Book publication :
• Alpes, M. J., (2017), Brokering High-Risk Migration in West Africa : Abroad at all cost. Ashgate. Cited 27.

Under preparation :
• Alpes, M.J., and Altaema, M., (under peer review), “Emotional justice and positionality : The case of return aspirations amid Syria’sregime change.”
• Alpes, M.J., Shukair, B., Altaema, M.,“ (under peer review), “Refugees as researchers of their own lives : Exploring coerced returns with Syrian accents amid regime change.”
• Alpes, M.J., with Majidi, N. and Kurt, M., (under peer review) “Who gets to be legitimate in fragmented states ? Population transfers in Syria and Afghanistan amid regime change,” accepted for a Special Issue in the Journal of Refugee Studies on Mobility Control and State (Re-)Making in Conflict Settings, eds. Müller-Funk, L., and Fröhlich, C.
• Alpes, M.J., Tunaboylu, S., Lindberg, A., Kheshen, N., (under peer review), “Accessing facets of state power : Relational knowledge production for the case of deportation regimes”, under preparation for a Special Issue on Ethnographic Team Research, edited by Jan Beek, Lisa Marie Borrelli and Julia Verne.

Selected peer-reviewed journal articles (16) :
• Alpes, M.J., (2025) “Smuggling critique into impact : Research design principles for critical and actionable research”, Migration Politics.
• Baranowska, G., Alpes, M.J. and Kienzle, I., (2025), “Making pushback facts visible : A review of tools in existing case law and procedural frameworks of the European Court of Human Rights”, International Journal of Human Rights.
• Davids, T., van Houte, M., Alpes, M.J., (2025), “Mixing creative and qualitative methods : An appreciative inquiry into improving engaged research, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
• Diab, J., Alpes, M.J., Carpi, E. (2025). “When Is Home ? Temporality, Closure, and the Continuum of Return After Assad. Challenging the Idea of Return as the Endpoint”, Current Issues in Migration Research.
• Diab, J., and Alpes, M.J., (2024), « We don’t live in the future. We live in the now.” On (UN)realistically Partnering with and for Refugees in Lebanon », DiGEST.
• Alpes, M.J., Baranowska, G., (2024), “The politics of legal facts : The erasure of pushback evidence from the European Court of Human Rights”, Law and Social Inquiry.
• Alpes, M.J., and Sylla, A., (2024), « La prévention de l’émigration par des retours : Les « retournés » de la Libye dans leurs condition citoyenne au Nigéria et au Mali », Cahiers d’études africaines.
• Alpes, M.J., et al, (2023), “Who owns the future of Syrians : Intimate family explorations of durable solutions”, Special Issue on Durable Solutions, Journal of Refugee Studies.
• Alpes, M.J., and Akesson, L., (2018), “What is a legitimate migration manager ? Juxtaposing migration brokers with the EU.”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45 (14), pp. 2689-2705. 2018 Impact Factor 2,297.
• Alpes, M. J., (2017), “Papers that work : Migration brokers and questions of illegality in Anglophone Cameroon”, POLAR 40 (2) : 262-277. Impact Factor 1,08. Cited 14.
• Alpes, M.J., (2017), “Why aspiring migrants trust migration brokers : The moral economy of departure in Anglophone Cameroon”, Africa (87 (2) : 304- 321. 2018 Impact Factor 0,881. Cited 36.
• Alpes, M.J., (2017), “Les dynamiques sociologiques entre contrôle des migrations et protection sociale : femmes migrantes sans papiers en quête d’hébergement à Paris”, Revue Européennes des Migrations Internationales, 33 (4).
• Alpes, M. J., (2015), “Social Protection and Migration Control : The case of migrant care workers and Parisian welfare hotels”, Transnational Social Review 5 (3) : 296- 311. Impact Factor 2018 0,44. Cited 9.
• Alpes, M. J., (2015), “Airport casualties : Non- admission return risks at times of externalised and internalised migration control”, Social Sciences. 4(3) : 742- 757. Impact Factor 2017 1,1. Cited 18.
• Alpes, M.J., and Spire, A., (2014), “Dealing with Law in migration control : The Powers of Street-level bureaucrats at French Consulates”, Social and Legal Studies 23 (2) : 261- 274. Impact Factor 1,119. Cited 122.
• Alpes, M. J. (2014), “Imagining a future in bush : migration aspirations at times of crisis in Anglophone Cameroon”, Identities 21 (3) : 259- 274. 2018 Impact Factor 1,037. Cited 45.
• Alpes, M. J., (2013), “Payer pour émigrer : des intermédiaires de la migration au Cameroun”, Autrepart 3 (66) : 83- 97.
• Alpes, M. J. (2012), “Bush at all cost : the knowledge economy of emigration in Anglophone Cameroon”, African Diaspora 5 (1) : 90- 115. 2017 Impact Factor 0,228. Cited 65.
• Alpes, M. J., (2007), “The Congress and the INA Trials, 1945- 50 : a Contest over the Perception of ‘Nationalist’ Politics”, Studies in History, 23 (1) : 135- 158. 2016 Impact Factor 0,11.

