Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal that provides a platform for articles that focus on comparative research in migration, integration, and race and ethnic relations. It presents readers with an extensive collection of comparative analysis, including studies between countries, groups, levels, and historical periods. CMS publishes research based on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies. Contributions cover a wide disciplinary angle across the social sciences and the humanities. We are looking for articles that push present understanding of migration integration, and race and ethnic relations in new conceptual, methodological, and empirical directions.

Topics include, but are not limited to: migration and integration in relation to citizenship, national identity, refugee and asylum policy, social movements (pro and anti-immigration), gender, racialization, whiteness, ethnic and religious diversity and (post)colonialism.

Content

1. Comparing the labour market position of Poles and Bulgarians before and after migration to the Netherlands
   Marcel Lubbers & Mérove Gijsberts - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0043-x 
   
   
2. Deconstructing the meanings of and motivations for return: an Afghan case study
   Marieke Van Houte, Melissa Siegel & Tine Davids - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0042-y 
   
   
3. The economic side of social remittances: how money and ideas circulate between Paris, Dakar, and New York
   Ilka Vari-Lavoisier - Special Issue: Social remittances and the changing transnational landscape - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0039-6 
   
   
4. Do migrants adopt new political attitudes from abroad? Evidence using a multi-sited exit-poll survey during the 2013 Malian elections
   Lisa Chauvet, Flore Gubert & Sandrine Mesplé-Somps - Special Issue: Social remittances and the changing transnational landscape - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0033-z 
   
   
5. Conceptualising integration: a framework for empirical research, taking marriage migration as a case study
   Sarah Spencer & Katharine Charsley - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0035-x 
   
   
6. Bridging the qualitative-quantitative divide in comparative migration studies: newspaper data, and political ethnography in mixed method research
   Liza M. Mügge - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40878-016-0036-9#article-info 
   
   
7. Social remittances and the changing transnational political landscape
   Thomas Lacroix, Peggy Levitt & Ilka Vari-Lavoisier - Special Issue: Social remittances and the changing transnational landscape - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0032-0 
   
   
8. Irregular status, territorial confinement, and blocked transnationalism: legal constraints on circulation and remittances of Senegalese migrants in France, Italy, and Spain
   Erik R. Vickstrom & Cris Beauchemin - Special Issue: Social remittances and the changing transnational landscape - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0037-8 
   
   
9. Geographies of external voting: the Tunisian elections abroad since the 2011 Uprising
   Thibaut Jaulin - Special Issue: Social remittances and the changing transnational landscape - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0034-y 
   
   
10. Financial remittances, trans-border conversations, and the state
    Covadonga Meseguer, Sebastián Lavezzolo & Javier Aparicio - Special Issue: Social remittances and the changing transnational landscape - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0040-0 
    
    
11. Empowering to engage with the homeland: do migration experience and environment foster political remittances?
    Anar K. Ahmadov & Gwendolyn Sasse - Special Issue: Social remittances and the changing transnational landscape - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0041-z 
    
    
12. Erratum to: Why liberal nationalism does not resolve the progressive’s trilemma: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”
    Rainer Bauböck - Commentary Series - Solidarity in Diverse Societies: Nationhood, Immigration and the Welfare State - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0038-7 
    
    
13. Rejoinder from sociability to solidarity: reply to commentators
    Will Kymlicka - Commentary Series: Solidarity in Diverse Societies: Nationhood, Immigration and the Welfare State - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0030-2 
    
    
14. Floating populations, civic stratification and solidarity: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”
    Godfried Engbersen - Commentary Series: Solidarity in Diverse Societies: Nationhood, Immigration and the Welfare State - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0029-8 
    
    
15. The ties that blind us - the hidden assumptions in the ‘new progressive’s dilemma’: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”
    Nasar Meer - Commentary Series: Solidarity in Diverse Societies: Nationhood, Immigration and the Welfare State - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40878-016-0028-9#article-info 
    
    
16. The Question of Solidarity and Society: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”
    Nina Glick Schiller - Commentary Series: Solidarity in Diverse Societies: Nationhood, Immigration and the Welfare State - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0027-x 
    
    
17. Liberalism not Neo-Liberalism: Comment on Will Kymlicka’s article: “Solidarity in Diverse Societies”
    Adrian Favell - Commentary Series: Solidarity in Diverse Societies: Nationhood, Immigration and the Welfare State - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0026-y   

18. Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism - Coping with ‘the progressive’s dilemma’; nationhood, immigration and the welfare state
    Rainer Bauböck & Peter Scholten - Introduction to the Commentary Series: Solidarity in Diverse Societies: Nationhood, Immigration and the Welfare State - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0025-z 

19. Eurocity London: a qualitative comparison of graduate migration from Germany, Italy and Latvia
    Russell King, Aija Lulle, Francesca Conti & Dorothea Mueller - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-016-0023-1 

20. Pragmatism, moral responsibility or policy change: the Syrian refugee crisis and selective humanitarianism in the Turkish refugee regime 
    Umut Korkut - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-015-0020-9 

21. African migration: trends, patterns, drivers
    Marie-Laurence Flahaux & Hein De Haas - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-015-0015-6