OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Migration Review is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: On Transits and Transitions	151
The Impacts of Syrian Refugees on Natives’ Health Outcomes	50
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnic Trust Network and Expanded Social Engagement Among North Korean Refugees in London	38
Book Review: In Search of Home Camaj R. Klement. (2025). The Migration of Albanians from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States: In Search of Home. Oxford: Routledge. 173. $108.00.	35
Global Evidence on the Relative Importance of Nonfinancial Drivers of International Migration Intentions	30
Book Review: An Address in Paris Mbodj-PouyeAïssatou. 2023. An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants. New York: Columbia University Press. $35.	28
Regulating the Undesirable: Statusless Women in Israel	27
Canadian and Australian Immigration Policy Trends: An Institutional Isomorphic Comparative Historical Analysis	26
Resilient Remittances? Examining Immigrant Remittances from the United States to Latin America During Covid-19	22
Focus-Group Workshops as a Reciprocal Method of Research and Support: The Case of Volunteers Assisting Ukrainian Displaced Migrants	21
Why do Citizens Criminalize Migrants? Experimental Evidence from a Multi-Role Country, Mexico	21
How Much Does Migration Affect Labor Supply in Europe? Methodological Insights and Contemporary Evidence from the European Union and Selected European Countries	20
Digital Nomadism and the Emergence of Digital Nomad Visas: What Policy Objectives Do States Aim to Achieve?	20
Age at Migration and the Political Integration of Immigrants — Evidence From a Sibling Analysis	19
Partner Choice and Economic Outcomes among the Children of Immigrants	18
Dreaming of a Remittance House: Understanding Transnational Housing Aspirations	18
Isolated from Home, Trapped by Remittances: How Isolation Leads to Affective and Moral Pressures on North Korean Remittances	17
Countering Brain Drain through Circulation and Linkage: Illustrations and Lessons from China and India	17
Trust in Transit: External Migration Control and Migrants’ Perceptions of Humanitarian Borderwork in the Sahel	16
Book Review: The Opportunity Trap	16
Web Scraping for Migration, Mobility, and Migrant Integration Studies: Introduction, Application, and Potential Use Cases	14
Subjectivity in Welfare Mobilities: Rethinking Welfare as a Structure, a Process, and an Experience	14
Book Review: Everyday Futures Canizales, Stephanie L. and O'Connor, Brendan H.2025. Everyday Futures: Language as Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 240 pp	14
Immigration and New Firm Formation – Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Germany	14
Book Review: The EU Migrant Generation in Asia Hof, Helena. 2022. The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 264 pages. GBP	14

The Inflow of Refugees and Educational Attainment of U.S. Natives: Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift	13
Public Support for Migrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of North Koreans in the Republic of Korea	13
Travel Bloggers as ‘Digital Nomads’–How Can Understanding This Lifestyle Migration Help us to Think About the Future of Work, Migration and Technology?	13
The Evolution of the Returns to Schooling for Refugees and Other Immigrants in the United States	13
Book Review: Homesick WaltonEmily. 2026. Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 153 pages. $26.00.	13
Then and Now: Romanian Returnees Contemplating Future Migration	13
Climate Change, Violence, and Remittance Flows in Mexico	12
Does City Size Affect International Migrants and Native-Born Workers Differently? Exploring Inequalities in Unemployment and Occupations Across Spanish Cities	12
Book Review: The Shape of Belonging Ögtem-YoungÖzlem. 2024. The Shape of Belonging: For Unaccompanied Young Migrants. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 167 pp. Hardback £80.00.	12
Book Review: Everyday Activists C. M.Getrich, 2025. Everyday Activists: Undocumented Immigrants’ Quest for Justice and Well-Being. New York: New York University Press. 285 Pages, $89.00.	12
Participation in Social Movement and Emigration Intention: A Study of Hong Kong Social Movement in 2019	11
Legal Status Categorization, Transitions, Starting Points as Employment Stratifying Mechanisms: Evidence from US Student-Migrant-Workers	11
Migration Governance in Pakistan: Institutional Challenges and Data Gaps	11
The Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions Among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in Norway and Sweden	11
Book Review: Historias migratorias y educativas de estudiantes transfronterizos entre Estados Unidos y México Huerta Cordova, Vilma, Kleyn, Tatyana, and López Gopar, Mario Enrique. 2023. Historias mig	11
Immigration and Fertility in the United States	10
Capacity and Priority: Explaining the Regulatory Roles of Labor Brokers in China's Newly Established Guestworker Program	10
Book Review: Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan	10
