OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Citizenship Studies is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	37
Comparing regional membership: people-centric citizenship norms in ECOWAS and ASEAN	23
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	22
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	21
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	17
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	17
The legacy of Being Political	16
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	14
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	13
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	13
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
Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies	12
Weaponising naturalised citizenship: mitigating the risks of war mobilisation in Putin’s Russia	12
Undocumented migrants’ citizenship in pandemic times: the South Korean case	12
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry	11
Right, righteousness, and act: why should Confucian activists be regarded as citizens in the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China?	11
Heroic citizenship	10
‘Whether you like it or not, this is the future!’: everyday negotiations of the community’s boundary in urban space	10
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	10
Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies	9
Temporalities of citizenship among Finnish Somali women: simultaneities, disruptions and accelerations along the refugeeness-citizenship continuum	9
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: The toré ritual as a decolonial indigenous practice in the Northeast Region	9
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	9

Islam, chineseness and citizenship: Sinicizing Muslim minority, becoming Chinese citizen	8
The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives	8
Dreams of mass repatriation: government and far-right expansions of deportability in Sweden	8
Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism	8
Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans	8
Participation and contested forms of citizenship in the City of Sanctuary	8
From ‘social problems’ to ‘social assets’: geopolitics, discursive shifts in children of Southeast Asian marriage migrants, and mother-child dyadic citizenship in Taiwan	8
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	7
Components of reproductive citizenship: narratives from a restrictive abortion landscape	7
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	7
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	7
Refugee and asylum-seeking women’s lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration	7
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	7
Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey	7
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	6
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	6
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	6
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	6
Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion	6
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	6
Organic vs. inorganic citizenship	6
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	6
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	6
Street art in the Athens of crisis: preserving the democratic acquis and national identity	6
Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis	6
The rise of cybernetic citizenship	6
Refugee citizenship: citizenship as a means to make a claim about refugeehood	6
Categorical boundaries: the political production of kinship and citizenship	5
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	5
Afterword	5
Exploring the links between language, everyday citizenship, and community	5
Beyond ‘birth tourism’: transnational birth mobilities and dual citizenship amid geopolitical instability	5
The problem with the Comoros solution: affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon	5
Afterword: aesthetic citizenship and Necropolitics	5
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	5
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	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
Three shades of ‘urban-digital citizenship’: borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town	5
Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work	5
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	5
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	5
Afterword: on communities, language, and everyday (academic) citizenship	5
Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony	5
Reflections on citizenship: between promise and practice	5