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Papers

(The median citation count of Comparative Migration Studies is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework	174
After the refugee crisis: public discourse and policy change in Denmark, Norway and Sweden	55
Multilevel governance in trouble: the implementation of asylum seekers’ reception in Italy as a battleground	48
Reframing ‘integration’: acknowledging and addressing five core critiques	37
Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience	36
Barcelona: municipalist policy entrepreneurship in a centralist refugee reception system	27
Theorizing interactions of migrant transnationalism and integration through a multiscalar approach	20
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy	17
Between fragmentation and institutionalisation: the rise of migration studies as a research field	16
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	15
Data and research to inform global policy: the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration	15
Immigration policy mismatches and counterproductive outcomes: unauthorized migration to the U.S. in two eras	15
Campaigning across continents: how Latin American parties link up with migrant associations abroad	15
On migration, geography, and epistemic communities	13
Unequal internationalisation and the emergence of a new epistemic community: gender and migration	13
Young refugees and locals living under the same roof: intercultural communal living as a catalyst for refugees’ integration in European urban communities?	13
Shifts in the global migration order and migration transitions in Europe: the cases of Turkey and Russia	12
Governing displaced migration in Europe: housing and the role of the “local”	12
A comparative analysis of changes in anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe: 1990–2017	12
Hybrid identity and practices to negotiate belonging: Madrid’s Muslim youth of migrant origin	11
Multifocality and opportunity structure: towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship	11
Three sub-Saharan migration systems in times of policy restriction	10
Measuring migration 2.0: a review of digital data sources	10
A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights	10

Disentangling entangled mobilities: reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies	9
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia	9
“By women, for women, and with women”: on the integration of highly qualified female refugees into the labour Markets of Berlin and Brandenburg	9
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK	9
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK	9
Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa	9
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	9
Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom	9
Innovative strategies for the reception of asylum seekers and refugees in European cities: multi-level governance, multi-sector urban networks and local engagement	9
An eye for an ‘I:’ a critical assessment of artificial intelligence tools in migration and asylum management	8
Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places	8
Bridging the state and market logics of refugee labour market inclusion – a comparative study on the inclusion activities of German professional chambers	8
Political parties abroad as actors of transnational politics	8
Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies	8
Seeking asylum in Scandinavia: a comparative analysis of recent restrictive policy responses towards unaccompanied afghan minors in Denmark, Sweden and Norway	8
Naturalisation in context: how nationality laws and procedures shape immigrants’ interest and ability to acquire nationality in six European countries	8
Social contact and encounter in asylum seeker reception: the Utrecht Refugee Launchpad	8
Two cheers for Migration Studies	7
Bringing anchoring and embedding together: theorising migrants’ lives over-time	7
Migration and mobility of third-country national labour workers to and inside Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic – a legal analysis	7
The Grandhotel Cosmopolis – a concrete utopia? Reflections on the mediated and lived geographies of asylum accommodation	7
An organizational approach to the Philippine migration industry: recruiting, matching and tailoring migrant domestic workers	7
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	7
(Dis)connecting migration: transnationalism and nationalism beyond connectivity	7
Schools as spaces for in/exclusion of young Mainland Chinese students and families in Hong Kong	7
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sri Lankan migrants in Qatar	7
Building inclusive cities: reflections from a knowledge exchange on the inclusion of newcomers by UK local authorities	7
Is migration a unique field of study in social sciences? A response to Levy, Pisarevskaya, and Scholten	7
How can we categorise ‘nationality’ and ‘second generation’ in surveys without (re)producing stigmatisation?	6
British and Japanese international retirement migration and creative responses to health and care challenges: a bricolage perspective	6
Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences	6
Shaping migration at the border: the entangled rationalities of border control practices	6
Party expats? Mapping transnational party branches of French, German and UK parties	6
A place migrants would call home: open-ended constructions and social determinants over time among Ecuadorians in three European cities	6
Organisations and the production of migration and in/exclusion	6
Regular matters: credibility determination and the institutional habitus in a Swiss asylum office	6
The architecture of national boundary regimes: mapping immigration and citizenship policies in 23 democracies 1980–2010	6
What does it mean to “go beyond race”?	6
Parties beyond national borders: exploring the activities of Israeli political parties abroad	6
Should they stay or should they go? A case study on international students in Germany	6
Social remittances during COVID-19: on the “new normality” negotiated by transnational families	6
Comparing generations of migrants’ transnational behaviour: the role of the transnational convoy and integration	5
The well-being of newly regularized migrant workers: Determinants of their satisfaction with life as compared to undocumented migrant workers and regular local residents	5
Your heart is where your roots are? Place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian returnees	5
Vielfalt and diversité: how local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity	5
Permanent or temporary settlement? A study on the short-term effects of residence status on refugees’ labour market participation	5
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	5
The effect of co-ethnic social capital on immigrants' labor market integration: a natural experiment	5
Street-level workers, managers and institutional tensions: a comparative ethnography of healthcare practices of in/exclusion in three Italian public organisations	5

The membership of parties abroad: a case study of the UK	5
Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil	5
Different selection processes, different outcomes? Comparing labor market integration of asylum refugees, resettled refugees and their reunited family members in Finland	5
Contested skills and constrained mobilities: migrant carework skill regimes in Taiwan and Japan	5
Correction to: Between fragmentation and institutionalisation: the rise of migration studies as a research field	5
Blind men and the elephant: one view of the field of migration studies	4
The role of environmental factors and other migration drivers from the perspective of Moroccan and Congolese migrants in Belgium	4
Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal	4
Immigration in the populist crucible: comparing Brexit and Trump	4
Intersecting social structures and human actors: Ganfoso refugees’ settling experiences and impact on children’s education	4
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
Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces	4
Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa	4
Exchange rates and immigration policy	4
How does immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment, and who is affected most? A longitudinal analysis of the UK and Japan cases	4
The role of labour market integration in migrants’ decisions about family reunification: a comparative study of Polish migrants in Norway, Sweden, and the UK	3
“This is not how we talk about race anymore”: approaching mixed race in Australia	3
Covid-19 and female migrants: policy challenges and multiple vulnerabilities	3
Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales	3
An IMISCOE effect? The role of a network of excellence in developing European migration research in the twenty-first century	3
Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand	3
Exploring the trajectories of highly skilled migration law and policy in Japan and the UK	3
Accessing the public workforce: Organisational recruitment practices and the inclusion or exclusion of individuals of immigrant origin	3
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	3
The student migration transition: an empirical investigation into the nexus between development and international student migration	3
The case for increased centralization in integration governance: the neglected perspective	3
Between cosmopolitanism and parochialism: return migration of early-career Israeli academics	3
Beyond race?	3
Race and sameness: on the limits of beyond race and the art of staying with the trouble	3
Asian perspectives of migration: a commentary	3
A comparative study of parental knowledge and adaptation of immigrant youth	3