International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1755-2419 / 1755-2427 |
| Wikidata | Q27725951 |
| OpenAlex | S4210227928 |
| MAG | 4210227928 |
| Website | http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmbs |
| Total publications | 96 |
| Coverage period | 2014 - 2026 |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 7 |
| Impact factor | 0.537 |
| h-index | 1 |
The International Journal of Migration and Border Studies directly addresses migration, diaspora, refugee, and border studies, which is explicitly listed as a cognate area. It provides a regular and structural intersection with social anthropology
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Canadian Policy and Governance · China's Global Influence and Migration · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Employment and Welfare Studies · European and International Law Studies · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · European Union Policy and Governance
Reconciling the tensions of the European deportation regime
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Freedom of movement, sovereignty, and the Third World in postwar international law (1948-1968)
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Struggles and resilience
Between rights and sovereignty
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Dis/misinformation, irregular migration and the impact of awareness-raising campaigns
Dis/misinformation, irregular migration and the impact of awareness-raising campaigns
Advancing a family perspective in the temporal governance of migration
Advancing a family perspective in the temporal governance of migration
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Between rights and sovereignty
Struggles and resilience
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The border is always changing
The border is always changing
Migrant serving organisations (MSOs) play a crucial role in maintaining migrants' well-being but little is known about how those working on the US-Mexico border cope in this volatile setting and manage crises. Our mixed-methods study examined MSO resilience to recent crises such as COVID-19 and changing asylum policies. We recruited MSOs for an online survey (n = 40) and in-depth interviews (n = 15), thematically analysed interview transcripts, a…
State sovereignty or international rule of law
The claim to an entitlement to control the entry of persons into a state is based on the principle of state sovereignty, much cherished by many governments. Yet, the creation of border control free zones in regional frameworks raise profound questions about the necessity of these border controls and constitute a real-life challenge to governments to justify the grounds for them. The exercise of this claim to state sovereignty in the European cont…
Border trouble
The Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) has been subject to two different legal challenges before three different Canadian courts and considered in five different judicial decisions. This notwithstanding, the litigation surrounding its legal validity is not yet conclusively determined. This article analyses all five STCA decisions to develop a critical reading of the leading decision as issued by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2023. It …
Silence and intersectional resistance
Every year since 2007, Moroccan temporary migrant women, known as the 'strawberry ladies' (Arab, 2018), have travelled to the province of Huelva, Spain to work as strawberry pickers. Morocco and Spain have signed an agreement allowing Spain to recruit Moroccan women each year, in order to meet a need for labour in the agricultural sector of southern Spain. This arrangement also ensures the transfer of foreign currency remittances back to Morocco …
The role of stability in the reception of refugees in Zambia
Despite the utility of securitisation theory in developing understandings of state behaviour towards refugee movement, a small body of work has questioned some of the broader assumptions that underpin it. This paper builds on these critiques, by interrogating the assumption that states frame all movement of refugees (cross-border and within the territory of the host state) as entirely negative. Using the case study of Zambia, the paper shows how …
Bordering through legal non-existence
This article applies a feminist bordering lens to examine the legal and administrative procedures through which an estimated 1.9 million residents of India's northeastern state of Assam have been excluded from the 2019 National Registry of Citizens (NRC). Since India's independence from Great Brittan, the colonial legacy of borders and national belonging have fuelled heated conflicts among the Assamese ethnic majority, Bengali-speaking Hindus and…
Access to higher education for migration-impacted students in the USA, Canada and Mexico
Fixed or fluid Shifting federal policy controls and indigenous responses at the Canada-USA border
Twenty-first century restrictions at the Canada-USA seek to reassert control over indigenous movements in line with wider immigrations policies. In many ways the forms of direct and indirect control which are asserted over indigenous peoples at the border are a reflection of 19th century policies of direct and indirect control asserted before border control became formally implemented in the 1920s. Some forms of control stem from stricter enforce…
Governmental practices of regularisation
Border mobility, state power, and war
Since the armed conflict in Syria, the Turkish state has reinforced its authority over the mobility of people with the goal of conditioning and benefiting from cross-border mobility. Depending on the transnational dynamics and the political economy of the war, the Turkish state has adopted different strategies, technologies, and protocols to govern cross-border movements. These processes have generated performative encounters and fluid relations …
