New Publications

Recently, scholars have been combining mobility and migration studies but what are the implications and what’s to be gained? Here is a brief commentary setting a research agenda: 

Mazzucato, V., Schapendonk, J. Migration through a mobilities lens: considerations for a future research agenda. Comparative Migration Studies 13, 42 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00463-x 

Here we go again.

This paper discusses the tools used to collect quantitative data related to irregular migration stocks and flows of the Measuring Irregular Migration and Related Policies (MIrreM) project.

This article deviates from prior research which considers only national-level and formal taxes when examining tax attitudes and behaviours in migrant-sending countries.

In this new ITEM Brief, Pim Mertens and Martin Unfried discuss 40 years of Schengen in times of internal border controls, reflecting on the normalisation of border controls as instrument for migration.

Ana Isabel López García, an assistant professor of global migration at Maastricht University, and Vanessa van den Boogaard, a research lead at the International Centre for Tax and Development and a senior research associate at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto present an analysis of the remittance tax proposed by Trump. 

This study investigates the under-explored domains of intra-African return and reintegration of female returnees.

European states fund Migration Information Campaigns (MICs) to curb irregular migration from West Africa. MICs mobilise emotions to influence decision-making and govern people’s mobility.

In Germany, newcomer students are usually directed toward lower-track schools due to perceived language deficiencies, commonly attending preparatory classes primarily offered in such schools. 

This paper explores the intersection of two themes in recent research on transnational youth mobility.