OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies is 2. 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
Not Slaves Enough: On the Trivialization of Systemic Migrant Labor Exploitation in Tuscany, Italy	30
Attenuated Governance in Australia’s Offshore Immigration Detention Regime: How Financial Mismanagement Can Achieve Government Goals	24
Following AENEAS’ Route: Unpacking Two Decades of Migration-Related Measures in EU Development Funds	20
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19	19
Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event	19
Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Toward a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation	16
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception	13
A Distant Threat Made Local? The Carry-over Effect of Perceived Threat from Asylum Seekers in Europe to Israeli Local Outgroups	11
The Intimate Lives of Left-Behind Young Adults in the Philippines: Social Media, Gendered Intimacies, and Transnational Parenting	11
Differentiated Integration Among the Stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Camps	11
Violence Here and Violence There: How Compound Violence Drives Undocumented Mexicans’ Migration to and Settlement in the United States	11
Policy Experts Negotiating Popular Fantasies of ‘Benefit Tourism’ Policy Discourses on Deservingness and Their Relation to Welfare Chauvinism	11
Efforts in Mainstreaming Gender into Uganda’s Refugee Settlement Policy Approach	11
Thy Neighbor’s Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization	10
Social Navigation of Asylum Seekers: Journeying through Host/Transit Countries amid Changing Political Conditions	10
Correction	10
The Local Solidarity Network in the Reception of Female Ukrainian Refugees’ Influx of 2022	10
Asset Building among U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents: The Role of Initial Legal Status	9
Return Aspirations of Syrian Refugees in Turkey	9
Financing Externalisation: The Role That EU Funds Play in Shaping the Turkish Asylum and Migration Policies	8
Mediating Discourses of Displacement in the Literacy Practices of Refugees and Humanitarian Actors in Jordan, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey	8
Paradoxes of Migration Policy Rescaling-Local Migration Policies in Tel Aviv in Times of Restrictionism	8
Does Canada’s Express Entry System Meet the Challenges of the Labor Market?	8
What Do Social Media Users in Host Countries Talk about Refugees?: A Thematic Analysis of Rohingya-Related Online Discourse	7
Fields of Play: Refuge(e)s in Youth Multiculturalism on the Fringes of Melbourne	7

Construction of Fear of the Other as an Electoral Strategy in European Politics: The Case of France and Sweden	7
Introduction to Special Issue: Gender, Migration and Digital Communication in Asia	7
TheDisplacement Economies Framework	7
“ Immigrant Invasions to the South American Tiger ”: Immigration Representations in Chilean Newspapers (1991–2001)	7
The Role of Stable Security in Resettled Refugees’ Sense of Wellbeing	6
Responding to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ or Shaping the ‘Refugee Crisis’? Subnational Migration Policymaking as a Cause and Effect of Turbulence	6
Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel: Traumatic Experience, Social Contacts with Eritreans and Israelis, Psychological Well-Being, and Sociocultural Adaptation	6
Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Using Meaning-Based Coping Strategies: Voices of Somali, Karen and Latinx Immigrant and Refugee Communities in the Twin Cities, Minnesota	6
Temporary Shelter: Venezuelan Migrants and the Uncertainty of Waiting in Colombia	6
‘Still Stood Adamant and Strong to Chase My Dream’ : Sense of Identity and Resilience among Hazara Youth following Childhood Experiences of Forced Migration	6
Ambazonian Separatist Movement in Cameroon and the Dialectics of Cameroonian Refugee Crisis in Nigeria	6
Sustainability and Resilience in Migration Governance for a Post-pandemic World	6
Tracing Invisibility as a Colonial Project: Indigenous Women Who Seek Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border	6
Crafting Individual Resilience Through Social Capital in Times of Conflict: A Qualitative Study on Ukrainian Refugees in Germany	6
