Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rethinking transnational parenting: Chinese immigrant parents’ family separation during COVID-1975
Refusing deterrence55
The affective economy of removal: ethnographic perspectives on deportation and (In)voluntary return43
Under pressure: moods, affects and the violence of everyday life in a Spanish migrant detention centre37
Shrinking the space for civil society: (De)Politicizing the obstruction of humanitarian NGOs in EU border management35
Parental mobility, temporality and migration aspirations among currently non-migrant youth in Indonesia and the Philippines35
Orientalization, or sidewards assimilation of second-generation Russian-speaking migrants in Israel’s urban periphery35
Transnational resources through trajectories and temporalities of migrant youth mobility between Ghana and Europe34
Migrant struggles and moral economies of subversion: mimicry and opacity34
Getting home during lockdown: migration disruption, labour control and linked lives in India at the time of Covid-1932
The impact of parental migration on psychological well-being of children in Ghana32
Care-full resistance to slow violence: building radical hope through creative encounters with refugees during the pandemic31
Leaving terrorism behind? The role of terrorist attacks in shaping migration intentions around the world30
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria30
Ethical considerations of ‘going public’: public and media co-dissemination of research findings with refugees28
‘Home-grown’ vs. ‘imported’ regionalism? Overlapping dynamics of regional migration governance in post-Soviet Eurasia27
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced26
Exit as voice, for the economically mobile: Russian migration to Central Asia & the Caucasus25
‘You are Romanian. This is going to be a problem': class, desire, and educated migrant women in France25
Same religion, different treatment. The role of origin country characteristics in employers’ decisions to hire Muslims24
Processing payments, enacting alterity: financial technology in the everyday lives of asylum seekers23
The politics of (un)counting international migration in Senegal and the Gambia21
The effects of and support for anonymous job application procedures: evidence from a large-scale, multi-faceted study in the Netherlands21
Doing migration studies with an accent21
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city21
The economy of migration. Knowledge, accounting, and debt21
Middle class nation building through a tenacious discourse on skills: immigration and Canada20
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London20
National identity, partisanship, and attitudes toward North Korean defectors in South Korea19
Welcome from the Editor to JEMS volume 4919
Earned citizenship and fairness19
Contesting racist talk in families: strategies used, and effects on family practices and social change19
Ties that bind and unbind: charting the boundaries of European Union citizenship18
How does marriage demand stimulate support for immigration in Asia?18
Do immigrant women spend more time on unpaid labor? Generational differences by race, ethnicity, and household composition in household work within the United States18
Moral geographies and their application among diasporic Somalis’18
Uncertain future, unsettled present: suspending and embracing engagement with life among newcomers in Toronto, Canada18
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States18
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka18
Encounters with kindness: everyday and extraordinary kind interventions in the lives of forced migrant survivors of SGBV18
Immigration theory between assimilation and discrimination18
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK18
Immigration and the transformation of American society: politics, the economy, and popular culture17
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers17
Re-thinking assimilation and why it matters: an intellectual, career and life journey – Richard Alba in conversation with Paul Statham17
Regeneration, predatory inclusion, and migrant experiences in declining rural areas in Spain and Germany17
Culture’s role in assimilation and integration: the expansion and growing diversity of U.S. popular culture17
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: social reproduction of ‘(low) skill’?17
Quality and social justice in refugee education: Syrian refugee students’ experiences of integration into national education systems in Jordan16
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality16
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime16
Leaving the nest in immigrant neighbourhoods: gender and origin differences in France16
The politics of refugee reception in the Arabian Gulf: comparative evidence from Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates16
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data16
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs15
Policy variation and refugee integration: a natural experiment comparing the effects of local integration programs15
Language, race, and illegality: indigenous migrants navigating the immigration regime in a new destination15
You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras15
Performing whiteness: Central and Eastern European young people’s experiences of xenophobia and racialisation in the UK post-Brexit14
‘I’ll be risking myself just to get an education’: how local-level immigration enforcement impacts undocumented students’ pathways to college14
Present but not counted: highly skilled migrant women in Belgium14
Work, mobilities and the life course: choices and logistical entanglements in mobile life-careers14
Gender, modern slavery and labour exploitation: experiences of male Polish migrants in England14
Fear, force, and flight: configurations of intimidation and displacement in Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’14
How do global crises affect privileged migrants? Return migration of German emigrants one year into the Covid-19 pandemic14
