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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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	69
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	53
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	43
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	43
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	42
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	41
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	40
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	40
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	39
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	34
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	34
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants	33
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	33
Earned citizenship and fairness	33
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship	33
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality	32
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants	31
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	30
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	29
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process	28
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	28
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	27
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	26
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city	26

Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation