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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing regional membership: people-centric citizenship norms in ECOWAS and ASEAN	21
Where is Amarildo? – Who killed Marielle? – state-sanctioned circulations, online memes and black presence in the cityscape of Rio de Janeiro	19
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	17
The policing-citizenship nexus: sex work, criminalisation and the conditions of policed abandonment	16
Refugees and the state: India’s varying response to Myanmarese refugees in recent times	13
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	12
Invisible but deportable non-citizens: constitutive citizenship and acts of Filipino irregular migrants in China	11
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	11
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	10
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	9
The legacy of Being Political	9
“Go back to where you come from”: the national re-making of racist borders”	8
Making immigrants into settlers: settler colonial common sense in Canadian citizenship guides	8
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	8
Heroic citizenship	7
Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies	7
Religion, migration, and the politics of recognition: mediated citizenship and the Tai Association in the China-Myanmar-Thailand borderlands	7
Undocumented migrants’ citizenship in pandemic times: the South Korean case	7
Weaponising naturalised citizenship: mitigating the risks of war mobilisation in Putin’s Russia	7
Citizenship formation in context: student engagement with Core Socialist Values in Chinese universities	7
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry	6
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	6
Who are they? Deconstructing non-citizenship in India	6
Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans	6
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	6

Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies	6
Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism	5
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	5
Visibility regimes and the infrastructures of citizenship: content moderation as digital governance	5
Participation and contested forms of citizenship in the City of Sanctuary	5
Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey	5
Components of reproductive citizenship: narratives from a restrictive abortion landscape	5
Street art in the Athens of crisis: preserving the democratic acquis and national identity	5
‘Abraham and Moses were entrepreneurs’: the making of the entrepreneurial-Zionist citizen in Israeli education	5
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	5
Negotiating citizenship in carceral spaces: experiences of incarcerated Bangladeshi women	5
The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives	5
Independentist narrative among diasporan Rojhelatî (Eastern) Kurds: practices of transborder citizenship, dynamics and lines of contestation	5
Legacy of ‘exceptional’ citizenship: revisiting the debates and history of citizenship in post-colonial Assam	5
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	5
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	5
Flights across the Channel: tracing the memories and heritage of maritime migration in the English Channel	5
Dreams of mass repatriation: government and far-right expansions of deportability in Sweden	5
Islam, chineseness and citizenship: Sinicizing Muslim minority, becoming Chinese citizen	5
Second-class EUropean citizenship: deportation of Poles under the European Arrest Warrant	5
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	4
Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony	4
Contested citizenship in the liminal spaces of a divided Cyprus	4
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	4
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	4
Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis	4
The Green Line as a state of exception: politics of enmity and the production of (non) border regime in Cyprus	4
Looking beyond the chicken’s neck: re-thinking the lives and connections of borderland citizens in the Darjeeling-Nepal border	4
Refugee citizenship: citizenship as a means to make a claim about refugeehood	3
The problem with the Comoros solution: affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon	3
Afterword: aesthetic citizenship and Necropolitics	3
What does the ideal citizen look like in China’s new era? A bottom-up view	3
From ethnic segregation to equal political status: the Making of the concept of citizenship in early modern China	3
Beyond ‘birth tourism’: transnational birth mobilities and dual citizenship amid geopolitical instability	3
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	3
Panopticon citizenship: an insider ethnography of surveillance and exclusion among Tamil returnees in India	3
Auditing cultural citizenship in border checkpoints: perspective on a media event	3
Configurations of citizenship governance: membership asymmetries in times of crisis	3
‘I was braver when I was younger’: contingent legality and noncitizen schooling among children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia	3
Citizenship as compromise? Strategic statelessness and youth activism in Tibetan, Uyghur, and Baloch exile communities	3
Activating citizens: the contribution of the Capability Approach to critical citizenship studies and to understanding the enablers of engaged citizenship	3
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	3
Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work	3
Affecting belonging: experimental education, cultural resources, and affective cultural citizenship in contemporary China	3
Inclusive rights, exclusive capacities: Brexit and the reconfiguration of the British demos	3
Understanding acts of citizenship: stories of black activism in Greece	3
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	3
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	3
Armed groups, states and families: accounting for the dead as an element of humane treatment	2
‘Otherness as a condition of citizenship’: alterity, extimacy and citizenship after orientalism	2

Citizenship anxiety and the politics of land ownership in the eastern Himalayas: the struggle of Nepalis in the Darjeeling hills	2
A labour of love (the right to philosophy)	2
Citizen-subjects in an ethnocratic regime: Palestinians in Israel within a settler colonial context	2
A philosophy of the theory of “acts of citizenship” woven into the fabric of a political anthropology of citizenship	2
Contested beings: citizenship along the riparian zone in the India–Bangladesh borders	2
Correction Notice	2
The invisible hard work of retrieving papers: Syrians and the paradoxes of integration in Germany	2
Transcending non-citizenship? Looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective	2
Between citizens and sit-inners: the 2017 Kamour sit-in and disidentification in Tunisia’s south	2
Let’s keep boys out: promoting exclusion as a means to actualize feminist digital citizenship in China	2
Pathways towards an affectionate community: place-making practices of small business owners in ger areas of Ulaanbaatar	2
Transnational citizenship pathways of Chinese professional migrants in Singapore: negotiating provisionality, permanence, and emerging precarity in (post-)pandemic times	2
Citizenship denied, deferred and assumed: a legal history of racialized citizenship in Myanmar	2
Cooking and caring for others: the lived citizenship experiences of women in Mexico city’s community kitchens	2
Head or heart? Unpacking the subjective dimension of citizenship acquisition: insights from migrants’ narratives in Spain	1
Negotiating unbelonging: lived citizenship and “rejection valley” among Kandas in Kazakhstan	1
Understanding the impact on children’s citizenship of participating in community-based action research	1
Confucian education, cultural responsibility, and Chinese identity: why do Chinese immigrant parents engage their children in learning Confucian classics?	1
Creating the governable population: authoritarian cultural citizenship and the ethnic minorities in a Sino-Tibetan intercultural area in contemporary China	1
Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications	1
Introduction: beyond the territorial jigsaw: locating citizenship and its adjacent spaces in South Asian borderlands	1
Being or becoming democratic citizens? Young people’s liminal participation between everyday life and politics	1
Home is right here and it is right now: homemaking by international students as transmigrant citizens in Australia	1
‘Paused citizens’: waiting and negotiating liminality in Assam, India	1
Within, beyond, and after citizenship: the interplay between visibility and invisibility among migrants in Patras	1
Deportation and authoritarian transformation in the Swedish racial welfare state	1
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands	1
Weddings amidst War: the intimate and insurgent politics of marriage	1
The materiality of lived citizenship: mobilising against infrastructural neglect in Egypt’s Nile Delta	1
Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges	1
Forging citizenship in China’s borderlands: state tactics, everyday struggles, and the pluralization of belonging	1
Citizenship in pandemic times	1
Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics	1
Citizenship in the undeportation regime: unpredictable and situated inclusion at the borders of Europe	1
Further to the bottom of the hierarchy: the stratification of forced migrants’ welfare rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	1
Return of liminality: Singapore Malay-Muslim return migrants from Australia	1
Enforcing deportations in Germany: contours of a neoliberal workfare citizenship regime	1
Employable femininity and multisensorial hierarchies: becoming aesthetic citizens in Nepal’s aviation training industry	1
When the universal right to education meets the liminal legality of migrant children	1
Legal identity at the margins: the impact of violent conflict on birth registration in India	1
Cultivating belonging in liminality: unaccompanied children and youth building a home at the Zimbabwean-South African borderland	1