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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
International student mobility, Covid-19, and the labour market: a scoping review	64
Translocal vulnerability of temporary rural–rural labor migrant-sending households in Quarit district, Northwestern Ethiopia	51
Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns	34
Migration aspirations and their realisation: a configurational driver analysis of 26 African and Asian research areas	27
The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review	27
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	25
Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom	21
Immigrants and refugees, tourists and vagabonds: why and how they integrate differently	20
Bridging the citizenship law implementation gap: a typology for comparative analysis	19
Bridging the state and market logics of refugee labour market inclusion – a comparative study on the inclusion activities of German professional chambers	19
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	19
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK	18
Between here and there: comparing the worry about the pandemic between older Italian international migrants and natives in Switzerland	18
The case for increased centralization in integration governance: the neglected perspective	18
Conquering the labour market: the socioeconomic enablement of refugee women in Austria	17
Social remittances during COVID-19: on the “new normality” negotiated by transnational families	17
The membership of parties abroad: a case study of the UK	16
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	15
Struggles for democracy: strategies and resources of initiatives for non-citizen voting rights at local levels in Europe	15
Immigrant political participation is associated with more positive majority immigration attitudes across European countries and Swiss cantons	14
The tie that binds? A comparison of ethnicity-based party ties among emigrated and resident citizens	13
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	12
Addressing seeming paradoxes by embracing them: small state theory and the integration of migrants	12
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	12
“Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	12

Seeking asylum in Scandinavia: a comparative analysis of recent restrictive policy responses towards unaccompanied afghan minors in Denmark, Sweden and Norway	12
The populist far right paradox: the identification of the enemy and its exceptions in the immigration policies of the Meloni government in Italy	11
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	11
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	11
Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia	10
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces	10
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	10
Health-related lifestyle behaviours and healthcare utilisation among adolescent immigrants in Europe	10
Labor migration, remittances, and the economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	9
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	9
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sri Lankan migrants in Qatar	9
The role of geographical distance in transnational institutional engagement of the Czech diaspora: a comparative study	9
The impact of partisan politics on migration policies: the case of healthcare provision for refugees by German states	9
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal	8
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	8
Who supports refugees? Diversity assent and pro-refugee engagement in Germany	8
Migrations and diversifications in the UK and Japan	8
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	8
Building paper bridges: adapting citizenship and immigration regimes to international displacement	8
Unsettling expectations of stay: probationary immigration policies in Canada and Norway	8
The student migration transition: an empirical investigation into the nexus between development and international student migration	8
Migration agencies’ visual performance within the Border spectacle. The case of EU and Canadian institutions	8
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	7
How does immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment, and who is affected most? A longitudinal analysis of the UK and Japan cases	7
‘Firm but fair’? Migrant children’s rights through dramaturgy and nation branding in Norway and the UK	7
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	7
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK	7
Correction to: Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places	6
Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal	6
A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights	6
Correction: Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: a local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU	6
Membership intermediaries: a study of pluri-generational mixed-status families in Italy and France	6
Correction: The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review	6
Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom	6
Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand	5
Campaigning across continents: how Latin American parties link up with migrant associations abroad	5
Bringing anchoring and embedding together: theorising migrants’ lives over-time	5
A global network of scholars? The geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications	5
The Japa syndrome and the migration of Nigerians to the United Kingdom: an empirical analysis	5
Parties beyond national borders: exploring the activities of Israeli political parties abroad	5
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	5
A comparative analysis of changes in anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe: 1990–2017	5
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	5
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	5
A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives	4
Thinking alike, acting alike? An assessment of organizational homophily and paradigmatic pragmatism in networks for local integration policies	4
Correction: A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	4
Talking back to white Italy: unpacking the knot of racism, colonialism and feminism from the perspective of Black asylum-seeking and refugee women	4
How organisations regulate Muslim body practices: a comparison of schools, hospitals, and swimming pools	4

Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: a conceptual framework	4
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	4
Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences	4
Escaping uncertainty: overlapping methods of knowledge production and exchange in the naturalization journey	4
Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China	4
Should they stay or should they go? A case study on international students in Germany	4
Diversifying analytical categories for studying youth with and without migration background: an example of mobility-based categories	4
‘Resettlement is worthwhile for our children’s future’: reflections from the Stateless Rohingya refugees in Malaysia	3
Exploring trauma and resilience of Urban South Sudanese refugees in Sudan	3
Who are the immigrants that Israeli Jews prefer? The interplay between reasons for migration, religion, and religiosity	3
Correction to: Beyond race?	3
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	3
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	3
Beyond ‘race’?: a rejoinder	3
Street-level workers, managers and institutional tensions: a comparative ethnography of healthcare practices of in/exclusion in three Italian public organisations	3
Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales	3
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe	3
“So, if you ask whether fences work: they work”—the role of border fortifications for migration control and access to asylum. Comparing Hungary and the USA	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
Organisations and the production of migration and in/exclusion	3
Race and sameness: on the limits of beyond race and the art of staying with the trouble	2
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	2
Your heart is where your roots are? Place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian returnees	2
Configurations of attitudes toward immigration in Europe: evidence of polarization, ambivalence, and multidimensionality	2
Women on the move? Mainstreaming gender in policies and legal frameworks addressing climate-induced migration	2
The role of environmental factors and other migration drivers from the perspective of Moroccan and Congolese migrants in Belgium	2
Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy	2
Parenting by mothers in immigrant families from Poland, Russia and Turkey in Germany: Migration-related similarities or origin-related differences?	2
Return migration and embedding: through the lens of Brexit as an unsettling event	2
Correction to: A comparative study of parental knowledge and adaptation of immigrant youth	2
Exchange rates and immigration policy	2
Residency and citizenship in the Gulf: recent policy changes and future implications for the region	2
Responding to unauthorized residence: on a dilemma between ‘firewalls’ and ‘regularizations’	2