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies14
The contingent home: how second-generation Arab migrants negotiate belonging in Qatar?14
Emigration and the care of older people ‘left behind’: the changing role of neighbourhood networks, ethnicity and civil society14
The diversification of pastoralist herding: navigating socio-climatic risk via mobile technologies14
Securing government assistance for temporary migrants during the COVID-19 crisis: analysing the role of policy narratives13
Legitimising detention and deportation of illegalised migrant families: reconstructing public controversies in Belgium and the Netherlands13
Micro labour, ambivalence and discomfort: how people without a migration background strategically engage with difference in a majority–minority neighbourhood13
Afghans’ narrowing mobility options in Pakistan and the right to transnational living: a figurational perspective13
Creative translation pathways for exploring gendered violence against Brazilian migrant women through a feminist translocational lens13
The impact of immigrants’ characteristics on anti-immigrant sentiment among the Jewish majority and the Arab minority in Israel13
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements13
Assembling exits and returns: the extraterritorial production of repatriation for Filipino migrant workers13
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants13
Tolerated citizenship and FGM-safeguarding: experiences of unbelonging for those of Somali-heritage living in Bristol, UK13
A ‘win-win exercise’? The effect of westward migration on educational outcomes of Eastern European children13
Educational divides and class coalitions: How mainstream party voters divide and unite over immigration issues12
Home-bound precarity: home violence on return Indonesian migrant domestic workers12
Brick by brick bias: Arab Muslim experience of intersectionality in housing12
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship12
Transversal sanctuary enactments in Sweden: challenges, opportunities and implications12
Treading water in transit: understanding gendered stuckness and movement in Tunisia12
Atrapados/ trapped in space and time: protracted precarity in the homing of Argentine middle-class temporary migrants in Perth, Australia12
Will friends and family still be there after you have left? Evidence from return migrants in Colombia12
Quantifying the role of arrival infrastructures in the labor market integration of refugees12
When women left their patrie : transborder mobility, women’s sexual agency, and moral panic in Turkey12
Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt12
Experimental evidence on how implicit racial bias affects risk preferences12
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network12
Debt-financed migration: Agency and the productivity of debt12
Spillover dynamics and inter-institutional interactions between CSDP and AFSJ: moving towards a more joined-up EU external migration policy?12
Cultural and social support explanations of the native-migrant gap in the use of day care for pre-school children12
How do people without migration background experience and impact today’s superdiverse cities?12
From ‘left-behind’ to ‘stay-put’ fatherhood: situating male stayers’ socio-structural positionality in transnationalism11
Intellectual capital and student mobility11
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic11
The income effects of minority co-ethnic employment: the case of Hungarians in central and Eastern Europe11
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process11
Disentangling assumptions: refugee women’s access to and use of social assistance in Canada11
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival11
Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway11
Which individual-level factors explain public attitudes toward immigration? a meta-analysis11
Outsiders within: examining Ethiopian adoptee experiences through a diasporic lens11
Global education trajectories and inequality: STEM workers from China to the US11
Introduction: the intellectual migration analytics11
Recognizing international protection. How institutional arrangements affect asylum decisions11
Introduction: EU external migration policy and EU migration governance: introduction11
COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers10
The role of private sponsorship on refugee resettlement outcomes: a mixed methods study of Syrians in a mid-sized city with a linguistic minority10
Couples’ housework division among immigrants and natives – the role of women’s economic resources10
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation10
On not staying put where they have put you: mobilities disrupting the socio-spatial figurations of displacement in Greece10
An emerging ‘camp labour regime’: refugees’ labour between production and reproduction10
Contributors to social well-being from the perspective of older migrants in Australia10
Welfare state bordering as a form of mobility and migration control10
Governing transit and irregular migration: informality and formal policies10
Not-so-subtle subtleties: undocumented migrant (in)visibility, (im)mobility and Dutch public spaces as sites of embodied racialization10
‘It’s about mindset’. How do young migrants in Poland build their resilience?10
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration10
‘Formal informality’ in EU external migration governance: the case of mobility partnerships10
Migration as conflict risk-management: testing the new economics of labour migration as a framework for understanding refugee decision-making10
Decentralization and diaspora capture: transnationalism, autocracy, and hybrid power in federal Ethiopia10
‘There is time to leave, and there is time to come back’. Polish migrants’ decisions about returning from international migration9
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries9
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants9
