The journal of Comparative Migration Studies has of June 2022 received its first Web of Science Impact Factor score. We are happy to report Journal Citation Report (JCR) rating of 4.417!
Call for new editors for the journal Comparative Migration Studies
The journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) invites applications for several new members of the Editorial Board. In particular, CMS invites non-European scholars working on migration and (migration-related) diversity from various disciplines, including sociology, demography, anthropology, political sciences, law, geography and economics.
Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) welcomes proposals for special issues focusing on the Global South as well as authors from the Global South.
We are interested in articles that take a comparative focus and advance our understandings of migration, integration, and race and ethnic relations in new conceptual, methodological, and empirical, directions.
Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic
First paper of thematic series Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic published! Check it out.
Articles
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Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe
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Transnational gangs and criminal remittances: a conceptual framework
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Covid-19 and female migrants: policy challenges and multiple vulnerabilities
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Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil
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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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A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework
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Young refugees in education: the particular challenges of school systems in Europe
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Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism
Article Collections
Migration Infrastructures
Comparative Migration Studies
2022
Crossing Borders, Connecting Cultures
Comparative Migration Studies
2021
Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic
Comparative Migration Studies
Collection first published: 27 May 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
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
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
Beyond Race?
Sawitri Saharso, Tabea Scharrer, Anju Mary Paul
Comparative Migration Studies
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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
The journal of Comparative Migration Studies has of June 2022 received its first Web of Science Impact Factor score. We are happy to report Journal Citation Report (JCR) rating of 4.417!
The journal Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) invites applications for several new members of the Editorial Board. In particular, CMS invites non-European scholars working on migration and (migration-related) diversity from various disciplines, including sociology, demography, anthropology, political sciences, law, geography and economics.
Comparative Migration Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal that has been selected for inclusion in the Web of Science. CMS is associated with the IMISCOE Research Network. CMS distinguishes itself as a journal on three elements:
- An explicit comparative orientation. We believe that a focus on comparative research can promote the theoretical development of migration studies. This can involve various types of comparative studies (between countries, groups, levels, historical periods).
- A wide disciplinary angle. CMS aims to develop a wide disciplinary angle, such as political science, economics, law, history, demography, social geography, sociology, cultural studies, literature, psychology and anthropology.
- An open access journal. We believe open access nowadays is the best way to get the widest possible exposure for the work published in our journal. Publishing your articles with CMS means that other scholars will have easy access to your work and will be more likely to actually read it and refer to it. Open access publishing is not without costs.
In order to develop the journal further, and to make sure that all relevant disciplines and methodological traditions are well represented, the editorial board will be expanded. We invite applications from scholars from various disciplines:
- working in the field of migration studies
- special interest in comparative research
- quantitative research background
Being member of the editorial board means that you will be involved in policymaking regarding the journal and that as editor you will be in charge of reviewing articles that are in your area of expertise (on average a couple of hours per month).
Applications should include 1 A4 with a motivation letter and a full CV. The current editorial board will select a number of applicants for a personal meeting. Subsequently, we expect to add 3 new members to the editorial board of CMS starting from September this year. Applications should be sent to info@comparativemigrationstudies.org no later than July 15, 2022. For more information on the journal, please visit www.comparativemigrationstudies.com .
Editors in Chief of CMS
Prof.dr. Sawitri Saharso
Prof.dr. Peter Scholten
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
78 days to first decision for all manuscripts
106 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
240 days from submission to acceptance
100 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
2.219 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.921 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
3.2 - CiteScoreUsage
462,384 downloads (2021)
413 Altmetric mentions
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