OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Citizenship Studies is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Lived citizenship: conceptualising an emerging field	92
Introduction: inclusive solidarity and citizenship along migratory routes in Europe and the Americas	45
Abolitionist vistas of the human. Border struggles, migration and freedom of movement	41
Migrant voting: here, there, in both countries, or nowhere	39
‘Finland kills with a pen’ – asylum seekers’ protest against bureaucratic violence as politics of human rights	27
Re-assembling the surveillable refugee body in the era of data-craving	26
Building the sanctuary city from the ground up: abolitionist solidarity and transformative reform	26
Challenging who counts as a citizen. The infrastructure of solidarity contesting racial profiling in Switzerland	22
Containing mobile citizenship: changing geopolitics and its impact on solidarity activism in Mexico	22
‘At least they are welcome in my home!’ Contentious hospitality in home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland	19
Emerging digital citizenship regimes: Pandemic, algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan, and stateless citizenships	19
Technologies, infrastructures and migrations: material citizenship politics	18
Mobilizing for safe passages and escape aid: challenging the ‘asylum paradox’ between active and activist citizenship, humanitarianism and solidarity	17
Volunteering for refugees and the repositioning of state sovereignty and civil society: the case of Greece	16
The re-making of developmental citizenship in post-handover Hong Kong	15
Theorizing half-statelessness: a case study of the Nation-State Law in Israel	14
Citizenship as status, habitus and acts: Language requirements and civic orientation in Sweden	14
Unequal access: wealth as barrier and accelerator to citizenship	12
Knowledge and legitimacy in asylum decision-making: the politics of country of origin information	11
Operation shelter as humanitarian infrastructure: material and normative renderings of Venezuelan migration in Brazil	11
Differential solidarity: protests against deportations as structured contestations over citizenship	11
Fragmented citizenship: contemporary infrastructures of mobility containment along two migratory routes	11
Everyday discourse as a space of citizenship: the linguistic construction of in-groups and out-groups in online discussion boards	10
The invisible hard work of retrieving papers: Syrians and the paradoxes of integration in Germany	10
Data-Driven Citizenship Regimes in Contemporary Urban Scenarios: An Introduction	9

Transnational marriage migration and the negotiation of precarious pathways beyond partial citizenship in Singapore	8
‘Whether you like it or not, this is the future!’: everyday negotiations of the community’s boundary in urban space	8
Marriage migration, family and citizenship in Asia	8
Enfranchising the disenfranchised: should refugees receive political rights in liberal democracies?	8
Deployed fears and suspended solidarity along the migratory route in Europe	8
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	8
Right, righteousness, and act: why should Confucian activists be regarded as citizens in the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China?	8
Beyond citizenship: the material politics of alternative infrastructures	8
Reframing political space. Pro-European mobilisation and the enactment of european citizenship	8
Held at the gates of Europe: barriers to abolishing immigration detention in Turkey	7
Republicanism, diversity and public space in contemporary political theory: the normative basis of intercultural citizenship	7
Haunting sovereignty and the neurotic subject: contemporary constellations of fear, anxiety and uncertainty	7
Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far	7
Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges	7
Migrants, activists, and the Mexican State: framing violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border	6
States and human immobilization: bridging the conceptual separation of slavery, immigration controls, and mass incarceration	6
Speaking the language of the ‘other’: negotiating cultural boundaries through language in chitmahals in Indo-Bangladesh borders	6
Informing for the sake of it: legal intricacies, acceleration and suspicion in the German and Swiss migration regimes	6
Platform Urbanization, its recent acceleration, and implications on citizenship. The case of Singapore	6
Decarceral Futures: Bridging Immigration and Prison Justice towards an Abolitionist Future	6
Gramscian perspectives on citizenship: snapshots from the experience of regional migrants in the Republic of Cyprus	6
From ‘social problems’ to ‘social assets’: geopolitics, discursive shifts in children of Southeast Asian marriage migrants, and mother-child dyadic citizenship in Taiwan	6
Precarious citizenship: detection, detention and ‘deportability’ in India	6
Responding to the call for the Super Citizen: migrants’ ambivalent experiences of naturalization in Germany and the United Kingdom	5
Malignant citizenship: race, imperialism, and Puerto Rico-United States entanglements	5
Citizenship: flexible, fungible, fragile	5
The linguistic boundary problem	5
Chinese migrants’ spatial politics of belonging, identity, and citizenship in Santiago de Chile	5
Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and rescue. The memory of solidarity at the Alpine border	5
Procedural (in)justice for EU citizens moving to Belgium: an inquiry into municipal registration practices	5
Migrant justice as reproductive justice: birthright citizenship and the politics of immigration detention for pregnant women in Canada	5
Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion	5
