OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Is participation on the move a utopia? The study of EU mobile citizens in Latvia	27
The socioeconomics of Sikh American identity	25
Producing whiteness through urban space: the socio-spatial construction of white identities in Amsterdam	16
#SouthAsians4BlackLives: racial positionality in digital allyship and the prospects for cross-racial solidarity for racial justice in the USA	14
Good Muslims, good citizens? An intersectional approach to Muslims’ everyday (hidden) resistance tactics in Belgium	13
A provincial view	11
The benefits of longitudinal ethnography	11
Framing ‘gender ideology’: religious populism in the Croatian Catholic Church	10
Agribusiness and migration: the ages of Paraguayan rural emigration from the perspective of migratory stratifications	9
Islam and faith in times of crisis: religious observance and Muslim communities in the pandemic	9
Identities : 30 years on	8
Decolonizing politics with insights from Indigenous Studies	8
‘Keeping two cultures together’: the binary construction of belonging in narratives of professionals on children’s cultural identity	8
Unpacking the nexus of ethnoreligious identity, minority status, and young men’s feminist self-identification in Turkey	8
The relation between multiculturalism, interculturalism and cosmopolitanism in UK diversity politics	6
Contesting integration discourses: migrant organizations and epistemic resistance in northern Norway	6
Reflections on race, class and multicultural entanglements	6
Relational identity of transnational Chinese returnees as (non-)shanghainese: everyday experiences and places	5
Becoming ‘true’ Muslims in Canada: experiences of Uyghur immigrants	5
Contesting the margins of coloniality: Māori adoptee identities in the context of Māori identity scholarship	5
Fighting identity and enchanting culture: reflections on working-class conviviality *Book Review of Fighting Identity: An Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London,*	5
On the generative Unfinished Politics of Race	4
Reassessing philanthropic cartographies: the Caribbean lens	4
Between commodification and racial capital: an autoethnography exploring whiteness in higher education in Japan	4
Daffawi: self-Orientalism and identity work among Palestinians in Israel	4

Transnational identities and agency: navigating everyday life as a young adult migrant in Glasgow, UK	4
From disconnection to intersection: making race and religion at the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)	4
‘My multiple cultural backgrounds are pulling me in all directions with my identity’: Asian and Latino Canadian youth experiences of cultural identity	4
Beyond binaries: ritual, space and trans women in Manipur	4
Upping the anti: antiracist identity work and its obfuscations	3
‘Messy refusal’, assimilationist moves, and the reproduction of Eurocentric modernity/coloniality: examining anti-Islamophobia in Lebanon	3
The intersections of race and gendered stereotypes within the constructions of digital women footballers in video games	3
Representing Sweden: packaging Swedish identity through curators of Sweden	3
Good Mzungu? Whiteness and white supremacy in postcolonial Uganda	3
Negotiating identities. On identity politics and deliberation	3
The BBC, public intellectuals, and the making of Five Views of Multi-Racial Britain	3
Thinking about repair	3
Being anti-racist as ceremonial journey: from and within reflective learning stories	3
From otherness to belongingness: the role of co-ethnic relationships in Korean New Zealanders’ ethnic identity formation	3
Displacement at seascapes: Senegalese fishermen in between state power and foreign fleets	3
Intercultural capital and ambiguous loss in in-between space: a digital ethnography of Anglo-Sino academic families amid China’s transformation into the post-pandemic era	2
Presumed identities perceived difference: how children of South Asian Indian immigrants experience and negotiate being an American	2
Criminalizing black solidarity: Dublin deportations, raids, and racial statecraft in southern Germany	2
Civic identity: media, belonging, and Latiné youth in the 2020 US presidential election	2
Utility workers: religion and the migratory stratification of foreign nurses across generations	2
Food for the soul: religious identity and ethical halal labelling in sharing economy apps	2
Producing labour stratification: how migration policies affect the working, living and housing conditions of migrant farmworkers	2
Modes of embodiment: exercising agency through Afro-Cuban dance	2
Pan-African identity, psychological well-being, and mental health among African Americans	2
Multiraciality and racialized politics in the United States	2
Feeling race: mapping emotions in policing Britain’s borders	2
Flying While Muslim and Driving While Black: examining the differences in racialized surveillance and policing for African American Muslims	2
Tracing the circulation of emotions in Swiss migration enforcement: organizational dissonances, emotional contradictions and frictions	2