A Strategy Typology: Unearthing How U.S.-Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits Contribute to Immigrant Inclusion Outcomes	6
The Effect of Bilateral Agreements on Migrant Workers in the Construction Industry in Israel	6
Family Functioning and the Psychological Wellbeing of Refugee-Background Youth in Australia	6
Host Communities and Elderly Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Discourse of Conflict and Peaceful Co-Existence	6
The Bordering Practices of Canadian Newspapers (2011-2022): “Canada is the Hope of the World”	6
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’	5
Rethinking Migration Studies for 2050	5
Vicarious Impacts of Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Integrative Review	5
Selectivity in Migration Governance in the South American Mercosur: Selecting-by-Origin, Selecting-by-Merit, or Not Selecting at All?	5
Immigrant Work and the Production of Italian Agrifood: The Variants of Subordinate Integration	5
Safeguarding Through Exit: How Security Governance Relates to the Surge of Asylum Seekers	5
The Mediating Role of Binding Moral Foundations and Perceived Realistic and Symbolic Threats on the Relationship between Need for Cognitive Closure and Prejudice against Migrants	5
An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India	5
Desi but Liberal Men : Pakistani Brides Navigating Marriage, Migration and Integration Between Family and State	4
Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas	4
Protestant Churches’ Space-Sharing with Immigrant Congregations	4
Managing Migration Through Foreign Aid in Mexico and Central America: The Role of U.S. Conditionality on Mexico’s Migration Policies	4
Personal Social Networks of Recent Refugees in Germany: Does Family Matter?	4
Refugee Students’ Transition from Higher Education to Employment: Setting a Research Agenda	4
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid	4
From Funding to Financing: Complementary Pathways, Refugee Finance and the Emergence of the Refugee Entrepreneur	4
Transnational or Not: COVID Pandemic and Chinese Academic Migrants	4
Continuity and Change in Immigration Regimes: An Institutionalist Analysis of Italian Labor Immigration Regulations 1990–2020	4
Migration Management and Responsibility Sharing with Afghanistan Through EU Funding?	4
Voting Behavior of Immigrants and Their Children in Sweden	4
“How Can I Trust People When They Know Exactly What My Weakness Is?” Daily Life Experiences, and Resilience Strategies of Stateless Afghans in Iran	4
Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees	4
Responding to Increasing Health and Social Needs of Unprotected Unaccompanied Minors in Paris in the Context of COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Case Study	4
Restrictive North versus Permissive South? Revisiting Dominant Narratives on the Evolution of the Refugee Regime	4
Migration Governance Through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives	4
Refugees and (Im)Migrants: (Re)Conceptualizing and (Re)Contextualizing Migration in the Media	4
Theorizing the Life and Death of Moments of Openness toward Refugees in the Global North: The Case of Germany during the 2015–2016 Refugee “Crisis”	3
No Hope for the ‘Foreigners’: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa	3
Expanding the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies: Refugee Protection, Regularization, and Naturalization in Latin America	3
Unpacking Food and Housing Insecurity: A Study of Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Canada	3
Comparing Liberal and Conservative Newspapers: Diverging Narratives in Representing Migrants?	3

Improving Financial Inclusion Through Understanding the Credit Preferences of Immigrants	3
Making Do as a Migrant in Morocco: Between Formal Recognition and True Integration	3
The Migration Decision-Making Process Among Ukrainian Refugees: Different Contexts of Reception	3
Waiting in Motion. Migrants’ Involvement in Civil Society Organizations While Pursuing a Migration Project	3
Multi-Level Governance and Sanctuary Cities: The Case of Liège (Belgium) and Undocumented Migrants	3
Visitor Visa Policy Changes and Mexico-Canada Migration	3
What does Intermarriage Say about Immigrant Integration in Japan? The Maintenance of a National and Gender Hierarchy through Marriage Norms	3
Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows	3
