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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How do pre-migration values shape migrant communities abroad? Studying highly skilled Chinese migrants in Germany, @X. Wu, @B. Bilecen, and @R. Wittek show how power, security, and tradition values can weaken trust, collective support, and community cohesion. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How do precarious Vietnamese migrants use language to contest and reappropriate illegality? In the UK and Germany, @S.Rumsby and @T.Nguyen show how status terms can reproduce stigma or be reappropriated to justify migrants’ position and contest marginalization. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How do Asian migrants understand middle class identity across borders? Studying Chinese and Indian grads in Australia, @S.Ang and @E.Weng show how class is context dependent across borders, while “Asian class as method” decentres Western understandings of class. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who pays the moral price of the “care crisis”? In Switzerland’s Jura Arc, @E. Charmillot and @J. Dahinden show how recruitment is reframed as mobility or integration, while these moral logics legitimize and obscure structural asymmetries in transnational care. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How do borders govern time through practices of remembrance? Drawing on fieldwork in Tunisia, @Corina Tulbure shows how border objects carry memories of missing migrants, while institutionalized practices of “un-knowing” work to dilute them. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How does intermediation shape migrant domestic and care work in Turkey? @U.Sunata, @A.Ceylan, and @I.Uslu frame it as a multi layered infrastructure linking households, platforms, and migrant networks, shaped by welfare regimes, crises, and digitalization. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How do female migrants affect native women’s labour outcomes? Comparing Costa Rica and Chile, @V.Lentini, @D.Moya, and @C.Loschmann find employment gains in Costa Rica and wage gains in Chile, but negative effects mainly when migrants are more skilled. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What shaped diasporic return during COVID 19? Studying Taiwanese Americans returning to Taiwan, @Y. Chien, @J.C. Liu, and @Y.T. Li introduce the “space time health nexus” to show how health risks, mobility opportunities, and geopolitical anxieties shaped return and identity. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What drives public support for border violence? Using a US survey experiment, @B.Sonmez, @V.Donnaloja, and @S.Lo Iacono show that approval rises when migrants cross in large groups, without children, or with weapons, while race, and criminal record do not affect preferences. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How can faith based care both support and restrict migrant agency? Challenging dominant narratives, @R. Udor and @S. Yoon show how undocumented migrants’ dependence on church networks in South Korea can expose them to unaccountable forms of migration governance. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How can Indigenous wisdoms inform decolonial efforts in migration studies? Drawing on South Africa, @M.Ocadiz and @P.K.Mbasalaki showing how these Indigenous wisdoms link knowledge production with relational care while structural inequalities both enable and constrain. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

How do immigration rules shape immigrants’ sense of belonging? Drawing on narratives from Norway, @T.M. Liodden, @H. Eggebø, and @M.S. Leirvik show how regulation can make even “wanted” immigrants feel unwanted, conditionally accepted, and less attached to the state. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

How do governments develop profit around transit migration? Studying Nicaragua, @A.Shalaby and @K.Thaler introduce “transit migration entrepreneurship” to show how governments in illiberal contexts can turn migrants’ onward journeys into a source of state revenue. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How do language and emotion shape marriage migration beyond Global North/South models? Studying Taiwanese women, @T. Huang and @T. Wan show how an “emotional linguistic regime” produces hypergamous positioning, while migrants use linguistic and social resources to resist it. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How do migrant fishers secure livelihoods and exercise agency abroad? Studying Indonesian fishers in Brunei, @M.Knudsen, @M.Arafat, and @A.Abas show how skills and long-standing migration networks provide livelihood security while strengthening fishers’ bargaining power. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

How does war reshape migrants’ experience of time across borders? Drawing on interviews with Ukrainian migrants in Poland, A Matyska shows how the timescales of intimate life and war intersect, synchronize, and diverge, producing varied temporal experiences. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Did assisted emigration help sustain Francoist rule?, @L. Maravall, @C.Meseguer, and @Á.Muñiz show that state-sponsored emigration was shaped less by economic vulnerability than by political considerations, reflecting tensions between labour export and ideological control. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