Marriage Channels, Temporal Inequality, and Migration Decision-Making Agency: Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Asia	10
Introduction: Philippine Labor Migration 50 Years Later	10
A Migratory Ecosystem: Legibility, Visibility, and the Role of Organizations in Ecuador	10
Local Turn Through International Networking: Istanbul's Migration City Diplomacy	10
Mediating Mobility in West Africa: Improvisation, Culture, and Volatility in Migration Infrastructures	9
Migration Aspirations and Adolescents’ Ideal age at Union Formation in Western Mexico	9
Are Healthcare Systems Failing Immigrants? Transnational Migration and Social Exclusion in the Workers’ Compensation Process in Québec	9
Contesting Boundaries and Navigating Identities: Second-Generation Adult Children from Cross-Border Marriages in Taiwan	9
Childbearing Across Immigrants and Their Descendants in Sweden: The Role of Generation and Gender	8
Who Wants to Leave? Global Survey Evidence on How Individual Emigration Aspirations Differ Between Peaceful and Conflict-Affected Contexts	8
Religion, Ideology, and Political Parties’ Positions on Refugees in South Asia and the Middle East	8
Family Separation Among Migrants in Need of International Protection: Anticipation, Duration, and Agency	8
Immigration and the Boundaries of Black Political Subjecthood in Argentina and Chile	8
Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective	8
Beyond the Economics Versus Culture Divide: Neoliberal Migration Policy	8
The Changing Job Instability of UK Immigrants at the Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity, 1992–2023	8
How Do Immigration Policies Affect Voter Support for Low-Skilled Immigrants? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	8
The Political Ecology of Philippine Migration in a Changing Climate	8
No Safe Place: Violence among Unaccompanied Refugee Children Seeking Asylum in Kenya	7
Book Review: The Refugee System	7
Population Innumeracy and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Case of South Africa	7
Why Are Children of Immigrants Less Geographically Mobile? Examining the Role of Economic Disadvantage and Family Networks	7
Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”	7
Taking Care of Others and the Self through Islamic Funeral Service in Berlin	7
Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering: The Securitization of Migration Policy in Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Refugee Return without Refoulement : Rethinking State Strategies to Evade Asylum Norms	7
Book Review: Searching for Sweetness: Women's Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho	7
Judicial Framing and Immigration Policymaking: Israel's Policy toward Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers	6
Review Essay: Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and DevelopmentThe Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and AssistanceThe Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Econom	6
Unauthorized Identity Craft: Rethinking “Fraud” in the Study of Migration	6
Governance Through Uncertainty and the Making of Mixed-Status Venezuelan Families in Chile and Colombia	6
The Perpetual Influence of Historical Trauma: A Broad Look at Indigenous Families and Communities in Areas Now Called the United States and Canada	6

Dragons Soaring to Success – Zodiac Sign, Education, and Wages of Immigrants from Chinese Societies in Germany	6
Book Review: Outsourcing Control	6
The Uncertainty of Forced Displacement: How Language and Violence Shaped Displacement Trajectories During Russia's Invasion of Ukraine	6
Does Self-Employment Contribute to Immigrants’ Economic Integration? Examining Patterns of Self-Employment Exit in Belgium	6
Family Matters: The Impact of National Policies on Asylum Destinations	6
Book Review: Did You Say “Migrant”? V. Mistiaen 2025. Did You Say “Migrant”? Media Representations of People on the Move. Éditions del’Université de Bruxelles. 300 pp. €31.00	6
Book Review: The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing‘s Koreatown	6
The Glaring Gap: Undervalued and Unrecognized Knowledges and Expertise in International Migration Research	6
Book Review: Social Networks and Migration RyanL., 2023. Social Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and Resources. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 214 page, £27.99.	6
Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 2021	6
The Development and Dismantling of Fragmented Protection: Rohingya Refugee Experiences of Fragmented Governance Across India	6
Book Review: Lived Refuge NguyenVinh. 2023. Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience. Oakland: University of California Press. xviii+163 Pp., $34.95 (paperback), free (e-book).	6
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention	5
Does It Pay Off? Understanding Subjective Employment Mobility of European Physicians in Germany	5
Forced Migrants’ Agency in a Life Course Approach—A Conceptual Proposal and Empirical Illustration	5