Learning to be Legal: Transition Narratives of Joy and Survivor Guilt of Previously Undocumented 1.5-Generation Latinx Immigrants in the United States	4
Indigenous citizenship, shared fate, and non-ideal circumstances	4
Navigating citizenship and motherhood in and beyond Berlin	4
Translators as mediators of citizenship: rethinking community in relational translation	4
China’s ethnic minority and neoliberal developmental citizenship: Yanbian Koreans in perspective	4
Substituting immigration detention centres with ‘open prisons’ in Indonesia: alternatives to detention as the continuum of unfreedom	4
Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy	4
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	4
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	4
Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’	4
Congolese mothers, affective circuits and ‘acts of citizenship’ in Russia	4
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	4
Immigration status and policing in Canada: current problems, activist strategies and abolitionist visions	4
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	4
Migrant women becoming British citizens: care and coloniality	3
Crisis, capital accumulation, and the ‘Crimmigration’ fix in the aftermath of the global slump	3
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	3
Discretionary maternal citizenship: state hegemony and resistance of single marriage migrant mothers from mainland China to Hong Kong	3

The rise of cybernetic citizenship	3
‘What about it is unclear? I mean I was born here:’ Ungeklärte Staatsangehörigkeit and the (re-)production of de facto statelessness in Germany	3
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	3
Reluctant border agents: enlistment of transportation workers in procedures to limit refugee mobilities in Turkey	3
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands	3
Becoming ambivalent subjects of labour rights: subaltern mobilisations, the law and the state	3
Curated hostilities and the story of Abdoul Abdi: relational securitization in the settler colonial racial state	3
Towards de-Westernism in citizenship studies: implications from China	3
The speaking citizen: language requirements and linguistic neoliberal colonialisms	3
Reshaping conceptions of citizenship? German Business sector engagement and refugee integration	3
A Foucauldian perspective on the denationalisation of terrorists: sovereign means, biopolitical ends?	3
Legal identity in a looking-glass world: documenting citizens of aspirant states	3
Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	3
Developmental pluralism and stratified developmental citizenship: an alternative perspective on Chinese post-socialism	3
Why developmental citizenship, why China? An analytic introduction	3
Citizenship Matters: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Global Perspective on Naturalization	3
Photovoice as an unfamiliar act of citizenship: everyday belonging, place-making and political subjectivity	3
‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan	3
A question that has no end: the politics of life and death in the search for disappeared migrants in Mexico	3
Being citizens of the City of Gaza: the resettlement of the Al-Shati Refugee Camp at Sheikh Radwan, 1967-1982	3
Three shades of ‘urban-digital citizenship’: borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town	3
Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications	3
Ex-centric citizenship: bolivian migration and violence in Argentina	2
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	2
Corporate social vs. developmental responsibility: corporate citizenship in the restructuring of China’s pharmaceutical industry	2
Mutual aid as abolitionist praxis	2
Towards scholar-activism: transversal relations, dissent, and creative acts	2
Penalizing ‘runaway’ migrant wives: commercial cross-border marriages and home space as confinement	2
ICE comes to Tennessee: violence work and abolition in the Appalachian South	2
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	2
The popular sovereignty of Indigenous peoples: a challenge in multi-people states	2
Gendered gratitude: the civic subjectivity of israeli women soldiers	2
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	2
Citizenship beyond the normative script: young immigrants’ volunteering as a practice of ‘citizenship from below’	2
Driving social change from below: exploring the role of counter-security technologies in constructing mobile noncitizens	2
Granting rights through illegalisation: EU citizens’ contested entitlements, actors’ logics and policy inconsistency in Belgium	2
Decolonising the language of citizenship	2
Reorganization of borders, migrant workers, and the coloniality of power	2
Self-Il/legalisation and political subjecthood: Syrian migrant women in the EU	2
Naturalization in African states: its past and potential future	2
Accruing whiteness: power and resistance in prerequisite citizenship cases of immigrants from the ‘Middle East’	2
Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics	2
Citizenship struggles: 25th anniversary special issue	2
Citizenship, minorities and the police: attitudes of Jewish Ethiopian Israelis toward police reforms	2
Negotiating citizenship and reforging Muslim identities: the case of young women of Japanese-Pakistani Parentage	2
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: Thetoréritual as a decolonial indigenous practice in the Northeast Region	2
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	2
Further to the bottom of the hierarchy: the stratification of forced migrants’ welfare rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	2
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	2