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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Do institutions matter for refugee integration? a comparison of case worker integration strategies in Switzerland and Canada	55
Emotionalized embeddedness: extending the mixed embeddedness framework through Korean entrepreneurship in China	44
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	43
Integrating lifestyle and welfare aspirations in (im)mobility decisions: perspectives from a relatively disadvantaged group in Tangier, Morocco	40
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	30
Racialized unaccompanied minors: African children in United States immigration detention	28
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	28
Support for militarization from abroad: how Latinos in the United States respond to criminal violence in Latin America	27
Lima is good enough: exploring role of city in coping strategies and future planning among Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru	26
Religious proximity and racialised belonging among Catholic and Buddhist migrants in Ireland	23
Ius soli under siege: a comparative analysis of France and the United States	22
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	21
Migrant remittances and the decline of presidential term limits in sub-Saharan Africa	17
Temporary labour migration and restricted rights: comparative perspectives from European agriculture	17
…when the category ‘migration’ lost its innocence for migration scholars. And what now? A plea for dialogue	16
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	15
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	15
Migrantization of mobile EU citizens? Assessing the impact of political reception contexts on bureaucratic discrimination	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
Precarious labour in precarious times: the impact of the war in Israel/Palestine on non-citizen workers	13
Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol	12
Assessing the impact of migration on the happiness of household women left behind: evidence from Punjab, Pakistan	12
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

Cold feet on foreign soil? How repressive threats shape migrants’ political engagement	11
Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during russian invasion of ukraine: The case of slovakia	11
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	11
Democracy, visa-waivers, and international mobility	11
A framework for understanding precarious economic incorporation of Ukrainian refugees in Central Eastern Europe	11
Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter	10
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	10
Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence	10
Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma	10
The hidden power of provincial and territorial immigration programs in shaping Canada’s immigration landscape	10
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	10
Strangers in paradise? The wellbeing of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments	9
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	9
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
Can older urban migrants achieve active aging? Variations by migration motivation, geographical scale and residential duration	8
Health-related lifestyle behaviours and healthcare utilisation among adolescent immigrants in Europe	8
Transnational political socialization in conservative networks: narratives of Turkish-Dutch citizens between the Netherlands and Turkey	8
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	8
Young migrants, “integration” and the local: critical reflections from European stakeholders	8
Who should vote? Membership and claims to expatriate political participation in the Nigerian diaspora	7
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	7
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	7
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	7
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	7
Political legacies and present perceptions of migrants	7
Factors influencing the spatial distribution of international retirement migrants settling in Hungary	7
“Steel Dragon City, shifting Chinese migrants”: Chinese communities in suspended motion in Dubai	7
Defining Ethnic and Migrant Minorities in Survey Research across Europe: Insights from the Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Survey Registry	7
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	7
Correction: Migrantization of mobile EU citizens? Assessing the impact of political reception contexts on bureaucratic discrimination	7
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	7
Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review	6
Qualification as a key criterion? An analysis of Germany’s labour migration policy	6
Migration, space and place	6
Decolonizing the migration archive: Haitian refugees at Fort Allen, Puerto Rico, 1981–82	6
Correction: Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	6
Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states	6
Infrastructuring migrant urban citizenship: homeless EU migrants and service providers’ facilitation of care and rights in pandemic Copenhagen	6
Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth	6
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	6
Migrantisation: a key concept	6
The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam	6
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts	6
Temporary protection in Turkey and Colombia: state interests, entangled migration realities, policy diffusion and the global erosion of refugee protection standards	6
“Sticking out” as ethnoracial others: a comparative cultural sociology of immigrant (super)visibility in urban spaces	6
Neglected intersections: a view from the South	6
Governing migration in midsize cities: permanent temporariness, rigid policies and role of business	6
The “Other” through the eyes of the host: a discourse analysis of American and German YouTube users’ reactions to migration and immigrant issues	5
Stuck or striving in the city? Urban friction and the making of internal–international migration pathways in Iraqi Kurdistan	5

Fighting to belong: drivers for transnational diaspora military service in Israel and beyond	5