EU border externalisation and security outsourcing: exploring the migration industry in Libya9
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon9
Understanding emotion regulation in Venezuelan immigrants to Peru and Peruvian internal migrants: a comparative study9
Sex, care and the working body: ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as ‘Eastern European’9
‘Do I really need to check that box?’ Ethnoracial ambiguity among Indigenous North Africans in the United States9
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases9
From criminality to inclusion? Law and media framing of migrants in 1987–1990 and 2016–2019 Japan9
Imperial migration states9
Assimilation and integration in the twenty-first century: where have we been and where are we going? Introduction to a special issue in honour of Richard Alba9
Employability among refugees and how it is affected by public integration programmes9
Care visits: obligations, opportunities and constraints for Vietnamese grandparent visitors in Australia9
Tense times for young migrants: temporality, life-course and immigration status9
Immigration, domestic labor, and earnings inequality among native-born women in the US9
Liaison officers as influential ‘immigration risk’ brokers in visa policy implementation: intermediaries across institutional and national borders9
The last straw? Experiences and future plans of returned migrants in the India-GCC corridor8
The vulnerability of Central & Eastern European and Zimbabwean migrant home care workers’ wellbeing in the UK: the intersectional effects of migration and social care systems8
Socialisation and ethnic majorities’ attitudes towards ethnic minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlational evidence8
Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime8
Regions and global migration governance: perspectives ‘from above’, ‘from below’ and ‘from beyond’8
Experiencing forced migration: challenges of arriving after displacement from Ukraine8
Linked fate, cumulative discrimination, and panethnic identification: awareness and use of ‘Latinx’ among a nationally representative sample of Hispanics/Latinos8
Locked out, but not disconnected: multilingual community engagement in Australia8
The infrastructuring of young adults’ mobility trajectories: a case study of highly educated migrants in platform-mediated food delivery work in the Netherlands8
Conditioning grandparent care-labour mobility at the care-migration systems nexus: Australia and the UK8
Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students’ experiences in Singapore and the UK8
Opportunities and pitfalls of refugee involvement in digital work in Indonesia8
Ambivalent meanings of the past: state critique and memory politics in 1980s (pro-)Refugee struggles in the Federal Republic of Germany8
Racial and gender stereotypes in immigration attitudes: evidence from China8
Divergent experiences and patterns of integration: contemporary Chinese immigrants in metropolitan Los Angeles, USA8
Riding on the waves of transformation in the Asia-Pacific: Chinese migration to Australia since the late 1980s8
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?8
Variation in the link between income position and union dissolution: an analysis of couples with and without a migrant background in Belgium8
Time will tell: Ghanaian stayer youth’s changing family reunification aspirations8
Embodying intimate border violence: collaborative art-research as multipliers of Latin American migrant women’s affects8
COVID-19 return migration phenomena: experiences from South and Southeast Asia8
Shades of protracted displacement: reconciling citizenship and the status of internally displaced in Eastern Ukraine8
Re-visiting the ‘black box’ of migration: state-intermediary co-production of regulatory spaces of labour migration8
A not-so ‘natural’ decision: impact of bureaucratic trajectories on forced migrants’ intention and ability to naturalise8
Social trust and support for immigrants’ social rights in Spain8
Diaspora activism and citizenship: Algerian community responses during the global pandemic8
The moral geographies of migration maps: spatial order as a normative basis for border control8
‘Ways to stick around’: im/mobility strategies of ageing, temporary migrants in Dubai8
Panethnic boundaries and the making of white-collar minority identity in Hawai’i8
Animating migration journeys from Colombia to Chile: expressing embodied experience through co-produced film8
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries: the case of highly educated recent refugees in Norway8
The strength of strong ties: wasta and migration strategies among the Mappila Muslims of northern Kerala, India7
The external dimension of EU migration policy as region-building? Refugee cooperation as contentious politics7
From broken windows to broken doors: rethinking the politics of immigration policing and the sociology of sanctuary7
Are golden visas a golden opportunity? Assessing the economic origins and outcomes of residence by investment programmes in the EU7
Older immigrants – new poverty risk in Scandinavian welfare states?7
Depoliticisation through employability: entanglements between European migration and development interventions in Tunisia7
Examining labour market hierarchies in Slovakia from the perspective of intra-EU migration and return7
The agrifood-migration nexus: migration regimes and the politics of labour shortages in Italy and Sweden7
Misperceptions of immigrant flows and their associations with anti-immigrant attitudes7
Alternating temporalities experienced by North African unaccompanied minors in The Netherlands: a story of waiting and hypermobility7
Revocation nation: the rule of law and precarious legal status in Norway7
‘It’s not about the information, it’s about the situation’: understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants’ narratives7
Raising children in the UK: the screams of Zimbabwean migrant parents7
‘There is a wide path and there is a narrow path’ – transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah’s Witnesses7
