International Migration Review

Papers
(The median citation count of International Migration Review 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Age at Migration and the Political Integration of Immigrants — Evidence From a Sibling Analysis94
Why do Citizens Criminalize Migrants? Experimental Evidence from a Multi-Role Country, Mexico39
Digital Nomadism and the Emergence of Digital Nomad Visas: What Policy Objectives Do States Aim to Achieve?34
Book Review: On Transits and Transitions31
Dreaming of a Remittance House: Understanding Transnational Housing Aspirations23
Global Evidence on the Relative Importance of Nonfinancial Drivers of International Migration Intentions23
Resilient Remittances? Examining Immigrant Remittances from the United States to Latin America During Covid-1921
Book Review: An Address in Paris21
How Much Does Migration Affect Labor Supply in Europe? Methodological Insights and Contemporary Evidence from the European Union and Selected European Countries21
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnic Trust Network and Expanded Social Engagement Among North Korean Refugees in London19
Book Review: In Search of Home KlementCamaj R.. (2025). The Migration of Albanians from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States: In Search of Home. Oxford: Routledge. 173. $108.00.17
Regulating the Undesirable: Statusless Women in Israel17
Subjectivity in Welfare Mobilities: Rethinking Welfare as a Structure, a Process, and an Experience16
Trust in Transit: External Migration Control and Migrants’ Perceptions of Humanitarian Borderwork in the Sahel16
Web Scraping for Migration, Mobility, and Migrant Integration Studies: Introduction, Application, and Potential Use Cases15
The Evolution of the Returns to Schooling for Refugees and Other Immigrants in the United States14
Book Review: The Opportunity Trap14
The Inflow of Refugees and Educational Attainment of U.S. Natives: Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift13
Book Review: The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco13
Public Support for Migrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of North Koreans in the Republic of Korea13
Understanding Adverse Outcomes in Gulf Migration: Evidence from Administrative Data from Sri Lanka12
Partner Choice and Economic Outcomes among the Children of Immigrants12
Travel Bloggers as ‘Digital Nomads’–How Can Understanding This Lifestyle Migration Help us to Think About the Future of Work, Migration and Technology?12
Implications of the Rohingya Relocation from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, Bangladesh11
Immigration and New Firm Formation – Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Germany11
Discrimination of Black and Muslim Minority Groups in Western Societies: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments11
Then and Now: Romanian Returnees Contemplating Future Migration11
Exclusionary Contexts Frustrate Cultural Integration: Migrant Acculturation Into Support for Gender Equality in the Labor Market in Western Europe11
Migration Governance in Pakistan: Institutional Challenges and Data Gaps10
Immigration and Fertility in the United States10
Book Reviews: Migration and Political Theory10
Book Review: The Shape of Belonging Ögtem-YoungÖzlem. 2024. The Shape of Belonging: For Unaccompanied Young Migrants. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 167 pp. Hardback £80.00.10
Transnational Parenthood and Migrant Subjective Well-Being in Italy10
The Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions Among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in Norway and Sweden10
Participation in Social Movement and Emigration Intention: A Study of Hong Kong Social Movement in 20199
Book Review: Historias migratorias y educativas de estudiantes transfronterizos entre Estados Unidos y México Huerta Cordova, Vilma, Kleyn, Tatyana, and López Gopar, Mario Enrique. 2023. Historias mig9
Does City Size Affect International Migrants and Native-Born Workers Differently? Exploring Inequalities in Unemployment and Occupations Across Spanish Cities9
Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering: The Securitization of Migration Policy in Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic8
Migration Aspirations and Adolescents’ Ideal age at Union Formation in Western Mexico8
Immigration and the Boundaries of Black Political Subjecthood in Argentina and Chile8
How Do Immigration Policies Affect Voter Support for Low-Skilled Immigrants? Evidence from a Survey Experiment8
Capacity and Priority: Explaining the Regulatory Roles of Labor Brokers in China's Newly Established Guestworker Program7
Book Review: Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan7
Mediating Mobility in West Africa: Improvisation, Culture, and Volatility in Migration Infrastructures7
Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective7
Contesting Boundaries and Navigating Identities: Second-Generation Adult Children from Cross-Border Marriages in Taiwan7
Why Are Children of Immigrants Less Geographically Mobile? Examining the Role of Economic Disadvantage and Family Networks7
Point of Reference: A Multisited Exploration of African Migration and Fertility in France6
Does Self-Employment Contribute to Immigrants’ Economic Integration? Examining Patterns of Self-Employment Exit in Belgium6
Marriage Channels, Temporal Inequality, and Migration Decision-Making Agency: Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Asia6
