Migration Studies
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Migration Studies is a leading journal of the determinants, processes, and outcomes of human migration. Impact Factor: 2.7 (2024). https://academic.oup.com/migration
What determines long-term outcomes for return migrants in rural settings? Drawing on surveys, Sugden et al. show that return outcomes are deeply shaped by ongoing patterns of agrarian differentiation.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What determines long-term outcomes for return migrants in rural settings? Drawing on surveys, Sugden et al. show that return outcomes are deeply shaped by ongoing patterns of agrarian differentiation.
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How do internally displaced children born during captivity in Uganda navigate post-war life? Drawing on interviews and art-making, @M.Denov and @O.Alexandrakis use the concept of #wayfinding to show how shared memory and imagination shape belonging and agentive future-making.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
How do internally displaced children born during captivity in Uganda navigate post-war life? Drawing on interviews and art-making, @M.Denov and @O.Alexandrakis use the concept of #wayfinding to show how shared memory and imagination shape belonging and agentive future-making.
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What drives host states to adopt inclusive migration policies? Daniel Rojas , Alfredo Trejo, Margaret Peters, and Yang-Yang Zhou show how border pragmatism, economic benefits, and reputational gains drove Colombia’s inclusive response to Venezuelan migration.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
What drives host states to adopt inclusive migration policies? Daniel Rojas , Alfredo Trejo, Margaret Peters, and Yang-Yang Zhou show how border pragmatism, economic benefits, and reputational gains drove Colombia’s inclusive response to Venezuelan migration.
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Why do #subnational units restrict internal migration? Based on fieldwork in Batam, Indonesia, Isabelle Côté proposes the 'IM+IGE' framework to show how institutions, geography, and elites shape local responses to internal migration.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Why do #subnational units restrict internal migration? Based on fieldwork in Batam, Indonesia, Isabelle Côté proposes the 'IM+IGE' framework to show how institutions, geography, and elites shape local responses to internal migration.
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How do social networks shape migrants’ platform work? Studying food couriers in Norway, Maizi Hua introduces “copy-paste paths” to show how migrants replicate strategies through networks, supporting mobility and integration alongside risks like peer pressure and exploitation.
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September 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
How do social networks shape migrants’ platform work? Studying food couriers in Norway, Maizi Hua introduces “copy-paste paths” to show how migrants replicate strategies through networks, supporting mobility and integration alongside risks like peer pressure and exploitation.
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Is irregular migration really a recent phenomenon? Drawing on colonial archives, Y. Benhadda traces #lhrig, a Maghrebi term for irregular border crossing, back to colonial Morocco, challenging dominant narratives of crisis and unprecedentedness in today’s migration debates.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Is irregular migration really a recent phenomenon? Drawing on colonial archives, Y. Benhadda traces #lhrig, a Maghrebi term for irregular border crossing, back to colonial Morocco, challenging dominant narratives of crisis and unprecedentedness in today’s migration debates.
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Highlights: Submissions rose by 71% to 478. Provisional 2024 acceptance rate is 9.9%. First decisions took 10 days (median), down from 36 days in 2023, mainly due to more desk rejecting. Submissions came from 80 countries, up from 60 in 2023, though mainly from Europe and Central Asia.
September 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Highlights: Submissions rose by 71% to 478. Provisional 2024 acceptance rate is 9.9%. First decisions took 10 days (median), down from 36 days in 2023, mainly due to more desk rejecting. Submissions came from 80 countries, up from 60 in 2023, though mainly from Europe and Central Asia.
We are excited to release our first annual editorial report, covering 2024! Publishing data on submissions and decisions, as well as explaining policy changes, is part of our commitment to transparency. Link: static.primary.prod.gcms.the-infra.com/static/migra... #migcitsky #polisky #econsky #socsky
September 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
We are excited to release our first annual editorial report, covering 2024! Publishing data on submissions and decisions, as well as explaining policy changes, is part of our commitment to transparency. Link: static.primary.prod.gcms.the-infra.com/static/migra... #migcitsky #polisky #econsky #socsky
How do states balance open markets with pressure to control migration? Studying Switzerland, S. Lavenex, P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, M. Alvarado, and P. Lutz show how business migration as a high-skilled market model offers an escape from the liberal paradox.
