Comparative Migration Studies

CMS invites invite submissions for a thematic cluster on The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas

Seeking 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.

Interested authors should send migrationpolicydilemmas@eui.eu a 400 word abstract and short bio by 1 Oct 2022.

Collections & Paper Clusters - Submit A Proposal

Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) continuously calls for Collections and Paper Clusters surrounding specific topical research themes. Are you interested in submitting a proposal? Check out our guidelines.

Should they stay or should they go? A case study on international students in Germany

Authors: Sascha Krannich and Uwe Hunger

Content type: Original Article 30 September 2022
Contested skills and constrained mobilities: migrant carework skill regimes in Taiwan and Japan

Authors: Pei-Chia Lan

Content type: Original Article 13 September 2022
The role of environmental factors and other migration drivers from the perspective of Moroccan and Congolese migrants in Belgium

Authors: Loubna Ou-Salah, Lore Van Praag and Gert Verschraegen

Content type: Original Article 6 September 2022
Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic

Authors: Magdalena Arias Cubas, Anju Mary Paul, Jacques Ramírez, Sanam Roohi and Peter Scholten

Content type: Editorial 2 September 2022
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration

Authors: James Dennison

Content type: Original Article 30 August 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
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
Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism

Authors: Will Kymlicka

Content type: Original Article 17 December 2015

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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.

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
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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