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COVID-19 and impact on peer review
Call for Special Issues
CMS accepts proposals for special issues twice a year. Special issue proposals (as PDF files) can be sent to Karin Milovanovic (info@comparativemigrationstudies.org) and Esther Otten (Esther.Otten@springernature.com). Check out the full guidelines...
Articles
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Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK
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Street-level workers, managers and institutional tensions: a comparative ethnography of healthcare practices of in/exclusion in three Italian public organisations
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Seeking asylum in Scandinavia: a comparative analysis of recent restrictive policy responses towards unaccompanied afghan minors in Denmark, Sweden and Norway
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Addressing seeming paradoxes by embracing them: small state theory and the integration of migrants
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African migration: trends, patterns, drivers
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How do refugees affect social life in host communities? The case of Congolese refugees in Rwanda
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Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism
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Young refugees in education: the particular challenges of school systems in Europe
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How the different policies and school systems affect the inclusion of Syrian refugee children in Sweden, Germany, Greece, Lebanon and Turkey
Article Collections
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
Mediterranean Migration Research: variable focal length
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 8 February 2019
Innovative strategies for the reception of asylum seekers and refugees in European cities: Multi-level governance, networks and local engagement
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 13 March 2020
Paper Clusters
NEW! CMS introduces a continuously call for Paper Clusters. A paper cluster has no more than 4 articles. Are you interested in submitting a proposal? Check out our guidelines.
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.
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.
Most popular articles published in 2020
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
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
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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
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
106 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
83 days to first decision for all manuscripts
240 days from submission to acceptance
100 days from acceptance to publicationUsage
280,094 downloads
413 Altmetric mentions
Citation Impact
1.893 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.923 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
3.0 - CiteScore
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