OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Migration Review is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Age at Migration and the Political Integration of Immigrants — Evidence From a Sibling Analysis	94
Why do Citizens Criminalize Migrants? Experimental Evidence from a Multi-Role Country, Mexico	39
Digital Nomadism and the Emergence of Digital Nomad Visas: What Policy Objectives Do States Aim to Achieve?	34
Book Review: On Transits and Transitions	31
Global Evidence on the Relative Importance of Nonfinancial Drivers of International Migration Intentions	23
Dreaming of a Remittance House: Understanding Transnational Housing Aspirations	23
How Much Does Migration Affect Labor Supply in Europe? Methodological Insights and Contemporary Evidence from the European Union and Selected European Countries	21
Resilient Remittances? Examining Immigrant Remittances from the United States to Latin America During Covid-19	21
Book Review: An Address in Paris	21
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnic Trust Network and Expanded Social Engagement Among North Korean Refugees in London	19
Regulating the Undesirable: Statusless Women in Israel	17
Book Review: In Search of Home KlementCamaj R.. (2025). The Migration of Albanians from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States: In Search of Home. Oxford: Routledge. 173. $108.00.	17
Trust in Transit: External Migration Control and Migrants’ Perceptions of Humanitarian Borderwork in the Sahel	16
Subjectivity in Welfare Mobilities: Rethinking Welfare as a Structure, a Process, and an Experience	16
Web Scraping for Migration, Mobility, and Migrant Integration Studies: Introduction, Application, and Potential Use Cases	15
Book Review: The Opportunity Trap	14
The Evolution of the Returns to Schooling for Refugees and Other Immigrants in the United States	14
Public Support for Migrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of North Koreans in the Republic of Korea	13
The Inflow of Refugees and Educational Attainment of U.S. Natives: Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift	13
Book Review: The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco	13
Partner Choice and Economic Outcomes among the Children of Immigrants	12
Travel Bloggers as ‘Digital Nomads’–How Can Understanding This Lifestyle Migration Help us to Think About the Future of Work, Migration and Technology?	12
Understanding Adverse Outcomes in Gulf Migration: Evidence from Administrative Data from Sri Lanka	12
Discrimination of Black and Muslim Minority Groups in Western Societies: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments	11
Then and Now: Romanian Returnees Contemplating Future Migration	11

Exclusionary Contexts Frustrate Cultural Integration: Migrant Acculturation Into Support for Gender Equality in the Labor Market in Western Europe	11
Implications of the Rohingya Relocation from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, Bangladesh	11
Immigration and New Firm Formation – Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Germany	11
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.	10
Transnational Parenthood and Migrant Subjective Well-Being in Italy	10
The Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions Among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in Norway and Sweden	10
Migration Governance in Pakistan: Institutional Challenges and Data Gaps	10
Immigration and Fertility in the United States	10
Book Reviews: Migration and Political Theory	10
Does City Size Affect International Migrants and Native-Born Workers Differently? Exploring Inequalities in Unemployment and Occupations Across Spanish Cities	9
Participation in Social Movement and Emigration Intention: A Study of Hong Kong Social Movement in 2019	9
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	9
How Do Immigration Policies Affect Voter Support for Low-Skilled Immigrants? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	8
Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering: The Securitization of Migration Policy in Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Migration Aspirations and Adolescents’ Ideal age at Union Formation in Western Mexico	8
Immigration and the Boundaries of Black Political Subjecthood in Argentina and Chile	8
Contesting Boundaries and Navigating Identities: Second-Generation Adult Children from Cross-Border Marriages in Taiwan	7
Why Are Children of Immigrants Less Geographically Mobile? Examining the Role of Economic Disadvantage and Family Networks	7
Capacity and Priority: Explaining the Regulatory Roles of Labor Brokers in China's Newly Established Guestworker Program	7
Book Review: Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan	7
Mediating Mobility in West Africa: Improvisation, Culture, and Volatility in Migration Infrastructures	7
Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective	7
Who Wants to Leave? Global Survey Evidence on How Individual Emigration Aspirations Differ Between Peaceful and Conflict-Affected Contexts	6
Religion, Ideology, and Political Parties’ Positions on Refugees in South Asia and the Middle East	6
Book Review: The Refugee System	6
The Map and the Territory: The Use of Country Information in Asylum Assessments	6
Childbearing Across Immigrants and Their Descendants in Sweden: The Role of Generation and Gender	6
Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”	6
A Migratory Ecosystem: Legibility, Visibility, and the Role of Organizations in Ecuador	6
Point of Reference: A Multisited Exploration of African Migration and Fertility in France	6
Does Self-Employment Contribute to Immigrants’ Economic Integration? Examining Patterns of Self-Employment Exit in Belgium	6
Marriage Channels, Temporal Inequality, and Migration Decision-Making Agency: Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Asia	6
