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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	39
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	24
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	23
Comparing regional membership: people-centric citizenship norms in ECOWAS and ASEAN	18
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	16
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	15
Invisible but deportable non-citizens: constitutive citizenship and acts of Filipino irregular migrants in China	14
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	14
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	13
The legacy of Being Political	13
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	13
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	13
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	12
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	12
Weaponising naturalised citizenship: mitigating the risks of war mobilisation in Putin’s Russia	11
Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies	11
Undocumented migrants’ citizenship in pandemic times: the South Korean case	10
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry	10
Religion, migration, and the politics of recognition: mediated citizenship and the Tai Association in the China-Myanmar-Thailand borderlands	10
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: The toré ritual as a decolonial indigenous practice in the Northeast Region	9
Temporalities of citizenship among Finnish Somali women: simultaneities, disruptions and accelerations along the refugeeness-citizenship continuum	9
Right, righteousness, and act: why should Confucian activists be regarded as citizens in the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China?	9
Heroic citizenship	9
Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies	9
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	9

Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans	8
Islam, chineseness and citizenship: Sinicizing Muslim minority, becoming Chinese citizen	8
Dreams of mass repatriation: government and far-right expansions of deportability in Sweden	8
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	8
The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives	8
Components of reproductive citizenship: narratives from a restrictive abortion landscape	7
Participation and contested forms of citizenship in the City of Sanctuary	7
Refugee and asylum-seeking women’s lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration	7
Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey	7
Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism	7
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	6
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	6
Organic vs. inorganic citizenship	6
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	6
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	6
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	6
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	6
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	6
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	6
Street art in the Athens of crisis: preserving the democratic acquis and national identity	6
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	6
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	6
The rise of cybernetic citizenship	6
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	5
Refugee citizenship: citizenship as a means to make a claim about refugeehood	5
Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work	5
Activating citizens: the contribution of the Capability Approach to critical citizenship studies and to understanding the enablers of engaged citizenship	5
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	5
Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion	5
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	5
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	5
Reflections on citizenship: between promise and practice	5
Beyond ‘birth tourism’: transnational birth mobilities and dual citizenship amid geopolitical instability	5
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	5
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	5
Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony	5
Three shades of ‘urban-digital citizenship’: borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town	5
The problem with the Comoros solution: affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon	5
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	5
Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis	5
Skeptically self-governed citizens: the ‘volunteer!’ injunction as a predicament of neoliberal life	4
Act up against citizenship: a plea to citizenship studies	4
‘I was braver when I was younger’: contingent legality and noncitizen schooling among children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia	4
From ethnic segregation to equal political status: the Making of the concept of citizenship in early modern China	4
Categorical boundaries: the political production of kinship and citizenship	4
‘What about it is unclear? I mean I was born here:’ Ungeklärte Staatsangehörigkeit and the (re-)production of de facto statelessness in Ge	4
Affecting belonging: experimental education, cultural resources, and affective cultural citizenship in contemporary China	4
Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	4
Afterword: aesthetic citizenship and Necropolitics	4
Understanding acts of citizenship: stories of black activism in Greece	4

Speaking up, rising above: Latina lived citizenship in the metropolitan US South	4
What does the ideal citizen look like in China’s new era? A bottom-up view	4
Between citizens and sit-inners: the 2017 Kamour sit-in and disidentification in Tunisia’s south	3
‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan	3
The speaking citizen: language requirements and linguistic neoliberal colonialisms	3
The city and the clock in planetary times: revisiting Isin’sBeing Politicaltwenty years on	3