Narratives from non-citizen former youth in child welfare care fighting crimmigration and deportation
The role of stability in the reception of refugees in Zambia
The sanctuary spectrum
The sanctuary spectrum
In this article we utilise an abolitionist lens to interrogate initiatives delivered under the auspices of 'sanctuary' within the higher education (HE) sector in order to (re)imagine it in this space. 'Sanctuary' is broadly understood to mean safety and protection - underpinned by the need to resist immigration control and create spaces of refuge for precarious migrants. The 'sanctuary spectrum' is a medium through which we explore conceptual thi…
Civilising Kakuma
Somalis refugees arriving in the late 1990s in Kakuma, a then mostly Sudanese camp, discovered a hostile and insecure environment. At that time they did not necessarily feel part of a united community. Although they spoke the same language and shared a common nationality, they came from different places and were members of diverse families and clans. Their narratives of arrival show how they faced isolation and adversity together, established suc…
Luxury limbo
In this article, we examine temporal techniques of border control including prolonged periods of waiting, stasis and indeterminacy that increasingly characterise the experience of refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants. We argue that these temporal techniques are enhanced and legitimised by parallel efforts to improve accommodation for irregular migrants -a process we call the humanitarianisation of waiting. We focus on the Indones…
Plastic' border
While strengthening territorial discontinuity and crafting the image of Fortress Europe, the consolidation of the barrier function of Ceuta’s border conceals or blurs local dynamics and policing practices. A simplistic account of local dynamics would thus state that, despite the ostensible hyper-activation of the barrier function of the border, the borderline is both open and closed, hard and soft. Classical dichotomies are clearly rendered too c…
Plastic' border
While strengthening territorial discontinuity and crafting the image of Fortress Europe, the consolidation of the barrier function of Ceuta’s border conceals or blurs local dynamics and policing practices. A simplistic account of local dynamics would thus state that, despite the ostensible hyper-activation of the barrier function of the border, the borderline is both open and closed, hard and soft. Classical dichotomies are clearly rendered too c…
Civilising Kakuma
Somalis refugees arriving in the late 1990s in Kakuma, a then mostly Sudanese camp, discovered a hostile and insecure environment. At that time they did not necessarily feel part of a united community. Although they spoke the same language and shared a common nationality, they came from different places and were members of diverse families and clans. Their narratives of arrival show how they faced isolation and adversity together, established suc…
Smart(phone) travelling
This article analyses how mobile technology impacts on irregular migrants' journeys. It is based on trajectory ethnography with 11 Afghan, Iranian and Syrian migrants whom the first author met in Turkey and Greece in the spring of 2015. These migrants were followed (partly digitally) to Serbia, Hungary, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. We argue that the method of trajectory ethnography is a useful tool that allows us to understand how mobile …
Luxury limbo
In this article, we examine temporal techniques of border control including prolonged periods of waiting, stasis and indeterminacy that increasingly characterise the experience of refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants. We argue that these temporal techniques are enhanced and legitimised by parallel efforts to improve accommodation for irregular migrants - a process we call the humanitarianisation of waiting. We focus on the Indone…
Luxury limbo
In this article, we examine temporal techniques of border control including prolonged periods of waiting, stasis and indeterminacy that increasingly characterise the experience of refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants. We argue that these temporal techniques are enhanced and legitimised by parallel efforts to improve accommodation for irregular migrants -a process we call the humanitarianisation of waiting. We focus on the Indones…
Access without fear in a borderland
This study analyses interviews with frontline service workers employed in agencies in Windsor, Ontario, Canada who work with persons without immigration status. Through these interviews, frontline service workers provided insights into their work with persons without status, including the significant barriers to effective service provision requiring 'covert practices' as part of their work. The interview subjects ultimately conclude that an acces…
The crafting of a paradox
There is now a large literature discussing ‘Fortress Europe’ and the character\nof the Schengen area, especially how it has established freedom of\nmovement inside at the expense of easy access from the outside. This article\nchallenges this metaphor by going back to the early negotiations around\nSchengen and shedding light on some of the concerns raised at the time\nregarding ‘compensatory measures’, the un/desirable and technological\nsolution…
The socio-genesis of a guild of 'digital technologies' justifying transnational interoperable databases in the name of security and border purposes
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Rescuing, kidnapping, and criminalising. Migration containment in the Mediterranean
This work investigates the government of migration from the angle of containment arguing that borderwork increasingly focuses on smuggling activities to achieve migration containment goals. The paper looks at three recent evolutions in the politics of containment in the central Mediterranean, and particularly in the corridor connecting Libya and Italy. First, we look at the practice of blocking migrants at sea upon rescue, what we call the politi…