Support Services for Immigrant and Refugee Women of Color Domestic Violence Survivors: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Barriers	3
The Causes and Consequences of Administrative Burdens in the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program	3
Practices of ‘Digital Homing’ and Gendered Reproduction among Older Sinhalese and Karen Migrants in Australia	3
Considerations for a New Research Agenda on Migration and Refugee Studies: Lessons from Studying Migration and Foreign Policies in Mexico	3
“At Least, at the Border, I Am Killing Myself by My Own Will”: Migration Aspirations and Risk Perceptions among Syrian and Afghan Communities	3
Examining Determinants of Employers’ Attitudes toward Hiring Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey	3
“Even When the Sun Shines There, It Does Not Warm You”: Examining Experiences of Return Migrant Women to Kosova	3
The Cruel Optimism of Work Permits: Vulnerabilities and Deportability Among Rejected Asylum-Seekers and International Students Pursuing Track Changes in Sweden	3
“We Are the Real, Original Refugees”: The Dynamic Nature of Processes of Vietnamese Refugees’ Self-Conceptualization	3
Resettlement Factors Associated with Subjective Well-Being among Refugees in Australia: Findings from a Service Evaluation	3
National Register of Citizens Assam, India: The Tangled Logic of Documentary Evidence	3
Exploring Factors Related to the Development and Implementation of a Local Intervention Program for Syrian Refugee Children	3
Personal Recognition Strategies of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in The Netherlands	3
Protracted Exile and Active Pariahdom: Turkey’s Kurdish Refugees in Rome	3
Applying the CARIN Criteria to Migrant Settlement: Cross-National Validation of the Migrant Deservingness Scale	3
Regulatory (Mal)Integration: Its Implications for Migrant Workers’ Ability to Access Employment Rights in Indonesia	2
Negotiated Identity: A Study of Bangladeshi Migrants in Eastern India	2
Potential and Limits of Municipal Solidarity with Refugees: A Case Study of the Greek Island of Tilos	2
Governance of Refugee Children Protection in Turkey: Between Vulnerability and Paternalism	2
Fleeing Ukraine: The Forced Migration Journeys of Black African Students	2
Responsiveness of Local Politicians to Immigrants Does Not Vary Systematically by Voting Rights	2
Layered Confinement in Reception Centers—A Study of Asylum Seekers’ Experiences in Finland	2
Marriage and belonging among South Sudanese Acholi refugees in New Zealand	2
The Professional Life of Social Workers Working in the Refugee Field in Greece	2
How Do Migrants Fare in the Irish Labor Market? Country of Origin, Gender, Asylum and Ethnicity Effects	2
Limits of Activation? Street-Level Responses to the 2015 Refugee Challenge in German Job Centers	2
The Housing Experiences of Syrian Refugee Youth in the United States	2
The Utilisation of Preventive Health Services among Migrants in Italy	2
Weathering the Storm: Nonprofit Resilience and Resistance in Response to the Refugee “Crisis”	2
“I Turned to Things That Mean More to Me”: Unpacking the Activist Trajectories of Syrians in Oslo	2
Identity Negotiation amongst Pakistani Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers Living in Bangkok	2
Toward Street-Level Communities of Practice? The Implications of Actor Diversification in Migration Management in Athens and Berlin	2
Employment, Precarious Employment, and Unemployment Among Female Immigrant Youth in the United States	2
Deservingness Perceptions Toward Refugees: A Gender Perspective	2
Syrian Refugees between Turkish Nationalism and Citizenship	2
Constrained Localism in an Authoritarian Environment: Developments in Solidarity With Displaced Ukrainians in Hungary	2
The Integration Resources of Refugees and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the City of Vienna	2
Making the Match: Understanding the Destining Process of Government-Assisted Refugees in Canada	2
Anti-Immigrant Attitudes: The Role of Casual Intergroup Contact in Perceived Group Threat	2
Stuck in Reception: How Refugees in Austria and Germany Experience Long-Term Reception Constellations	2
“Life is Stuck in a Hole”: An Intersectional Understanding of Rohingya Adolescent Girls’ Vulnerabilities in Bangladeshi Camps	2