OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Not Slaves Enough: On the Trivialization of Systemic Migrant Labor Exploitation in Tuscany, Italy	31
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	22
Policy Experts Negotiating Popular Fantasies of ‘Benefit Tourism’ Policy Discourses on Deservingness and Their Relation to Welfare Chauvinism	20
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19	19
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception	17
Efforts in Mainstreaming Gender into Uganda’s Refugee Settlement Policy Approach	16
A Distant Threat Made Local? The Carry-over Effect of Perceived Threat from Asylum Seekers in Europe to Israeli Local Outgroups	14
Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Toward a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation	13
Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event	13
Differentiated Integration Among the Stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Camps	12
Return Aspirations of Syrian Refugees in Turkey	11
The Intimate Lives of Left-Behind Young Adults in the Philippines: Social Media, Gendered Intimacies, and Transnational Parenting	11
Thy Neighbor’s Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization	11
Correction	11
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	10
Violence Here and Violence There: How Compound Violence Drives Undocumented Mexicans’ Migration to and Settlement in the United States	9
Social Navigation of Asylum Seekers: Journeying through Host/Transit Countries amid Changing Political Conditions	9
Financing Externalisation: The Role That EU Funds Play in Shaping the Turkish Asylum and Migration Policies	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
Construction of Fear of the Other as an Electoral Strategy in European Politics: The Case of France and Sweden	7
Responding to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ or Shaping the ‘Refugee Crisis’? Subnational Migration Policymaking as a Cause and Effect of Turbulence	7

Ambazonian Separatist Movement in Cameroon and the Dialectics of Cameroonian Refugee Crisis in Nigeria	7
Fields of Play: Refuge(e)s in Youth Multiculturalism on the Fringes of Melbourne	7
“ Immigrant Invasions to the South American Tiger ”: Immigration Representations in Chilean Newspapers (1991–2001)	7
Introduction to Special Issue: Gender, Migration and Digital Communication in Asia	7
The Role of Stable Security in Resettled Refugees’ Sense of Wellbeing	7
TheDisplacement Economies Framework	7
‘Still Stood Adamant and Strong to Chase My Dream’ : Sense of Identity and Resilience among Hazara Youth following Childhood Experiences of Forced Migration	7
A Strategy Typology: Unearthing How U.S.-Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits Contribute to Immigrant Inclusion Outcomes	7
Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel: Traumatic Experience, Social Contacts with Eritreans and Israelis, Psychological Well-Being, and Sociocultural Adaptation	6
Family Functioning and the Psychological Wellbeing of Refugee-Background Youth in Australia	6
Rethinking Migration Studies for 2050	6
Immigrant Work and the Production of Italian Agrifood: The Variants of Subordinate Integration	6
The Bordering Practices of Canadian Newspapers (2011-2022): “Canada is the Hope of the World”	6
Temporary Shelter: Venezuelan Migrants and the Uncertainty of Waiting in Colombia	6
The Effect of Bilateral Agreements on Migrant Workers in the Construction Industry in Israel	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
Host Communities and Elderly Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Discourse of Conflict and Peaceful Co-Existence	6
Sustainability and Resilience in Migration Governance for a Post-pandemic World	6
Crafting Individual Resilience Through Social Capital in Times of Conflict: A Qualitative Study on Ukrainian Refugees in Germany	6
Tracing Invisibility as a Colonial Project: Indigenous Women Who Seek Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border	6
Pretending to be Domestic Workers to be ‘Legal’. Uneven Performances of Deservingness Within Italy’s Labour Migration Regime	6
Vicarious Impacts of Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Integrative Review	5
Managing Migration Through Foreign Aid in Mexico and Central America: The Role of U.S. Conditionality on Mexico’s Migration Policies	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
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’	5
Safeguarding Through Exit: How Security Governance Relates to the Surge of Asylum Seekers	5
Transnational or Not: COVID Pandemic and Chinese Academic Migrants	5
An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India	5
Selectivity in Migration Governance in the South American Mercosur: Selecting-by-Origin, Selecting-by-Merit, or Not Selecting at All?	5
Protestant Churches’ Space-Sharing with Immigrant Congregations	5
Comparing Liberal and Conservative Newspapers: Diverging Narratives in Representing Migrants?	4
Support Services for Immigrant and Refugee Women of Color Domestic Violence Survivors: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Barriers	4
No Hope for the ‘Foreigners’: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa	4
Considerations for a New Research Agenda on Migration and Refugee Studies: Lessons from Studying Migration and Foreign Policies in Mexico	4
Continuity and Change in Immigration Regimes: An Institutionalist Analysis of Italian Labor Immigration Regulations 1990–2020	4
Personal Social Networks of Recent Refugees in Germany: Does Family Matter?	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
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid	4
Examining Determinants of Employers’ Attitudes toward Hiring Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey	4
National Register of Citizens Assam, India: The Tangled Logic of Documentary Evidence	4
Exploring Factors Related to the Development and Implementation of a Local Intervention Program for Syrian Refugee Children	4
Improving Financial Inclusion Through Understanding the Credit Preferences of Immigrants	4
The Causes and Consequences of Administrative Burdens in the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program	4
Migration Management and Responsibility Sharing with Afghanistan Through EU Funding?	4
Migration Governance Through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives	4
From Funding to Financing: Complementary Pathways, Refugee Finance and the Emergence of the Refugee Entrepreneur	4
Desi but Liberal Men : Pakistani Brides Navigating Marriage, Migration and Integration Between Family and State	4
Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees	4
“At Least, at the Border, I Am Killing Myself by My Own Will”: Migration Aspirations and Risk Perceptions among Syrian and Afghan Communities	4
Applying the CARIN Criteria to Migrant Settlement: Cross-National Validation of the Migrant Deservingness Scale	4

Waiting in Motion. Migrants’ Involvement in Civil Society Organizations While Pursuing a Migration Project	4
Visitor Visa Policy Changes and Mexico-Canada Migration	4
Restrictive North versus Permissive South? Revisiting Dominant Narratives on the Evolution of the Refugee Regime	4
Refugee Students’ Transition from Higher Education to Employment: Setting a Research Agenda	4
Refugees and (Im)Migrants: (Re)Conceptualizing and (Re)Contextualizing Migration in the Media	4
Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas	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
The Cruel Optimism of Work Permits: Vulnerabilities and Deportability Among Rejected Asylum-Seekers and International Students Pursuing Track Changes in Sweden	4