New Publications

Hillenbrand, T., Martorano, B., & Siegel, M. (2025). Not as innocent as it seems? The effects of “neutral” messaging on refugee attitudes (UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series #2025-011). UNU-MERIT. Retrieved from https://unu-merit.nl/publications/abstract.php?id=9918 

Merve Nezihe Özer and Andries de Grip (2025). Job preferences of international Science & Engineering students: A discrete-choice experiment. International Journal of Manpower. Available on Emerald Insight at: Job preferences of international science and engineering students: a discrete-choice experiment | Emerald Insight 

Mazzucato, V. (2025) Teamwork as the key to mixing methods: lessons from multi-sited research designs, in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2025.2487746 

Drawing on 40 interviews, this article advances understanding of how Filipino undocumented migrant domestic workers (UMDWs) in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Netherlands navigated the pandemic by undertaking a comparative analysis of their resilience strategies

This report maps the variety of ways in which states regulate citizenship. It identifies the obstacles that individuals face in being recognised as citizens that arise from different and uncoordinated approaches of states around the world: 

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.