With Time We Learn to Trust Others? Long-Standing Ethnic Diversity, Recent Immigration, and Out-Group Trust in Russia	5
Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus	5
Why People Migrate: Testing Socio-Psychological Explanations of Migration Aspirations, Plans, Preparations, and Irregularity	5
Public Belief in the “Great Replacement Theory”	5
Book Review: The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life	5
The Refugee Paradox During Wartime in Europe: How Ukrainian and Afghan Refugees are (not) Alike	5
Book Review: Urban Refugees and Digital Technology Martin-ShieldsCharles. 2024. Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Rethinking Integration in the Digital Age. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024,	5
The Elusiveness of Life: Birth Outcomes Among Venezuelan Migrant Mothers in Colombia	5
Does Time Since Arrival have an Effect on Immigrants’ Preferences for Vocational Education and Training Programs in Switzerland?	5
Book Review: Hopelessly Alien LouisCorsino. 2024. Hopelessly Alien . The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights. Albany, NY: State University	5
U.S. Sanctuary Policies and Mexicans’ Migration Preferences: A Conjoint-Experimental Study	5
Review Essay: Moving Beyond the Migration State	5
Workplace Arrangement and Language Acquisition of Immigrants	5
Toward a Neoliberal Regime of Belonging?: Rethinking Contemporary Statelessness Governance in Thailand	5
Book Review: Hearts of Freedom DuschinskyPeterColleen LundyMichael J. MolloyMoscovitchAllanStobbeStephanie Phetsamay, 2025. Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees. Montreal & Kings	5
Quantitative Data Availability and Measurement of US Immigrant and Immigration Policies: IMR Methods Note	5
Book Review: Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorship	5
Book Review: Intimate Strangers ToyotaTritia. 2023. Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 226 pp., $3	5
Book Review: Moved by Modernity SchewelKerilyn. 2025. Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 275. $29.95.	5
Imposed Invisibility: Unraveling Identities Through Negotiations of Categories among People Raised in Germany by Polish Parents	5
Book Review: “Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class.” HughesEllenWebberDon J.and ParryGlenn.2024. “Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class.” Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 191 pp.	5
Book Review: Argonauts of West Africa	5
Theorizing Legitimacy in Migration Research	4
Book Review: African Football Migration	4
Book Review: Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience	4
The Value of Illegality: Venezuelan Migrants in Ecuador and the (Re)Entrenchment of Neoliberal Capitalism	4
Book Review: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles CanizalesStephanie L.2024. Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States. Oakland: University of California Press. 338. $29	4
Digital Nomads in Conversation: Reddit-based Analysis and the Future of Nomadic versus Migrant Career Journeys	4
Irregular and Forced Migration within Asia: Governance, Marginality, and Labor	4
Migration Diplomacy as a Path to Taiwan's International Participation	4
Jigsaw Migration: How Mixed Citizenship LGBTQ Families (Re)Assemble Their Fragmented Citizenship	4
The Social Inclusion of Migrants Between Policy and Practice: Lessons from Uruguay	4
Book Review: Asylum as Reparation	4
Book Review: Migrant Social Networks in Cape Town ChekeroTamuka. 2025. Resilient Social Networks and Mobility Strategies among Migrants in Cape Town. Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing Common I	4
A Citizen Just Like You: The Role of Complex Contagion and Resemblance for Decisions to Naturalize	4
The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century	4
Book Review: Exit	4
Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies	4
Why Has Migration Research So Little Impact? Examining Knowledge Practices in Migration Policy Making and Migration Studies	4
Of Rice and Men: Rice Consumption-Based Estimates of Undocumented Persons in Malaysia	4
Book Review: Fragments of Home Scott-SmithTom. 2024. Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 250 pages. Soft cover $28.00. Hard cover: $11	4
Embedding Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Solidarity Contexts: A Cross-European Study	4
Book Review: Waiting for the Revolution to End Charlotte Al-Khalili. 2023. Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian displacement, time and subjectivity. London: UCL Press. 234 pp., Paperback £30.00.	4
Criminal Victimization of Central American Migrants in Transit Through Mexico	4
Can We See Their ID? Measuring Immigrants’ Legal Trajectory: Lessons From a French Survey	4
Book Review	4
Book Review: Young and Undocumented AlbarracínJulia. 2025. Young and Undocumented: Political Belonging in Uncertain Times. New York: New York University Press. 288 pages. $30.00.	4
How Social Networks Shape Refugee Movements in Wartime: Evidence from the Russian Attack on Ukraine	4
Externally Driven Border Control in West Africa: Local Impact and Broader Ramifications	4