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  4. Since 2002, Brazil has been granting refugee status on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). This topic has become more visible in the last few years due to the large flow of Venezuelan...

    Authors: Vítor Lopes Andrade
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:67
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  7. 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...

    Authors: Víctor Pérez-Segura, Raquel Caro-Carretero and Antonio Rua
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:64
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  8. 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...

    Authors: Christian S. Czymara, Anastasia Gorodzeisky and Inna Leykin
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:63
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  11. 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...

    Authors: Mariana Alvarado, Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Sandra Lavenex and Philipp Lutz
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:60
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  12. 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...

    Authors: Lindokuhle Denis Sibiya and Inocent Moyo
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:59
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  15. 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...

    Authors: Steffen Pötzschke and Bernd Weiß
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:56
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  18. 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...

    Authors: Ihssane Otmani and Giuliano Bonoli
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:53
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  19. 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...

    Authors: Tobias Klöpf, Chiara Scheven, Patricia Vorhold and Christian Ungruhe
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:52
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  20. 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...

    Authors: Carol Chan, Javiera Reyes-Navarro and Kalil Abu-Qalbein Koda
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:51
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  21. 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...

    Authors: Jonathan Grossman
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:50
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  22. 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 ...

    Authors: Jiaqi M. Liu and Clare Xiaoqian Wan
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:49
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  23. 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...

    Authors: Minakshi Keeni and Nina Takashino
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:48
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  24. 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...

    Authors: Ahmet Tayfur Akcan, İdris Yagmur, Murat Ergül and Ali Rauf Karataş
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:47
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  25. 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...

    Authors: Netta Moshe, Dan Miodownik and Shaul R. Shenhav
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:46
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  26. 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...

    Authors: Lorena Izaguirre, Tanja Bastia, Matthew Walsham and Pedro Pablo Cortés
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:45
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  28. 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...

    Authors: Izabela Grabowska, Christina Hansen, Agata Jastrzebowska, Jacob Lind, Ioana Manafi, Birte Nienaber, Ryan Powell and Thea Shahrokh
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:43
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  32. 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...

    Authors: Karolina Sobczak-Szelc, Marcin Stonawski, Katarzyna Górska, Agnieszka Olter-Castillo, Jan Brzozowski and Silvana Gomez
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:39
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  35. 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 ...

    Authors: Bálint Koós, Patrik Tátrai and Dóra Gábriel
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:36
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  38. 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 ...

    Authors: Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach, Konrad Pędziwiatr and Olena Sobolieva
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:33
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  39. 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...

    Authors: Michiel de Haas and Ewout Frankema
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:32
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  40. 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...

    Authors: Naiara Rodríguez-Peña
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:31
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  43. 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 ...

    Authors: Haodong Qi, Holly E. Reed and Pieter Bevelander
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:28
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  44. 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 ...

    Authors: Joana Almeida, Nicolai Netz, David Nika, Ewa Krzaklewska, Joyce Aguiar, Alina Botezat, Thais França, Suvi Jokila, Bernhard Streitwieser, Rúna Vigdís Guðmarsdóttir and Daniel Malet Calvo
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:27
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  46. 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...

    Authors: Breanne Grace, John Doering-White and Benjamin Roth
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:26
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  47. 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...

    Authors: Lenore Sauer, Ludovica Gambaro and Elisabeth K. Kraus
    Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2025 13:25
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