Research

I study the politics and policies of immigration in Europe and the EU, and the links between trade and immigration policies. I am also interested in narratives around immigration and the discursive construction of “migration” and “mobility”. See also my Google Scholar profile.

Migration Policies in the EU and Europe

Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Paula and Philipp Stutz (2026). “Changing Norms in EU Return Policy? A longitudinal analysis of Commission documents on return.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, online first.

Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Paula, Sandra Lavenex, and Philipp Lutz (2024). “The Limits of EU Market Power in Migration Externalization: Explaining Migration Control Provisions in EU Preferential Trade Agreements.” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 62(5): 1351-1378.

Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Paula (2024). “The Quiet Politics of Migration Supranationalization – Commission Entrepreneurship and the Intra-Corporate Transferee Directive.” Journal of European Integration 46(3): 365–86.

Rausis, Frowin, and Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik (2021). “Contagious Policies? Studying National Responses to a Global Pandemic in Europe.” Swiss Political Science Review 27(2): 283–96.

Work in progress: When Do Crises Enable Reform? EU Energy and Migration Policy After the Invasion of Ukraine (with Jordy Weyns).

Trade Agreements and Migration Governance

Lavenex, Sandra, Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Mariana Alvarado, and Philipp Lutz (2025). “Attracting Migrants through the Backdoor: Business Migration in Switzerland.” Migration Studies 13(3): online first.

Alvarado, Mariana, Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Sandra Lavenex, and Philipp Lutz (2025). “Business migration between labour and trade: evidence from Switzerland.” Comparative Migration Studies (online first).

Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Paula, Sandra Lavenex, and Philipp Lutz (2025). “Migration governance through trade agreements – a two-level analysis.” In Drawing Boundaries and Crossing Borders: Migration in Theorie und Praxis, vol. 7. Jahrbuch Migrationsforschung. Verlag der ÖAW.

Lavenex, Sandra, Philipp Lutz, and Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik (2024). “Migration Governance through Trade Agreements: Insights from the MITA Dataset.” The Review of International Organizations 19: 147–173.

Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Paula, Sandra Lavenex, and Philipp Lutz (2023). “Expanding, Complementing, or Substituting Multilateralism? EU Preferential Trade Agreements in the Migration Regime Complex.” Politics and Governance 11(2): 49–61.

Work in progress: Trading migration? Explaining Mobility Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements (with Philipp Lutz and Sandra Lavenex).

How migration and mobility relate to each other

Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Paula (2024). “Perspectives of Flow and Place: Rethinking Notions of Migration and Mobility in Policy-Making.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50(6): 1299–1316.

What Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility?

Piccoli, Lorenzo, Matteo Gianni, Didier Ruedin, Christin Achermann, Janine Dahinden, Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Mihaela Nedelcu, and Tania Zittoun (2024). “What Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility? A Framework to Understand the Interplay between Different Ideal Types of Human Movement.” Sociology (online first).