Publications

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.  

1. Life experiences and cultural adaptation among migrant workers in Malaysia
   Azlizan Mat Enh, Andika Wahab, Arina Anis Azlan, Kartini Aboo Talib, Andi Muhammad Tri Sakti & Fazal Mohamed Mohamed Sultan - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00360-1 
   
   
2. De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance
   Ricard Zapata-Barrero - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00361-0 
   
   
3. Bridging the citizenship law implementation gap: a typology for comparative analysis
   Luuk van der Baaren - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00359-8 
   
   
4. Rewarding mobility? Towards a realistic European policy agenda for academics at risk
   Dina Gusejnova, Alina Dragolea, Andrea Pető, Andrei-Vlăduț Terteleac, Artemis Photiadou & Rebeka Bakos - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00362-7 
   
   
5. Immigrant political participation is associated with more positive majority immigration attitudes across European countries and Swiss cantons
   Judit Kende, Julia Reiter, Canan Coşkan, Bertjan Doosje & Eva G. T. Green - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00365-4 
   
   
6. Return migration and embedding: through the lens of Brexit as an unsettling event - Paper Cluster: Return migration and embedding in light of Brexit 
   Izabela Grabowska & Louise Ryan - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00364-5 
   
   
7. Fighting to belong: drivers for transnational diaspora military service in Israel and beyond
   Lior Yohanani - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00363-6
   
   
8. Rethinking diaspora remittances in the post-Mugabe era in Zimbabwe
   Inocent Moyo  - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00368-1 
   
   
9. ‘With a little help from my educated friends’: revisiting the role of social capital for immigrants’ labour market integration in Germany
   Julia Rüdel & Jan-Philip Steinmann - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00366-3 
   
   
10. Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions
    Lisa Marie Borrelli & Didier Ruedin - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00369-0 
    
    
11. Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all
    Daisy Pollenne & Carlos Vargas-Silva - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00371-6 
    
    
12. Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors
    John R. Parsons & Sara Riva   - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00367-2 
    
    
13. Anti-immigrant backlash: the Democratic Dilemma for immigration policy - Paper Cluster: The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas
    Zsolt Kapelner - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00370-7 
    
    
14. Why failed asylum seekers should have a conditional right to stay: an ethical guideline for policy debates - Paper Cluster: The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas
    Leila Hadj Abdou & Eszter Kollar - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00373-4 
    
    
15. Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review
    Nieves Fernández-Rodríguez & Luisa Feline Freier  - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00377-0 
    
    
16. Residency and citizenship in the Gulf: recent policy changes and future implications for the region
    Abdulaziz Ali & Logan Cochrane - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00376-1 
    
    
17. Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system
    Maria Wardale & Sarah Scuzzarello - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00378-z 
    
    
18. Economic and labour market impacts of migration in Austria: an agent-based modelling approach
    Sebastian Poledna, Nikita Strelkovskii, Alessandra Conte, Anne Goujon, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Michele Catalano & Elena Rovenskaya - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00374-3 
    
    
19. Unsettling expectations of stay: probationary immigration policies in Canada and Norway
    Jessica Schultz & Delphine Nakache - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00379-y 
    
    
20. Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma - Paper Cluster: The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas
    Lorenzo Piccoli & Roberta Perna 
    
    
21. Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China
    Kejie Huang & Tianlong You - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00381-4 
    
    
22. Responding to unauthorized residence: on a dilemma between ‘firewalls’ and ‘regularizations’ - Paper Cluster: The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas
    Lukas Schmid - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00380-5 
    
    
23. Ambiguous citizenship policies: Examining implementation gaps across levels of legislation in Jordan - Special Issue: Citizenship Policy: From Paper to Practice: Global Perspectives on the Implementation Gap
    Lillian Frost - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00375-2 
    
    
24. De-migranticizing as methodology: rethinking migration studies through immobility and liminality
    Parvati Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines & Ashley Gunter - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00382-3 
    
    
25. Configurations of attitudes toward immigration in Europe: evidence of polarization, ambivalence, and multidimensionality
    Ronald Kwon, William J. Scarborough & Roberto Gallardo - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00383-2