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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Not Slaves Enough: On the Trivialization of Systemic Migrant Labor Exploitation in Tuscany, Italy	33
Attenuated Governance in Australia’s Offshore Immigration Detention Regime: How Financial Mismanagement Can Achieve Government Goals	25
Following AENEAS’ Route: Unpacking Two Decades of Migration-Related Measures in EU Development Funds	23
Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Toward a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation	19
Efforts in Mainstreaming Gender into Uganda’s Refugee Settlement Policy Approach	16
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception	14
A Distant Threat Made Local? The Carry-over Effect of Perceived Threat from Asylum Seekers in Europe to Israeli Local Outgroups	14
Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event	12
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19	12
Differentiated Integration Among the Stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Camps	11
The Intimate Lives of Left-Behind Young Adults in the Philippines: Social Media, Gendered Intimacies, and Transnational Parenting	11
Social Navigation of Asylum Seekers: Journeying through Host/Transit Countries amid Changing Political Conditions	11
Asset Building among U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents: The Role of Initial Legal Status	9
Correction	9
Violence Here and Violence There: How Compound Violence Drives Undocumented Mexicans’ Migration to and Settlement in the United States	8
Return Aspirations of Syrian Refugees in Turkey	8
The Local Solidarity Network in the Reception of Female Ukrainian Refugees’ Influx of 2022	8
Thy Neighbor’s Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization	8
What Do Social Media Users in Host Countries Talk about Refugees?: A Thematic Analysis of Rohingya-Related Online Discourse	7
Paradoxes of Migration Policy Rescaling-Local Migration Policies in Tel Aviv in Times of Restrictionism	7
Fields of Play: Refuge(e)s in Youth Multiculturalism on the Fringes of Melbourne	7
Does Canada’s Express Entry System Meet the Challenges of the Labor Market?	7
Construction of Fear of the Other as an Electoral Strategy in European Politics: The Case of France and Sweden	7
TheDisplacement Economies Framework	7
Financing Externalisation: The Role That EU Funds Play in Shaping the Turkish Asylum and Migration Policies	7

Introduction to Special Issue: Gender, Migration and Digital Communication in Asia	7
“ Immigrant Invasions to the South American Tiger ”: Immigration Representations in Chilean Newspapers (1991–2001)	7
The Effect of Bilateral Agreements on Migrant Workers in the Construction Industry in Israel	6
Temporary Shelter: Venezuelan Migrants and the Uncertainty of Waiting in Colombia	6
Host Communities and Elderly Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Discourse of Conflict and Peaceful Co-Existence	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
Family Functioning and the Psychological Wellbeing of Refugee-Background Youth in Australia	6
Crafting Individual Resilience Through Social Capital in Times of Conflict: A Qualitative Study on Ukrainian Refugees in Germany	6
Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel: Traumatic Experience, Social Contacts with Eritreans and Israelis, Psychological Well-Being, and Sociocultural Adaptation	6
Responding to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ or Shaping the ‘Refugee Crisis’? Subnational Migration Policymaking as a Cause and Effect of Turbulence	6
Sustainability and Resilience in Migration Governance for a Post-pandemic World	6
The Well-Being of Forced Migrants in Finland: A Capabilities Approach-Based Examination	6
The Bordering Practices of Canadian Newspapers (2011-2022): “Canada is the Hope of the World”	6
A Strategy Typology: Unearthing How U.S.-Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits Contribute to Immigrant Inclusion Outcomes	6
Transferring Skills but Not Progressing: Labour Market Trajectories of intra-European West-to-West Movers	5
Safeguarding Through Exit: How Security Governance Relates to the Surge of Asylum Seekers	5
Rethinking Migration Studies for 2050	5
Framing Migration and Migrants Through Border Crises: The Case of Ceuta and Melilla	5
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’	5
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	5
Pretending to be Domestic Workers to be ‘Legal’. Uneven Performances of Deservingness Within Italy’s Labour Migration Regime	5
The Battleground of Migration Politics in Prague Amid the (Poly)Crisis	5
An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India	4
Transnational or Not: COVID Pandemic and Chinese Academic Migrants	4
Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas	4
From Funding to Financing: Complementary Pathways, Refugee Finance and the Emergence of the Refugee Entrepreneur	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
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid	4
Selectivity in Migration Governance in the South American Mercosur: Selecting-by-Origin, Selecting-by-Merit, or Not Selecting at All?	4
Immigrant Work and the Production of Italian Agrifood: The Variants of Subordinate Integration	4
Protestant Churches’ Space-Sharing with Immigrant Congregations	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
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
Personal Social Networks of Recent Refugees in Germany: Does Family Matter?	4
National Register of Citizens Assam, India: The Tangled Logic of Documentary Evidence	4
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	4
Vicarious Impacts of Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Integrative Review	4
Managing Migration Through Foreign Aid in Mexico and Central America: The Role of U.S. Conditionality on Mexico’s Migration Policies	4
Continuity and Change in Immigration Regimes: An Institutionalist Analysis of Italian Labor Immigration Regulations 1990–2020	4
Refugees and (Im)Migrants: (Re)Conceptualizing and (Re)Contextualizing Migration in the Media	4
Migration Management and Responsibility Sharing with Afghanistan Through EU Funding?	4
Examining Determinants of Employers’ Attitudes toward Hiring Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey	4
Desi but Liberal Men : Pakistani Brides Navigating Marriage, Migration and Integration Between Family and State	4