Original Article
This article examines the intertwining of migration law and criminal law — termed ‘crimmigration’ by scholars — in Australia and the United States of America, and its implications for non-citizens who engage i...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:12
Published on: 7 August 2017
Original Article
It is often believed that the Olympic Games have become more migratory. The number of Olympic athletes representing countries in which they weren’t born is thought to be on the rise. It should, however, be not...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:11
Published on: 12 July 2017
Reviewer Acknowledgement
The Board of Comparative Migration Studies would like to use this opportunity to thank our reviewers for their continued support. Their expertise and hard work as a reviewer is invaluable to us and has helped ...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:10
Published on: 20 April 2017
Editorial
This special issue addresses the question of how to understand the civic turn within immigrant integration in the West towards programs and instruments, public discourses and political intentions, which aim to...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:9
Published on: 20 March 2017
Original Article
Moving beyond approaches that emphasise the influence of national ideologies and transnational frameworks on the governance of religious diversity in Western Europe, recent scholarship has underlined the impor...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:8
Published on: 16 March 2017
Original Article
Immigrants’ access to citizenship in their country of residence is increasingly debated in Western democracies. It is an underlying premise of these debates that citizenship and national belonging are closely ...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:3
Published on: 1 March 2017
Original Article
Since the late 1990s, a wide range of so-called new civic integration policies aimed at civilizing or disciplining newcomers have been introduced. Consequently, migration scholars have discussed whether a conv...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:2
Published on: 1 March 2017
Original Article
Family migration policy, once basing citizens and resident foreigners’ possibilities to bring in foreign family members mainly on the right to family life, is increasingly a tool states use to limit immigratio...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:7
Published on: 1 March 2017
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The civic integrationist turn usually refers to the stricter requirements for residence and citizenship that many states have implemented since the late 1990’s. But what of other policy spheres that are essent...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:5
Published on: 1 March 2017
Original Article
One of the defining features of contemporary Europe is the freedom of movement of persons. Despite its advantages, this ‘freedom of movement’ is also contested, since it has been shown to cause discrimination,...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:6
Published on: 14 February 2017
Original Article
Migrants’ aspirations are a meaningful and under-appreciated research subject. My paper investigates their development and implications over the life course, building on an archive of life stories of immigrant...
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:4
Published on: 10 February 2017
Original Article
This paper evaluates the sampling methods of an international survey, the Immigrant Citizens Survey, which aimed at surveying immigrants from outside the European Union (EU) in 15 cities in seven EU countries....
Comparative Migration Studies 2017 5:1
Published on: 3 January 2017
Original Article
This article compares the pre- and post-migration labour market position of recent migrants to the Netherlands from Poland and Bulgaria. Previously it has been hypothesized that migrants loose job-status due t...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:22
Published on: 16 December 2016
Original Article
Return migration after conflict is the result of a complex decision-making process. However, our understanding of this complexity is blurred by changing politicized understandings of return. In this paper, we ...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:21
Published on: 7 December 2016
Original Article
This article investigates the drivers and mechanisms of emigrants’ electoral and nonelectoral political engagement with their homeland. Our analysis concentrates on the diverse experiences of Polish migrants i...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:12
Published on: 3 November 2016
Original Article
This contribution draws on the developing literature on the participation of citizens’ abroad in elections of their country of origin. It looks at Tunisia as a case study. Although it focuses on a single case ...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:14
Published on: 3 November 2016
Original Article
This paper explores the link between legal status and transnational engagement through the lenses of territorial confinement and blocked transnationalism. We hypothesize that irregular legal status results bot...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:15
Published on: 3 November 2016
Original Article
In this article, we examine whether migration experience provides an opportunity for Malian migrants to learn and adopt new political values and norms, and whether this translates into different attitudes towa...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:19
Published on: 3 November 2016
Original Article
How does the reception of remittances change the views of those left behind? In this paper, we compare the impact of financial remittances (transmission of money) with the impact of social remittances (transmi...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:13
Published on: 3 November 2016
Original Article
This paper shows how economic remittances undergird the circulation of social remittances between New York, Paris, and Dakar. It compares the transnational practices of Senegalese-born migrants living in Franc...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:20
Published on: 3 November 2016
Editorial
The term “social remittances” was coined over fifteen years ago to capture the notion that, in addition to money, migration also entails the circulation of ideas, practices, skills, identities, and social capi...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:16
Published on: 3 November 2016
Original Article
Enquiry into the factors which impact on ‘integration’ requires clarity on the nature of the integration processes in which individuals are engaged, the intersection of those processes and the factors that may...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:18
Published on: 6 October 2016
Original Article
Newspaper data are popular in Comparative Migration Studies as they allow diachronic and cross-national comparison and are relatively easy and inexpensive to acquire. Critics, however, warn that newspaper data...
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:17
Published on: 12 September 2016
Erratum
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:11
Published on: 8 July 2016
The original article was published in Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:10
Commentary
Comparative Migration Studies 2016 4:5
Published on: 20 June 2016
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