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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Age at Migration and the Political Integration of Immigrants — Evidence From a Sibling Analysis	96
Why do Citizens Criminalize Migrants? Experimental Evidence from a Multi-Role Country, Mexico	43
Book Review: On Transits and Transitions	35
Resilient Remittances? Examining Immigrant Remittances from the United States to Latin America During Covid-19	31
How Much Does Migration Affect Labor Supply in Europe? Methodological Insights and Contemporary Evidence from the European Union and Selected European Countries	25
Dreaming of a Remittance House: Understanding Transnational Housing Aspirations	21
Digital Nomadism and the Emergence of Digital Nomad Visas: What Policy Objectives Do States Aim to Achieve?	21
The Impacts of Syrian Refugees on Natives’ Health Outcomes	21
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnic Trust Network and Expanded Social Engagement Among North Korean Refugees in London	19
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.	18
Regulating the Undesirable: Statusless Women in Israel	17
Subjectivity in Welfare Mobilities: Rethinking Welfare as a Structure, a Process, and an Experience	16
Global Evidence on the Relative Importance of Nonfinancial Drivers of International Migration Intentions	16
Trust in Transit: External Migration Control and Migrants’ Perceptions of Humanitarian Borderwork in the Sahel	16
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.	16
Web Scraping for Migration, Mobility, and Migrant Integration Studies: Introduction, Application, and Potential Use Cases	15
Book Review: The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco	14
Book Review: The Opportunity Trap	14
Exclusionary Contexts Frustrate Cultural Integration: Migrant Acculturation Into Support for Gender Equality in the Labor Market in Western Europe	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
Then and Now: Romanian Returnees Contemplating Future Migration	13
The Evolution of the Returns to Schooling for Refugees and Other Immigrants in the United States	13
Immigration and New Firm Formation – Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Germany	13
The Inflow of Refugees and Educational Attainment of U.S. Natives: Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift	12
Public Support for Migrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of North Koreans in the Republic of Korea	12

Partner Choice and Economic Outcomes among the Children of Immigrants	12
Discrimination of Black and Muslim Minority Groups in Western Societies: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments	11
Book Reviews: Migration and Political Theory	10
Implications of the Rohingya Relocation from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, Bangladesh	10
Migration Governance in Pakistan: Institutional Challenges and Data Gaps	10
The Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions Among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in Norway and Sweden	10
Transnational Parenthood and Migrant Subjective Well-Being in Italy	10
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
Immigration and Fertility in the United States	9
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.	9
Participation in Social Movement and Emigration Intention: A Study of Hong Kong Social Movement in 2019	9
Book Review: Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan	8
Capacity and Priority: Explaining the Regulatory Roles of Labor Brokers in China's Newly Established Guestworker Program	8
Why Are Children of Immigrants Less Geographically Mobile? Examining the Role of Economic Disadvantage and Family Networks	8
How Do Immigration Policies Affect Voter Support for Low-Skilled Immigrants? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	8
Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective	8
Marriage Channels, Temporal Inequality, and Migration Decision-Making Agency: Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Asia	8
Contesting Boundaries and Navigating Identities: Second-Generation Adult Children from Cross-Border Marriages in Taiwan	8
Does City Size Affect International Migrants and Native-Born Workers Differently? Exploring Inequalities in Unemployment and Occupations Across Spanish Cities	8
Mediating Mobility in West Africa: Improvisation, Culture, and Volatility in Migration Infrastructures	7
Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering: The Securitization of Migration Policy in Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Religion, Ideology, and Political Parties’ Positions on Refugees in South Asia and the Middle East	7
Immigration and the Boundaries of Black Political Subjecthood in Argentina and Chile	7
Who Wants to Leave? Global Survey Evidence on How Individual Emigration Aspirations Differ Between Peaceful and Conflict-Affected Contexts	7
Childbearing Across Immigrants and Their Descendants in Sweden: The Role of Generation and Gender	7
A Migratory Ecosystem: Legibility, Visibility, and the Role of Organizations in Ecuador	7
Are Healthcare Systems Failing Immigrants? Transnational Migration and Social Exclusion in the Workers’ Compensation Process in Québec	7
Book Review: Searching for Sweetness: Women's Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho	6
Family Separation Among Migrants in Need of International Protection: Anticipation, Duration, and Agency	6
Migration Aspirations and Adolescents’ Ideal age at Union Formation in Western Mexico	6
Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 2021	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
Population Innumeracy and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Case of South Africa	6
