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Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Migration Studies is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	62
Do institutions matter for refugee integration? a comparison of case worker integration strategies in Switzerland and Canada	41
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	35
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	31
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	31
Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand	30
Lima is good enough: exploring role of city in coping strategies and future planning among Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru	28
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	27
…when the category ‘migration’ lost its innocence for migration scholars. And what now? A plea for dialogue	27
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	26
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	26
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	25
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	20
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	20
Democracy, visa-waivers, and international mobility	19
From shared experiences of gendered racism to converging interpretations? Exploring the formation of a decolonial standpoint by women of Moroccan descent in postcolonial France	19
Assessing the impact of migration on the happiness of household women left behind: evidence from Punjab, Pakistan	19
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison	19
We are all migrants	17
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	16
Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol	15
Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma	13
Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during russian invasion of ukraine: The case of slovakia	13
The hidden power of provincial and territorial immigration programs in shaping Canada’s immigration landscape	13
Towards equality: joining forces with arts and culture in the struggle for change in migration societies	13

Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence	12
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
Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter	11
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	10
Young migrants, “integration” and the local: critical reflections from European stakeholders	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	9
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	9
The case for increased centralization in integration governance: the neglected perspective	9
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	9
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	8
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	8
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	7
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	7
Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe	7
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	7
Factors influencing the spatial distribution of international retirement migrants settling in Hungary	7
Governing migration in midsize cities: permanent temporariness, rigid policies and role of business	7
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	7
Political legacies and present perceptions of migrants	7
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	7
The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam	6
Contagion effect of migration fear in pre and European refugee’s crisis period: evidence from multivariate GARCH and wavelet empirical analysis	6
Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales	6
Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies	6
Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review	6
Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states	6
Correction: Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	6
Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth	5
Causes of child labor and working conditions in Ethiopia: evidence from temporary inter-rural child labor migrants from Sekela district	5
Neglected intersections: a view from the South	5
The political economy of immigrant homeownership: housing assets and conservative shifts in South Korea	5
Decolonizing migration studies	5
Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa	5
Migration, space and place	5
Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands	5
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	5
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts	5
Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: a local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU	4
Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom	4
Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal	4
Diaspora by another name: the making of refugees in Cold War China	4
Acquiring intangible remittances for Ukraine by female war migrants: is there a ‘cumulative advantage effect’?	4
Fighting to belong: drivers for transnational diaspora military service in Israel and beyond	4
Coronavirus containment: communal future-making and the logics of containment in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya	4
Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns	4
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Labor migration, remittances, and the economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	4

Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil	4
Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the MENA region	4
The role of geographical distance in transnational institutional engagement of the Czech diaspora: a comparative study	4
Brain drain in Bhutan: its impacts and countermeasures	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
Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences	3
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	3
Women on the move? Mainstreaming gender in policies and legal frameworks addressing climate-induced migration	3
Thinking alike, acting alike? An assessment of organizational homophily and paradigmatic pragmatism in networks for local integration policies	3
Organisations and the production of migration and in/exclusion	3
Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: a conceptual framework	3
Pluralist diversity governance: deepening the multiculturalism-interculturalism nexus	3
Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China	3
Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan	3
The coloniality of migration and integration: continuing the discussion	3
Correction: Brain drain in Bhutan: its impacts and countermeasures	3
A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives	3
The effect of co-ethnic social capital on immigrants' labor market integration: a natural experiment	2
Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy	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
Who do you think I am? Immigrant’s first name and their perceived identity	2
The strength of migration and stay aspirations: understanding harmonious, conflicting and indeterminate aspirations	2
International student mobility, Covid-19, and the labour market: a scoping review	2
Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces	2
‘With a little help from my educated friends’: revisiting the role of social capital for immigrants’ labour market integration in Germany	2
Becoming Nikkei: creating, challenging, and expanding Nikkei identification among Chileans of Japanese descent	2
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on social inequalities in international student mobility: a scoping review	2
Complexity of the links between destination outcomes and migration patterns: West to West intra-European mobility	2
Analysis and mapping of global research publications on migrant domestic workers	2
The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring	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
Translocal vulnerability of temporary rural–rural labor migrant-sending households in Quarit district, Northwestern Ethiopia	2
Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience	2
Can internet search data predict human migration intentions?	2
Responding to unauthorized residence: on a dilemma between ‘firewalls’ and ‘regularizations’	2
Will displaced Ukrainians return home? Exploring return migration through an aspirations-capabilities lens: cases from Spain and Sweden	2
Gender and the return migration process: Gulf returnees in Ghana	2
Between here and there: comparing the worry about the pandemic between older Italian international migrants and natives in Switzerland	2
Migration aspirations and their realisation: a configurational driver analysis of 26 African and Asian research areas	2
Between cosmopolitanism and parochialism: return migration of early-career Israeli academics	2
Configurations of attitudes toward immigration in Europe: evidence of polarization, ambivalence, and multidimensionality	1
Disentangling entangled mobilities: reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies	1
How organisations regulate Muslim body practices: a comparison of schools, hospitals, and swimming pools	1
Moral migration and transnationalism: Russian anti-war resistance after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine	1
A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights	1
Covid-19 and female migrants: policy challenges and multiple vulnerabilities	1
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal	1
Does geographic mobility contribute to educational outcomes: is migration timing the missing link in internal migration	1
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	1
Perspectives on the implementation gap in citizenship policy	1
“Everyone is leaving, so am I”: the role of culture in shaping Migration Behaviour in Nepal	1
Diversifying analytical categories for studying youth with and without migration background: an example of mobility-based categories	1
Membership intermediaries: a study of pluri-generational mixed-status families in Italy and France	1
Correction: An eye for an ‘I:’ a critical assessment of artificial intelligence tools in migration and asylum management	1
Migrations and diversifications in the UK and Japan	1
Encampment policy and public perception: a cross-country analysis of host community responses to Rohingya refugees	1
Your heart is where your roots are? Place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian returnees	1
Contested future-making in containment: temporalities, infrastructures and agency	1
Gender-based violence (GBV) against women with precarious legal status and their access to social protection in advanced welfare societies: an analytical contribution to reconstruct the research field	1
Standardised integration requirements for naturalisation: less rights and less discretion? A qualitative meta-analysis of ethnographic studies of naturalisation procedures in Europe	1
Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	1
Return migration and embedding: through the lens of Brexit as an unsettling event	1
Migration agencies’ visual performance within the Border spectacle. The case of EU and Canadian institutions	1
Who supports refugees? Diversity assent and pro-refugee engagement in Germany	1
Correction: The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review	1
Migration outside large cities: a comparison of the hiring of migrants for the food processing industry in the United States and Japan	1
From ‘safe haven’ to ‘zone of precarity’: locating Istanbul through the perceptions and everyday urban practices of skilled migrants	1
Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic	1
Bureaucratic configuration and discretion in asylum case processing: the case of the EUAA in Greece	1