Engaging migrant careworkers
The civil paradox
The interoperability controversy or how to fail successfully
This article aims to discuss the interoperability controversy in the EU that followed the 2015 Paris attacks. Supported by visual methods, it analyses the historical developments of the databases that aim at facilitating migration and crime control in the Area of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA). In so doing, it seeks to trace the paradox on freedom, technology, and surveillance since the Schengen area was established in the 90s, whereby the discou…
Freedom, technology and surveillance
The gender dimension of return for highly-skilled migrants
Although dynamics of return migration are highly gendered, gender remains as a relatively less studied dimension of return migration. Especially with regard to highly-skilled migrants, we know very little about what role gender plays in the decision-making processes related to their migration and return migration and experiences after return. This paper depends on 80 in-depth interviews with Turkish highly-skilled migrants who returned from Germa…
The power elite of security research in Europe
Understanding the complexity of migrant smuggling
Migrant smuggling has been conceptualised in many different ways and from many different perspectives. Over the last 15 years, the rise of more critical studies, which challenged a dominant security-oriented and policy-driven framework, has been extremely important, and it contributed to generating new understandings of the phenomenon. Acknowledging the validity of these multiple approaches and the need for common analytical grounds, I try to off…
Factors of migration of Ecowas citizens into Nigeria
Due to several factors, migrants from other countries in ECOWAS region continue to move to Nigeria, with and without the prerequisite documents. This paper investigated migration of ECOWAS citizens into Nigeria in order to discuss its underlying factors. Data were obtained using questionnaire survey administered on 462 ECOWAS migrants based on chain referral approach. Interviews were conducted. Descriptive statistics and principal component analy…
Political meanings of national belonging
Recent years have been marked by the rise of populist anti-immigrant movements throughout the world. Poland has become one of the most notorious anti-immigration states in the European Union, with its current government continuously calling for stricter border controls and systematically embracing a hard-line nationalist discourse. The concept of 'Polishness', or Polish national identity, is frequently used to legitimise political decision-making…
Securitisation of female asylum seekers and healthcare in detention centres in Texas
The securitisation of female asylum seekers by the US Government violates the health rights of women during their stay in family detention centres. The study's methodology relies on semi-structured interviews with directors of shelters for asylum seekers, an immigration judge, migrant rights advocates, a border patrol agent, and immigration attorneys who have represented female asylum seekers with diverse medical conditions at detention centres i…
Perception of the periphery by its residents of different cultural backgrounds in Israel
We studied perception of place in the northeastern Israeli periphery among residents from five culturally and economically distinguished locations. The attitudes towards place are structured and measured in categories of place dependence and place attachment, and as comparisons of the respondents' region of residence with the centre of Israel. The results show that 'personal factor' as a factor of place attachment has more impact on those who wer…
The economic consequences of internal displacement in Zimbabwe
Internal displacement occupies a central place among mass population displacements especially in Africa where IDPs have outnumbered refugees. This has become known as Africa's new dilemma. Despite increasing trends in the number of IDPs, few studies have been done in Africa, especially focusing on economic consequences of internal displacements associated with mining. With this in mind, the study sought to determine the economic consequences of m…
Comparative international law
This article demonstrates what comparative international law (CIL) can contribute to the field of international migration law (IML).It is not an exhaustive overview of the value of a CIL approach; rather, through indicating some of the possibilities of CIL, it provokes thought as to how CIL could enhance IML enquiry.Before turning to the migration context, the key tenets of CIL are outlined.Then, I argue, using examples drawn from my ongoing rese…
Legal transfers of migration law
'Because she was born here'
Canada is one of the few nations which grant citizenship to anyone born within its borders, a policy known as birthright citizenship. This policy creates the possibility that migrant workers with precarious residency status can be parents of children who hold claim to Canadian citizenship. This article examines the effect that citizen children have on the lived experiences of migrant workers by comparing two groups of migrant workers with precari…
State-NGO relations in the Mediterranean search and rescue operations
Since 2014, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been involved in migrant search and rescue (SAR) operations in the Mediterranean Sea. However, their efforts have not always been welcomed by the European Union (EU) and its member states, several of which have implemented regulations to interrupt such operations. Using a classification category developed in the literature, the present article explores the evolvement of the SAR NGO-state rela…