-American refugee families	10
National identity, partisanship, and attitudes toward North Korean defectors in South Korea	10
Digital activism and intergenerational perspectives on social justice and racial equity among multicultural youth	10
Democratic participation, constitutions and the making of citizens: lessons from Kenya and Tanzania	10
‘Do I really need to check that box?’ Ethnoracial ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States	10
Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt	10
Facilitated but unauthorised return: the role of smugglers in return migration and clandestine border crossings between Malaysia and Indonesia	10
Migratory dreams, prophecies, and intuitions: experiential religion in Ghanaian migration aspirations	10
Transnational mothering and the complexities of childhood among migrant Filipina domestic workers	9
Educational divides and class coalitions: How mainstream party voters divide and unite over immigration issues	9
Rethinking transnational parenting: Chinese immigrant parents’ family separation during COVID-19	9
Editorial welcome 2026	9
Homing infrastructures: Central and Eastern European families between precarity and cosmopolitan identity in post-Brexit Britain	9
Exploring Europe’s external migration policy mix: on the interactions of visa, readmission, and resettlement policies	9
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries: the case of highly educated recent refugees in Norway	9
‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty	9
Misperceptions of immigrant flows and their associations with anti-immigrant attitudes	9
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime	9
Hierarchised labour mobilities beyond the EU: intra-EU posting of third-country nationals and power resources in semi-peripheral EU countries	9
Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus	9
Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway	9
Residual temporariness and the limits of citizenship for Syrian doctors in Turkey	9
Variation in the link between income position and union dissolution: an analysis of couples with and without a migrant background in Belgium	9
Visa journeys and permanent temporariness: navigating welfare state borders and precarious status in Australia	9
Poverty among migrant, mixed, and non-migrant households: the role of non-teleworkability and single-earnership in Germany	9
Socialisation and ethnic majorities’ attitudes towards ethnic minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlational evidence	9
Locked out, but not disconnected: multilingual community engagement in Australia	9
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs	9
Migrant entrepreneurship, social class and deservingness: migrant women entrepreneurs in neoliberal Britain	9
Decentralization and diaspora capture: transnationalism, autocracy, and hybrid power in federal Ethiopia	9
Twenty-Five years on: anti-trafficking, shifting policy regimes and failure	9
The politics of (un)counting international migration in Senegal and the Gambia	9
‘Not having a real life’: psychosocial functions of using and selling drugs among young Afghan men who came to Sweden as unaccompanied minors	9
‘It’s not about the information, it’s about the situation’: understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants’ narratives	9
Introduction: mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia	9
Integration through crossing circles natives’ opportunity pools and diversification of friendships in a transforming Europe	9
Do occupational aspirations of children help to explain ethnic differences in labour market outcomes?	9
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: social reproduction of ‘(low) skill’?	9
Family privilege and the politics of desirability: Russian birth mobilities to Brazil	8
Negotiating pre-migration (im)mobility: gendered constraints, maternal responsibility, and restricted agency of Bangladeshi women	8
Migratory class-making in global Asian cities: the European mobile middle negotiating ambivalent privilege in Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai	8
Forging mobilities, becoming ideal workers? Temporary migration and the gig economy	8
Aspirations among young refugees in Turkey: social class, integration and onward migration in forced migration contexts	8
Chessboard politics: the contested emergence of EU return and readmission norms	8
Socio-spatial inequalities in urban mobility: the immigrant-native travel time gap in German cities – a mixed method study	8