OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Migration and Law is 0. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Developing the Human Rights-Based Approach to Persecution Further? The CJEU’s Approach in the Afghan Women and Girls Case	14
The EU Returns Agency: The Commissions’ Ambitious Plans and Their Human Rights Implications	10
Complementary Pathways: Pledging Protection at the Edges of EU Law	8
Gaps in Human Rights Law? Detention and Area-Based Restrictions in the Proposed Border Procedures in the EU	7
Beyond the Rainbow? An Intersectional Analysis of the Vulnerabilities faced by LGBTIQ+ Asylum-Seekers	7
Complementary Pathways in Murky Legal Waters: A Lost Cause or a Light in the End of the Tunnel?	5
Moving between EU Countries with Temporary Protection Status after the Krasiliva Decision	5
The CJEU in Changu: No Member State Obligation under the Return Directive in Conjunction with the Charter to Regularise Irregular Migrants	5
The Fiction of Non-entry in European Migration Law	5
Examining Asylum Seekers’ “Other Vulnerabilities”: Intersectionality in Context	5
State Complicity in Aiding and Assisting Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations	4
The Human Right to Citizenship – Situating the Right to Citizenship within International and Regional Human Rights Law, written by Barbara von Rütte	4
The Unfolding Destiny of Union Citizenship: From a Fundamental Status to a Status of Genuine Substance	4
Migration Predictions with a Pinch of Salt: Definitions and Reliability	4
Rule of Law Challenges of ‘Algorithmic Discretion’ & Automation in EU Border Control	4
Hostile Instrumentalized Migration and the Right to Seek Asylum	3
Children in Migration and International Family Law: The Child’s Best Interests Principle at the Interface of Migration Law and Family Law, edited by Stefan Arnold & Bettina Heiderhoff	3
Between Resistance and Restraint: the Turkish Constitutional Court’s Role in Questioning the “Safe Third Country” Assumption	3
When Do Union Citizens and Their Families Have the Right to Equal Treatment on Grounds of Nationality in EU Law?	3
The Elusive “Collectivised Refugee Protection”: The Case of the EU-Egypt Migration Cooperation	3
Towards a Statute on European Union Citizenship: A Manifesto	2
The Concept of Marriages of Convenience in EU Free Movement Law: EU and UK Perspectives, written by Aleksandra Ancit-Jepifánova	2
Stuck in Greece? Unaccompanied Minors’ Stratified Access to Family Reunification on the Way to Other EU Member States	2
A Normative View from the Periphery: Serbia and the EU Asylum Acquis	2
The Palestinian Refugee, Article 1D and Evolving Jurisprudence from Europe: a Practitioner’s Perspective	2

Integration (of Immigrants) in the European Union: A Controversial Concept	2
Grasping Legal Time. Temporality and European Migration Law, written by Martijn Stronks	2
Durable Solution to the Problem of Externally Displaced Persons from the Syrian Arab Republic in OIC Member States	2
Human Rights Monitoring and Forced Returns. Ethical and Methodological Challenges	2
Five Grounds and a Persistent Gap	2
Protecting the Borders from the Outside	1
Complementary Pathways as “Genuine and Effective Access to Means of Legal Entry” in the Reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights	1
Back matter	1
No Way Home: Functional Jurisdiction and States’ Obligations to Repatriate the Families of Foreign Fighters	1
Facilitators of Irregular Migrants’ Stay and Border Crossings in Europe: Legal Consciousness, Motivations, and Rationalisations	1
Climate Change, Migration, and the Limits of EU Solidarity: Rethinking the Temporary Protection Directive	1
Beyond Derogations in the EU Crisis Regulation	1
Introduction to the Special Issue Asylum for Containment: The Contradictions of European External Asylum Policy	1
The New Asylum Pact: Brave New World or Dystopian Hellscape?	1
The ‘Border Security’ Concept in EU Law	1
Back matter	1
Challenges for the Protection of Migrant Children	1
Smartphone Data Extraction in the Context of Asylum	1
Front matter	1
EU Boots on the Ground and Effective Judicial Protection against Frontex’s Operational Powers in Return: Lessons from Case T‑600/21	0
Front matter	0
State-perpetrated Crimes against Migrants? Addressing Accountability in Croatian Migration Control through Criminal Law	0
Young Age, Migratory Vulnerabilities and Temporality. Compounding Inequalities Raised by Age and Legal Status – in Four European Countries	0