Are Healthcare Systems Failing Immigrants? Transnational Migration and Social Exclusion in the Workers’ Compensation Process in Québec6
Book Review: Searching for Sweetness: Women's Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho6
Population Innumeracy and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Case of South Africa6
Who Wants to Leave? Global Survey Evidence on How Individual Emigration Aspirations Differ Between Peaceful and Conflict-Affected Contexts6
Religion, Ideology, and Political Parties’ Positions on Refugees in South Asia and the Middle East6
Book Review: The Refugee System6
The Map and the Territory: The Use of Country Information in Asylum Assessments6
Childbearing Across Immigrants and Their Descendants in Sweden: The Role of Generation and Gender6
Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”6
A Migratory Ecosystem: Legibility, Visibility, and the Role of Organizations in Ecuador6
Book Review: Lived Refuge5
The Glaring Gap: Undervalued and Unrecognized Knowledges and Expertise in International Migration Research5
Collectivized Discretion: Seeking Explanations for Decreased Asylum Recognition Rates in Finland After Europe's 2015 “Refugee Crisis”5
Family Matters: The Impact of National Policies on Asylum Destinations5
Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus5
Book Review: Urban Refugees and Digital Technology Martin-ShieldsCharles. 2024. Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Rethinking Integration in the Digital Age. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024,5
Judicial Framing and Immigration Policymaking: Israel's Policy toward Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers5
Review Essay: Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and DevelopmentThe Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and AssistanceThe Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Econom5
Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 20215
Book Review: Hopelessly Alien5
Book Review: The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing‘s Koreatown5
The Refugee Paradox During Wartime in Europe: How Ukrainian and Afghan Refugees are (not) Alike5
Taking Care of Others and the Self through Islamic Funeral Service in Berlin5
Does Time Since Arrival have an Effect on Immigrants’ Preferences for Vocational Education and Training Programs in Switzerland?5
No Safe Place: Violence among Unaccompanied Refugee Children Seeking Asylum in Kenya5
The Perpetual Influence of Historical Trauma: A Broad Look at Indigenous Families and Communities in Areas Now Called the United States and Canada5
Does It Pay Off? Understanding Subjective Employment Mobility of European Physicians in Germany5
Imposed Invisibility: Unraveling Identities Through Negotiations of Categories among People Raised in Germany by Polish Parents5
With Time We Learn to Trust Others? Long-Standing Ethnic Diversity, Recent Immigration, and Out-Group Trust in Russia5
Book Review: Outsourcing Control5
Digital Nomads in Conversation: Reddit-based Analysis and the Future of Nomadic versus Migrant Career Journeys4
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention4
Book Review: Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorship4
Book Review: “Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class.” HughesEllenWebberDon J.and ParryGlenn.2024. “Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class.” Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 191 pp.4
Immigration, Sanctuary Policies, and Public Safety4
Why Has Migration Research So Little Impact? Examining Knowledge Practices in Migration Policy Making and Migration Studies4
Forced Migrants’ Agency in a Life Course Approach—A Conceptual Proposal and Empirical Illustration4
Review Essay: Moving Beyond the Migration State4
U.S. Sanctuary Policies and Mexicans’ Migration Preferences: A Conjoint-Experimental Study4
Can We See Their ID? Measuring Immigrants’ Legal Trajectory: Lessons From a French Survey4
Book Review: Exit4
Book Review: The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life4
Book Review: New year, new plans for IMR’s book review section4
Quantitative Data Availability and Measurement of US Immigrant and Immigration Policies: IMR Methods Note4
Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies4
Badante or Bride? Patterns of Female Migration in Italy, Japan, Korea, and Spain4
Book Review: Argonauts of West Africa4
Book Review4
Book Review: Intimate Strangers ToyotaTritia. 2023. Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 226 pp., $34
Reimagining “Integration” in the Light of the New Forms of Mobility3
The Value of Illegality: Venezuelan Migrants in Ecuador and the (Re)Entrenchment of Neoliberal Capitalism3
Of Rice and Men: Rice Consumption-Based Estimates of Undocumented Persons in Malaysia3
Book Review: Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience3
Embedding Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Solidarity Contexts: A Cross-European Study3
The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations3
Theorizing Legitimacy in Migration Research3
Are They Still Aiming High? The Development of Educational Aspirations of Lower Secondary School Students With Immigrant Backgrounds in Germany3
Forced Migration and the Politics of Belonging: Integration Policy, National Debates and Migrant Strategies3
Book Review: Asylum as Reparation3
Climate Change, Drought, and Potential Environmental Migration Flows Under Different Policy Scenarios3
