OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geopolitics is 6. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	858791986
Care without Control: The Humanitarian Industrial Complex and the Criminalisation of Solidarity	49
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism	37
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance: A Radical View	36
The Foreign Policy of Populists in Power: Contesting Liberalism in Poland and Hungary	36
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management	36
Self-Sovereignty for Refugees? The Contested Horizons of Digital Identity	31
Controlling the Schengen Information System (SIS II): The Infrastructural Politics of Fragility and Maintenance	29
Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty	24
‘Vulnerable Refugees’ and ‘Voluntary Deportations’: Performing the Hotspot, Embodying Its Violence	23
Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones	22
Fixing State Vision: Interoperability, Biometrics, and Identity Management in the EU	22
Borderwork Creep in West Africa’s Sahel	21
The Autoimmunity of the EU’s Deadly B/ordering Regime; Overcoming its Paradoxical Paper, Iron and Camp Borders	20
The Shifting Landscape of International Resettlement: Canada, the US and Syrian Refugees	20
The EU Trust Fund for Africa: Geopolitical Space Making through Migration Policy Instruments	19
(Im)moral Borders in Practice	17
‘When Migrants Become Messengers’: Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal	17
Extract, Datafy and Disrupt: Refugees’ Subjectivities between Data Abundance and Data Disregard	16
De-centring the Securitisation of Asylum and Migration in the European Union: Securitisation, Vulnerability and the Role of Turkey	16
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin	16
Should (S)he Stay or Should (S)he Go? – Street-level Suspicion and the Construction of the ‘(Un)deserving Migrant’	15
Remote Warfare and the Retooling of American Primacy	14
Trained to Disbelieve: The Normalisation of Suspicion in a Swiss Asylum Administration Office	14
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance	14

Urban Geopolitics and the Decentring of Migration Diplomacy in EU-Moroccan Affairs	14
Intensifying Fissures: Geopolitics, Nationalism, Militarism, and the US Response to the Novel Coronavirus	14
Waiting to Move On: Migration, Borderwork and Mobility Economies in Libya	13
Migration and the African Timespace Trap: More Europe for the World, Less World for Europe	13
Borderwork in the Expanded EU-African Borderlands	12
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean	12
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes	12
Autonomy of Migration and the Radical Imagination: Exploring Alternative Imaginaries within a Biometric Border	12
Humanitarianism and the ‘Migration Fix’: On the Implication of NGOs in Racial Capitalism and the Management of Relative Surplus Populations	12
Geopolitics, (Re)territorialisation, and China’s Patriotic Tourism in the South China Sea	12
Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence	12
Memory and Everyday Borderwork: Understanding Border Temporalities	12
Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions	12
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond	11
Migration Governance in the Mediterranean: The Siracusa Experience	11
Introduction: Domesticating Geopolitics	11
Drones for Border Surveillance: Multipurpose Use, Uncertainty and Challenges at EU Borders	10
From Territoriality to Borderscapes: The Conceptualisation of Space in Border Studies	10
Borderwork in the Grey Zone: Everyday Resistance within European Border Control Initiatives in Mali	10
Reconfiguring Desecuritization: Contesting Expert Knowledge in the Securitization of Migration	10
The Changing Dynamics of Regionalism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of the Three Seas Initiative	10
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective	9
The Twenty Years’ Crisis of European Energy Security: Central and Eastern Europe and the US	9
Pornography at the Border: Ethnosexual Borderscapes, Gendered Violence, and Embodied control	9
Inter-National Conspiracy? Speculating on the Myitsone Dam Controversy in China, Burma, Kachin, and a Displaced Village	9
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions	9
‘Request Denied’: Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation and Treason for Border and Migration Studies	8
Intensifications of Border Governance and Defiant Migration Trajectories in Ethiopia	8
Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders	8
Researching Visual Manifestations of Border Spaces and Experiences: Conceptual and Methodological Perspectives	8
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime	8
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management	8
Diabolical Suggestions: Disinformation and the Curious Scale of Nationalism in Ukrainian Geopolitical Fault-line Cities	8
Property, Citizenship, and Invisible Dispossession in Myanmar’s Urban Frontier	8
The ‘Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean’ as a Threat to Women’s Security in the EU? A Contrapuntal Reading	7
EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience	7
The Geopolitics of Returns: Geopolitical Reasoning and Space-Making in Turkey’s Repatriation Regime	7
Lives in Waiting	7
The Bioeconomy of Sahel Borders: Informal Practices of Revenue and Data Extraction	7
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route	7
After the Rice Frontier: Producing State and Ethnic Territory in Northwest Myanmar	7
Base Built in the Middle of ‘Rice Fields’: A Politics of Ignorance in Okinawa	7
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe	7
Registration as a Border: Shaping the Population at the Local Level in Italy	6
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria	6
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR	6
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa	6
Bureaucratic Sociability, or the Missing Eighty Percent of Effectiveness: The Case of Diplomacy	6
Suspicious Infrastructures: Automating Border Control and the Multiplication of Mistrust through Biometric E-Gates	6