Publications

Erlinghagen, M., & Mansfeld, L. (2026). MoCaF factsheet No. I: Sample composition. MoCaF Factsheets. https://doi.org/10.17185/DUEPUBLICO/86310

Mense-Petermann, U., Shire, K., Erlinghagen, M., et al. (2026). Cross-border labour markets: Transnational market makers, infrastructures, institutions. A research agenda, RTG 2951 Working Papers: 1, Bielefeld: Research Training Group 2951 “Cross-Border Labour Markets: Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions” (Universität Bielefeld / Universität Duisburg-Essen), 1–43. https://doi.org/10.4119/UNIBI/3014471

Sandhya, A. S.  (2026). Space matters: Marketplace and interactional order in the Nepalese “manpower bazaar.” Economic Anthropology, 13(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.70013

Sandhya, A. S. (2026). Agents of migration: Institutional embeddedness of labour brokerage in Nepal. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-8735-3

Sandhya, A. S. (2026). Beyond binaries: A reflective approach to status-contract distinction in the study of cross-border labour markets, RTG 2951 Working Papers: 2, Bielefeld: Research Training Group 2951 “Cross-Border Labour Markets: Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions” (Universität Bielefeld / Universität Duisburg-Essen), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.4119/UNIBI/3013307

Weiß, A. (2026). Dezentrierung der Gesellschaftstheorie. Differenzierungstheorien in transnationaler Perspektive. In H. Schwiertz & S. Karakayalı (Eds.), Gesellschaft der Migration: Zur sozialtheoretischen Revision einer kontroversen Wissenspraxis (1st ed., pp. 69–92). Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839471890-069

Bredtmann, J., & Otten, S. (2025). Natives’ gender norms and the labor market integration of female immigrants. World Development, 185, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106794

Décieux, J. P., & Erlinghagen, M. (2025). Innovations in migration research to overcome current data deficits. International Migration Review, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251384595

Dustmann, C., Otten, S., Schönberg, U., & Stuhler, J. (2025). The effects of immigration on places and people. Identification and interpretation. Journal of Labor Economics, 1–52. https://doi.org/10.1086/739196

Erlinghagen, M., & Mansfeld, L. (2025). Aus- und Rückwanderung deutscher Arbeitskräfte. WSI-Mitteilungen, 78(4), 304–311. https://doi.org/10.5771/0342-300X-2025-4-304

Mansfeld, L. (2025). Assessing the family–migration nexus: A theoretical framework for studying the consequences of migration. In S. L. Blair & J. Obradović (Eds.), Families and migration: Examining the human meaning of migration (pp. 27–64). Leeds, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1530-353520250000033002

Mao, J., Nguyen, M., & Wilcox, P. (2025). Rural futures in late socialist Asia. Journal of Political Sociology, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.54195/jps.18021

Nguyen, M., & Endres, K. (2025). Deciphering Vietnamese translocal lifeworlds (book introduction). In Reconfiguring Vietnam: Global encounters, translocal lifeworlds (pp. 1–26). New Haven: Yale Southeast Asia Studies. https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2986814

Nguyen, M., & Endres, K. (Eds.). (2025). Reconfiguring Vietnam: Global encounters, translocal lifeworlds. New Haven: Yale Southeast Asia Studies. 

Nguyen, M., & Nguyen, T. A. (2025). Translocality, labor mobility and commodity production in northern Vietnamese rural livelihoods. In Reconfiguring Vietnam: Global encounters, translocal lifeworlds (pp. 101–118). New Haven: Yale Southeast Asia Studies. https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2986813

Nguyen, M., Vo, L. T. C., & Wei, L. (2025). The politics of modernization: Shifting construction of the peasant, mobility trajectories and rural revitalisation in post-reform China and Vietnam. Journal of Political Sociology, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.54195/jps.15615

Sandhya, A. S. (2025). “Managing” welfare: Labour migration and the social question in Nepal. Studies in Nepali History and Society, 30(1), 137–167.

