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. The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring - Special Issue: Migration infrastructures
   Federica Infantino - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00324-x 
   
   
2. Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol
   Andrea Carlà & Marcus Nicolson - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00325-4 
   
   
3. Rethinking place-based gender relations in the new country: the case of tertiary level Syrian students in Istanbul
   Şeyma Karameşe - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00326-3 
   
   
4. Who supports refugees? Diversity assent and pro-refugee engagement in Germany
   Lucas G. Drouhot, Karen Schönwälder, Sören Petermann & Steve Vertovec - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00327-2 
   
   
5. Who do you think I am? Immigrant’s first name and their perceived identity
   Karin Amit & Pnina Dolberg - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00328-1 
   
   
6. “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue - Special Issue: Crossing borders, connecting cultures
   Birte Nienaber, Nicole Holzapfel-Mantin & Gabriele Budach - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00333-4 
   
   
7. The student migration transition: an empirical investigation into the nexus between development and international student migration
   Tijmen Weber & Christof Van Mol - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00329-0 
   
   
8. Between here and there: comparing the worry about the pandemic between older Italian international migrants and natives in Switzerland
   Sarah M. Ludwig-Dehm, Iuna Dones & Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00331-6 
   
   
9. Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept? - Commentary Series: Who needs integration? Debating a central, yet increasingly contested concept in migration studies
   Senanu Kwasi Kutor, Godwin Arku & Elmond Bandauko - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00334-3 
   
   
10. Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa
    Tamaryn L. Crankshaw, Jane Freedman & Victoria M. Mutambara - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00335-2 
    
    
11. Taking high-stakes venture to make ends meet? Determinants and impacts of international migration of Ethiopians to the Middle East
    Beneberu A. Wondimagegnhu & Lemlem Fantahun - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00338-z 
    
    
12. Beyond ‘race’?: a rejoinder - Commentary Series: Beyond race?
    Tabea Scharrer & Sawitri Saharso - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00330-7 
    
    
13. Immigrants and refugees, tourists and vagabonds: why and how they integrate differently
    Çetin Çelik - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00339-y 
    
    
14. Membership intermediaries: a study of pluri-generational mixed-status families in Italy and France
    Paola Bonizzoni & Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00337-0 
    
    
15. Exploring the ideational explanation for pro-immigrant sentiment: evidence from a South Korean survey
    Seungbin Park & Kim-Lee Tuxhorn - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00340-5 
    
    
16. A global network of scholars? The geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications
    Lorenzo Piccoli, Didier Ruedin & Andrew Geddes - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00336-1 
    
    
17. Gender and the return migration process: Gulf returnees in Ghana
    Md Mizanur Rahman & Mohammed Salisu - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00342-3 
    
    
18. A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants
    Anastasia Asikainen - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00341-4 
    
    
19. The coloniality of migration and integration: continuing the discussion
    Giovanna Astolfo & Harriet Allsopp - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00343-2 
    
    
20. Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states
    Michael Ewers, Abdoulaye Diop, Nathan Duma & Kien Le - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00344-1 
    
    
21. Bureaucratic configuration and discretion in asylum case processing: the case of the EUAA in Greece
    Johan Ekstedt - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00345-0 
    
    
22. Integration policies and migrants' labour market outcomes: a local perspective based on different regional configurations in the EU
    David De Coninck & Giacomo Solano - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00347-y 
    
    
23. Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal
    Cosmin Nada, Josef Ploner, Christof Van Mol & Helena C. Araújo - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00349-w 
    
    
24. The Japa syndrome and the migration of Nigerians to the United Kingdom: an empirical analysis
    Samuel Kehinde Okunade & Oladotun E. Awosusi - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00351-2 
    
    
25. Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom
    Marco Bitschnau - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00332-5 
    
    
26. A multilevel analysis of factors influencing teenagers’ identification with Europe: the effects of migration and learning opportunities
    Beatriz Matafora, Johanna Fee Ziemes & Hermann J. Abs - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00348-x 
    
    
27. Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants - Paper Cluster: Differentiated belonging, embedding and anchoring. The comparative studies of young adult Central European migrants in light of Brexit and pandemic
    Olga Czeranowska, Violetta Parutis & Agnieszka Trąbka - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00350-3 
    
    
28. “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
    Kristina Korte - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00352-1 
    
    
29. Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan
    Jana Kiralj Lacković, Dean Ajduković, Dana Abdel-Fatah, Laura Hertner & Walid Alkhatib  - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00353-0 
    
    
30. Parenting by mothers in immigrant families from Poland, Russia and Turkey in Germany: Migration-related similarities or origin-related differences?
    Yasmin Öztürk, Eveline Reisenauer, Laura Castiglioni & Sabine Walper - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00356-x 
    
    
31. How organisations regulate Muslim body practices: a comparison of schools, hospitals, and swimming pools
    Maja Apelt, Annika Koch, Ines Michalowski, Kaspar Molzberger, Liane Schenk & Max Oliver Schmidt - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00355-y 
    
    
32. Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand
    Kate McMillan, Fiona Barker & Caleb Hoyle - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00357-w