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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	37
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	23
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	22
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	17
Comparing regional membership: people-centric citizenship norms in ECOWAS and ASEAN	16
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	14
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	13
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	13
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	13
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	13
The legacy of Being Political	13
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	12
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	12
Undocumented migrants’ citizenship in pandemic times: the South Korean case	12
Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies	10
Weaponising naturalised citizenship: mitigating the risks of war mobilisation in Putin’s Russia	10
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry	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
Islam, chineseness and citizenship: Sinicizing Muslim minority, becoming Chinese citizen	8
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	8
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	8
Dreams of mass repatriation: government and far-right expansions of deportability in Sweden	8
Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies	8

Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans	8
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: The toré ritual as a decolonial indigenous practice in the Northeast Region	8
Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism	7
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
The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives	7
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	6
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	6
Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis	6
Organic vs. inorganic citizenship	6
Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey	6
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	6
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	6
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	6
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	6
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	6
Street art in the Athens of crisis: preserving the democratic acquis and national identity	6
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	6
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	5
Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work	5
Reflections on citizenship: between promise and practice	5
The rise of cybernetic citizenship	5
Refugee citizenship: citizenship as a means to make a claim about refugeehood	5
Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony	5
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	5
Beyond ‘birth tourism’: transnational birth mobilities and dual citizenship amid geopolitical instability	5
Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion	5
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	5
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	5
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	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
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	5
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	5
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	5
The problem with the Comoros solution: affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon	4
Affecting belonging: experimental education, cultural resources, and affective cultural citizenship in contemporary China	4
Three shades of ‘urban-digital citizenship’: borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town	4
Speaking up, rising above: Latina lived citizenship in the metropolitan US South	4
Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	4
Categorical boundaries: the political production of kinship and citizenship	4
Worker centres and coming out politics in migrant struggles	4
Understanding acts of citizenship: stories of black activism in Greece	4
From ethnic segregation to equal political status: the Making of the concept of citizenship in early modern China	4
Skeptically self-governed citizens: the ‘volunteer!’ injunction as a predicament of neoliberal life	4
Afterword: aesthetic citizenship and Necropolitics	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
‘I was braver when I was younger’: contingent legality and noncitizen schooling among children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia	4
What does the ideal citizen look like in China’s new era? A bottom-up view	4

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