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Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Migration Studies is 2. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Translocal vulnerability of temporary rural–rural labor migrant-sending households in Quarit district, Northwestern Ethiopia	57
Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns	48
Migration aspirations and their realisation: a configurational driver analysis of 26 African and Asian research areas	33
The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review	24
Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia	23
The membership of parties abroad: a case study of the UK	23
Struggles for democracy: strategies and resources of initiatives for non-citizen voting rights at local levels in Europe	21
Seeking asylum in Scandinavia: a comparative analysis of recent restrictive policy responses towards unaccompanied afghan minors in Denmark, Sweden and Norway	19
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	19
The tie that binds? A comparison of ethnicity-based party ties among emigrated and resident citizens	18
Immigrant political participation is associated with more positive majority immigration attitudes across European countries and Swiss cantons	18
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	17
Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom	17
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	17
Immigrants and refugees, tourists and vagabonds: why and how they integrate differently	16
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK	14
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	14
Bridging the citizenship law implementation gap: a typology for comparative analysis	14
The case for increased centralization in integration governance: the neglected perspective	14
Bridging the state and market logics of refugee labour market inclusion – a comparative study on the inclusion activities of German professional chambers	14
Social remittances during COVID-19: on the “new normality” negotiated by transnational families	12
Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces	12
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	12
Conquering the labour market: the socioeconomic enablement of refugee women in Austria	12
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	11

Between here and there: comparing the worry about the pandemic between older Italian international migrants and natives in Switzerland	10
Addressing seeming paradoxes by embracing them: small state theory and the integration of migrants	10
“Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	10
Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal	10
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	10
International student mobility, Covid-19, and the labour market: a scoping review	10
A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights	9
Correction: The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review	9
A comparative analysis of changes in anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe: 1990–2017	9
Correction to: Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places	9
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Correction: Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: a local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU	9
Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand	8
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	8
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sri Lankan migrants in Qatar	8
The impact of partisan politics on migration policies: the case of healthcare provision for refugees by German states	8
The role of geographical distance in transnational institutional engagement of the Czech diaspora: a comparative study	8
Membership intermediaries: a study of pluri-generational mixed-status families in Italy and France	8
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	8
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	8
Who supports refugees? Diversity assent and pro-refugee engagement in Germany	7
Labor migration, remittances, and the economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	7
A global network of scholars? The geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications	7
The Japa syndrome and the migration of Nigerians to the United Kingdom: an empirical analysis	7
The student migration transition: an empirical investigation into the nexus between development and international student migration	6
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	6
Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom	6
Bringing anchoring and embedding together: theorising migrants’ lives over-time	6
Migration agencies’ visual performance within the Border spectacle. The case of EU and Canadian institutions	6
Unsettling expectations of stay: probationary immigration policies in Canada and Norway	6
Migrations and diversifications in the UK and Japan	6
Building paper bridges: adapting citizenship and immigration regimes to international displacement	6
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	6
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal	6
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	5
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK	5
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	5
Women on the move? Mainstreaming gender in policies and legal frameworks addressing climate-induced migration	5
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	5
How does immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment, and who is affected most? A longitudinal analysis of the UK and Japan cases	5
A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives	5
Campaigning across continents: how Latin American parties link up with migrant associations abroad	5
‘Firm but fair’? Migrant children’s rights through dramaturgy and nation branding in Norway and the UK	5
Correction to: A comparative study of parental knowledge and adaptation of immigrant youth	5
How organisations regulate Muslim body practices: a comparison of schools, hospitals, and swimming pools	5
The role of environmental factors and other migration drivers from the perspective of Moroccan and Congolese migrants in Belgium	4
Race and sameness: on the limits of beyond race and the art of staying with the trouble	4
Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China	4
Correction to: Beyond race?	4
Return migration and embedding: through the lens of Brexit as an unsettling event	4

Organisations and the production of migration and in/exclusion	4
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	4
How migrants manifest their transnational identity through online social networks: comparative findings from a case of Koreans in Germany	4
Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales	4
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	4
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	4
Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences	4
The coloniality of migration and integration: continuing the discussion	4
Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe	3
Exploring trauma and resilience of Urban South Sudanese refugees in Sudan	3
Who are the immigrants that Israeli Jews prefer? The interplay between reasons for migration, religion, and religiosity	3
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	3
‘Resettlement is worthwhile for our children’s future’: reflections from the Stateless Rohingya refugees in Malaysia	3
Beyond ‘race’?: a rejoinder	3
Street-level workers, managers and institutional tensions: a comparative ethnography of healthcare practices of in/exclusion in three Italian public organisations	3
Escaping uncertainty: overlapping methods of knowledge production and exchange in the naturalization journey	3
“So, if you ask whether fences work: they work”—the role of border fortifications for migration control and access to asylum. Comparing Hungary and the USA	3
Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan	3
Parties beyond national borders: exploring the activities of Israeli political parties abroad	3
Thinking alike, acting alike? An assessment of organizational homophily and paradigmatic pragmatism in networks for local integration policies	3
Should they stay or should they go? A case study on international students in Germany	2
Talking back to white Italy: unpacking the knot of racism, colonialism and feminism from the perspective of Black asylum-seeking and refugee women	2
Correction to: The aporia of refugee rights in a time of crises: the role of brokers in accessing refugee protection in transit and at the border	2
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	2
Exchange rates and immigration policy	2
Correction: A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	2
Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	2
Residency and citizenship in the Gulf: recent policy changes and future implications for the region	2
Parenting by mothers in immigrant families from Poland, Russia and Turkey in Germany: Migration-related similarities or origin-related differences?	2
Diversifying analytical categories for studying youth with and without migration background: an example of mobility-based categories	2
Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: a conceptual framework	2
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	2
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	2
Configurations of attitudes toward immigration in Europe: evidence of polarization, ambivalence, and multidimensionality	2
Ambiguous citizenship policies: Examining implementation gaps across levels of legislation in Jordan	2
An organizational approach to the Philippine migration industry: recruiting, matching and tailoring migrant domestic workers	2