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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	60
Correction to: Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places	39
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	34
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	31
Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand	30
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	30
Lima is good enough: exploring role of city in coping strategies and future planning among Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru	27
Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom	27
…when the category ‘migration’ lost its innocence for migration scholars. And what now? A plea for dialogue	26
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	26
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	25
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	25
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	18
Democracy, visa-waivers, and international mobility	18
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	18
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	18
From shared experiences of gendered racism to converging interpretations? Exploring the formation of a decolonial standpoint by women of Moroccan descent in postcolonial France	17
Assessing the impact of migration on the happiness of household women left behind: evidence from Punjab, Pakistan	17
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	16
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison	16
Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol	15
Integration, cultural preservation and transnationalism through state supported immigrant organizations: a study of Sweden’s national ethnic associations	15
We are all migrants	14
Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during russian invasion of ukraine: The case of slovakia	13
The hidden power of provincial and territorial immigration programs in shaping Canada’s immigration landscape	13

Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma	13
Towards equality: joining forces with arts and culture in the struggle for change in migration societies	13
Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence	12
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	12
Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter	12
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	11
Health-related lifestyle behaviours and healthcare utilisation among adolescent immigrants in Europe	11
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	11
Young migrants, “integration” and the local: critical reflections from European stakeholders	11
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	10
Strangers in paradise? The wellbeing of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments	10
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	9
The case for increased centralization in integration governance: the neglected perspective	9
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	9
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	8
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	8
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	8
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	7
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	7
Correction: Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	7
Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe	7
Factors influencing the spatial distribution of international retirement migrants settling in Hungary	7
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	7
Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales	7
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	7
Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies	6
Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states	6
The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam	6
Contagion effect of migration fear in pre and European refugee’s crisis period: evidence from multivariate GARCH and wavelet empirical analysis	6
Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review	6
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts	6
Decolonizing migration studies	5
Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil	5
Causes of child labor and working conditions in Ethiopia: evidence from temporary inter-rural child labor migrants from Sekela district	5
Neglected intersections: a view from the South	5
Migration, space and place	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
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	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
Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands	5
Fighting to belong: drivers for transnational diaspora military service in Israel and beyond	5
Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the MENA region	5
Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth	5
Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa	5
Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal	4
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Diaspora by another name: the making of refugees in Cold War China	4
Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan	4
Labor migration, remittances, and the economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council region	4

Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns	4
Brain drain in Bhutan: its impacts and countermeasures	4
A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives	4
Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China	4
The role of geographical distance in transnational institutional engagement of the Czech diaspora: a comparative study	4
Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom	4
Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: a conceptual framework	4
Thinking alike, acting alike? An assessment of organizational homophily and paradigmatic pragmatism in networks for local integration policies	4
Who do you think I am? Immigrant’s first name and their perceived identity	3
Organisations and the production of migration and in/exclusion	3
Pluralist diversity governance: deepening the multiculturalism-interculturalism nexus	3
Responding to unauthorized residence: on a dilemma between ‘firewalls’ and ‘regularizations’	3
Complexity of the links between destination outcomes and migration patterns: West to West intra-European mobility	3
Women on the move? Mainstreaming gender in policies and legal frameworks addressing climate-induced migration	3
Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences	3
Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy	3
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on social inequalities in international student mobility: a scoping review	3
Correction: Brain drain in Bhutan: its impacts and countermeasures	3
The coloniality of migration and integration: continuing the discussion	3
Correction to: The aporia of refugee rights in a time of crises: the role of brokers in accessing refugee protection in transit and at the border	3
The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring	2
Becoming Nikkei: creating, challenging, and expanding Nikkei identification among Chileans of Japanese descent	2
Analysis and mapping of global research publications on migrant domestic workers	2
Translocal vulnerability of temporary rural–rural labor migrant-sending households in Quarit district, Northwestern Ethiopia	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
Gender and the return migration process: Gulf returnees in Ghana	2
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal	2
Between cosmopolitanism and parochialism: return migration of early-career Israeli academics	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 effect of co-ethnic social capital on immigrants' labor market integration: a natural experiment	2
Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience	2
Between here and there: comparing the worry about the pandemic between older Italian international migrants and natives in Switzerland	2
Migration aspirations and their realisation: a configurational driver analysis of 26 African and Asian research areas	2
Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia	2
Will displaced Ukrainians return home? Exploring return migration through an aspirations-capabilities lens: cases from Spain and Sweden	2
‘With a little help from my educated friends’: revisiting the role of social capital for immigrants’ labour market integration in Germany	2
Can internet search data predict human migration intentions?	2
The strength of migration and stay aspirations: understanding harmonious, conflicting and indeterminate aspirations	2
International student mobility, Covid-19, and the labour market: a scoping review	2
Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces	2
Correction: The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review	2