Vulnerability to Exploitation through the Lens of Intersectionality	0
Technosecuritization: Digital Technologies and the Securitization of EU Migration Law	0
Invisible Crimes: Accountability for Crimes against Migrants in Libya	0
Back matter	0
Decriminalising the Facilitation of Unauthorised Entry in EU Law: Kinsa as a first step?	0
The Criminalisation of Irregular Migration in Europe: Globalisation, Deterrence, and Vicious Cycles, written by Matilde Rosina	0
The EU’s New Asylum Pact and Ireland’s Opt-in	0
Defining “Crisis” in Migration Governance: a Critical Legal Mapping of EU Crisis Response Mechanisms	0
Resisting International Norm Transfer While Seeking International Recognition – Ukrainian Asylum Lawmaking	0
Derogations in Exchange of Increased Responsibility: How Can This Fix the Broken Promise for More Solidarity in the EU?	0
The More Favourable Provision Clause in EU Migration Law: Expanding Fundamental Rights through National Discretion?	0
The EU’s Informal Readmission Agreements with Third Countries on Migration: Effectiveness over Principles?	0
Differential Treatment and Temporary Protection Arrangements: Discrimination or Legitimate Distinctions?	0
The European Pact on Migration and Asylum: Border Containment and Frontline States	0
The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights: Moving Beyond Criminalisation, written by Amanda Spalding	0
Sustainability and EU Migration Law: Tracing the History of a Contemporary Concept, written byAlezini Loxa	0
The Influence of Diplomatic and Foreign Policy Considerations in the Making of Migration and Asylum Policy in Morocco	0
Addressing the Legal Quagmire of Complementary Legal Pathways	0
Charting Uncharted Waters: Unravelling Extraterritorial Duties under Articles 2 and 3 of the ECHR	0
Mapping EU Externalisation Devices through a Critical Eye	0
Front matter	0
Working in Europe with a Single Permit: a Golden Ticket or Pie in the Sky?	0
Whose Pathways are They? The Top-Down/Bottom-Up Conundrum of Complementary Pathways for Refugees	0
Back matter	0
From Rights to Collective Action. A Way Out of Labour Exploitation	0
Adapting to Climate-Related Human Mobility into Europe: Between the Protection Agenda and the Deterrence Paradigm, or Beyond?	0
Rights at Sea: State Interference with Activists’ Search and Rescue Operations	0

Cooperation within Reason: Tunisia’s Approach to Asylum and Readmission	0
The External Components in the EU Comprehensive Approach to Migration and Asylum: a Pathway to Lawless Zones	0
Regularisations of Irregularly Staying Migrants in the EU: A Comparative Legal Analysis of Austria, Germany and Spain, written by Kevin Fredy Hinterberger	0
The Protection of Displaced Persons from Ukraine in Portugal	0
Race, Gender and Contemporary International Labour Migration Regimes. 21st-Century Coolies?, edited by Leticia Saucedo and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez	0
The Impact of the European Union on Turkey’s Policy of Immigration Detention	0
Hotspots Everywhere? Detention and Restrictions of Freedom of Movement during Border Procedures under the New Pact	0
Free Movement and Welfare Access in the European Union: Re-Balancing Conflicting Interests in Citizenship Jurisprudence, written by Victoria Hooton	0
On ‘Safety’ and EU Externalization of Borders:	0
Framing Migration in Human Rights: How the Reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights Legitimises Border Regimes	0
A Different Kind of Spillover: Wider Implications of Current Tendencies in EU Asylum Policy	0
The Use of Medico-Legal Reports in Asylum Processes in Belgium	0
Looking at the Vulnerabilities of Migrants Seeking Protection through an Intersectional Prism	0
Taking Stock of the EU-Turkey Statement in 2024	0
The Recast EU Blue Card Directive: Towards a Level Playing Field to Attract Highly Qualified Migrant Talent to Work in the EU?	0
Free Movement of Services and Non-EU Citizen Staff – a U-turn from the CJEU? Comments on Case C-540/22, SN, ECLI:EU:C:2024:530	0
Strategic Litigation against European Migration Control Policies: The Legal Battleground of the Central Mediterranean Migration Route	0
Pushbacks as a Breach of Fundamental Human Rights: a Convergence of the Approaches of European Courts	0
Temporary Protection Directive: Testing New Frontiers?	0
A Decolonial Agenda for EU Migration and Asylum Law	0
Irregularly Staying Third-Country Nationals and Their Right to Regularise under EU Law	0