Journal of Refugee Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Refugee Studies is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home M. Dogon and J. Krajeski17
Young Newcomers’ Convoy of Social Relations: The Supportive Network of Accompanied Refugee Minors in Urban Belgium15
World War Z. An Oral History of the Zombie War. Edited by Max Brooks14
(Re-)Construction of Identity and Belonging after Forced Migration: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach13
The Power of Positive Thinking: How Positive Opinions of Refugees’ Impact on the Host Society Generate Positive Behavioural Intentions12
The Borders of Migrant and Refugee Activism in South Africa11
Social networks and the dead: learning from South Sudanese military widows in exile in Khartoum (Sudan)11
Constructions of Multiple Deservingness Frames towards Refugees in Everyday Work Life in İzmir10
Humanitarian hacking: Merging refugee aid and digital capitalism10
Data-driven futures of international refugee law10
What Kind of Weapon Is Education? Teleological Violence, Local Integration, and Refugee Education in Northern Ethiopia10
Creating Educational Borderlands: Civic Learning in a Syrian School in Lebanon10
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance Louis Brehony10
‘The Great and Miserable Flight’: The Experiences of Refugees in Newsprint during the Thirty Years’ War10
Borderland Porosities: Migratory Journeys and Migrant Politics in Lebanon and Turkey9
From camp to quarter: the contention of post-disaster social housing in al-Mankubin, North Lebanon9
Towards black methods in research with refugees9
Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism By Ali Bhagat8
The Doll. By Nhung N. Tran-Davies and Illustrated by Ravy Puth8
Policy Entrepreneurship and the Drafting of Refugee Law in a Non-Signatory Country: The Case of Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism8
Three approaches to the 1951 Convention: The case for a dialectical approach7
Capturing the Border in Refugee Solidarity Camp Visits and City Tours in Germany: Theorizing Relationality through the Border as Horizon in Refugee/Migrant Solidarity Activism as Citizenship Politics7
The African ‘Other’ as Displaced Enslaved and Refugee: Internal Borders across Time and Place7
Refugee Status, Permanent Residency, and Citizenship: The re-making of categories among Palestinian youth in East Jerusalem7
Transnational belonging and disrupted care relationships7
2021 Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford7
The Madrigals Who Live on the Other Side of the Pacific: A review of Encanto. Howard, Bryon; Bush, Jared (Director); Castro Smith, Charise (co-director)6
Survivalist mobilities: freedom of movement and the economic lives of settlement refugees in Uganda6
Performing, contesting, and resisting internal bordering of refugee rights in Costa Rica6
‘NO MORE WALLS IN THE SEAS’: Migration graffscapes and migrants’ messages while en route to and in Europe6
Tracing housing aid modalities and solutions to protracted displacement: experiences among Sri Lanka’s northern Muslims6
Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues6
Implications of refugee crisis on public sector healthcare organizations: Empirical observation from Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh6
Higher education in displacement: empowering pathway or double-edged institution? Insights from Belarusian students’ experiences6
Many a Slip between Cup and Lip: Navigating Noncitizenship and School-to-Work Transitions in Kakuma Refugee Camp6
Unequal refugeeness. Race, gender, and co-belligerence from Poles in colonial Africa to Ukrainians in Poland6
South African attitudes towards refugee settlement: Examining the importance of threat perceptions5
Refugee Illegality: Governing Refugees via Rescaling Borders in Turkey5
Problem-Solving Skills Groups for Female Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: A Study of a Mental Health Intervention5
How Rohingya refugee parents support children’s prosocial development in crisis-affected and resettlement contexts: Findings from India and Canada5
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger By David Hinton5
Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution. By Robert F. Barsky5
Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan. By Alessandro Monsutti5
Refugees, Democracy and the Law: Political Rights at the Margins of the State. By Dana Schmalz The Political Philosophy of Refuge. Edited by David Miller and Christine Straehle5
Motherhood on the move: forced migrant women from Ukraine5
Storytelling in Research with Refugees: On the Promise and Politics of Audibility and Visibility in Participatory Research in Contexts of Forced Migration5
