OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Population Space and Place is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Motivation and Migration Trajectories of EU Citizens on the Move: Repeat and Multiple Migrants in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain	84
Residential segregation by nationalities: A global and multilevel approach to Barcelona and Madrid (2008–2018)	82
Mobility as Capital: A ‘Three‐Step’ Education Pathway of Chinese Transnational Migrant Families in Zimbabwe	72
Detecting temporal anomalies with pseudo age groups: Homeownership in Canada, 1981 to 2016	49
The narratives of new rural residents in the configuration of the peri‐urban area: From circumstancial constraints to openness	42
Cross‐border marriages in pre‐ and post‐handover Hong Kong	34
The School Transition Estimation and Projection (STEP) model: A flexible framework for analysing and projecting school enrolments	32
Who stays in their birthplace? The role of multigenerational local ties in young adults' staying behaviour	31
Places and mechanisms of belonging and exclusion: Intra‐EU academic migration in a comparative perspective	30
Farming Technologies, Migration and Left‐Behind Women in China: A Socio‐Technical Perspective	30
Contributions of Residential and Income Mobility in Different Life Stages to Increasing Low‐Income Rates in Suburban Neighbourhoods	28
Entrepreneurial Back‐to‐Landers: How Neo‐Farmers in Turkey Choose Where to Settle	24
Residential mobility in Hong Kong 1991–2016: Demographics, policies and housing market dynamics	22
Population Geographies in China: Future Directions of Travel	20
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Exploring rural futures through spatial‐temporal migration balance changes in a North‐Caucasian rural basin	17
International students' socioeconomic affluence and staying likelihood	17
Ethnic context and fertility differential in post‐Soviet Kazakhstan	17
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Place Attachment and Habitus in a City and Its Suburbs—The Case of Immigrants in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts	15
Beyond the Country of Origin and the Receiving Society: Differentiated Place Attachments and Homes Among Dominican Immigrants in the Netherlands	14
Who Stays in Rural Areas? Understanding Gender Differences in Location Decisions Among Millennials in the United States	14
The wellbeing turn: A necessary consideration in international student mobility	13
The Refugee Integration Industry: Stakeholder Power, Market Logic, and the (De)Humanisation of Refugee Labour	13
Urban‐Rural Transformations and Fertility Decline in China: A Distinctive Perspective Within the Second Demographic Transition	13

Spatial Inequalities in the Completeness of Under Five Deaths: Assessing Vital Registration Data in Türkiye	13
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Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China	12
Diplomat and International Worker Mobilities: A Family Lens on Power Dynamics	12
Country context, race and wages: A comparative analysis of Ethiopian immigrant labour market integration in the United States and Israel	12
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Migrants' choices pertaining to informal childcare in Italy and France: A complex relationship between the origin and destination countries	11
Childhood internal migration in Europe: Developments across cohorts and countries	11
Identifying the employment effect of county‐city merger in China	11
The impact of the new trend of urban‐to‐urban migration on fertility behaviors	10
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Economic Conditions, Education and Parity‐Specific Fertility: A Sub‐National Regional Study Across 15 Countries in Europe	10
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Linguistic capital and social inequalities: Experiences of international Chinese students in Germany	10
Trends in internal migration in Japan, 2012–2020: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
International and internal migration and the subjective wellbeing of wives left behind in Ghana	9
Determinants of Regional Disparities in Older Adult – Child Coresidence in China	9
Mediating Proximate Care in Transnational Families in Sweden and the UK: Language Practices and Institutional Processes	9
Unraveling the Enigma: Exploring the Impact of Migration Trajectories on Stable Settlement Intention Among Chinese Migrants	9
Childhood neighbourhoods and life‐time fertility in twentieth‐century Southern Sweden: A k‐nearest neighbour approach	9
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Internal mobility of international migrants in Europe: A critical literature review and research agenda	9
The Spatial Determinants of Academic Aspirations: Evidence From Sweden	9
