Publications

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. “My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts - Paper Cluster: Violent Democracies and their Emigrants
   Larisa Lara-Guerrero & Sebastien Rojon - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00321-0 
   
   
2. Bringing anchoring and embedding together: theorising migrants’ lives over-time - Paper Cluster: Differentiated belonging, embedding and anchoring. The comparative studies of young adult Central European migrants in light of Brexit and pandemic
   Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska & Louise Ryan - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00322-z 
   
   
3. COVID-19 pandemic and the changing views of mobility: the case of Nepal–Malaysia migration corridor
   Andika Wahab & Mashitah Hamidi - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00320-1 
   
   
4. Reciprocal migration: the coloniality of recent two-way migration links between Angola and Portugal
   Asaf Augusto, Elisa Alves, Russell King & Jorge Malheiros - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00317-w 
   
   
5. The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights
   Tamar de Waal & Jan Willem Duyvendak - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00319-8 
   
   
6. Between cosmopolitanism and parochialism: return migration of early-career Israeli academics
   Emil Israel & Nir Cohen - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00316-x 
   
   
7. Gender-based violence (GBV) against women with precarious legal status and their access to social protection in advanced welfare societies: an analytical contribution to reconstruct the research field and its institutional development
   Claudia Di Matteo & Roberto Scaramuzzino - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00314-z 
   
   
8. Should they stay or should they go? A case study on international students in Germany
   Sascha Krannich & Uwe Hunger - 
   https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00313-0 
   
   
9. Contested skills and constrained mobilities: migrant carework skill regimes in Taiwan and Japan
   Pei-Chia Lan - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00311-2 
   
   
10. The role of environmental factors and other migration drivers from the perspective of Moroccan and Congolese migrants in Belgium
    Loubna Ou-Salah, Lore Van Praag & Gert Verschraegen - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00307-y 
    
    
11. Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic - Special Issue: Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic
    Magdalena Arias Cubas, Anju Mary Paul, Jacques Ramírez, Sanam Roohi & Peter Scholten - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00306-z 
    
    
12. A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration
    James Dennison - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00310-3 
    
    
13. Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives -  Special Issue: Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic
    Claudia Böhme & Anett Schmitz - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00302-3 
    
    
14. Disentangling entangled mobilities: reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies
    Anna Wyss and Janine Dahinden - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00309-w 
    
    
15. An eye for an ‘I:’ a critical assessment of artificial intelligence tools in migration and asylum management
    Lucia Nalbandian - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00305-0 
    
    
16. Mainstreaming or retrenchment? Migration-related diversity in Dutch and Flemish education policies
    Laura Westerveen, Ilona van Breugel, Ilke Adam & Peter Scholten - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00308-x 
    
    
17. Translocal vulnerability of temporary rural–rural labor migrant-sending households in Quarit district, Northwestern Ethiopia
    Linger Ayele & Terefe Degefa - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00303-2 
    
    
18. Russian speakers’ media engagement and acculturation in Finland and Latvia
    Ilkhom Khalimzoda & Marko Siitonen - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00304-1 
    
    
19. Your heart is where your roots are? Place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian returnees - Paper Cluster: Differentiated belonging, embedding and anchoring. The comparative studies of young adult Central European migrants in light of Brexit and pandemic
    Agnieszka Trąbka, Luka Klimavičiūtė, Olga Czeranowska, Dovile Jonavičienė, Izabela Grabowska & Iga Wermińska-Wiśnicka - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00301-4 
    
    
20. Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison
    Benjamin Nyblade, Elizabeth Iams Wellman & Nathan Allen - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00299-9 
    
    
21. Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants
    Saara Koikkalainen, Aija Lulle, Russell King, Carmen Leon-Himmelstine & Aleksandra Szkudlarek - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00300-5 
    
    
22. Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe - Paper Cluster: Violent Democracies and their Emigrants
    Anastasia Bermudez - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00298-w 
    