Problems and Issues Concerning Social Integration of Elderly Refugees in Turkey5
Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Protection of Refugees and Refugee Camps5
Curriculum Choices for Refugees: What UNRWA’s History Can Tell Us about the Potential of UN Education Programs to Address Refugees’ ‘Unknowable Futures’5
Cross-effects of cultural and gay capitals in access to refugee status on the grounds of SOGI in France: Study of the formal and informal preparations of West African men for asylum trials5
Do Work Permits Work? The Impacts of Formal Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Jordan5
Refugee Settlement and Decision-Making Venue: Does Public Concern Instigate Preferences for Local Referendums? Experiences from Norwegian Cities4
Refugee Participation through Representative Committees: UNHCR and the Sudanese Committee in Beirut4
Towards a Shared Practice of Encampment: An Historical Investigation of UNRWA and the UNHCR to 19674
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency. By Melissa Gatter4
Surveying Diverse Subpopulations in Refugee Studies: Reflections on Sampling, Implementation, and Translation Strategies Drawn from Experiences with a Regional Quantitative Survey on Refugee Parents i4
Correction to: Making ‘The Process’: Sexual Vulnerability and Burundian Refugee Boys and Young Men’s Strategies for Onward Migration from Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda4
Correction to: Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK4
When the Government Comes to the Neighbourhood: Everyday Regulations and Syrian Refugees’ Encounters with Local State Authorities4
Corrigendum to: Life after violence in North India: Islamic relief organizations and transactional relationships in a plural humanitarian space4
Migration Control in Practice. Before and Within the Borders of the State. Edited by Federica Infantino and Djordje Sredanovic4
Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence4
Formal and informal integration in contexts of displacement: Exploring implications for youth civic identities4
Using forced migration to foster emergence? International aid and development policies in Cameroon4
‘Enjoying Time Alone’: Exploring Solitude as a Positive Space for Refugee Wellbeing4
Book Review—The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers. By Kate Reed and Marcia C. Schenck, eds4
Acculturation and mental health outcomes in adolescents from asylum seeker and labor migrant families in Israel4
The Common Market Makes Us Richer and Brings Us Closer Together: An Impact Assessment of the Common Market Project at Nyarugusu Refugee Camp4
Hope in the Ruins of Home: Narrative Meaning-Making of Forced Displacement, Place Attachment, and Deferred Future Resettlement in Varosha3
Harsha Walia, Border and Rule3
Correction to: Reinforcing and Contesting Neoliberal Citizenship: Legal Advocates and the Asylum Interview at the US–Mexico border3
Education, Ontological Security, and Preserving Hope in Liminality: Learning from the Daily Strategies Exercised by Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan3
Samira Surfs Rukhsanna Guidroz and Illustrated by Fahmida Azim3
Explanatory Model of the Relationships Between Self-Efficacy and Personal Learning Environments in Immigrant Minors Without a Legal Guardian3
‘I knew about political asylum, but not about asylum for gay people’: How queer exiles come to apply (or not) for SOGI asylum in France3
Internal Displacement and the Law Walter Kälin3
Refugee exposure and attitudes toward refugees in a developing country context: evidence from Türkiye3
Things We Lost to the Water. By Eric Nguyen3
Participation as Confrontation: Resistance Within and Outside the Mesas de Participación Established for IDPs in Colombia3
Gatekeeping in asylum interviews: institutional bias and narrative inequality in South Korea’s refugee screening process3
(Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey3
Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions on Young Refugees' Social Adjustment: A Meta-analysis3
The Limits of Primordial Affinity to Ethnic Trust: The Social Origins of Ethnic Trust among North Korean Refugees in London3
Once We Were Refugees: Refugees, Security, Solidarity and a View from the Global South—A Case Study of the Rohingya Reception in Bangladesh3
Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth Annika Lems3
Memories, Mementos, and Memorialization of Young Unaccompanied Afghans Navigating within Europe3
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination. By Anthea Vogl3
‘But You Try to Dig the Hole; Why?’: A Review of the Hearing. The Hearing [Die Anhörung]3
Making ‘The Process’: Sexual Vulnerability and Burundian Refugee Boys and Young Men’s Strategies for Onward Migration from Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda3
