OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Citizenship 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	22
Insurgent citizens in the U.S. detention regime: a case study of mobilization and rights claims from within an Ohio immigration prison	22
The materiality of lived citizenship: mobilising against infrastructural neglect in Egypt’s Nile Delta	22
The dynamics of localized citizenship at the grassroots in China	20
Humanitarian activist citizens: the emergence of a ‘victim’ political subjectivity in Colombia	17
The partialization (and parcelization) of citizenship?	15
Act up against citizenship: a plea to citizenship studies	12
Understanding acts of citizenship: stories of black activism in Greece	11
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	10
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	10
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	10
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	9
Citizenship: flexible, fungible, fragile	9
Seeing citizenship: singularity, multiplicity, complexity in times of crisis	9
Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges	9
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	9
‘I was braver when I was younger’: contingent legality and noncitizen schooling among children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia	8
Transnational citizenship: political practices of Kurdish migrants’ descendants in France and Germany	8
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	8
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands	8
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	8
Speaking up, rising above: Latina lived citizenship in the metropolitan US South	8
Hierarchies of membership and the management of global population: reflections on citizenship and racial ordering	7
Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications	7
Glamorous citizens: young women, state parades and the affective politics of belonging in Yaoundé, Cameroon	7

Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	6
What does the ideal citizen look like in China’s new era? A bottom-up view	6
Emerging digital citizenship regimes: Pandemic, algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan, and stateless citizenships	6
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	6
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations	6
From ethnic segregation to equal political status: the Making of the concept of citizenship in early modern China	6
‘Paused citizens’: waiting and negotiating liminality in Assam, India	6
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	6
Employable femininity and multisensorial hierarchies: becoming aesthetic citizens in Nepal’s aviation training industry	6
Creating the governable population: authoritarian cultural citizenship and the ethnic minorities in a Sino-Tibetan intercultural area in contemporary China	6
Weddings amidst War: the intimate and insurgent politics of marriage	6
Let’s keep boys out: promoting exclusion as a means to actualize feminist digital citizenship in China	5
Settling Shenzhen and Hong Kong cross-border students’ identity predicament: towards a new form of regional citizenship	5
The speaking citizen: language requirements and linguistic neoliberal colonialisms	5
Citizenship in the age of populism	5
Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion	5
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	5
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	5
Cultivating belonging in liminality: unaccompanied children and youth building a home at the Zimbabwean-South African borderland	5
National citizenship, migrant deportation and gender/sexual logics of home	5
Gendered gratitude: the civic subjectivity of israeli women soldiers	5
Citizens of nowhere: illegal slavery and racial silence in the African and Indigenous histories of Postcolonial Brazil	5
Armed groups, states and families: accounting for the dead as an element of humane treatment	5
Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics	5
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	5
Constitutional moments and resurgent citizenship	5
Citizenship and agency in the context of Nicaragua’s participatory authoritarianism	5
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	4
Between citizens and sit-inners: the 2017 Kamour sit-in and disidentification in Tunisia’s south	4
Speaking the language of the ‘other’: negotiating cultural boundaries through language in chitmahals in Indo-Bangladesh borders	4
Precarious citizenship: detection, detention and ‘deportability’ in India	4
Navigating conflicting integration perspectives: refugee commodification and vulnerability in urban primary schools in Uganda	4
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	4
Social policy with tunnel vision: problems of state efforts to curb adolescent pregnancy in post 1988 Brazil	4
A philosophy of the theory of “acts of citizenship” woven into the fabric of a political anthropology of citizenship	4
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	4
Marriage migration, family and citizenship in Asia	4
Accruing whiteness: power and resistance in prerequisite citizenship cases of immigrants from the ‘Middle East’	4
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	4
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	3
Refugee citizenship: citizenship as a means to make a claim about refugeehood	3
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	3
The legacy of Being Political	3
Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis	3
The rise of cybernetic citizenship	3
Beauty banned: navigating aesthetic citizenship in Rwandan borderlands	3
The symbolic violence of citizenship tests: low-schooled refugees narrate their experience	3
Precarious reproductive citizenship: gaps in employment protections for pregnant precarious status migrants in Canada	3
