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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	107
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	76
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	59
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	46
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	46
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	46
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	45
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation	45
‘Not like those Lebs’: intra-ethnic distinction and conditional citizenship in regional Australia	43
Can activation of a shared identity increase cooperation between natives and migrants?	37
Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan	36
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	35
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	35
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship	35
Stay or go? Post-Brexit and COVID-19 dilemmas of Return in British expatriate retiree communities in Spain	34
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	33
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	33
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality	33
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	32
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	31
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	27
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	27
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	26
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	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