Should I stay or should I go? Navigating contradictory temporal logics in the Dutch asylum system7
Immigrant generation, gender, and citizenship: evidence on educational track choices from Italy7
The neoliberal welfare state and its discontents. Slow violence against irregular migrants in Norway7
Making (in)formality work in a multi-scalar European border regime7
Ageing and mobilities in transnational space: the British-Bangladeshi experience7
‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty7
Do languages open doors? A theoretical model of linguistic capital and (im)mobility and its application in Spanish youth migration7
Stratified financial inclusion in China based on hukou and its interaction with city and province development7
Crossing borders, casting votes: examining migrant electoral turnout in Chile (2012–2020)7
Precarity, work exploitation and inferior social rights: EU citizenship of Polish labour migrants in Norway7
Mind the Gap! Revisiting the migration optimism/pessimism debate7
The politics left behind: how pre-migration and migration experiences shape Syrian refugees’ interest in home-county politics6
Radical care in displacement: Rohingya women’s activism amidst neoliberal humanitarianism and repression6
A paradise without people. Ambivalence in representations of migration and its outcomes when Syrian refugees talk about secondary migration to Europe6
Introduction: mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia6
Transnational youth mobility: new categories for migrant youth research6
Indonesian domestic workers: Hong Kong migrants’ activism, value creation, and post-migration entrepreneurship6
Does the apple fall far from the tree? The role of parental influence on sociability among the children of immigrants6
Skilled US migrants in the Pearl River Delta region: the rise of an intellectual gateway in China6
Multidirectional mistrust: German female volunteers’ emotion work in the context of male deportation and return from Europe to Senegal6
Refugees and claims-making in spaces of urban marginality: Syrian refugees build alliances across racial lines for collective action6
Enacted but neither regulated nor applied: exploring emigrant enfranchisement in deviant cases6
Spatial and social im/mobility in forced migration: revisiting class6
Invented, invited and instrumentalised spaces: conceptualising non-state actor engagement in regional migration governance in West Africa6
A longitudinal investigation of integration/multiculturalism policies and attitudes towards immigrants in European countries6
Posted work as an extreme case of hierarchised mobility6
Migrant family ties and mixed unions: the impact of selecting native partners on conflicts with parents6
Employment outcomes of refugee women and men: multiple gender gaps and the importance of high-skill jobs6
La Lucha: framing the struggle for survival, double consciousness and the economy of identity for undocumented Latina/os6
Porosity on the Thailand-Myanmar border: before and after Myanmar’s 2021 coup6
‘Not having a real life’: psychosocial functions of using and selling drugs among young Afghan men who came to Sweden as unaccompanied minors6
Three-dimensional trust: disentangling trust relations in the context of converted asylum seekers6
The Asian American assimilation paradox6
Religion or language? How family socialisation shapes the influence of parental origin-country fertility norms on the ideal family size among children of immigrants in France6
Decolonising civic integration: a critical analysis of texts used in Dutch civic integration programmes6
National register of citizens and citizenship amendment act 2019: following the logic of citizenship securitization in India6
My values, their values: how value conceptualisations influence attitudes towards immigration6
Repertoires of sanctuary: building a network of safety at the French–Italian border6
(Un)deserving victims: the race-gender-geopolitics nexus of migration discourses in Poland6
From hospitality to dwelling: a lens for migrant homesharing in Italy6
Revisiting the EU’s new mobility regime: the impact of mobility and policies on labour market hierarchies within and across the EU6
Did exposure to asylum seeking migration affect the electoral outcome of the ‘Alternative für Deutschland’ in Berlin? Evidence from the 2019 European elections6
Missing links in migrant enfranchisement studies6
‘As if the soul returns to the body’: affect, stuckedness, and (in)voluntary return to Nicaragua from Spain6
Salsa and the (Eternal) City. Rethinking the pleasure periphery6
Sideways moves to adult life: the transnational mobility and transitions of young Italians to Australia6
China-born scholars’ intellectual capital: a network approach6
Making sense of hate: young Muslims’ understandings of online racism in Norway6
Expanding the boundaries of hospitality: the relationship between Ukrainian refugees and their hosts6
East–west inequalities and the ambiguous racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans’6
The power switch in bilateral return migration management: the case of Norway and Ethiopia6
Poverty among migrant, mixed, and non-migrant households: the role of non-teleworkability and single-earnership in Germany6
To study abroad or not, and why? Exploring Chinese university students’ postgraduate intentions6
The occupational attainment and job security of immigrant children in Spain6
Exploring Europe’s external migration policy mix: on the interactions of visa, readmission, and resettlement policies6
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Framing justice in struggles over cultural heritage: the case of Black Pete in the ‘postcolonial’ Netherlands6
Student immigration, migration, and teacher preparation6
The power of symbolic sanctuary: insights from Wales on the limitations and potential of a regional approach to sanctuary6
Contested regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: the case of the Bali Process and the protection of refugees6
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