New Publications

Abstract: The correlation between rising asylum immigration and the electoral success of far-right anti-immigration parties has sparked concerns about a potential “Democratic Dilemma” – namely, a trade-off between a country’s openness to immigrants and the preservation of democratic institutional quality.

This collective volume, co-edited by Prof. Lilian Tsourdi together with Dr. Niovi Vavoula and Prof. Valsamis Mitsilegas, offers a contemporary understanding of the state of the art of ‘crimmigration’ with a focus on the European Union and challenges this paradigm of intersecting criminal justice and immigration control.

In this anniversary issue we reflect on the past of the journal Comparative Migration Studies in order to better understand the journal’s present and to shape the future of the journal.

Empty, unfinished, or ‘ghost’ houses are common sights around the world, where aspirational investment in housing outpaces the potential to physically occupy it.

Commissioned by the Council of Europe (Division on Migration and Refugees), Prof. Lilian Tsourdi and Dr. Catherine Warin (University of Lille) co-authored a mapping study on identifying and effectively responding to needs linked with vulnerability in the context of asylum and migration.

This Handbook provides key information about the design, implementation and analysis of the Link4Skills Migrant Survey.

The core of the European Union is its internal market, built on the open borders and the free movement of people: the area of Schengen. In 2025, Schengen has existed for 40 years.

In the history of urban planning in Rabat, Morocco, the force most often referred to is the French Protectorate period, effectively driven by a single person: Hubert Lyautey.

At a long overdue lunch the other day, my friend Gili and I got to talking about coding and analysis. We are both on the same page: frustrated with the lack of guidance, in textbooks and the like, for how qualitative analysis actually works. 

We would like to inform you that the two 2025 issues of the Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung / Journal of Migration Studies (ZMF) were published at the end of 2025. Vol 2025 (1) is a special issue dealing with Jochen Oltmer’s concept of Negotiating Migration (an introduction, one essay and five discussion papers):