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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Do institutions matter for refugee integration? a comparison of case worker integration strategies in Switzerland and Canada	51
Emotionalized embeddedness: extending the mixed embeddedness framework through Korean entrepreneurship in China	41
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	39
Integrating lifestyle and welfare aspirations in (im)mobility decisions: perspectives from a relatively disadvantaged group in Tangier, Morocco	36
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	29
Lima is good enough: exploring role of city in coping strategies and future planning among Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru	26
Racialized unaccompanied minors: African children in United States immigration detention	25
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	25
Support for militarization from abroad: how Latinos in the United States respond to criminal violence in Latin America	22
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	19
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	19
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	19
Ius soli under siege: a comparative analysis of France and the United States	19
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	15
…when the category ‘migration’ lost its innocence for migration scholars. And what now? A plea for dialogue	15
Precarious labour in precarious times: the impact of the war in Israel/Palestine on non-citizen workers	14
“When they return home they do nothing for half a year”: opposing remittances and articulations of Romanian migrant labour in agriculture	14
Towards a global migration paradigm	13
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	13
From shared experiences of gendered racism to converging interpretations? Exploring the formation of a decolonial standpoint by women of Moroccan descent in postcolonial France	12
Migrantization of mobile EU citizens? Assessing the impact of political reception contexts on bureaucratic discrimination	12
Democracy, visa-waivers, and international mobility	12
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison	11
Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol	11
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	10

Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence	10
A framework for understanding precarious economic incorporation of Ukrainian refugees in Central Eastern Europe	10
Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter	10
Assessing the impact of migration on the happiness of household women left behind: evidence from Punjab, Pakistan	10
Strangers in paradise? The wellbeing of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments	9
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	9
Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during russian invasion of ukraine: The case of slovakia	9
The hidden power of provincial and territorial immigration programs in shaping Canada’s immigration landscape	9
Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma	9
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	9
Health-related lifestyle behaviours and healthcare utilisation among adolescent immigrants in Europe	8
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	8
Systematic literature reviews in migration studies: approaches to context-sensitive synthesis	8
Young migrants, “integration” and the local: critical reflections from European stakeholders	8
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	8
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	8
Can older urban migrants achieve active aging? Variations by migration motivation, geographical scale and residential duration	8
Political legacies and present perceptions of migrants	7
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	7
Factors influencing the spatial distribution of international retirement migrants settling in Hungary	7
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	7
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	7
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	7
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	7
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	7
Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth	6
Contagion effect of migration fear in pre and European refugee’s crisis period: evidence from multivariate GARCH and wavelet empirical analysis	6
“Steel Dragon City, shifting Chinese migrants”: Chinese communities in suspended motion in Dubai	6
Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states	6
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	6
Qualification as a key criterion? An analysis of Germany’s labour migration policy	6
Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review	6
Neglected intersections: a view from the South	6
The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam	6
Migrantisation: a key concept	6
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts	6
Infrastructuring migrant urban citizenship: homeless EU migrants and service providers’ facilitation of care and rights in pandemic Copenhagen	6
Correction: Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	6
Governing migration in midsize cities: permanent temporariness, rigid policies and role of business	6
Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe	6
Migration, space and place	6
Decolonizing the migration archive: Haitian refugees at Fort Allen, Puerto Rico, 1981–82	6
Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands	5
Causes of child labor and working conditions in Ethiopia: evidence from temporary inter-rural child labor migrants from Sekela district	5
Fighting to belong: drivers for transnational diaspora military service in Israel and beyond	5
Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil	5
The political economy of immigrant homeownership: housing assets and conservative shifts in South Korea	5
Coronavirus containment: communal future-making and the logics of containment in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya	5
The “Other” through the eyes of the host: a discourse analysis of American and German YouTube users’ reactions to migration and immigrant issues	5
Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: a local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU	5

Acquiring intangible remittances for Ukraine by female war migrants: is there a ‘cumulative advantage effect’?	4
Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal	4
Thinking alike, acting alike? An assessment of organizational homophily and paradigmatic pragmatism in networks for local integration policies	4
Trajectories of migration aspirations through urban and temporal lenses: rethinking (im)mobility decision-making in Dakar, Senegal	4
Decolonizing migration studies	4
Stuck or striving in the city? Urban friction and the making of internal–international migration pathways in Iraqi Kurdistan	4
The (dis)advantages of (in)visibility: an analysis of the role of sexual orientation and gender identity in recent flows of forced migrants to Brazil	4
Brain drain in Bhutan: its impacts and countermeasures	4
The role of geographical distance in transnational institutional engagement of the Czech diaspora: a comparative study	4
Diaspora by another name: the making of refugees in Cold War China	4
Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom	4
Organisational determinants of administrative decision-making quality in European asylum offices: a qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)	4
Labor migration, remittances, and the economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	4
Why do small Western European localities promote local integration policies? A qualitative comparative analysis	4
Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan	4
Forced migrants’ agency in first countries of asylum: towards a more holistic Understanding of decisions about secondary movement by Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon	4
Regular vs. irregular migration from Indian Punjab: evaluating socio-economic contexts, economic gains and developmental effects	4
Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the MENA region	4
A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives	3
Navigating migration challenges in Uganda’s West Nile borderlands: policy, practice, and governance	3
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on social inequalities in international student mobility: a scoping review	3
From social to intangible remittances: toward a comprehensive framework of remittances	3
Human development and city out-migration: subnational perspectives on the mobility transition	3
Double-layer deterrence: cascading externalization for irregular migration control	3
The coloniality of migration and integration: continuing the discussion	3
Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China	3
Pluralist diversity governance: deepening the multiculturalism-interculturalism nexus	3
Who do you think I am? Immigrant’s first name and their perceived identity	3
Becoming Nikkei: creating, challenging, and expanding Nikkei identification among Chileans of Japanese descent	3
The impact of the absence of cross-border pension portability (CBPP) scheme between developed and developing countries on migrant experiences and return decisions: evidence from Ghanaians in the US	3
Who are human traffickers? Evidence from Romanian prisons	3
Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: a conceptual framework	3
Responding to unauthorized residence: on a dilemma between ‘firewalls’ and ‘regularizations’	3
Correction: Brain drain in Bhutan: its impacts and countermeasures	3
Complexity of the links between destination outcomes and migration patterns: West to West intra-European mobility	3
Can internet search data predict human migration intentions?	3
Women on the move? Mainstreaming gender in policies and legal frameworks addressing climate-induced migration	3
A comparative study on the academic performance of left-behind and non-left behind children: evidence from Kaski District, Nepal	2
Will displaced Ukrainians return home? Exploring return migration through an aspirations-capabilities lens: cases from Spain and Sweden	2
“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	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
Migration and labour market outcomes through a multi-sited lens: South American migrants in Argentina and Spain	2
Between here and there: comparing the worry about the pandemic between older Italian international migrants and natives in Switzerland	2
A dance of virtue and protection: femininity and masculinity negotiations in Arab cross-national marriage between Syrian refugee women and Egyptian men	2
Analysis and mapping of global research publications on migrant domestic workers	2
Gender and the return migration process: Gulf returnees in Ghana	2
‘With a little help from my educated friends’: revisiting the role of social capital for immigrants’ labour market integration in Germany	2
The strength of migration and stay aspirations: understanding harmonious, conflicting and indeterminate aspirations	2
Correction: An eye for an ‘I:’ a critical assessment of artificial intelligence tools in migration and asylum management	2
International student mobility, Covid-19, and the labour market: a scoping review	2
Moral migration and transnationalism: Russian anti-war resistance after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine	2
Correction: The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review	2
The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring	2
Chinese migrant entrepreneurs as symbolic broker: grassroots practices in the bottom-up production of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) discourse	2
Between cosmopolitanism and parochialism: return migration of early-career Israeli academics	2
Rethinking integration: applying the capabilities approach to immigrant incorporation	2
Future-making as a refugee in Turkey: containment, resettlement, and multiple futures	2
Translocal vulnerability of temporary rural–rural labor migrant-sending households in Quarit district, Northwestern Ethiopia	2
Encampment policy and public perception: a cross-country analysis of host community responses to Rohingya refugees	2
Migrants’ political trust: how exposure and exclusion in origin and residence country explain differences	2