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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework	259
Reframing ‘integration’: acknowledging and addressing five core critiques	49
Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience	45
Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy	27
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
An eye for an ‘I:’ a critical assessment of artificial intelligence tools in migration and asylum management	18
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	18
Campaigning across continents: how Latin American parties link up with migrant associations abroad	17
Disentangling entangled mobilities: reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies	17
Governing displaced migration in Europe: housing and the role of the “local”	15
A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights	15
A comparative analysis of changes in anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe: 1990–2017	15
Multifocality and opportunity structure: towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship	14
Seeking asylum in Scandinavia: a comparative analysis of recent restrictive policy responses towards unaccompanied afghan minors in Denmark, Sweden and Norway	13
Measuring migration 2.0: a review of digital data sources	13
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	13
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	12
“By women, for women, and with women”: on the integration of highly qualified female refugees into the labour Markets of Berlin and Brandenburg	12
Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies	12
Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom	11
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK	11
Bringing anchoring and embedding together: theorising migrants’ lives over-time	11
Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa	11
Shifts in the global migration order and migration transitions in Europe: the cases of Turkey and Russia	11
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	10

The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sri Lankan migrants in Qatar	10
Political parties abroad as actors of transnational politics	10
Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia	10
What does it mean to “go beyond race”?	10
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK	10
The well-being of newly regularized migrant workers: Determinants of their satisfaction with life as compared to undocumented migrant workers and regular local residents	9
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Schools as spaces for in/exclusion of young Mainland Chinese students and families in Hong Kong	9
Should they stay or should they go? A case study on international students in Germany	9
Migration and mobility of third-country national labour workers to and inside Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic – a legal analysis	9
Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences	9
Your heart is where your roots are? Place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian returnees	8
The student migration transition: an empirical investigation into the nexus between development and international student migration	8
Bridging the state and market logics of refugee labour market inclusion – a comparative study on the inclusion activities of German professional chambers	8
How can we categorise ‘nationality’ and ‘second generation’ in surveys without (re)producing stigmatisation?	8
Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places	8
Social remittances during COVID-19: on the “new normality” negotiated by transnational families	8
Contested skills and constrained mobilities: migrant carework skill regimes in Taiwan and Japan	8
An organizational approach to the Philippine migration industry: recruiting, matching and tailoring migrant domestic workers	8
Shaping migration at the border: the entangled rationalities of border control practices	8
Permanent or temporary settlement? A study on the short-term effects of residence status on refugees’ labour market participation	7
Parties beyond national borders: exploring the activities of Israeli political parties abroad	7
Comparing generations of migrants’ transnational behaviour: the role of the transnational convoy and integration	7
The effect of co-ethnic social capital on immigrants' labor market integration: a natural experiment	7
Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: a local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU	6
British and Japanese international retirement migration and creative responses to health and care challenges: a bricolage perspective	6
Regular matters: credibility determination and the institutional habitus in a Swiss asylum office	6
Immigration in the populist crucible: comparing Brexit and Trump	6
The role of environmental factors and other migration drivers from the perspective of Moroccan and Congolese migrants in Belgium	6
Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces	6
Party expats? Mapping transnational party branches of French, German and UK parties	6
Organisations and the production of migration and in/exclusion	6
The membership of parties abroad: a case study of the UK	6
The aporia of refugee rights in a time of crises: the role of brokers in accessing refugee protection in transit and at the border	5
Street-level workers, managers and institutional tensions: a comparative ethnography of healthcare practices of in/exclusion in three Italian public organisations	5
How does immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment, and who is affected most? A longitudinal analysis of the UK and Japan cases	5
Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil	5
A place migrants would call home: open-ended constructions and social determinants over time among Ecuadorians in three European cities	5
Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales	5
Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal	5
Vielfalt and diversité: how local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity	5
Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa	5
The coloniality of migration and integration: continuing the discussion	5
Exchange rates and immigration policy	5
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	5
The case for increased centralization in integration governance: the neglected perspective	5
Accessing the public workforce: Organisational recruitment practices and the inclusion or exclusion of individuals of immigrant origin	5
“This is not how we talk about race anymore”: approaching mixed race in Australia	4
Covid-19 and female migrants: policy challenges and multiple vulnerabilities	4
Between cosmopolitanism and parochialism: return migration of early-career Israeli academics	4

How do borders influence migration? Insights from open and closed border regimes in the three Guianas	4
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison	4
The tie that binds? A comparison of ethnicity-based party ties among emigrated and resident citizens	4
EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: a new conceptual framework	3
Beyond race?	3
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	3
A help or hindrance? Highly educated refugees’ perceptions of the role of civic integration programmes in accessing the labour market in Oslo, Malmö and Munich	3
The impact of partisan politics on migration policies: the case of healthcare provision for refugees by German states	3
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	3
Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the MENA region	3
Exploring the trajectories of highly skilled migration law and policy in Japan and the UK	3
Race and sameness: on the limits of beyond race and the art of staying with the trouble	3
We are all migrants	3
Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand	3
Addressing seeming paradoxes by embracing them: small state theory and the integration of migrants	3
Towards equality: joining forces with arts and culture in the struggle for change in migration societies	3
The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring	3
Integration, cultural preservation and transnationalism through state supported immigrant organizations: a study of Sweden’s national ethnic associations	3
How migrants manifest their transnational identity through online social networks: comparative findings from a case of Koreans in Germany	3
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	3
Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic	3
A comparative study of parental knowledge and adaptation of immigrant youth	3
Struggles for democracy: strategies and resources of initiatives for non-citizen voting rights at local levels in Europe	3
Conquering the labour market: the socioeconomic enablement of refugee women in Austria	2
Immigrants and refugees, tourists and vagabonds: why and how they integrate differently	2
De-migranticizing as methodology: rethinking migration studies through immobility and liminality	2
Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	2
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	2
Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: a conceptual framework	2
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	2
The integrative force of political institutions? Direct democracy and voter turnout across ethnic and nativity groups	2
Translocal vulnerability of temporary rural–rural labor migrant-sending households in Quarit district, Northwestern Ethiopia	2
Rethinking place-based gender relations in the new country: the case of tertiary level Syrian students in Istanbul	2
Contagion effect of migration fear in pre and European refugee’s crisis period: evidence from multivariate GARCH and wavelet empirical analysis	2
Ambiguous citizenship policies: Examining implementation gaps across levels of legislation in Jordan	2
A global network of scholars? The geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications	2
Membership intermediaries: a study of pluri-generational mixed-status families in Italy and France	2
Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns	2
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	2
Russian speakers’ media engagement and acculturation in Finland and Latvia	2
Return migration and embedding: through the lens of Brexit as an unsettling event	2
The Japa syndrome and the migration of Nigerians to the United Kingdom: an empirical analysis	2