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September 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
How do states balance open markets with pressure to control migration? Studying Switzerland, S. Lavenex, P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, M. Alvarado, and P. Lutz show how business migration as a high-skilled market model offers an escape from the liberal paradox.
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How do migrant caravans challenge state control by manipulating time? Drawing on fieldwork and geography, Margath Walker introduces the “time of pilgrimage” to show how delays and fragmented movement disrupt migration governance and subvert state-centric temporalities.
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August 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
How do migrant caravans challenge state control by manipulating time? Drawing on fieldwork and geography, Margath Walker introduces the “time of pilgrimage” to show how delays and fragmented movement disrupt migration governance and subvert state-centric temporalities.
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What drives public attitudes toward refugees? T. Hillenbrand, B. Martorano, L. Metzger, and M. Siegel show that humanitarian messaging boosts concern and support for aid, while highlighting young male refugees increases threat perceptions and reduces support for admissions.
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August 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
What drives public attitudes toward refugees? T. Hillenbrand, B. Martorano, L. Metzger, and M. Siegel show that humanitarian messaging boosts concern and support for aid, while highlighting young male refugees increases threat perceptions and reduces support for admissions.
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What shapes refugee liminality in rural settings? Based on fieldwork in Estonia, R. Nugin shows how legal uncertainties, ambiguous state bureaucracy, and an unstable rural economy create overlapping liminalities for Ukrainian refugees, offering new insights into their experiences.
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July 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
What shapes refugee liminality in rural settings? Based on fieldwork in Estonia, R. Nugin shows how legal uncertainties, ambiguous state bureaucracy, and an unstable rural economy create overlapping liminalities for Ukrainian refugees, offering new insights into their experiences.
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Why do we see varying levels of immigrant mobilization across time and place? Amy Skoll and Jeannette Money present the “Immigrant Political Choice Nexus” to show how precarity, comparative advantage, and local context shape strategic decision-making.
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July 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Why do we see varying levels of immigrant mobilization across time and place? Amy Skoll and Jeannette Money present the “Immigrant Political Choice Nexus” to show how precarity, comparative advantage, and local context shape strategic decision-making.
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How do communities decide to stay amid conflict and adversity? @Ezenwa E. Olumba introduces the resilience–accessibility framework, centring collective immobility in Nigeria and expanding (im)mobility beyond Western-centric and individualistic perspectives.
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July 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
How do communities decide to stay amid conflict and adversity? @Ezenwa E. Olumba introduces the resilience–accessibility framework, centring collective immobility in Nigeria and expanding (im)mobility beyond Western-centric and individualistic perspectives.
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What kinds of policies support climate (im)mobilities? Drawing on examples across Oceania, L. Moore and H. McNeill propose 12 overlapping clusters, like nets, that overlap and that people navigate based on their own decisions, challenging exclusionary refugee narratives.
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July 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
What kinds of policies support climate (im)mobilities? Drawing on examples across Oceania, L. Moore and H. McNeill propose 12 overlapping clusters, like nets, that overlap and that people navigate based on their own decisions, challenging exclusionary refugee narratives.
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How do forced migrants mobilize their capital abroad? Studying Ukrainian women in Poland, @D. Winogrodzka, @I. Kyliushyk, and @E. Chról identify three critical stages: suspended, contingent, and emerging, shaped by various factors in context-specific ways.
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July 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
How do forced migrants mobilize their capital abroad? Studying Ukrainian women in Poland, @D. Winogrodzka, @I. Kyliushyk, and @E. Chról identify three critical stages: suspended, contingent, and emerging, shaped by various factors in context-specific ways.
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How did Brexit affect #Roma EU citizens in the UK? @Owen Parker, @Mihai Călin Bica, and @Olga Fuseini show that many faced major barriers navigating the digital EU Settlement Scheme, risking loss of rights and raising fears of a new scandal similar to #Windrush.
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June 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
How did Brexit affect #Roma EU citizens in the UK? @Owen Parker, @Mihai Călin Bica, and @Olga Fuseini show that many faced major barriers navigating the digital EU Settlement Scheme, risking loss of rights and raising fears of a new scandal similar to #Windrush.
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How does sexuality shape immigrant economic outcomes? Using Canadian tax and immigration data, S.Waite, T.Paul, N.Denier, and M.Haan show queer immigrants out-earn their straight peers and experience faster wage growth, highlighting the role of ethnic and LGBT communities.
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June 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
How does sexuality shape immigrant economic outcomes? Using Canadian tax and immigration data, S.Waite, T.Paul, N.Denier, and M.Haan show queer immigrants out-earn their straight peers and experience faster wage growth, highlighting the role of ethnic and LGBT communities.
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Who was granted entry during the COVID-19 pandemic, and on what basis? Drawing from new data, Lorenzo Piccoli and Timothy Jacob-Owens show that in times of crisis, states prioritized pre-existing ties over international protection, revealing the resilience of nationality.
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June 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Who was granted entry during the COVID-19 pandemic, and on what basis? Drawing from new data, Lorenzo Piccoli and Timothy Jacob-Owens show that in times of crisis, states prioritized pre-existing ties over international protection, revealing the resilience of nationality.
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Do Poland’s migration policies match their rhetoric? W. Janicki and A. Świętek reveal a clear contradiction: official discourse focuses on the Polish-Belarusian border and opposes migrants from Africa and Asia, yet permits for foreigners from these regions are on the rise.
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June 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Do Poland’s migration policies match their rhetoric? W. Janicki and A. Świętek reveal a clear contradiction: official discourse focuses on the Polish-Belarusian border and opposes migrants from Africa and Asia, yet permits for foreigners from these regions are on the rise.
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Does migration affect happiness? In our latest issue, David Bartram analyses Polish migrants living in Ireland, the UK, and Germany using propensity-score analysis to compare them with the stayers and finds no impact, contrary to earlier findings.
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May 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Does migration affect happiness? In our latest issue, David Bartram analyses Polish migrants living in Ireland, the UK, and Germany using propensity-score analysis to compare them with the stayers and finds no impact, contrary to earlier findings.
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To what extent do migrant views on environmental change shape adaptation? S. Lietaer, L. Van Praag, E. Hut, and C. Michellier show some practices such as remittances may unintentionally help, but collective projects drive intentional translocal change.
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May 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
To what extent do migrant views on environmental change shape adaptation? S. Lietaer, L. Van Praag, E. Hut, and C. Michellier show some practices such as remittances may unintentionally help, but collective projects drive intentional translocal change.
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How do immigrants and their children shape native attitudes in the EU? In our latest issue, O. Barrera-Rodriguez, I. Bensidoun & A. Edo find that larger immigrant shares raise concerns about crime and welfare, but second-generation immigrants improve perceptions.
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May 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
How do immigrants and their children shape native attitudes in the EU? In our latest issue, O. Barrera-Rodriguez, I. Bensidoun & A. Edo find that larger immigrant shares raise concerns about crime and welfare, but second-generation immigrants improve perceptions.
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Thinking about submitting your papers to @migrationjrnl.bsky.social and wondering if it's a good fit? We've just updated our 'about us' to give a clearer indication of what we tend to look for: highlights in thread, and link here (and at end of thread) academic.oup.com/migration/pa... 1/n
April 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Thinking about submitting your papers to @migrationjrnl.bsky.social and wondering if it's a good fit? We've just updated our 'about us' to give a clearer indication of what we tend to look for: highlights in thread, and link here (and at end of thread) academic.oup.com/migration/pa... 1/n
Does exposure to books in childhood encourage adult migration? In our latest issue, Zuzanna Brunarska and Artjoms Ivlevs highlight a positive association between the number of books in one’s childhood home and adult migration intentions.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Does exposure to books in childhood encourage adult migration? In our latest issue, Zuzanna Brunarska and Artjoms Ivlevs highlight a positive association between the number of books in one’s childhood home and adult migration intentions.
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