Guiding Refugee Women Who Have Experienced Violence: Representation of Trust in Counsellors’ Journals3
Fadh, Sharaf and Respectable Passing as New Frameworks for Understanding Transmasculinity in the MENA Region: Case Studies of Transmasculine Refugees in Lebanon3
Relationship between self-efficacy, coping, and sense of community in native and refugee adolescent girls3
Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations3
Suffering to Save Lives: Torture, Cruelty, and Moral Disengagement in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres3
Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions2
Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto. By E. Okporo2
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Chauka Please Tell Us the Time By Behrouz Boochani and Arash Kamali Sarvestani, MANUS Remember One Thing, We Are Human Beings By Angus McDonald2
When Stars Are Scattered. By Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed2
More than a number: Exploring the impact of age(ing) on refugees’ experiences of arrival2
Climate risks for displaced populations: a scoping review and research agenda2
Indeterminate Liminality and the Refugee Journey: Partition and Hindu Sindhi Women’s Life Narratives2
What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda2
Deconstructing the Refugee, Protecting the Vulnerable—A Review of Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move. By Rebecca Hamlin2
De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities2
Boundary-Making and Political Activism in Protracted Exile: Second-Generation Tibetan Refugees in India2
The Glass Wall. By Goran Baba Ali2
Asylum as Reparation: Refuge and Responsibility for the Harms of Displacement. By James Souter2
The 2021 UNHCR-IE SOGI Global Roundtable on Protection and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Forced Displacement: Toward a New Vision for LGBTIQ+ Refugee Protection2
Bargaining (in)visibility: Rohingya refugees and the politics of visibility in India2
Border Abolitionism: Migrants’ Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles and Rescue Martina Tazzioli2
Correction to: Out of Sight, Out of Mind2
Resettlement vs. spontaneous applications: Canadians’ attitudes to asylum policy in a comparative perspective2
Bringing care in: The meaning of care in refugee solidarity movements2
Correction to: Methods for the Future, Futures for Methods: Collaborating with Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan2
Perceived Discrimination as a Moderator between Living Difficulties and Psychological Distress among Asylum Seekers from Darfur2
Chronicles of Disappearance: Palestinian Encampment in the Bekaa Valley (1948–1951)2
‘There seems to be some disparity then between our Syrian and Iraqi refugee children who seemed to have everything’: Constructing ‘good refugees’ and the ensuing equity issues in Australian sch2
Understanding the politics of refugee law and policy making: Interdisciplinary and empirical approaches2
Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below. By Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi2
At the Crossroads between Care and Control: A Cross-Country Comparison of Assisted Return2
Child marriage and displacement: A qualitative study of displaced and host populations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq2
Well-Founded Fear of Algorithms or Algorithms of Well-Founded Fear? Hybrid Intelligence in Automated Asylum Seeker Interviews2
Introduction by Editors: Power in Forced Migration Research Methods2
Climate Displacement. By Jamie Draper2
Multi-scalar and diasporic integration: Kurdish populations in Europe between state, diaspora and geopolitics2
Durable solutions: to what and for whom?2
Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology (1st ed.). By V.D. Volkan2
Multi-stakeholder knowledge exchange events as a tool of migration infrastructure: evidence from the North West of England2
What Becomes a Refugee Camp? Making Camps for European Refugees in North Africa and the Middle East, 1943–462
The (Non-)Status of ‘Duldung’: Non-Deportability in Germany and the Politics of Limitless Temporariness2
Moving on from Dutch to English: Young Refugees Feeling Betrayed by the Dutch Language Integration Policy and Seeking for More Inclusive Environments2
Institutional analyses of refugee protection1
Correction to: Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence1
No Friend but the Mountains. By Behrouz Boochani1
UNHCR–state relations: transfer of authority over refugee status determination1
Understanding Out-Mobility and Radical-Right Support as Responses to Differentiated Refugee Exposure1
Making Sense of the Global: A Systematic Review of Globalizing and Localizing Dynamics in Refugee Governance1
