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Climate migration has emerged as one of the fastest-growing lines of inquiry within migration studies. However, it suffers from a fundamental empirical–conceptual limitation: the absence of a definition that c...
This paper examines the long-term impact of past political processes and events on current perceptions of immigration. As a case study, we focus on contemporary public perceptions of migrants by citizens of th...
This paper looks at the framing of migration in low-scale, midsize cities and its implications for local governance. It seeks to deepen understanding of migration governance in these understudied contexts faci...
Anthropological literature on future-making has highlighted the diversity of practices migrants’ can enact to realise their possible future or future-orientated projects. While such an approach has been instru...
Largely unnoticed by the migration literature, business migration has established itself as a form of labour migration that is substantial in terms of numbers and receives preferential treatment in internation...
Despite the Sustainable Development Goal target 10.7.2, which aims to facilitate orderly, safe, regular, and responsible migration through implementing planned and well-managed migration policies at various go...
This paper explores the phenomenon of ‘high’ birth rates among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, framed as, in their own words, “a human instinctive response to a profound fear of extinction.” Drawing from the conce...
This article—part of the Special Issue on “(In)tangible Remittances and Inequalities”—investigates the acquisition of social remittances by Ukrainian female war migrants in Poland. It focuses on how these wome...
Sampling remains a major challenge when researching minority populations, especially in cross-national settings. While various sampling methods are established in the field, most of them cannot easily be imple...
During the past decade, an unprecedented number of Mexicans residing in the U.S. returned to Mexico. This high level of return migration entails great social, cultural, economic, and political challenges for a...
In this paper we explore the extent to which differences in institutional settings, with a focus on the human capital formation regime, shape the integration trajectories proposed to recently- arrived refugees...
In West Africa, migration is, in various forms, an integral part of people’s everyday lives. Though most migration takes place within the region, the academic focus is laid on intercontinental migration. Today...
The term Nikkei emerged in the Americas, post-Second World War, to describe persons of Japanese descent living abroad. Based on an ethnographic study with Chileans of Japanese descent, we propose that Nikkei c...
Militarism is a discourse that glorifies soldiers and treats military service as a key component of full citizenship. This article contends that states can project militaristic discourse onto citizens living o...
By examining China’s refugee policies from 1949 to 1982, this article demonstrates how the Chinese state redefined “return” and “refugee” to serve shifting political objectives. While China is often perceived ...
This study examines the influence of encampment policies on host community perceptions towards Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Nepal, with an emphasis on how these perceptions shape the future of the refug...
One of the most important reasons for international migration is unemployment, along with economic concerns. Domestic and international migration movements generally take place from regions with high unemploym...
This study investigates the interactions of forced migrants with state actors in transit countries at critical decision nodal points (DNPs) along their journey—defined as turning points where migrants make dec...
While the integration of an intersectional perspective marks a significant advance in gender and migration literature over recent decades, this scholarship remains heavily dominated by studies focusing on Sout...
This article examines the complexities of integrating young adult migrants from non-EU countries into European contexts, advocating for a shift toward inclusive, locally informed, and reciprocal integration pr...
The economic, political and social situation in Venezuela has forced millions of its citizens to leave their country (Mazuera-Arias et al., Sociodemographic Profiles and the Causesof Regular Venezuelan Emigrat...
This short intervention starts from observing a persistent, if not growing, framing of migration research – in CMS and beyond - through a concept of crisis. We contend that such an unreflexive framing, or what...
Over the past few decades, the forms and geographies of international retirement migration have diversified globally. An outstanding example of this is Hungary, a destination for both retirement migrants from ...
This study examines how housing wealth influences the political incorporation of immigrants in South Korea, identifying asset accumulation as a key factor shaping redistributive preferences. Using nationally r...
Earlier approaches to migration have largely focused on structural causes to explain why migrants move while overlooking the significance of their ability to enact agency. Yet, notions of (im)mobility, circula...
Before the full-scale war, Ukraine was one of the key origin countries for migrants seeking to move to the European Union. While considerable research has covered international migration, the understanding of ...
Rising migration out of Africa is attracting great attention among scholars, policy makers and pundits. In terms of past African mobility, forced emigration through the slave trade, with its nefarious characte...
The complexity and abstract nature of capabilities may explain why research on migration aspirations is far more prevalent than studies on migration capabilities, and why clear conceptualizations and operation...
Migration in some societies transcends mere economic considerations, becoming a culturally ingrained practice. Through an ethnographic study in Nepal, this research explores how migration aspirations are repro...
This paper critically examines Germany’s 2024 citizenship reform, designed to promote integration and pluralism through legal and societal transformations. We argue that the prevailing migration discourse in G...
Internet search data may reveal people’s intentions to migrate, as aspiring migrants tend to use online search engines to explore migration opportunities. However, unlike official migration statistics, search ...
This systematic literature review sheds light on social inequalities in students’ access to and experiences of international student mobility (ISM) in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Following a scoping ...
The original article was published in Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:19
This article theorizes everyday forms of uncertainty that immigrant and refugee populations negotiate as a form of violence. We argue that while the state has made immigrants and refugees an explicit target on...
This paper examines the new ties refugees form within the first years after arriving in destination countries. While prior research has assessed new ties mainly in relation to integration outcomes and within i...
Highly skilled migration is increasing both in absolute terms and as a relative share of international migration. The increasing number of migrant professionals (MPs) raises questions about the consequences of...
As super-diversity becomes a normalized socio-demographic fact in contemporary societies, the issue of managing its complex manifestations has become a salient feature of academic and policy debates around the...
The original article was published in Comparative Migration Studies 2022 10:32
Since February 2022 many Ukrainians have been being forcibly displaced in the ongoing war. However, little is known regarding the experiences of internationally displaced Ukrainians. This article explores thes...
This study examines the potential effects of skilled labor emigration on Bhutan’s economy using an extended computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. Numerical simulation analysis is undertaken to examine th...
The Correction to this article has been published in Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:22
The healthy immigrant paradox suggests that immigrants tend to have better health than native residents, despite facing socio-economic disadvantages. At the same time, immigrants are considered to utilise heal...
Opposition against refugees and migrants is a central topic of the populist far-right’s political agenda. In Italy, the populist far-right has come to lead the national government with the Meloni government. I...
Many EU Member States have adopted emigrant return policies (ERPs) meant to encourage and assist emigrated citizens’ migration back to their country of origin. Despite the significance of this trend, there is ...
The share of internationally mobile students has risen exponentially for the last two decades until the disruptive COVID-19 period, leading to a more diverse and multipolar network structure. However, the COVI...
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