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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	51
Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom	36
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	28
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	27
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	25
Correction to: Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places	25
Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand	23
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	21
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	21
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	21
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	19
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	18
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	18
Integration, cultural preservation and transnationalism through state supported immigrant organizations: a study of Sweden’s national ethnic associations	16
Assessing the impact of migration on the happiness of household women left behind: evidence from Punjab, Pakistan	15
Democracy, visa-waivers, and international mobility	15
Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol	14
From shared experiences of gendered racism to converging interpretations? Exploring the formation of a decolonial standpoint by women of Moroccan descent in postcolonial France	14
Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma	13
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison	13
The hidden power of provincial and territorial immigration programs in shaping Canada’s immigration landscape	13
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	13
Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter	13
We are all migrants	13
Towards equality: joining forces with arts and culture in the struggle for change in migration societies	12

Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during russian invasion of ukraine: The case of slovakia	12
The case for increased centralization in integration governance: the neglected perspective	11
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	11
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	11
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	11
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	10
Strangers in paradise? The wellbeing of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments	10
Health-related lifestyle behaviours and healthcare utilisation among adolescent immigrants in Europe	10
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	10
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	10
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	9
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK	9
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	9
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	9
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	8
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	8
Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe	8
Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales	8
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	8
Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review	7
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	7
Correction: Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	7
Accessing the public workforce: Organisational recruitment practices and the inclusion or exclusion of individuals of immigrant origin	7
Contagion effect of migration fear in pre and European refugee’s crisis period: evidence from multivariate GARCH and wavelet empirical analysis	7
Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies	7
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts	6
Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states	6
Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth	6
The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam	6
The well-being of newly regularized migrant workers: Determinants of their satisfaction with life as compared to undocumented migrant workers and regular local residents	6
Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa	6
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	6
Fighting to belong: drivers for transnational diaspora military service in Israel and beyond	5
Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the MENA region	5
Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal	5
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands	5
Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil	5
Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom	5
Labor migration, remittances, and the economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	5
Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns	5
Causes of child labor and working conditions in Ethiopia: evidence from temporary inter-rural child labor migrants from Sekela district	5
Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: a local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU	5
The membership of parties abroad: a case study of the UK	5
The role of geographical distance in transnational institutional engagement of the Czech diaspora: a comparative study	5
Organisations and the production of migration and in/exclusion	4
Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan	4
Women on the move? Mainstreaming gender in policies and legal frameworks addressing climate-induced migration	4
Thinking alike, acting alike? An assessment of organizational homophily and paradigmatic pragmatism in networks for local integration policies	4
A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives	4

Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China	4
The coloniality of migration and integration: continuing the discussion	4
Brain drain in Bhutan: its impacts and countermeasures	4
Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: a conceptual framework	4
Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences	4
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	4
Analysis and mapping of global research publications on migrant domestic workers	3
The strength of migration and stay aspirations: understanding harmonious, conflicting and indeterminate aspirations	3
Responding to unauthorized residence: on a dilemma between ‘firewalls’ and ‘regularizations’	3
Complexity of the links between destination outcomes and migration patterns: West to West intra-European mobility	3
‘With a little help from my educated friends’: revisiting the role of social capital for immigrants’ labour market integration in Germany	3
Between cosmopolitanism and parochialism: return migration of early-career Israeli academics	3
The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring	3
Who do you think I am? Immigrant’s first name and their perceived identity	3
Pluralist diversity governance: deepening the multiculturalism-interculturalism nexus	3
Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience	3
“Do good and talk about it”: informal representation and migrant-led civil society organizations’ mediation between low-wage labor migrants and state institutions in the GCC countries	3
Gender and the return migration process: Gulf returnees in Ghana	3
Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy	3
Correction: Brain drain in Bhutan: its impacts and countermeasures	3
The effect of co-ethnic social capital on immigrants' labor market integration: a natural experiment	3
Will displaced Ukrainians return home? Exploring return migration through an aspirations-capabilities lens: cases from Spain and Sweden	2
International student mobility, Covid-19, and the labour market: a scoping review	2
Correction: The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review	2
Migrations and diversifications in the UK and Japan	2
Migration agencies’ visual performance within the Border spectacle. The case of EU and Canadian institutions	2
Bridging the state and market logics of refugee labour market inclusion – a comparative study on the inclusion activities of German professional chambers	2
Migration aspirations and their realisation: a configurational driver analysis of 26 African and Asian research areas	2
The populist far right paradox: the identification of the enemy and its exceptions in the immigration policies of the Meloni government in Italy	2
Who supports refugees? Diversity assent and pro-refugee engagement in Germany	2
Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces	2
Between here and there: comparing the worry about the pandemic between older Italian international migrants and natives in Switzerland	2
Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia	2
Translocal vulnerability of temporary rural–rural labor migrant-sending households in Quarit district, Northwestern Ethiopia	2
How does immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment, and who is affected most? A longitudinal analysis of the UK and Japan cases	2