Technologies of life-making in the British refugee camps of the Southern Levant1
Domicide: Architecture, War, and the Destruction of Home in Syria. By Ammar Azzouz1
Erratum to: Informing hard-to-reach immigrant groups about COVID-19—Reaching the Somali population in Oslo1
Ethnographic approaches and international refugee law1
TWAIL, archives, and refugee law1
The intersection between social relationships and policies in refugee integration: The role of emotional support1
From Refugees to Citizens? How Refugee Youth in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya Use Education to Challenge Their Status as Non-Citizens1
On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa During and After the Second World War By Jochen Lingelbach1
Family Matters: Older Refugee Minors in Vienna and Factors for Resiliency1
Food, Care, and Carceral Power: The Politics of Commensality in Australian Immigration Detention1
From Dadaab Camp to Kismayo City: A Call for Local Evidence to Inform Durable Solutions1
African Refugees. By Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso1
‘Scholars at Risk’ in Germany: Forced Migration and Agency in Forced Migration Decision-Making1
Correction to: Community-Led Education among Rohingya Refugees and the Politics of Refugee Education in Bangladesh1
National Inclusion Policy Openings/Barriers for Refugee Teachers: Critical Reflections from Kenya1
The Constructive Influence of the Homeland in Refugee Organizing: Darfurian Asylum Seekers in Israel1
The Secret Life of Energy in Refugee Camps: Invisible Objects, Technologies, and Energy Systems in Humanitarianism1
Stuck and Exploited. Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles. Edited by Francesco Della Puppa and Giuliana Sanò1
Reflections on arts-based research methods in refugee mental health: The role of creative exercises in nurturing positive coping with trauma and exile1
Refugee Reception in Southern Africa: National and Local Policies in Zambia and South Africa. By Nicholas Maple1
Beyond Agency as Good: Complicity and Displacement after the Siege of Sarajevo1
Displacement as lived experience. Refugee relief and female leadership in the life and work of Toni Sender (1888–1964)1
Messages from Ukraine Gregg Bucken-Knapp and Joonas Sildre1
What Can Data Justice Mean for Asylum Governance? The Case of Smartphone Data Extraction in Germany1
Private sponsorship prefigured: religious groups and Canada’s Cold War refugee policy1
On Becoming an Artist Anew: Refugees’ Arrival in the Field of Cultural Production in Austria1
How do perceptions, fears, and experiences of violence and conflict affect considerations of moving internally and internationally?1
Refugee livelihood perspectives: Post-traumatic growth in histories of Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Tamil Refugees in Australia1
Temporary turn in the asylum regime and the deportable refugee: The case of Syrians in Türkiye1
The Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment of Refugees. Edited by J. David Kinzie and George A. Keepers.1
“We were together and we had our own family in each other”: refusing repatriation and forging gendered belonging as Hijra refugees in Kolkata1
Multilevel governance ‘from above’: Analysing Colombia’s system of co-responsibility for responding to internal displacement1
Corrigendum to: Once We Were Refugees: Refugees, Security, Solidarity and a View from the Global South—A Case Study of the Rohingya Reception in Bangladesh1
‘I Did Not Choose to Be in Your Country’: Social-Racial Hierarchies in Peru and Venezuelan Migrant Women’s Responses1
When the Palestinian refugee camp became a “squatter settlement”1
Problems and issues concerning social integration of elderly refugees in Turkey1
‘But we have to be realistic’: examining the origins of temporary protection in the USA and European Union1
Later Is aCis-HeteroPatriarchal Time Zone: Narratives of Resistance to LGBTQI+ Inclusion amongst Humanitarian Practitioners1
Immigrant Agency: Hmong American Movements and the Politics of Racialized Incorporation. By Yang Sao Xiong1
Mismanagement and misinterpretations in asylum interviews: Perspectives from South Africa and Sweden1
Beyond victim and hero representations? A comparative analysis of UNHCR’s Instagram communication strategies for the Syrian and Ukrainian crises1
On the Inside: Shatila Camp as a Space of Respite for Syrian Refugees1
Addressing the Continuum of Violence with a Continuum of Resilience. Book Review ‘Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda’. By Ulrike Krause1
Navigating Asylum, Resettlement, and Integration: Syrian Refugees in France Beyond the Suffering Slot1
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