OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Refugee Studies 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home M. Dogon and J. Krajeski	23
Social networks and the dead: learning from South Sudanese military widows in exile in Khartoum (Sudan)	20
The Power of Positive Thinking: How Positive Opinions of Refugees’ Impact on the Host Society Generate Positive Behavioural Intentions	19
Explaining refugee hosting from a state-perspective: two approaches	18
The Borders of Migrant and Refugee Activism in South Africa	17
(Re-)Construction of Identity and Belonging after Forced Migration: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach	15
From camp to quarter: the contention of post-disaster social housing in al-Mankubin, North Lebanon	14
Towards black methods in research with refugees	13
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance Louis Brehony	12
Borderland Porosities: Migratory Journeys and Migrant Politics in Lebanon and Turkey	12
What Kind of Weapon Is Education? Teleological Violence, Local Integration, and Refugee Education in Northern Ethiopia	12
Data-driven futures of international refugee law	10
‘The Great and Miserable Flight’: The Experiences of Refugees in Newsprint during the Thirty Years’ War	10
Creating Educational Borderlands: Civic Learning in a Syrian School in Lebanon	10
Constructions of Multiple Deservingness Frames towards Refugees in Everyday Work Life in İzmir	9
Magic bullet or questionable remedy? Discussing the use of Meta advertising to recruit hard-to-reach migrants for surveys	9
Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity. By Zein Murib.	9
Transnational belonging and disrupted care relationships	8
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 Politics	8
The Doll. By Nhung N. Tran-Davies and Illustrated by Ravy Puth	8
Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism By Ali Bhagat	8
The African ‘Other’ as Displaced Enslaved and Refugee: Internal Borders across Time and Place	8
Humanitarian hacking: Merging refugee aid and digital capitalism	8
Three approaches to the 1951 Convention: The case for a dialectical approach	8
LGBTIQ+ refugees in India: RSD and the implications of legal developments in the country of asylum	8

2021 Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford	7
Policy Entrepreneurship and the Drafting of Refugee Law in a Non-Signatory Country: The Case of Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism	7
Survivalist mobilities: freedom of movement and the economic lives of settlement refugees in Uganda	7
Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues	7
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)	7
Unequal refugeeness. Race, gender, and co-belligerence from Poles in colonial Africa to Ukrainians in Poland	7
Implications of refugee crisis on public sector healthcare organizations: Empirical observation from Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh	7
Performing, contesting, and resisting internal bordering of refugee rights in Costa Rica	7
‘NO MORE WALLS IN THE SEAS’: Migration graffscapes and migrants’ messages while en route to and in Europe	7
Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora. By B. Camminga and John Marnell	7
Intermediaries and opacity: understanding refugee family reunification through migration infrastructures	7
Higher education in displacement: empowering pathway or double-edged institution? Insights from Belarusian students’ experiences	7
Refugee Status, Permanent Residency, and Citizenship: The re-making of categories among Palestinian youth in East Jerusalem	7
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger By David Hinton	6
Tracing housing aid modalities and solutions to protracted displacement: experiences among Sri Lanka’s northern Muslims	6
Empowering Ukrainian refugees in Seattle: integrating hazard preparedness education into resettlement research	6
Many a Slip between Cup and Lip: Navigating Noncitizenship and School-to-Work Transitions in Kakuma Refugee Camp	6
Accountability without accounting: missing and inconsistent labeling of refugee and asylee students in state datasets	6
Refugee Illegality: Governing Refugees via Rescaling Borders in Turkey	6
Do Work Permits Work? The Impacts of Formal Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Jordan	6
South African attitudes towards refugee settlement: Examining the importance of threat perceptions	6
Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution. By Robert F. Barsky	6
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 trials	5
When the Government Comes to the Neighbourhood: Everyday Regulations and Syrian Refugees’ Encounters with Local State Authorities	5
Using forced migration to foster emergence? International aid and development policies in Cameroon	5
Refugee Participation through Representative Committees: UNHCR and the Sudanese Committee in Beirut	5
Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Protection of Refugees and Refugee Camps	5
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 Straehle	5
Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan By Alessandro Monsutti	5
Formal and informal integration in contexts of displacement: Exploring implications for youth civic identities	5
Motherhood on the move: forced migrant women from Ukraine	5
Correction to: Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK	5
