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. Uprooting, removing and relocating populations: The role and significance of internal displacement in the syrian regime’s integrated military–political war strategy
   Samer Bakkour & Rama Sahtout - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00403-1 
   
   
2. ‘This settlement is just a launch pad to move to better city spaces’: radical sense of place and migration aspirations among youth migrants in the diaspora
   Johannes Bhanye, Abraham Matamanda & Ruvimbo Shayamunda - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00423-5 
   
   
3. Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter
   Christine Lang & Elisabeth Badenhoop - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00420-0 
   
   
4. How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china
   Chen Lu, Jian Chen, Jiewei Li & Xuetong Wang - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00422-6 
   
   
5. Refugee securitization and the challenges of formal integration: case of Somali refugees in Kenya and Ethiopia
   Fred N. Ikanda, Abdirahman A. Muhumad & Jana Kuhnt - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00419-7 
   
   
6. Perspectives on the implementation gap in citizenship policy - Special Issue: Citizenship Policy: From Paper to Practice: Global Perspectives on the Implementation Gap
   Luicy Pedroza & Jean-Thomas Arrighi - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00424-4 
   
   
7. The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review - Special Issue: Determinants, experiences, and outcomes of international student mobility in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic
   Cristina Sin, Orlanda Tavares, Elina Apsite-Berina, Judith Borràs, Betül Bulut-Sahin, Martina Chrančoková, Karolina Czerska-Shaw, Anne Marie Devlin, Sybille Heinzmann, Suvi Jokila, Anita Kéri, Ivana Lešević, Annarita Magliacane, Anna Nicolaou, Neslihan Onder-Ozdemir, Adriana Perez-Encinas, Natassa Raikou, Maria Victoria Soule, Deimantas Valančiūnas, Ana Iolanda Voda & Merve Zayim-Kurtay - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00425-3