OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 25. 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
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	93
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	66
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	51
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	42
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	42
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	41
‘You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras	40
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	40
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	39
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	37
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	34
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	34
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	33
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	32
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation	32
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	32
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city	31
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	30
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	28
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	26
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	25
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants	25
Earned citizenship and fairness	25
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship	25
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	25

The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process