‘Otherness as a condition of citizenship’: alterity, extimacy and citizenship after orientalism	3
Gendered gratitude: the civic subjectivity of israeli women soldiers	3
Armed groups, states and families: accounting for the dead as an element of humane treatment	3
The popular sovereignty of Indigenous peoples: a challenge in multi-people states	3
A philosophy of the theory of “acts of citizenship” woven into the fabric of a political anthropology of citizenship	3
Let’s keep boys out: promoting exclusion as a means to actualize feminist digital citizenship in China	3
Can citizenship studies escape citizenism?	3
Correction Notice	3
Towards de-Westernism in citizenship studies: implications from China	2
Legal identity at the margins: the impact of violent conflict on birth registration in India	2
Empirical understandings of informal citizenship and membership: internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic Of Congo	2
A labour of love (the right to philosophy)	2
Claiming rights. The mobilization of youth of migrant descent for access to citizenship rights in Italy	2
Reconstructing citizenship (again)	2
The rise of reparative citizenship	2
Creating the governable population: authoritarian cultural citizenship and the ethnic minorities in a Sino-Tibetan intercultural area in contemporary China	2
Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications	2
When the universal right to education meets the liminal legality of migrant children	2
Citizen-subjects in an ethnocratic regime: Palestinians in Israel within a settler colonial context	2
Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far	2
Citizenship denied, deferred and assumed: a legal history of racialized citizenship in Myanmar	2
Head or heart? Unpacking the subjective dimension of citizenship acquisition: insights from migrants’ narratives in Spain	2
The work ‘ethics’: negotiating a neoliberalized and respectable lesbian citizenship in a group of ‘post-90s’ Chinese lesbians’ discourses	2
Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges	2
Being or becoming democratic citizens? Young people’s liminal participation between everyday life and politics	2
Forging citizenship in China’s borderlands: state tactics, everyday struggles, and the pluralization of belonging	2
The invisible hard work of retrieving papers: Syrians and the paradoxes of integration in Germany	2
Platform Urbanization, its recent acceleration, and implications on citizenship. The case of Singapore	2
Citizenship and difference in France: colonial histories and postcolonial controversies	2
Citizenship in pandemic times	2
Transcending non-citizenship? Looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective	2
Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics	2
Is citizenship worth it? Naturalisation attitudes among Swiss migrants to Germany and German migrants to Switzerland	1
Hukou, socio-spatial class, and the strategic citizenship practices of Chinese labour migrants in Australia	1
Towards scholar-activism: transversal relations, dissent, and creative acts	1
In search of ‘cultural invisibility’: cultivating Iranian-American diasporic citizenship in rural kentucky	1
(Non)recognition of legal identity in aspirant states: evidence from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria	1
Within, beyond, and after citizenship: the interplay between visibility and invisibility among migrants in Patras	1
National citizenship, migrant deportation and gender/sexual logics of home	1
The materiality of lived citizenship: mobilising against infrastructural neglect in Egypt’s Nile Delta	1
Employable femininity and multisensorial hierarchies: becoming aesthetic citizens in Nepal’s aviation training industry	1
Confucian education, cultural responsibility, and Chinese identity: why do Chinese immigrant parents engage their children in learning Confucian classics?	1
Weddings amidst War: the intimate and insurgent politics of marriage	1
(Re)shaping politics: displaced people from Ukraine in Prague, political subjectivities, and solidarity relations	1
Dangerous or endangered: the presence of African Israeli children in urban public spaces	1
Self-Il/legalisation and political subjecthood: Syrian migrant women in the EU	1
Reorganization of borders, migrant workers, and the coloniality of power	1
The anticolonial settler: reflections on citizenship, violence and decolonisation	1
Precarious reproductive citizenship: gaps in employment protections for pregnant precarious status migrants in Canada	1
From acts of citizenship to transnational lived citizenship: potential and pitfalls of subversive readings of citizenship	1
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands	1
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations	1
‘Paused citizens’: waiting and negotiating liminality in Assam, India	1
Negotiating unbelonging: lived citizenship and “rejection valley” among Kandas in Kazakhstan	1
Citizenship struggles: 25th anniversary special issue	1
Legal identity in a looking-glass world: documenting citizens of aspirant states	1
Implications of legal identity documentation issued by the Kurdish-led Self Administration in Northern Syria: competition and compromise with the central state	1
Data-Driven Citizenship Regimes in Contemporary Urban Scenarios: An Introduction	1
Understanding the impact on children’s citizenship of participating in community-based action research	1
Marriage migration, family and citizenship in Asia	1
Emerging digital citizenship regimes: Pandemic, algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan, and stateless citizenships	1
Hierarchies of membership and the management of global population: reflections on citizenship and racial ordering	1
Cultivating belonging in liminality: unaccompanied children and youth building a home at the Zimbabwean-South African borderland	1
Further to the bottom of the hierarchy: the stratification of forced migrants’ welfare rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	1