    
23. Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: a conceptual framework - Paper Cluster: Violent Democracies and their Emigrants
    Michael Ahn Paarlberg - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00297-x 
    
    
24. Covid-19 and female migrants: policy challenges and multiple vulnerabilities - Special Issue: Crossing borders, connecting cultures
    Dudziro Nhengu - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00295-z 
    
    
25. Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil - Commentary Series: Beyond race?
    Jasmine Mitchell - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00294-0 
    
    
26. Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the MENA region
    James Dennison - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00296-y 
    
    
27. Contagion effect of migration fear in pre and European refugee’s crisis period: evidence from multivariate GARCH and wavelet empirical analysis
    Hassan Guenichi, Nejib Chouaibi & Hamdi Khalfaoui - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00292-2 
    
    
28. The tie that binds? A comparison of ethnicity-based party ties among emigrated and resident citizens
    Staffan Himmelroos & Isak Vento - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00291-3 
    
    
29. Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales
    Matthew Wallace, Ben Wilson & Frances Darlington-Pollock - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00293-1 
    
    
30. Struggles for democracy: strategies and resources of initiatives for non-citizen voting rights at local levels in Europe
    Katrin Sontag, Metka Herzog & Silva Lässer - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00286-0 
    
    
31. The effect of co-ethnic social capital on immigrants' labor market integration: a natural experiment
    Klarita Gërxhani & Yuliya Kosyakova - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00289-x 
    
    
32. Race and sameness: on the limits of beyond race and the art of staying with the trouble - Commentary Series:  Beyond race?
    Amade M’charek - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00287-z 
    
    
33. Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship - Paper Cluster: Transnationalising the mixed-embeddedness approach in migrant entrepreneurship research
    Sakura Yamamura & Paul Lassalle - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00288-y 
     
34. A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights
    Zeynep Sahin-Mencutek, Soner Barthoma, N. Ela Gökalp-Aras & Anna Triandafyllidou - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00284-2 
    
    
35. “This is not how we talk about race anymore”: approaching mixed race in Australia - Commentary Series: Beyond race?
    Farida Fozdar - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00285-1 
    
    
36. Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa
    Richard Black, Alice Bellagamba, Ester Botta, Ebrima Ceesay, Dramane Cissokho, Michelle Engeler, Audrey Lenoël, Christina Oelgemöller, Bruno Riccio, Papa Sakho, Abdoulaye Wotem Somparé, Elia Vitturini & Guido Nicolas Zingari 
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00283-3 
    
    
37. What does it mean to “go beyond race”? - Commentary Series: Beyond race?
    Sayaka Osanami Törngren & Karen L. Suyemoto - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00280-6 
    
    
38. A help or hindrance? Highly educated refugees’ perceptions of the role of civic integration programmes in accessing the labour market in Oslo, Malmö and Munich
    Katarina Mozetič - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00279-z 
    
    
39. Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies - Special Issue: Crossing borders, connecting cultures
    Marco Martiniello - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00281-5 
    
    
40. Beyond race? - Commentary Series: Beyond race?
    Sawitri Saharso & Tabea Scharrer - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00272-y 
    
    
41. Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences
    Natasha Maru, Michele Nori, Ian Scoones, Greta Semplici & Anna Triandafyllidou - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00277-1 
    
    
42. We are all migrants - Special Issue: Crossing borders, connecting cultures
    Jaan Valsiner - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00276-8 
    
    
43. Multifocality and opportunity structure: towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship - Paper Cluster: Transnationalising the mixed-embeddedness approach in migrant entrepreneurship research
    Giacomo Solano, Veronique Schutjens & Jan Rath - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00270-0 

44. Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces - Special Issue: Comparative Perspectives on Migration, Diversities and the Pandemic
    Stefan Rother - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00275-9 

45. Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands
    Fatih Goksu & Arjen Leerkes - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00318-9 
    
    
46. Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate
    Anita Kit Wa Chan, Lewis T. O. Cheung, Eric King-man Chong, Man Yee Karen Lee & Mathew Y. H. Wong - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00323-y