OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 24. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	83
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	59
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	48
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	40
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	39
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	39
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants	38
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	37
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	36
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	35
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	35
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	35
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	33
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants	32
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	31
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	30
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	29
‘You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras	29
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality	29
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	28
Earned citizenship and fairness	27
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	26
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city	25
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process	24