How do immigration bureaucracies demonstrate accountability beyond formal political oversight? @A.Ellermann and @M.Paquet show how immigration departments direct accountability to different audiences, shaped by institutional design and politicization. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

How do climate-induced displacement and migration unfold in Mongolia? Drawing on interviews, K.Sharapov and colleagues show how environmental degradation, economic fragility, and policy neglect erode livelihoods, challenging distinctions of voluntary/forced migration. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

How do immigrant generation and age at migration shape educational outcomes? Using Finnish register data, Silvia Loi and colleagues show that first-generation migrants, face the greatest challenges, while second-generation youth are more likely to follow the academic track. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

How do intersecting inequalities shape migrant domestic workers’ mental distress? Drawing on interviews, @J. Diab and @R. Al Riachi shows how gender, race, legal status, and crisis conditions within the #Kafala system interact to produce structural vulnerability. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Can noncognitive skills help explain the native–immigrant wage gap? Using German panel data, @M. Fernandes finds that immigrants differ from natives across personality traits, locus of control, and life goals, explaining part of wage gaps alongside human capital. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

How do Chinese migrants navigate belonging across cultures? Drawing on interviews, @A.Ullah and @Q.Guan explore cultural homelessness among the Chinese diaspora, showing how they navigate cultural homelessness between heritage retention, assimilation, and liminal belonging. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

How do immigration threat perceptions relate to policy preferences and political behaviour? @J.Dennison shows that threat perceptions are multidimensional, driven by threat sensitivity and migrant cues, shaping policy preferences and influencing behaviour indirectly. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

How do AVRR programmes reshape expulsion governance? Using critical discourse analysis, @V. Junuzi shows how AVRR reframes expulsion, recasts coercion, centres reintegration, and redefines post-expulsion as a key domain, while remaining embedded in power asymmetries. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

How do states reconcile free movement with national control? Comparing Mercosur, ECOWAS, and the EU, @Z. Perko shows that despite different institutional contexts, states rely on similar mechanisms such as conditionalities, selective incorporation, and ambiguous compliance. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

How do migrants engage politically across borders? Using survey data from Switzerland, @I. Pap, @V. Petrović, and @J. Rössel show that political participation in countries of residence and origin can coexist, but varies depending on political attention and news consumption. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

How do immigrants claim belonging in ethnically defined societies? In Czechia, @R. Klvanova and @I.V. Božič show how Slovak, Vietnamese, and MENA migrants draw on distinct cultural repertoires, producing hierarchies of belonging shaped by mulitple factors. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Do labour market penalties persist across immigrant generations? Using Spanish Labour Force Survey data, @J. Muñoz-Comet and @A. Feixas show that most first-generation penalties fade, pointing to assimilation, while access penalties increase for certain groups. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

What makes a place a transit space in migration journeys?Based on fieldwork in Necoclí, Colombia, @C. Broussy shows how transit is not a fixed category but a lived, socially and affectively produced space, shaped by practices, local actors, and overlapping governance regimes doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What shapes public support for hosting migrants? Based on a survey experiment in Catalonia, @Raül Tormos and Toni Rodon show strong preference for refugees over economic migrants, especially Ukrainians, and a reversal of the NIMBY effect, with greater support for local settlement. lnkd.in/gupKpifi

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

How does cinema shape how we see refugee vulnerability? Examining Turkish films on Syrian refugees, @F. Serdaroğlu shows how cinema makes vulnerability perceptible, unsettles dominant ways of seeing, and opens space for more inclusive visual engagement. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

How do refugees navigate and reshape the EU’s geopolitics of asylum? Drawing on fieldwork in Greece, @G.Mavrommatis shows how refugees enact their geopolitics in practice, exercising freedom as possibility within and against restrictive EU and national regimes. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

How do South Asian parents balance gender equality and safety in student migration? Studying expatriate families in the UAE, @A. M. Paul and @S. A. Parwani show daughters study abroad as often as sons, yet parents still manage risks through gendered choices. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