Selected chapters in edited volumes :
• Alpes, M.J., (2023), « Postface. Les chercheur.es aux frontières du droit et du pouvoir », Lendaro, A., (ed.), Gouverner les Exilés aux frontières : Pouvoir discrétionnaire et résistances, Editions du Croquant.
• Alpes, M. J., (2023), “Return after interrupted migration cycles”, Jacobsen, K., and Majidi, N., Handbook on Forced Migration, Elgar.
• Van Walsum, S., and Alpes, M. J., (2014), “Transnational Households : Migrants and Care, at Home and Abroad” in Anderson, B., and Shutes, I., (eds.), Migration and Care Labour : Theory, Policy and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan.

Selected written contributions to societal debates :
• Baranowska, G., and Alpes, M.J., (2024),“Official recognition of unofficial practices in M.A. and Z.R. v Cyprus : Examining the politics of legal facts for pushback cases at the ECtHR,” RLI Blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration.
• Alpes, M.J., and Baranowska, G., (2024), "What’s beneath the iceberg in M.A. and Z.R. vs Cyprus ? The erasure of pushback evidence at border,” Border Criminologies.
• Fehr, I., and Alpes, M.J, (2023), “Pushing states to evidence pushbacks : Lessons from MH vs Croatia for intersecting domestic criminal law and international human rights,” DISSECT Blog Post, Ghent University.
• Baranowska, G., Alpes, M.J., De Coninck, J., and Barakou, S., (2023), Submission by the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, Berlin, and Human Rights Centre of the University of Ghent pursuant to Rule 9.2 of the Committee of Ministers’ Rules for the Supervision of the Execution of Judgments, on the implementation of M.K and other v. Poland (Application No 40503/17, 42902/17, 43643/17).
• Alpes, M.J., (2021), Pushbacks and expulsions from Cyprus and Lebanon : The risks of (chain) refoulement to Syria, chapter 6, in Return Mania : Mapping policies and practices in the EuroMed region, EuroMed Rights.
• Alpes, M.J., (2020), Emergency returns from Libya and Niger : A protection response or a source of protection concerns ?, Brot für die Welt/ Medico.
• Alpes, M.J., Majcher, I., (2020), Who can and cannot be sustainably reintegrated after return ? Using post-return monitoring for protection and human right guarantees, UNU-CRIS Policy Brief Series.
• Alpes, M.J., (May 2019), “After Deportation, Some Congolese Returnees Face Detention and Extortion”, Source, Migration Policy Institute.
• Alpes, M.J., Tunaboylu, S., van Liempt, I., (2017), “Human right violations by design : EU-Turkey Statement prioritizes returns from Greece over access to asylum”, EUI Policy Brief (29).
• Alpes, M.J., Tunaboylu, S., Ulusoy, O., Hassan, S., (2017), “Post-deportation risks under the EU-Turkey Statement : What happens after readmission to Turkey ?”, EUI Policy Brief (30).
• Alpes, M.J., and Nyborg Sorensen, N., (2016), “Post-deportation risks”, DIIS Policy Brief.
• Alpes, M. J., and Nyborg Sorensen, N., (2015) “Migration risk campaigns are based on wrong assumptions”, DIIS Policy Brief.