Point of Reference: A Multisited Exploration of African Migration and Fertility in France	6
Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”	6
Does Self-Employment Contribute to Immigrants’ Economic Integration? Examining Patterns of Self-Employment Exit in Belgium	6
The Development and Dismantling of Fragmented Protection: Rohingya Refugee Experiences of Fragmented Governance Across India	6
The Glaring Gap: Undervalued and Unrecognized Knowledges and Expertise in International Migration Research	6
No Safe Place: Violence among Unaccompanied Refugee Children Seeking Asylum in Kenya	6
Book Review: The Refugee System	6
The Map and the Territory: The Use of Country Information in Asylum Assessments	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
Taking Care of Others and the Self through Islamic Funeral Service in Berlin	6
Collectivized Discretion: Seeking Explanations for Decreased Asylum Recognition Rates in Finland After Europe's 2015 “Refugee Crisis”	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).	5
Book Review: Outsourcing Control	5
U.S. Sanctuary Policies and Mexicans’ Migration Preferences: A Conjoint-Experimental Study	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
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention	5

Book Review: The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing‘s Koreatown	5
Does Time Since Arrival have an Effect on Immigrants’ Preferences for Vocational Education and Training Programs in Switzerland?	5
The Refugee Paradox During Wartime in Europe: How Ukrainian and Afghan Refugees are (not) Alike	5
Quantitative Data Availability and Measurement of US Immigrant and Immigration Policies: IMR Methods Note	5
Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus	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
Family Matters: The Impact of National Policies on Asylum Destinations	5
Judicial Framing and Immigration Policymaking: Israel's Policy toward Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers	5
Book Review: Hopelessly Alien LouisCorsino. 2024. Hopelessly Alien . The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights. Albany, NY: State University of New York Pres	5
Does It Pay Off? Understanding Subjective Employment Mobility of European Physicians in Germany	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
Imposed Invisibility: Unraveling Identities Through Negotiations of Categories among People Raised in Germany by Polish Parents	5
Can We See Their ID? Measuring Immigrants’ Legal Trajectory: Lessons From a French Survey	4
Book Review: Argonauts of West Africa	4
Digital Nomads in Conversation: Reddit-based Analysis and the Future of Nomadic versus Migrant Career Journeys	4
Immigration, Sanctuary Policies, and Public Safety	4
Externally Driven Border Control in West Africa: Local Impact and Broader Ramifications	4
Public Belief in the “Great Replacement Theory”	4
Badante or Bride? Patterns of Female Migration in Italy, Japan, Korea, and Spain	4
Book Review: New year, new plans for IMR’s book review section	4
Book Review: Exit	4
Review Essay: Moving Beyond the Migration State	4
Why Has Migration Research So Little Impact? Examining Knowledge Practices in Migration Policy Making and Migration Studies	4
Criminal Victimization of Central American Migrants in Transit Through Mexico	4
Book Review: Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorship	4
Book Review: The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life	4
Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies	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
Multidimensionality in the Integration of First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Europe: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation	3
Book Review: Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience	3
Climate Change, Drought, and Potential Environmental Migration Flows Under Different Policy Scenarios	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
Are They Still Aiming High? The Development of Educational Aspirations of Lower Secondary School Students With Immigrant Backgrounds in Germany	3
Bolstering Autocracy, Hindering Democracy: Local Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Effects of EU Migration Policy Externalization in Morocco	3
Emotional Earmarking: Insights into Remittances and Emotions from a Mixed Methods Study of Migrant Households in Rural Philippines	3
Book Review: Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in the Diaspora	3
Forced Migration and the Politics of Belonging: Integration Policy, National Debates and Migrant Strategies	3
Book Review: Asylum as Reparation	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
The Social Inclusion of Migrants Between Policy and Practice: Lessons from Uruguay	3
Spatial Segregation in Action? An Empirical Assessment of Population Concentration of Foreigners and Nationals in Italy, 2002–2018	3
Theorizing Legitimacy in Migration Research	3
The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations	3
Cross-Era Gender Differences in Educational Attainment Among Second-Generation Immigrants	3
Embedding Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Solidarity Contexts: A Cross-European Study	3
A Citizen Just Like You: The Role of Complex Contagion and Resemblance for Decisions to Naturalize	3
Reimagining “Integration” in the Light of the New Forms of Mobility	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
How Social Networks Shape Refugee Movements in Wartime: Evidence from the Russian Attack on Ukraine	3
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.	3
Book Review: African Football Migration	3
Book Review: License to Travel	3
Family Separation and Reunification Under President Trump's Zero-Tolerance Policy	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