How Social Networks Shape Refugee Movements in Wartime: Evidence from the Russian Attack on Ukraine3
Book Review: Waiting for the Revolution to End3
Book Review: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles CanizalesStephanie L.2024. Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States. Oakland: University of California Press. 338. $293
Book Review: African Football Migration3
Family Separation and Reunification Under President Trump's Zero-Tolerance Policy3
Emotional Earmarking: Insights into Remittances and Emotions from a Mixed Methods Study of Migrant Households in Rural Philippines3
Spatial Segregation in Action? An Empirical Assessment of Population Concentration of Foreigners and Nationals in Italy, 2002–20183
Externally Driven Border Control in West Africa: Local Impact and Broader Ramifications3
Jigsaw Migration: How Mixed Citizenship LGBTQ Families (Re)Assemble Their Fragmented Citizenship3
The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century3
Criminal Victimization of Central American Migrants in Transit Through Mexico3
A Citizen Just Like You: The Role of Complex Contagion and Resemblance for Decisions to Naturalize3
The Social Inclusion of Migrants Between Policy and Practice: Lessons from Uruguay3
Multidimensionality in the Integration of First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Europe: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation3
Book Review: Fragments of Home Scott-SmithTom. 2024. Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 250 pages. Soft cover $28.00. Hard cover: $113
Cross-Era Gender Differences in Educational Attainment Among Second-Generation Immigrants3
Labor Recruitment and Human Trafficking: Analysis of a Global Trafficking Survivor Database2
The Migration Response to Food Insecurity and Household Shocks in Southwestern Ethiopia, 2005–20082
Are Visa-Based Dispersal Policies Effective in Attracting and Retaining Skilled Migrants in Rural Australia?2
Book Review: Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union2
Bolstering Autocracy, Hindering Democracy: Local Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Effects of EU Migration Policy Externalization in Morocco2
Fitting in at the Top? Stigma and the Negotiation of Belonging Among the New Immigrant Elite in France2
A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–20202
Changes in International Migration to and from Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Convergence Between Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking of Goods: Text Analysis of Open-Source Data2
Book Review: Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life2
Diasporas and Collective Remittances: From State-Driven to Unofficial Forms of Diaspora Engagement2
Mass Preferences for the Free Movement of People in Africa: A Public Opinion Analysis of 36 Countries2
Parenting from Abroad: Transnational Separation from a Child and Mental Health Among Immigrants in France2
Book Review: Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism2
Book Review: Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in the Diaspora2
Journey Effects? Waiting Periods in European Transit Countries and Subsequent Economic Integration of Refugees in Switzerland2
Book Review: The Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States2
Book Review: Migration Studies and Colonialism2
Beyond Borders: Understanding Afghanistan's International Migration Dynamics and Global Implications2
The Effect of Slow-Onset Climate Change on Migration Decisions2
Why Do the Rohingya Embark on Dangerous Boat Voyages from Bangladesh? A Qualitative Study2
Book Review: Forced Out2
Uprooted Families: Caretaking, Belonging, and Inheritance During and After Displacement2
Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 20192
Author Conversation: Sofya Aptekar and Cristina Dragomir2
Book Review: License to Travel2
National Cultural Frames and Muslims’ Economic Incorporation: A Comparison of France and Canada2
Where Would Ukrainian Refugees Go if They Could Go Anywhere?2
Book Review: Border Abolitionism2
Toward an Early Warning System for Monitoring Asylum-Related Migration Flows in Europe2
The Integration Paradox: A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Complex Relationship Between Integration and Reports of Discrimination2
Social Status and Gendered Pathways to Citizenship1
Wages of Skilled Migrant and Native Employees in Germany: New Light on an Old Issue1
Book Review: Forever 171
African Migration at a Crossroads: The Social and Theoretical Implications of Emerging International Migration Trends1
The Quest for Lifestyle: Reverse Family Migration among Hong Kong Returnee Parents1
The Effect of Immigrant Integration Policies on Public Immigration Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the United Kingdom1
Foreign Accents in the Early Hiring Process: A Field Experiment on Accent-Related Ethnic Discrimination in Germany1
Book Review: Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment: Economic Migration Between Vietnam and Malaysia1
Book Review: Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America’s Northern Border1
The Social Worker as Border Guard: How and Why British Welfare Workers Are Disposed to Control Immigration1
Book Review: Belonging in a House Divided1
“Who Should Care for Our Parents?” How the Perceived Achievement Hierarchy Complicates Transnational Family Relations in China?1
Big Data for the Prediction of Forced Displacement1