How does US immigration enforcement treat pregnant migrants? @qabila.bsky.social and @M. Téllez show how detention policies under both parties render them disposable, exposing how profit extraction and racialized control persist even under claims of humanitarian exception. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Why do similar refugee aid deals diverge? Comparing the Jordan and Ethiopia Jobs Compacts, @S.Almasri and @A.A.Nigusie show how contrasting political strategies shaped employment reforms, showing that rapid reforms do not always lead to sustainable refugee self-reliance. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

How does immigration policy intersect with reproductive oppression in the United States? Proud to share our new article exploring the experiences of pregnant people detained, excluded or expelled by US immigration enforcement from 2017-2022. @migrationjrnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/migr...

Screenshot of the abstract of the article, "Una Mujer Embarazada necesita el sol": Pregnant migrant women, carceral capitalism, and immigration enforcement at the US-Mexico border, by Amanda Heffernan and Michelle Téllez, in Migration Studies, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 2026.

Abstract full text: The US immigration detention and deportation system is a vector for state violence against criminalized, racialized populations, in service to racial capitalism. The immigration policies of both Democrats and Republicans are designed to extract profit from migrants, disciplining them as a deportable underclass of workers while minimizing and externalizing the costs of social reproduction. The detention of pregnant women presents the immigration enforcement system with both discursive and material challenges, as detaining pregnant women entails additional potential costs and exposes the system to public critique on humanitarian grounds. Through an analysis of the experiences of detained pregnant women at the US/Mexico border, we argue that federal immigration policy in USA renders pregnant migrant women disposable and expendable, even during administrations that purport to make humanitarian exceptions for them. We describe and analyze processes of profit extraction, externalization of social reproduction, and symbolic exploitation in relation to the detention of pregnant women from the last year of the Obama administration in 2016 through 2022. Our findings demonstrate that recent Democratic and Republican administrations alike mobilize discursive and material practices to neutralize the challenge embodied by pregnant detainees, preserving and protecting an ever-expanding and privatized immigration enforcement system while causing profound harm to pregnant women and their families.

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Do economic conditions shape anti-immigrant attitudes in non-Western contexts? Using survey data from Japan, @M. Aikawa finds that while opposition peaked during economic downturns, macro and individual economic indicators only partly explain shifting attitudes. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

In our latest issue, @J.Diab explores how class shapes displacement in Lebanon after the Israel–Hezbollah escalation. The study shows wealthier families preserved comfort, while poorer households faced overcrowding and deepened precarity revealing a class-contingent process. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

How does urban resilience in refugee governance work under centralised rule? @ricardzapata.bsky.social shows that in Turkey it often stabilises power rather than transforms it by reinforcing loyalty, adaptation, and continuity. A sharp rethink of the “local turn": doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

How does China manage the transition from education to skilled migration? A. Zi Wang shows that while China offers inclusive higher education access, especially for students from the Global South, significant structural barriers hinder their transition into the labour market. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

How do local actors navigate and enforce restrictive migration policies? T. Øland examines Denmark’s integration workers, showing how they function as “fiery soul” bureaucrats who both reinforce state-imposed restrictions and create space for care, order, and ethical agency. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We've expanded our Editorial Team: @aalrababah.bsky.social has joined as a new associate editor! Ala is in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University, focusing on migration and political violence using experiments and computational methods. Welcome to the journal!

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

All topics welcome! Each SI will bring together up to 15 articles, with an introduction that frames key themes, debates, and contributions to migration studies. We particularly encourage initiatives led by or including scholars from the Global South, Global East, and non-anglophone regions.

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Our call for Special Issues is now live! We welcome collections that advance theoretical debates, offer comparative insight, and push methodological boundaries. Deadline: 15 December 2025. Questions: get in touch with @mkoinova.bsky.social. Details: academic.oup.com/migration/pa...

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2025 Call for Special Issue Proposals

Deadline: 15 December 2025 Migration Studies is now accepting Special Issue proposals. The journal typically publishes one call for special issues pe

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