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

Article	Citations
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	42
Comparing regional membership: people-centric citizenship norms in ECOWAS and ASEAN	26
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	18
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	17
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	17
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	17
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	16
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	16
The legacy of Being Political	16
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	15
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	15
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	13
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	13
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	12
Weaponising naturalised citizenship: mitigating the risks of war mobilisation in Putin’s Russia	12
Heroic citizenship	11
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry	11
Religion, migration, and the politics of recognition: mediated citizenship and the Tai Association in the China-Myanmar-Thailand borderlands	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	10
Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans	9
Participation and contested forms of citizenship in the City of Sanctuary	9
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	9

Dreams of mass repatriation: government and far-right expansions of deportability in Sweden	9
Right, righteousness, and act: why should Confucian activists be regarded as citizens in the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China?	9
Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey	8
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	8
Refugee and asylum-seeking women’s lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration	8
Islam, chineseness and citizenship: Sinicizing Muslim minority, becoming Chinese citizen	8
Components of reproductive citizenship: narratives from a restrictive abortion landscape	8
Street art in the Athens of crisis: preserving the democratic acquis and national identity	8
Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism	8
The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives	8
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	8
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	7
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	7
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	7
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	7
Organic vs. inorganic citizenship	6
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	6
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	6
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	6
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	6
Contested citizenship in the liminal spaces of a divided Cyprus	6
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	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
Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis	6
Beyond ‘birth tourism’: transnational birth mobilities and dual citizenship amid geopolitical instability	5
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	5
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	5
Three shades of ‘urban-digital citizenship’: borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town	5
Activating citizens: the contribution of the Capability Approach to critical citizenship studies and to understanding the enablers of engaged 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
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
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	5
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	5
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	5
The problem with the Comoros solution: affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon	5
Categorical boundaries: the political production of kinship and citizenship	5