OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 26. 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
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	117
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	89
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	70
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants	55
Earned citizenship and fairness	52
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	52
‘Not like those Lebs’: intra-ethnic distinction and conditional citizenship in regional Australia	50
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	50
Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan	45
Can activation of a shared identity increase cooperation between natives and migrants?	45
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship	41
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	40
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	40
Stay or go? Post-Brexit and COVID-19 dilemmas of Return in British expatriate retiree communities in Spain	38
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation	37
Embracing whiteness, becoming Western. The case of Polish expatriates in Saudi Arabia	34
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	34
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	33
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	33
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	30
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	29
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	29
‘You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras	28
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	28
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	28

Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	27
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	26