NRIs in the City by Aurélie Varrel

“…Here we aim to demonstrate the importance of investigating the financial dimension of transnational flows, which has been largely overlooked by migration studies, as well as the necessity to consider migrants as actors in the ‘worlding’ of cities in the Global South. …”
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Migration and Narrative Ecologies. Public and Media Discourse in the EU by Marco Caracciolo, Carolin Gebauer, Roy Sommer

“…This survey article paves the way for a new exchange between migration studies in the social sciences and narrative research on migration in the humanities by introducing the concept of a narrative ecology of migration. …”
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Les musiciens français en Allemagne du nord (1660-1730) : questions de méthode by Louis Delpech

“…Taking the migration of French musicians in Northern Germany (1660-1730) as a starting point, we will consider the connections between cultural history and migration studies. The first part focusses on the use of scales, a crucial point for a study on the Holy Roman Empire where the political mapping is often very complex. …”
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Book Review - Brigitte Le Normand, Citizens Without Borders: Yugoslavia and Its Migrant Workers in Western Europe Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2021, 286 pp. by Miha Zobec

“…In analyzing states’ responses to human mobilities, migration studies have long focused on the role played by the states that received migrants. …”
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The new migration in the Middle East: A problem for whom? by Choucri, Nazli

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Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and beyond by Hicks, D, Mallet, S

“…LANDE: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we understand ‘crisis’, activism, and the infrastructure of national borders in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, foregrounding the politics of environments, time, and the ongoing legacies of empire. …”

The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations by Allen, WL

“…Then, by locating my analysis within the growing field of digital migration studies, I argue these conventions potentially shape public attitudes and understandings about migrants, and contribute to broader migration politics involving categorization and quantification that have relevance both on- and off-line.…”

Protecting Sensitive Data Early in the Research Data Lifecycle by Sebastian Karcher, Sefa Secen, Nic Weber

“…This article reports the results of a qualitative study with 36 semi-structured interviews with qualitative and multi-method researchers in political science and humanitarian aid/migration studies. We find that researchers frequently feel ill-prepared to handle the management of sensitive data in the field and find that formal institutions provide little support. …”
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Gendered Configurations: Transborder Professional Careers of Migrant Women by Ingrid Jungwirth

“…Focusing on the professional careers of migrant women, the significance within migration studies of labour and migrant women’s chances of employment according to their qualifications is highlighted. …”
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Problematizing Immigration Restrictions during COVID-19 in the Social Studies Classroom by William David McCorkle

“…This article based in the framework of critical border and migration studies provides an overview of the evolution of immigration policies during the crisis and examines how social studies teachers can problematize assumptions of restrictive immigration policies during times of uncertainty and connect the current situation with past times of crisis. …”
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Explorations into Micronesian mobility: Transforming family and home across borders – an introduction by Rebecca Hofmann, Dominik Schieder

“…The special issue starts from the assumption that Oceania remains by and large invisible in the broader context of Mobility and Migration Studies despite observations that rural-urban, interisland and transborder mobility feature prominently in the lives of many Pacific Islanders and that existing transnational social fields take at times global scales beyond the Pacific. …”
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Labour Migrations of Bulgarians from Ukraine to the European Union Today and Tomorrow: Factors and Forecasts by Alexander Ganchev

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Dieci anni di seconde generazioni in Italia by Flavio A. Ceravolo, Stefano Molina

“…It has proved to be a relevant theme both from a scientific and a social point of view, forcing scholars to rethink the interpretative paradigms and the theoretical models conventionally used in migration studies. With this article, we aim to evaluate the present situation in the light of the main questions which enhanced the debate ten years ago: which are the main tendencies of the demographic profile of second generations? …”
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Theory and Politics in Research on Muslim immigrants in Norway by Christine M. Jacobsen

“…The aim of the article is to sketch out some of the underlying premises of these debates in order to throw some light on the conditions of academic knowledge production in the fields of Islam and migration studies in our times.…”
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Coping with Insecurity: Labour Relations, (Im)mobility and Conflict-sensitive Employment in Afghanistan by Elke Grawert

“… Forced migration studies and research related to the “new wars” paradigm have drawn attention to the modes of operation of war economies and the coercive labour relations involved. …”
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De l’immigré à l’émigré ? by Piero-D. Galloro, Tamara Pascutto, Alexia Serré

“…It is precisely because their object of study is at stake that migration studies are confronted by the spatial anchorings (necessarily plural) of the individual trajectories they aim to reconstitute, as well as by the temporal framework within which they occur. …”
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How Have Leukocyte In Vitro Chemotaxis Assays Shaped Our Ideas about Macrophage Migration? by Agata N. Rumianek, David R. Greaves

“…This review aims to critically evaluate transwell assays, and other popular chemotaxis assays, comparing their advantages and limitations in macrophage migration studies.…”
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Migrant families and intergenerational relationships: cultural challenges, renegotiation practices and social change by Marta Scocco

“…A generational approach could therefore be the leitmotiv of innovative debates in the field of contemporary migration studies. Furthermore, introducing generation as a key variable may help to understand migration processes through a broader perspective in this time of multiple crises and transformations. …”
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La fabrique d’une communauté transnationale au prisme des réseaux sociaux by Paul Nicolas, Virginie Baby-Collin

“…In the field of migration studies, social networks represent a keystone in the analysis of transnational dynamics, which are processes bridging spaces of origin and destination over distance and time. …”
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International student mobility : understanding the mobility patterns and adjustment strategies of Indian international students in NTU. by Tang, Kelvin Kok Wei.

“…Migration studies may have been a well discussed and researched topic in the field of Sociology, but studies on international student mobility have been relatively few. …”
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