OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Citizenship Studies is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The materiality of lived citizenship: mobilising against infrastructural neglect in Egypt’s Nile Delta	22
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	22
Insurgent citizens in the U.S. detention regime: a case study of mobilization and rights claims from within an Ohio immigration prison	22
The dynamics of localized citizenship at the grassroots in China	20
Humanitarian activist citizens: the emergence of a ‘victim’ political subjectivity in Colombia	17
The partialization (and parcelization) of citizenship?	15
Act up against citizenship: a plea to citizenship studies	12
Understanding acts of citizenship: stories of black activism in Greece	11
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	10
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	10
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	10
Seeing citizenship: singularity, multiplicity, complexity in times of crisis	9
Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges	9
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	9
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	9
Citizenship: flexible, fungible, fragile	9
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands	8
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	8
Speaking up, rising above: Latina lived citizenship in the metropolitan US South	8
‘I was braver when I was younger’: contingent legality and noncitizen schooling among children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia	8
Transnational citizenship: political practices of Kurdish migrants’ descendants in France and Germany	8
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	8
Glamorous citizens: young women, state parades and the affective politics of belonging in Yaoundé, Cameroon	7
Hierarchies of membership and the management of global population: reflections on citizenship and racial ordering	7
Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications	7

Employable femininity and multisensorial hierarchies: becoming aesthetic citizens in Nepal’s aviation training industry	6
Creating the governable population: authoritarian cultural citizenship and the ethnic minorities in a Sino-Tibetan intercultural area in contemporary China	6
Weddings amidst War: the intimate and insurgent politics of marriage	6
Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	6
What does the ideal citizen look like in China’s new era? A bottom-up view	6
Emerging digital citizenship regimes: Pandemic, algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan, and stateless citizenships	6
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	6
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations	6
From ethnic segregation to equal political status: the Making of the concept of citizenship in early modern China	6
‘Paused citizens’: waiting and negotiating liminality in Assam, India	6
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	6
Cultivating belonging in liminality: unaccompanied children and youth building a home at the Zimbabwean-South African borderland	5
National citizenship, migrant deportation and gender/sexual logics of home	5
Gendered gratitude: the civic subjectivity of israeli women soldiers	5
Citizens of nowhere: illegal slavery and racial silence in the African and Indigenous histories of Postcolonial Brazil	5
Armed groups, states and families: accounting for the dead as an element of humane treatment	5
Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics	5
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	5
Constitutional moments and resurgent citizenship	5
Citizenship and agency in the context of Nicaragua’s participatory authoritarianism	5
Let’s keep boys out: promoting exclusion as a means to actualize feminist digital citizenship in China	5
Settling Shenzhen and Hong Kong cross-border students’ identity predicament: towards a new form of regional citizenship	5
The speaking citizen: language requirements and linguistic neoliberal colonialisms	5
Citizenship in the age of populism	5
Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion	5
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	5
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	5
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	4
Marriage migration, family and citizenship in Asia	4
Accruing whiteness: power and resistance in prerequisite citizenship cases of immigrants from the ‘Middle East’	4
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	4
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	4
Between citizens and sit-inners: the 2017 Kamour sit-in and disidentification in Tunisia’s south	4
Speaking the language of the ‘other’: negotiating cultural boundaries through language in chitmahals in Indo-Bangladesh borders	4
Precarious citizenship: detection, detention and ‘deportability’ in India	4
Navigating conflicting integration perspectives: refugee commodification and vulnerability in urban primary schools in Uganda	4
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	4
Social policy with tunnel vision: problems of state efforts to curb adolescent pregnancy in post 1988 Brazil	4
A philosophy of the theory of “acts of citizenship” woven into the fabric of a political anthropology of citizenship	4