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.

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The interdependency of border bureaucracies and mobility intermediaries: a street-level view of migration infrastructuring

Authors: Federica Infantino

Content type: Original Article 20 January 2023
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate

Authors: Anita Kit Wa Chan, Lewis T. O. Cheung, Eric King-man Chong, Man Yee Karen Lee and Mathew Y. H. Wong

Content type: Original Article 4 December 2022
Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands

Authors: Fatih Goksu and Arjen Leerkes

Content type: Original Article 1 December 2022
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts

Authors: Larisa Lara-Guerrero and Sebastien Rojon

Content type: Original Article 7 November 2022
Bringing anchoring and embedding together: theorising migrants’ lives over-time

Authors: Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska and Louise Ryan

Content type: Original Article 4 November 2022

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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.