Translators as mediators of citizenship: rethinking community in relational translation	3
‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan	3

Organic vs. inorganic citizenship	3
Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy	3
The city and the clock in planetary times: revisiting Isin’sBeing Politicaltwenty years on	3
State, citizenship and gender-variant communities in India	3
From acts of citizenship to transnational lived citizenship: potential and pitfalls of subversive readings of citizenship	3
Dressing masculinities: muted colours, aesthetic citizenship and nation-building in Tashkent, Uzbekistan	3
Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and rescue. The memory of solidarity at the Alpine border	3
Sounds of a migrant city: radio representation and cultural citizenship in the case of Shenzhen, China	2
Intimate standardisation: how the activating welfare state localises citizens and standardises welfare	2
Citizenship Matters: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Global Perspective on Naturalization	2
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	2
Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies	2
Documenting life amidst the Syrian war: Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s performance of statehood through identity documents	2
Introduction: reconsidering Chinese citizenship: cultural roots and cultural reach	2
Undocumented migrants’ citizenship in pandemic times: the South Korean case	2
Citizenship Diversified: Bali-Hindu Customary Institutions and Democratization	2
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	2
Navigating citizenship and motherhood in and beyond Berlin	2
Remember to die: recovering belonging in diasporic end of life art	2
Showcase citizens: citizenship in the making along the borders of post-colonial South Asia	2
The nomos of mobile commons: towards a nomadic constitution of Europe	2
Confucian education, cultural responsibility, and Chinese identity: why do Chinese immigrant parents engage their children in learning Confucian classics?	2
Wong Kim Ark ’s children: immigrant citizenship under Chinese exclusion	2
Further to the bottom of the hierarchy: the stratification of forced migrants’ welfare rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	2
Naturalization in African states: its past and potential future	2
Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony	2
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	2
Understanding the impact on children’s citizenship of participating in community-based action research	2
‘Otherness as a condition of citizenship’: alterity, extimacy and citizenship after orientalism	2
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	2
Within, beyond, and after citizenship: the interplay between visibility and invisibility among migrants in Patras	2
Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work	1
Decolonising the language of citizenship	1
Unequal access: wealth as barrier and accelerator to citizenship	1
Can citizenship studies escape citizenism?	1
Imperial afterlives: citizenship and racial/caste fragility in Canada and India	1
Rethinking sanctuary cities in Canada: reflecting on a decade of municipal access without fear policies	1
Citizenship and Bleakness	1
Data-Driven Citizenship Regimes in Contemporary Urban Scenarios: An Introduction	1
Transcending non-citizenship? Looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective	1
Citizenship and monogamy in Canada: the case of the Shafia family murders	1
The symbiosis of state and citizens: Yan Fu’s transformation of Chinese citizenship idea	1
Temporalities of citizenship among Finnish Somali women: simultaneities, disruptions and accelerations along the refugeeness-citizenship continuum	1
Afterword: on communities, language, and everyday (academic) citizenship	1
A Sisyphean task of qualifying for digital citizenship? The precarious learning processes of disadvantaged migrant women in the context of inordinate expectations	1
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	1
Sexual citizenship: rhetoric or reality for Rural Gay Men in Ireland and England?	1
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	1
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	1
The popular sovereignty of Indigenous peoples: a challenge in multi-people states	1
Claiming rights. The mobilization of youth of migrant descent for access to citizenship rights in Italy	1
Beyond ‘birth tourism’: transnational birth mobilities and dual citizenship amid geopolitical instability	1
Congolese mothers, affective circuits and ‘acts of citizenship’ in Russia	1
Self-Il/legalisation and political subjecthood: Syrian migrant women in the EU	1
Migrant women becoming British citizens: care and coloniality	1
Reorganization of borders, migrant workers, and the coloniality of power	1
Citizenship denied, deferred and assumed: a legal history of racialized citizenship in Myanmar	1
Heroic citizenship	1
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	1
Afterword	1
Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far	1
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: The toré ritual as a decolonial indigenous practice in the Northeast Region	1
Anticolonial citizenship: from slavery to Windrush	1
Correction Notice	1
Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies	1
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry	1
Dedemocratizing citizenship: how neoliberalism used market justice to move from welfare queening to authoritarianism in 25 short years	1
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	1
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	1
(Non)recognition of legal identity in aspirant states: evidence from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria	1
Exploring the links between language, everyday citizenship, and community	1
Citizenship and statelessness among mobile maritime populations: the case of the Moken in Thailand	1