Comparative Migration Studies

Thematic cluster on The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas

This cluster features contributions that identify and analyze fundamental ethical dilemmas in policy-making on migration and refugee protection as it presents to policy-makers and other actors in the field.

OPEN CALL FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE DEADLINE OCTOBER 1, 2023

Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) currently invites proposals (deadline October 1, 2023) for a Special Issue surrounding specific topical research themes. Are you interested in submitting a proposal? Check out our guidelines below:

Proposal

We strongly encourage researchers to submit a proposal (~800 words) for a Collection or Paper Cluster to info@comparativemigrationstudies.org and bijita.majumdar@springernature.com
Proposals for this Open Call will be evaluated by the Editors-in-Chief on scientific soundness and interest to our readership. Proposals should include:

1. The title of the Collection or Paper Cluster

2. A brief summary of the topic, including the reasons why the topic is important and timely

3. A short list of specific topics of interest

4. Methodological aspects

5. The name or names of potential independent Guest Editor(s) as well as affiliations and contact information

6. A tentative timetable including a submission deadline and desired month of publication

Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants

Authors: Olga Czeranowska, Violetta Parutis and Agnieszka Trąbka

Content type: Original Article 11 September 2023
A multilevel analysis of factors influencing teenagers’ identification with Europe: the effects of migration and learning opportunities

Authors: Beatriz Matafora, Johanna Fee Ziemes and Hermann J. Abs

Content type: Original Article 4 September 2023
Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom

Authors: Marco Bitschnau

Content type: Original Article 1 September 2023
The Japa syndrome and the migration of Nigerians to the United Kingdom: an empirical analysis

Authors: Samuel Kehinde Okunade and Oladotun E. Awosusi

Content type: Original Article 18 August 2023
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal

Authors: Cosmin Nada, Josef Ploner, Christof Van Mol and Helena C. Araújo

Content type: Original Article 11 August 2023

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African migration: trends, patterns, drivers

Authors: Marie-Laurence Flahaux and Hein De Haas

Content type: Original Article 22 January 2016
A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework

Authors: Hein de Haas

Content type: Original Article 24 February 2021
How do refugees affect social life in host communities? The case of Congolese refugees in Rwanda

Authors: Veronika Fajth, Özge Bilgili, Craig Loschmann and Melissa Siegel

Content type: Original Article 6 August 2019
Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy

Authors: Asma Khan and H. Arokkiaraj

Content type: Original Article 3 November 2021
Young refugees in education: the particular challenges of school systems in Europe

Authors: Claudia Koehler and Jens Schneider

Content type: Original Article 22 July 2019

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Article Collections

Migration Infrastructures
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection starts publishing in soon (2022)

Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 27 May 2021

Crossing Borders, Connecting Cultures
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 15 September 2021

Political parties as actors of transnational politics
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 25 March 2021

Migrations and diversifications in the UK and Japan
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 26 February 2021

How do organisations shape migration and inclusion?
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 29 January 2021

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Paper Clusters

Violent Democracies and their Emigrants
Clarisa Perez-Armendariz
Comparative Migration Studies

Differentiated belonging, embedding and anchoring. The comparative studies of young adult Central European migrants in light of Brexit and pandemic
Izabela Grabowski, Louise Ryan
Comparative Migration Studies

Transnationalising the mixed-embeddedness approach in migrant entrepreneurship research
Giacomo Solano, Sakura Yamamura
Comparative Migration Studies

Aims and scope

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.

Comparative Migration Studies is affiliated with IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network), the largest interdisciplinary network of scholars in the field of migration. The research network currently consists of 63 research institutes from different countries around the world and from various disciplines including sociology, political science, anthropology, economics, law, demography, public administration, geography and history. Since 1st of April 2022, the coordination of IMISCOE has moved to the University of Liege (with Jean-Michel Lafleur and Daniela Vintila as coordinators).

Most cited articles of the past two years

New directions in migration studies: towards methodological de-nationalism
by Bridget Anderson

Integration: twelve propositions after Schinkel
by Adrian Favell

From controlling mobilities to control over women’s bodies: gendered effects of EU border externalization in Morocco
by Elsa Tyszler

Who needs integration? Debating a central, yet increasingly contested concept in migration studies
by Sawitri Saharso

Between fragmentation and institutionalisation: the rise of migration studies as a research field
by Nathan Levy et al.

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After the refugee crisis: public discourse and policy change in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
by Anniken Hagelund

Rethinking minority status and ‘visibility’
by Miri Song

Atypical citizenship regimes: comparing legal and political conceptualizations
Daniel Naujoks

Another nexus? Exploring narratives on the linkage between EU external migration policies and the democratization of the southern Mediterranean neighbourhood
by Luisa Faustini-Torre

Between fragmentation and institutionalisation: the rise of migration studies as a research field
Nathan Levy et al.

Word limit

Submissions to Comparative Migration Studies should be between 8,000 and 9,000 words.

Commentary Series

Beyond Race?
Sawitri Saharso, Tabea Scharrer, Anju Mary Paul
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 14 January 2022

The coming of age of migration studies: Debating the evolution and impact of a research field
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 6 July 2020

Who needs integration? Debating a central, yet increasingly contested concept in migration studies
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 25 September 2018

Multiculturalism-Interculturalism
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 4 September 2017

Solidarity in diverse societies: Nationhood, immigration and the welfare state
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 20 June 2016

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Comparative Migration Studies

Thematic cluster on The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas

OPEN CALL FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE DEADLINE OCTOBER 1, 2023

Articles

Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants

A multilevel analysis of factors influencing teenagers’ identification with Europe: the effects of migration and learning opportunities

Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom

The Japa syndrome and the migration of Nigerians to the United Kingdom: an empirical analysis

Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal

African migration: trends, patterns, drivers

A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework

How do refugees affect social life in host communities? The case of Congolese refugees in Rwanda

Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy

Young refugees in education: the particular challenges of school systems in Europe