OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Vicarious Impacts of Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Integrative Review	29
An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India	20
“I Turned to Things That Mean More to Me”: Unpacking the Activist Trajectories of Syrians in Oslo	19
Practicing Law in Administrative Detention for Syrian Refugees in Turkey	18
A Distant Threat Made Local? The Carry-over Effect of Perceived Threat from Asylum Seekers in Europe to Israeli Local Outgroups	18
Policy Experts Negotiating Popular Fantasies of ‘Benefit Tourism’ Policy Discourses on Deservingness and Their Relation to Welfare Chauvinism	16
A Rights-Based Approach to the Rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals	12
Improving Financial Inclusion Through Understanding the Credit Preferences of Immigrants	11
Framing of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Politics: An Analysis of Turkish Grand National Assembly Debates	11
Safeguarding Through Exit: How Security Governance Relates to the Surge of Asylum Seekers	10
Attenuated Governance in Australia’s Offshore Immigration Detention Regime: How Financial Mismanagement Can Achieve Government Goals	10
Comparing Liberal and Conservative Newspapers: Diverging Narratives in Representing Migrants?	10
Integration as Making Place	8
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19	8
Following AENEAS’ Route: Unpacking Two Decades of Migration-Related Measures in EU Development Funds	8
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’	8
(De)Constructing Credibility: Examining the Power of Childhood in Unaccompanied Refugee Decision-Making	8
Can Rights Discourse Diminish Support for Displaced Persons?	8
Questioning the Meaning of Place in Extended Exile: The Cases of the Balata and Jenin Refugee Camps	7
“Through Social Contact We’ll Integrate:” Refugee Perspectives on Integration Post-Resettlement	7
Not Slaves Enough: On the Trivialization of Systemic Migrant Labor Exploitation in Tuscany, Italy	7
Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event	7
“At Least, at the Border, I Am Killing Myself by My Own Will”: Migration Aspirations and Risk Perceptions among Syrian and Afghan Communities	7
The Emergence of New Street-Level Bureaucracies in Italy’s Asylum Reception System	7
Linguistic Enclaves, Sorting, and Language Skills of Immigrants	7

Selectivity in Migration Governance in the South American Mercosur: Selecting-by-Origin, Selecting-by-Merit, or Not Selecting at All?	6
Making the Match: Understanding the Destining Process of Government-Assisted Refugees in Canada	6
Making Do as a Migrant in Morocco: Between Formal Recognition and True Integration	6
Exploring Factors Related to the Development and Implementation of a Local Intervention Program for Syrian Refugee Children	6
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception	6
Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows	6
About but not without: Recently Arrived Refugees’ Understanding of and Expectations for Integration within a Local Policy Context in the Netherlands	6
“Violence is Everywhere.” How Semi-Permeable Borders Facilitate Transnational Perpetration of Structural, Symbolic and Interpersonal Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	6
Fleeing Ukraine: The Forced Migration Journeys of Black African Students	6
Immigrant Work and the Production of Italian Agrifood: The Variants of Subordinate Integration	6
Personal Recognition Strategies of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in The Netherlands	6
Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Toward a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation	5
Our Sisters and Daughters: Pakistani Hindu Migrant Masculinities and Digital Claims to Indian Citizenship	5
Expanding the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies: Refugee Protection, Regularization, and Naturalization in Latin America	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
Life Satisfaction and Psychological Distress of African Immigrants in Italy and Spain: The Protective Role of Social Support and Sense of Community	5
Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees	4
American Experience: Information Seeking Behavior of Immigrants from Russia and Ukraine with Regard to American Culture	4
Resettlement Factors Associated with Subjective Well-Being among Refugees in Australia: Findings from a Service Evaluation	4
The Face of Immigration: Photographic Portrayals of Immigrants in News Photographs	4
Desi but Liberal Men : Pakistani Brides Navigating Marriage, Migration and Integration Between Family and State	4
Correction	4
Understanding the Use of Policy Narratives in Protests Among Russian Asylum Seekers in Guam	4
Fraudulent Families? Investigating the Role of Paperwork in the Assessment of Refugees’ Family Reunification in Belgium	4
“We Are the Real, Original Refugees”: The Dynamic Nature of Processes of Vietnamese Refugees’ Self-Conceptualization	4
Pull-Out Classes for Newly Arrived Students from Ukraine – An Obstacle to Social Inclusion	4
Gender Gaps in Immigrants’ Political Participation within and across Borders: Political Socialization or Opportunity Structures?	4
Repression Without Compassion: Forced Migration Governance at the EU’s Southern Frontier	4
Transnational or Not: COVID Pandemic and Chinese Academic Migrants	4
The ‘Local Turn’ and Everyday Integration. The Pakistani Middle-Class Migrants in Dubai	4
Macroeconomic Impacts of Immigration in the Canadian Atlantic Region: An Empirical Analysis Using the FOCUS Model	4
“Even When the Sun Shines There, It Does Not Warm You”: Examining Experiences of Return Migrant Women to Kosova	4
Introduction: The Politics of the Migrant/Refugee Binary	4
Differentiated Integration Among the Stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Camps	4
Materiality of Place-Making in Exilic and Protracted Displacement: The Context of Displaced Bakassi People in South-South Nigeria	4
Exit to Feel, Voice, and Act: Emotions and Actions of Russian Migrants Opposing the Invasion of Ukraine	4
Conditionality, Compensation, or Both? Comparative Experiences of Third-Country Cooperation on Migration with the EU	3
Protestant Churches’ Space-Sharing with Immigrant Congregations	3
Multi-Level Governance and Sanctuary Cities: The Case of Liège (Belgium) and Undocumented Migrants	3
Public Community Work in Neighborhoods with Both Citizen and Asylum-Seeking Residents: South Tel Aviv as a Study Case	3
Beyond Social Capital: An Examination of the Sustaining and Expansion of Turkey-based Syrian Refugee Businesspeople’s Business Operations	3
Unpacking Food and Housing Insecurity: A Study of Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Canada	3
“How Can I Trust People When They Know Exactly What My Weakness Is?” Daily Life Experiences, and Resilience Strategies of Stateless Afghans in Iran	3
Managing Migration Through Foreign Aid in Mexico and Central America: The Role of U.S. Conditionality on Mexico’s Migration Policies	3
Violence Here and Violence There: How Compound Violence Drives Undocumented Mexicans’ Migration to and Settlement in the United States	3
Reconstructing a Sense of Safety among Resettled Refugee Survivors of Torture: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study	3
Talent Migration Governance and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Germany and Singapore	3
Beyond the Queue: The Sources and Politics of Migration Backlogs in Canada and Australia	3
Healthcare Providers’ Cultural Competence from the Perspective of Newly Arrived Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Qualitative Study in Greece	3
What does Intermarriage Say about Immigrant Integration in Japan? The Maintenance of a National and Gender Hierarchy through Marriage Norms	3

Syria, the Homeland. Feeling at Home in Rotterdam? The Multiple Feelings of Belonging of Resettled Syrian-Born Youngsters with a Refugee Background	3
Transgenerational Return Migration to Galicia, Spain: Discourses of Identity and Belonging	3
Social Navigation of Asylum Seekers: Journeying through Host/Transit Countries amid Changing Political Conditions	3
The Local Solidarity Network in the Reception of Female Ukrainian Refugees’ Influx of 2022	3
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid	3
Asset Building among U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents: The Role of Initial Legal Status	3