Blood, it’s in you to give, just don’t be an African: the Canadian blood system and the African Indefinite Deferral Policy, 1997 to 2018	2
‘De-dreading’ as collective agency *Book Review of Dread: Facing Futureless Futures* , by David Theo Goldberg, Reviewed by Anjali Prabhu	2
Turbaned Northern Thai-ness: selective transnationalism, situational ethnicity and local cultural intimacy among Chiang Mai Punjabis	2
Seeing Others from here and there	2
Dead serious racial humour Book Review of The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy , by Raúl	2
Intracultural dialogue as a precursor to cross-community initiatives: the Irish language among Protestants/unionists in Northern Ireland	2
Islamophobia in Scottish towns and small cities	2
The emotional governance of immigration controls	2
Muslim women as “double ambassadors” of Islam: breaking stereotypes in everyday life and Muslim communities	2
Fighting Identity : reflections on its contribution to conviviality and ethnography *Book Review of Fighting Identity: An Ethnography of Kickboxing i*	2
What’s the difference? Theorizing belongings, relationalities and capitalism	2
Emirati expats in social media: a new arena for involvement and political expression?	1
Feminist spirituality and Roma artistic activism: the Afterlife of the uncanonised Saint Sara Kali	1
The displacement of the ‘hero elect’ by the ‘caring refusenik’	1
Understanding racial equity in research with Indigenous Peoples: including anti-racism and decolonization approaches	1
From being othered to promoting the value of otherness: pride and price of intercultural dialogue among migrant immediate descendants in Italy	1
Interplay between representing ‘others’ and experiencing peripherality: ethnographic study in a Swiss valley	1
Boxing clever: exercising with ethnicity, ethics and embodied ethnography *Book Review of Fighting Identity: An Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London,*	1
Ethnic languages conundrum in postcolonial Pakistan and the role of women in fostering Punjabi linguistic cringe	1
‘Seeing others’ as the antidote to polarized politics?	1
The truth of two cities: Trieste, Rijeka and the interplay between nationalism and cosmopolitanism in cross-border regional Europe	1
Empowerment through enterprise: Balkan migrants and the narrative of entrepreneurial identity	1

Serving diaspora in the homeland: Korean American culinary entrepreneurs in Seoul’s food and beverage industry	1
Breaking all moulds? Racialized romance between white/yangwomen and Chinese men	1
A Chinatown undeclared: Chinese entrepreneurs’ unethnic ways of being in Ikebukuro, Tokyo	1
Negotiating one’s own belonging: envisaging the Japanese (Im)migratory stratification through immigrant-origin youths’ narratives	1
Europe and the migrant’s gaze: three approaches to migration in research and film	1
Why study racist humour? An invitation to critical humour studies	1
‘Back in order’: the role of gatekeepers in erecting internal borders in Barcelona	1
Cultural racism in the US and UK: The Culture Trap	1
‘One of the family’ revisited. Exploitation, bonding, and status in paid care work	1
Mapping racial capitalism in 18th century Jamaica: debts and disavowals	1
The construction of Palestinian death as an exceptional repetition in Israel	1
Racial experience and knowing the political in liberal democracies	1
Racism without ‘race’: colorblindness, blackness and everyday racism in contemporary Germany	1
Conservative turn and political identity: challenges to democracy in Indonesia after presidential election 2019	1
Whiteness, housing and the ‘Migrant Issue’: race and class in urban Chile	1
Eastern Europe’s ‘peripheral whiteness’: class and gender racialization among Polish migrants and returnees	1
British Muslim men and clothes: the role of stigma and the political (re)configurations around sartorial choices	1
Black boundaries	1
Racial others and settler colonialism in Israel: migrant rights claims refracted through colonial logics	1
Vigilant Whiteness: racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain	1
Affective control: the emotional life of (en)forcing mobility control in Europe	1
‘We have much identity’: contesting the claimed hybrid identity in Fadia Faqir’s My Name is Salma and Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun	1
‘Paperwork or no paperwork, we are guests in this country’: mothering and belonging in the wake of the Windrush Scandal	1
Feeling excluded? Why ethnic minorities (do not) engage in participatory budgeting	1
How different opinions in Black Lives Matter (BLM) regarding the notion of ally shed light on social movement and ally studies	1
The non-participation of ethnic minorities and migrants in representative and deliberative democracy	1
Remembering is caring (or: what is complicitous memory?)	1
Internal migration and stigmatization in the rural Banat region of Romania	1
Displaced memories in the Trieste border area: a neverending historical entanglement	1
Colonialism, racialization and the making of modern Britain Book Review of Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism	1
Patriotic cosmopolitans in Budapest: narratives of belonging among highly skilled migrants	1