Public Attitudes to Immigration in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Little Change in Policy Preferences, Big Drops in Issue Salience1
Importance of Personality Traits for Destination-Language Acquisition: Evidence for Refugees in Germany1
“I Will Return Strong”: The Role of Life Aspirations in Refugees’ Return Aspirations1
Invisible Migration and “Perverse” Capital: Exploring the Experiences of Migrant Delivery Riders1
Refugee Belonging: How Values and Value Consensus Between Refugees and German Citizens Are Associated with Feeling Welcome and Spending Time Together1
The Gender Employment Gap among Refugees and the Role of Employer Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from the German, Swedish and Austrian Labor Markets1
Book Review: Reclaiming Diasporic Identity1
Vulnerability as a Globally Mobile Policy Concept in Migration Governance: A Comparative Study1
Next Stop: Europe? Aspirations for Secondary Migration Among Syrian Refugees in Jordan1
Making Single Mothers Matter: Reflections on the Vulnerability and Agency of Displaced Persons in Postwar Occupied Austria and Beyond1
Communicating Economic Evidence About Immigration Changes Attitudes and Policy Preferences1
Reimagining, Repositioning, Rebordering: Intersections of the Biopolitical and Geopolitical in the UK's Post-Brexit Migration Regime (and Why It Matters for Migration Research)1
Does Information Improve the Experience of Pursuing Labor Migration? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan1
Book Review: Afro-Sweden1
When Bare Life is Bearable: The Life Projects of Rohingya and Hazara Refugees Living in Malaysia1
Integration Based on Socio-economic Status? Everyday Interactions and Boundary (Un)making Between Mainland Skilled Professionals and Locals in Hong Kong1
Unwelcome Immigrants Knocking on the Door: Demographic Features of Immigrants and Populist Attitudes Rising in South American Countries1
The Labor Force Trajectories of Immigrant Women in the United States: Intersecting Individual and Gendered Cohort Characteristics1
Book Review: Immigrant America1
The True, the Good, the Spiteful: An Auto(bio)psy of Bosnian Refugee Experience in Sweden1
From Restricted to Permissive: Egypt Migration Policy Since 19521
International Migration Review at 60: Evolving and Emerging Models of International Migration Research1
Overlap and Interrelations Between (Im)mobility Motivations1
Possible Citizens: Migration Enforcement as the Performance of Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates1
Author Conversation: Laura Briggs and Ethan Blue1
Do Pure Liberals Both Endorse Immigration and Reject Muslims? Examining the Inconsistency Hypothesis1
Book Review: Diaspora Space-time1
The Education Abroad and Income Paradox: A Research Note1
Book Review: ‘Am I Less British?’ ŞimşekDoğuş. 2024. ‘Am I Less British?’ Racism, Belonging and the Children of Refugees and Immigrants in North London. London: UCL Press. 206 pp., £45.00.1
Book Review: Legal Phantoms1
Components of Context: Respecifying the Role of Context in Migration Research1
Overcoming Social Interactions Stress During COVID-19 Lockdown: The Role of Individuals’ Mobility and Online Emotional Support1
Linguistic Barriers to Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration in Italy1
Book Review: The Urbanization of Forced Displacement: UNHCR, Urban Refugees, and the Dynamics of Policy Change1
Bazaar-Related Migrant Residential Concentration Areas in Post-Socialist Russian Cities1
Intergroup Encounters in Urban Public Spaces: Everyday Strategies of Host Community Members Following a Refugee Influx1
Protected, Yet Undocumented: The U.S. Case of Growing Liminal Immigration Status and the Theoretical, Advocacy, and Policy Implications for the U.S. and Beyond1
Book Review: Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State1
Permanent Membership: The Prohibition of Citizenship Renunciation1
How Much Do “Local Policies” Matter for Refugee Integration? An Analytical Model and Evidence from a Highly Decentralized Country1
Generational Perspectives on Homeland-Oriented Diasporic Humanitarianism: Coptic, Assyrian, and Iraqi Christian Charities in the United Kingdom1
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Acculturation and Alcohol Use Among Immigrant Adolescents in Europe1
Book Review: The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea During the Great Irish Famine1
What Shapes Attitudes Toward Homosexuality among European Muslims? The Role of Religiosity and Destination Hostility1
Community Connections: Understanding Local Dynamics in Italian Asylum Policy Implementation1
Commodifying Passage: Ethnographic Insights into Migration, Markets, and Digital Mediation at the Darién Gap and Mexico–Guatemala Border1
The Exodus of Moldova: Understanding the Migration Dilemma1
Educational Expectation Gaps Between Second-Generation Immigrant and Ethnic Majority Students in a Comparative Perspective: The Moderating Role of Educational Tracking1
Assessing Timely Migration Trends Through Digital Traces: A Case Study of the UK Before Brexit1
Actors, Ideas, and International Influence: Understanding Migration Policy Change in South America1
Book Review: Advanced Introduction to Migration Studies1
Unauthorized Mexican-Born Immigrants, Occupational Injuries, and the use of Medical Services in the United States1
Book Review: Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa1
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