Regional inequalities in life expectancy and lifespan variation by educational attainment in Spain, 2014–2018	9
Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda	8
Transregional spouses, parents and children: How gender and family shape return migration in the French overseas	8
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The average effectiveness of local migration exchanges	8
Individual and Spatial Determinants of Mortality During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: The Case of Belgium in 2020	8
Immigration, spatial inequality and place attractiveness	8
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on ethnically diverse communities	8
Beyond destinations: Environmental perception and village attachment among stayers, outmigrants and returnees in rural China	8
Does migration improve the quality of life? The case of Swedish immigrants residing in Portugal	8
Opting out of neighbourhood schools: The role of local education markets in student mobility	8
Corrections to “Determinants of Enforced Return: A Quantitative Analysis of the Spectrum of (In)voluntariness Among Rejected Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands”	8
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A biographical approach to understanding irregular Chinese migration to the United Kingdom	8
Mapping Halal Economies in the City: Migrant Infrastructures and Cultural Food Adequacy in Lisbon	7
Gender Attitudes, Inequality and Migration Decision‐Making	7
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Urban residence as a driver of wealth differentials: New evidence from Norway	7
Stability and change in China's geography of intercity migration: A network analysis	7
Spatial poverty dynamics and social mobility in rural America	7
Evaluating Housing Policy Effects on Childbirth Intentions in South Korea: Preferences, Benefits, and Policy Implications	7
Away from home and excluded from local solidarity networks: Undocumented Afghan migrant men in Istanbul	7
Aging, (un)certainty and HIV management in South Africa	7
The relationship between migration and the Big Five personality traits: Evidence from probability‐based samples	7
Placing Migration: Towards More‐Than‐Relational Geographical Migration Studies	7
Life‐course trajectories and spatial segregation in older age	7

China's place attractivity, population mobility and its mechanisms: Perspectives from a full spectrum of spatial analyses	7
Involuntary resettlement outcomes following the regeneration of informal communities: The case of Baishizhou urbanizing village in Shenzhen, China	6
Parental migration, children and family reunification in China	6
Intergenerational Care in Local, Long‐Distance, and Transnational Families: The Role of Geographical Distance and Cross‐Border Separation on Subjective Care Burden	6
Not going out during the Covid‐19 pandemic? A multilevel geographical analysis of UK Google Mobility Reports, February 2020–December 2021	6
China's provincial optimum population sizes under SSP‐RCP scenarios	6
Lifestyle migrants as Eliasian ‘outsiders’: The case of Swedish emigrants to Portugal	6
Destination‐to‐origin differences and settlement intentions of Chinese internal migrants: A birth cohort analysis	6
Address‐ Versus Postcode‐Based Building Blocks for the Creation of Small Area Statistical Geographies: Some Lessons From the 1911 British Population Census	6
The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural‐urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966−2018	6
Settlement Intention of New Immigrants in Shanghai, China: The Role of Residential, Employment and Social Support and Urban Resource Interaction	6
Interaction of ancestry and agency: Challenges, constraints and options for second‐generation Albanian youth relocating from Greece	6
Population decline and public attitudes toward multicultural immigration policies in South Korea	6
An Extension of Migration Effectiveness Indices: Accounting for the Impact of Migration on Population Structure	6
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Influences of origin and destination on migrant fertility in Europe	6
Between the inclusion and exclusion of immigrants in a peripheral European country: Housing inequality in Portugal	6
Moving up and down the urban hierarchy: Age‐specific internal migration patterns in Japan based on the 2020 census	6
Redefining family structures: Births out of wedlock in 21st century Greece	6
Changes in mixed ethnicity households and neighbourhood transitions in England and Wales	6
Understanding Residential Mobility in Urban China: A Comparative Analysis of Hukou Residents and Temporary Migrants in Shanghai	6
Classical Gentrification in a Formerly Working‐Class Neighbourhood: Karlín as a Forerunner of Inner‐City Migration Trends in Prague	6
Social bonding strategies in the context of retirement migration to nonmetropolitan areas in the United States—Insights from Michigan and North Carolina	5
Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and COVID‐19 in Nanjing, China	5
Internal migration in the time of Covid: Who moves out of the inner city of Stockholm and where do they go?	5
Subjective well‐being and school outcomes among children of immigrants and natives in Italy	5
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Blurring the boundaries of home: Community eldercare centres as institutional homes in urban China	5
International graduates on temporary post‐graduation visas in Australia: Employment experiences and outcomes	5
Get out of life on the edge: The role of urban public health services on migrants’ social integration in China	5
Life in Rural Spain as an Immigrant Domestic Care Worker: Diverse Testimonies From Teruel	5
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How families affect aspirational migration amidst political insecurity: The case of Hong Kong	5
The impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on demographic changes	5
Introducing the role of the municipality of residence in studying the secondary migration of international migrants. Evidence from Lombardy (Italy)	5
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The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets	5
Infrastructuring arrival and homemaking in COVID‐19 times: Experiences of newcomer Chinese students in Dutch cities	5
Beyond brokering for recruitment: Education agents in Armenia	5
Status Precarity, Ontological Insecurity and the Wellbeing of Children in Families With Precarious Immigration Status in Scotland	5
Understanding patterns of internal migration during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Spain	5
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Does the Development Level of the Origin Country of International Students Influence Where They Enrol? A Case Study of the Netherlands	5
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From Masculinisation to Feminisation of Metropolitan Areas: The Changing Impact of Internal Migration on Regional Sex Ratios in Japan	5
Enforced Transnationalism From an Ethics of Care Perspective: Barriers to Living ‘Care‐Filled Lives’ and Resistance Tactics Among ‘Forced’ Transnational Families in the UK	5
From rural exodus to repopulation in Mexico's Mixteca Alta? Analyzing differential trends	4
Changing patterns and determinants of China's interprovincial migration: Evidence from the 2020 census	4
Israeli‐Jewish immigrants in Germany: An assessment of the destination‐language acquisition model and the role of Holocaust memory	4
How Do Summer Temperatures Affect Domestic Migrants' Settlement Intention? Evidence From China	4
Time, temporality, and (im)mobility: Unpacking the temporal experiences among Chinese international students during the COVID‐19	4
From strict socialism to social evils: Changing childhoods over three generations in urban Vietnam	4
Regional Differences in the Chance to Become a Centenarian in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Dutch Birth Cohorts	4
Patterns and Motivations of Intra‐Urban Residential Mobility in a Southern European Metropolis. The Case of Filipino Migrants in Rome	4
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Family structure of migrant workers and long‐term local settlement intention in China	4
Are younger adults becoming less residentially mobile? A decomposition analysis of British trends, 1997–2019	4
The evolution of Catholic/Protestant unemployment inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983–2016	4
Experiences of Losing and Re‐Establishing a ‘Sense of Place’: Insights From Forced Resettlement in Myanmar	4
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Tell me who's your neighbour and I'll tell you how much time you've got: The spatiotemporal consequences of residential segregation	4
Emerging in‐migration of urban young adults engaging in rural tourism in China	4
Horizontal or Vertical? A Tale of Geographical Proximity in Italian Kinship Networks	4
Parenting in place: Young children's living arrangement and migrants' sleep health in South Africa	4
Age‐distributed composition of the Indigenous population in Australia	4
Union formation of the children of immigrants: Does the ethnic composition of the childhood neighbourhood matter?	4
Re‐imagining belonging to Brazil: Active immobility in times of crisis	4
Migration Infrastructure, Digital Connectivity and Porous Borders: Vietnamese Migration to Australia	4
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The role of non‐resident family ties in rural staying	4
Educational Spaces and Student Mobility: Transiting the Peripheries of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area	4
The estimation of age and sex profiles for international migration amongst countries in the Asia‐Pacific region	4