‘Enjoying Time Alone’: Exploring Solitude as a Positive Space for Refugee Wellbeing	5
Towards a Shared Practice of Encampment: An Historical Investigation of UNRWA and the UNHCR to 1967	5
Refugee exposure and attitudes toward refugees in a developing country context: evidence from Türkiye	4
Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations	4
Once We Were Refugees: Refugees, Security, Solidarity and a View from the Global South—A Case Study of the Rohingya Reception in Bangladesh	4
Acculturation and mental health outcomes in adolescents from asylum seeker and labor migrant families in Israel	4
Migration Control in Practice. Before and Within the Borders of the State. Edited by Federica Infantino and Djordje Sredanovic	4
The Limits of Primordial Affinity to Ethnic Trust: The Social Origins of Ethnic Trust among North Korean Refugees in London	4
Curriculum Choices for Refugees: What UNRWA’s History Can Tell Us about the Potential of UN Education Programs to Address Refugees’ ‘Unknowable Futures’	4
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency. By Melissa Gatter	4
After border externalization: migration, race, and labor in Mauritania. By Hassan Ould Moctar	4
‘I knew about political asylum, but not about asylum for gay people’: How queer exiles come to apply (or not) for SOGI asylum in France	4
Samira Surfs Rukhsanna Guidroz and Illustrated by Fahmida Azim	4
Fadh, Sharaf and Respectable Passing as New Frameworks for Understanding Transmasculinity in the MENA Region: Case Studies of Transmasculine Refugees in Lebanon	4
Book Review—The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers. By Kate Reed and Marcia C. Schenck, eds	4
Correction to: Making ‘The Process’: Sexual Vulnerability and Burundian Refugee Boys and Young Men’s Strategies for Onward Migration from Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda	4
Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	4
Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth Annika Lems	4

Land for refugees: sharing and exchanging in Northern Uganda	4
Internal Displacement and the Law Walter Kälin	4
Relationship between self-efficacy, coping, and sense of community in native and refugee adolescent girls	4
Surveying Diverse Subpopulations in Refugee Studies: Reflections on Sampling, Implementation, and Translation Strategies Drawn from Experiences with a Regional Quantitative Survey on Refugee Parents i	4
How Rohingya refugee parents support children’s prosocial development in crisis-affected and resettlement contexts: Findings from India and Canada	4
‘But You Try to Dig the Hole; Why?’: A Review of the Hearing. The Hearing [Die Anhörung]	3
Hope in the Ruins of Home: Narrative Meaning-Making of Forced Displacement, Place Attachment, and Deferred Future Resettlement in Varosha	3
(Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey	3
The Glass Wall. By Goran Baba Ali	3
Participation as Confrontation: Resistance Within and Outside the Mesas de Participación Established for IDPs in Colombia	3
Resettlement vs. spontaneous applications: Canadians’ attitudes to asylum policy in a comparative perspective	3
Correction to: Methods for the Future, Futures for Methods: Collaborating with Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan	3
Asylum as Reparation: Refuge and Responsibility for the Harms of Displacement. By James Souter	3
Making ‘The Process’: Sexual Vulnerability and Burundian Refugee Boys and Young Men’s Strategies for Onward Migration from Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda	3
Things We Lost to the Water. By Eric Nguyen	3
Suffering to Save Lives: Torture, Cruelty, and Moral Disengagement in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres	3
Correction to: Reinforcing and Contesting Neoliberal Citizenship: Legal Advocates and the Asylum Interview at the US–Mexico border	3
Measuring and assessing refugee success in the USA: a scoping review of quantitative studies	3
Boundary-Making and Political Activism in Protracted Exile: Second-Generation Tibetan Refugees in India	3
Deconstructing the Refugee, Protecting the Vulnerable—A Review of Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move. By Rebecca Hamlin	3
Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology (1st ed.). By V.D. Volkan	3
Chronicles of Disappearance: Palestinian Encampment in the Bekaa Valley (1948–1951)	3
The (Non-)Status of ‘Duldung’: Non-Deportability in Germany and the Politics of Limitless Temporariness	3
Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below. By Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi	3
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination. By Anthea Vogl	3
Gatekeeping in asylum interviews: institutional bias and narrative inequality in South Korea’s refugee screening process	3
Education, Ontological Security, and Preserving Hope in Liminality: Learning from the Daily Strategies Exercised by Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan	3
‘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 sch	3
Understanding the politics of refugee law and policy making: Interdisciplinary and empirical approaches	3
De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities	3
Multi-scalar and diasporic integration: Kurdish populations in Europe between state, diaspora and geopolitics	3
What Becomes a Refugee Camp? Making Camps for European Refugees in North Africa and the Middle East, 1943–46	3