Erlinghagen, M. (2024). Decision-making in repeatedly migrating couples: Role conformism, power shift, or package deal? In M. Erlinghagen & K. Hank (Eds.), Transnational family relations of German emigrants (pp. 101–130). Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44543-0_5

Erlinghagen, M. (2024). Ethnic origin and the emigration of German nationals: An explorative study of return and onward migration. In M. Erlinghagen & K. Hank (Eds.), Transnational family relations of German emigrants (pp. 19–34). Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44543-0_2

Erlinghagen, M., & Hank, K. (2024). Heterogeneities and dynamics in couples’ relationship satisfaction after migration: A study of recent German emigrants and remigrants. In M. Erlinghagen & K. Hank (Eds.), Transnational family relations of German emigrants (pp. 155–173). Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44543-0_7

Erlinghagen, M., & Hank, K. (2024). Studying the family-migration-nexus: State of research, knowledge gaps, and empirical perspectives. In M. Erlinghagen & K. Hank (Eds.), Transnational family relations of German emigrants (pp. 1–17). Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44543-0_1

Erlinghagen, M., & Hank, K. (2024). Transnational intergenerational relationships of German emigrants: Frequency of contacts and financial transfers. In M. Erlinghagen & K. Hank (Eds.), Transnational family relations of German emigrants (pp. 35–57). Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44543-0_3

Erlinghagen, M., & Hank, K. (Eds.). (2024). Transnational family relations of German emigrants. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44543-0

Erlinghagen, M., & Schneider, N. F. (2024). Migration and living arrangements of couples: Moving together or multilocal living? In M. Erlinghagen & K. Hank (Eds.), Transnational family relations of German emigrants (pp. 131–153). Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44543-0_6

Nguyen, M., & Lin, J. (2024). Rural–urban migration, the commodification of labour and welfare restructuring in China and Vietnam. In R. Delgado Wise, B. Likic-Brboric, R. Munck, & C.-U. Schierup (Eds.), Handbook on migration and development (pp. 267–280). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907131.00026

Nguyen, M., & Lin, J., Arnold, D. (2024). Welfare in crisis: Labor and social protection in the Global South. Journal of Labor and Society, 27(3), 297–317. https://doi.org/10.1163/24714607-bja10128

Nguyen, M., & Luong, N. (2024). Factory worker welfare and the commodification of labour in market socialist Vietnam: Debates on overtime work in the revised labour code. Global Social Policy, 24(2), 185–202. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181231220530

Nguyen, M., & Wei, L. (2024). Peasant traders, migrant workers and “supermarkets”: Low‐cost provisions and the reproduction of migrant labor in China. Economic Anthropology, 11(1), 38–48. https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12292

Nguyen, M., Luong, N., Tian, Y., & Lin, J. (2024). The privilege of being exploited? Overtime work in global factories of market socialist China and Vietnam. Global Political Economy, 4(2), 120–141. https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2024D000000027

Nguyen, M., Rydstrom, H., & Mao, J. (2024). Reconfiguring labour and welfare in the Global South: How the social question is framed as market participation. Global Social Policy, 24(2), 149–165. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181241246767

Nguyen, M., Rydstrom, H., & Mao, J. (2024). Special issue introduction “Reconfiguring labour and welfare in the Global South: How the social question is framed as market participation.” Global Social Policy, 24(2), 149–165. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181241246767

Nguyen, M., Wilcox, P., & Lin, J. (2024). The good life in late socialist Asia: Aspirations, politics and possibilities. Positions: Asia Critique, 32(1), 1–178.

Scheele, A., Bauhardt, C., Baumgardt, I., Guhlemann, K., Häußler, A., … Liebermann, S. (2024). Forschungsforum «begriffserklärungen in wissenschaft und bildung: Arbeit». Itdb Inter- Und Transdisziplinäre Bildung, 1(1), 25–161. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13943664

Shire, K., & Walby, S.  (2024). Trafficking chains: Modern slavery in society (1st ed.). Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31324042