Regular vs. irregular migration from Indian Punjab: evaluating socio-economic contexts, economic gains and developmental effects	5
“How far I go is not my choice”. Immobility, administrative violence and ontological insecurity amongst young people in situations of forced migration in South Africa	5
Causes of child labor and working conditions in Ethiopia: evidence from temporary inter-rural child labor migrants from Sekela district	5
Coronavirus containment: communal future-making and the logics of containment in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya	5
Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands	5
Decolonizing migration studies	5
Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom	5
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	5
The political economy of immigrant homeownership: housing assets and conservative shifts in South Korea	5
Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: a local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU	5
Cascading displacement in Ethiopia: drought stress, insecurity, and market pressures in the remaking of mobility, settlement, and land claims	5
Trajectories of migration aspirations through urban and temporal lenses: rethinking (im)mobility decision-making in Dakar, Senegal	5
Organisational determinants of administrative decision-making quality in European asylum offices: a qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)	5
Labor migration, remittances, and the economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	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
Thinking alike, acting alike? An assessment of organizational homophily and paradigmatic pragmatism in networks for local integration policies	4
Navigating migration challenges in Uganda’s West Nile borderlands: policy, practice, and governance	4
Diaspora by another name: the making of refugees in Cold War China	4
The role of geographical distance in transnational institutional engagement of the Czech diaspora: a comparative study	4
Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal	4
Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China	4
Leveraging diaspora finance for development in Zimbabwe	4
Acquiring intangible remittances for Ukraine by female war migrants: is there a ‘cumulative advantage effect’?	4
Brain drain in Bhutan: its impacts and countermeasures	4
Women on the move? Mainstreaming gender in policies and legal frameworks addressing climate-induced migration	4
A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives	4
Migration policies addressing irregularity: a typology of responses	4
Why do small Western European localities promote local integration policies? A qualitative comparative analysis	4
Pluralist diversity governance: deepening the multiculturalism-interculturalism nexus	3
Double-layer deterrence: cascading externalization for irregular migration control	3
The coloniality of migration and integration: continuing the discussion	3
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on social inequalities in international student mobility: a scoping review	3
Analysis and mapping of global research publications on migrant domestic workers	3
Becoming Nikkei: creating, challenging, and expanding Nikkei identification among Chileans of Japanese descent	3
Complexity of the links between destination outcomes and migration patterns: West to West intra-European mobility	3
Who are human traffickers? Evidence from Romanian prisons	3
Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan	3
Correction: Brain drain in Bhutan: its impacts and countermeasures	3
Correction: De-victimizing migration: Re-narrating young migrantized lives through transnational participatory filmmaking	3
Conflict, drought, and displacement: determinants of return intentions among South Sudanese refugees	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
Can internet search data predict human migration intentions?	3
Organizational structure of migrant brokerage: the case of investment immigration to the U.S.	3
Responding to unauthorized residence: on a dilemma between ‘firewalls’ and ‘regularizations’	3
Who do you think I am? Immigrant’s first name and their perceived identity	3
A ‘European Turn’? Foreign policy pivoting and bilateral labor migration agreements in the Philippines-Europe nursing migration corridor	3
Human development and city out-migration: subnational perspectives on the mobility transition	3
From social to intangible remittances: toward a comprehensive framework of remittances	3
Migration and labour market outcomes through a multi-sited lens: South American migrants in Argentina and Spain	2
Future-making as a refugee in Turkey: containment, resettlement, and multiple futures	2
International student mobility, Covid-19, and the labour market: a scoping review	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
The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring	2
Between here and there: comparing the worry about the pandemic between older Italian international migrants and natives in Switzerland	2
The role of family dynamics in (return) migration aspirations among Ukrainian protection holders in Germany	2
De-victimizing migration: Re-narrating young migrantized lives through transnational participatory filmmaking	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
“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
The strength of migration and stay aspirations: understanding harmonious, conflicting and indeterminate aspirations	2
A comparative study on the academic performance of left-behind and non-left behind children: evidence from Kaski District, Nepal	2
Migrants’ political trust: how exposure and exclusion in origin and residence country explain differences	2
Rethinking integration: applying the capabilities approach to immigrant incorporation	2
Migration aspirations and their realisation: a configurational driver analysis of 26 African and Asian research areas	2
Moral migration and transnationalism: Russian anti-war resistance after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine	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
Will displaced Ukrainians return home? Exploring return migration through an aspirations-capabilities lens: cases from Spain and Sweden	2
Trauma and repression: post-Orientalist narratives in French media discourse on Muslim immigrants	2