Are Healthcare Systems Failing Immigrants? Transnational Migration and Social Exclusion in the Workers’ Compensation Process in Québec	6
Book Review: Searching for Sweetness: Women's Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho	6
Population Innumeracy and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Case of South Africa	6
Does Time Since Arrival have an Effect on Immigrants’ Preferences for Vocational Education and Training Programs in Switzerland?	5
No Safe Place: Violence among Unaccompanied Refugee Children Seeking Asylum in Kenya	5
The Perpetual Influence of Historical Trauma: A Broad Look at Indigenous Families and Communities in Areas Now Called the United States and Canada	5
Does It Pay Off? Understanding Subjective Employment Mobility of European Physicians in Germany	5
Imposed Invisibility: Unraveling Identities Through Negotiations of Categories among People Raised in Germany by Polish Parents	5
With Time We Learn to Trust Others? Long-Standing Ethnic Diversity, Recent Immigration, and Out-Group Trust in Russia	5
Book Review: Outsourcing Control	5
Book Review: Lived Refuge	5
The Glaring Gap: Undervalued and Unrecognized Knowledges and Expertise in International Migration Research	5
Collectivized Discretion: Seeking Explanations for Decreased Asylum Recognition Rates in Finland After Europe's 2015 “Refugee Crisis”	5
Family Matters: The Impact of National Policies on Asylum Destinations	5
Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus	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
Judicial Framing and Immigration Policymaking: Israel's Policy toward Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers	5
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	5

Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 2021	5
Book Review: Hopelessly Alien	5
Book Review: The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing‘s Koreatown	5
The Refugee Paradox During Wartime in Europe: How Ukrainian and Afghan Refugees are (not) Alike	5
Taking Care of Others and the Self through Islamic Funeral Service in Berlin	5
Book Review: Exit	4
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	4
Book Review: New year, new plans for IMR’s book review section	4
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention	4
Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies	4
Book Review: Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorship	4
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.	4
Book Review	4
Forced Migrants’ Agency in a Life Course Approach—A Conceptual Proposal and Empirical Illustration	4
Digital Nomads in Conversation: Reddit-based Analysis and the Future of Nomadic versus Migrant Career Journeys	4
U.S. Sanctuary Policies and Mexicans’ Migration Preferences: A Conjoint-Experimental Study	4
Can We See Their ID? Measuring Immigrants’ Legal Trajectory: Lessons From a French Survey	4
Immigration, Sanctuary Policies, and Public Safety	4
Book Review: The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life	4
Why Has Migration Research So Little Impact? Examining Knowledge Practices in Migration Policy Making and Migration Studies	4
Quantitative Data Availability and Measurement of US Immigrant and Immigration Policies: IMR Methods Note	4
Review Essay: Moving Beyond the Migration State	4
Badante or Bride? Patterns of Female Migration in Italy, Japan, Korea, and Spain	4
Book Review: Argonauts of West Africa	4
Multidimensionality in the Integration of First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Europe: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation	3
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	3
Cross-Era Gender Differences in Educational Attainment Among Second-Generation Immigrants	3
Reimagining “Integration” in the Light of the New Forms of Mobility	3
The Value of Illegality: Venezuelan Migrants in Ecuador and the (Re)Entrenchment of Neoliberal Capitalism	3
Of Rice and Men: Rice Consumption-Based Estimates of Undocumented Persons in Malaysia	3
Book Review: Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience	3
Embedding Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Solidarity Contexts: A Cross-European Study	3
The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations	3
Theorizing Legitimacy in Migration Research	3
Are They Still Aiming High? The Development of Educational Aspirations of Lower Secondary School Students With Immigrant Backgrounds in Germany	3
Forced Migration and the Politics of Belonging: Integration Policy, National Debates and Migrant Strategies	3
Book Review: Asylum as Reparation	3
Climate Change, Drought, and Potential Environmental Migration Flows Under Different Policy Scenarios	3
How Social Networks Shape Refugee Movements in Wartime: Evidence from the Russian Attack on Ukraine	3
Book Review: Waiting for the Revolution to End	3
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	3
Book Review: African Football Migration	3
Family Separation and Reunification Under President Trump's Zero-Tolerance Policy	3
Emotional Earmarking: Insights into Remittances and Emotions from a Mixed Methods Study of Migrant Households in Rural Philippines	3
Spatial Segregation in Action? An Empirical Assessment of Population Concentration of Foreigners and Nationals in Italy, 2002–2018	3
Externally Driven Border Control in West Africa: Local Impact and Broader Ramifications	3
Jigsaw Migration: How Mixed Citizenship LGBTQ Families (Re)Assemble Their Fragmented Citizenship	3
The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century	3
Criminal Victimization of Central American Migrants in Transit Through Mexico	3
A Citizen Just Like You: The Role of Complex Contagion and Resemblance for Decisions to Naturalize	3
The Social Inclusion of Migrants Between Policy and Practice: Lessons from Uruguay	3