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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Attenuated Governance in Australia’s Offshore Immigration Detention Regime: How Financial Mismanagement Can Achieve Government Goals	32
Following AENEAS’ Route: Unpacking Two Decades of Migration-Related Measures in EU Development Funds	28
Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Toward a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation	24
Efforts in Mainstreaming Gender into Uganda’s Refugee Settlement Policy Approach	19
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception	18
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19	18
Asset Building among U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents: The Role of Initial Legal Status	13
Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event	13
Is the Return Process a Stressful Event? Reintegration, Mental Health and Gender Dynamics	13
Social Navigation of Asylum Seekers: Journeying through Host/Transit Countries amid Changing Political Conditions	11
Differentiated Integration Among the Stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Camps	10
The Local Solidarity Network in the Reception of Female Ukrainian Refugees’ Influx of 2022	10
Correction	10
The Intimate Lives of Left-Behind Young Adults in the Philippines: Social Media, Gendered Intimacies, and Transnational Parenting	10
Thy Neighbor’s Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization	9
TheDisplacement Economies Framework	8
“ Immigrant Invasions to the South American Tiger ”: Immigration Representations in Chilean Newspapers (1991–2001)	8
What Do Social Media Users in Host Countries Talk about Refugees?: A Thematic Analysis of Rohingya-Related Online Discourse	8
Construction of Fear of the Other as an Electoral Strategy in European Politics: The Case of France and Sweden	8
Does Canada’s Express Entry System Meet the Challenges of the Labor Market?	8
Financing Externalisation: The Role That EU Funds Play in Shaping the Turkish Asylum and Migration Policies	8
Introduction to Special Issue: Gender, Migration and Digital Communication in Asia	8
Fields of Play: Refuge(e)s in Youth Multiculturalism on the Fringes of Melbourne	8
Ambazonian Separatist Movement in Cameroon and the Dialectics of Cameroonian Refugee Crisis in Nigeria	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

Refugees’ Contributions to Resettlement and the Challenges They Face: A Capability Approach to Resettlement Practice	7
The Effect of Bilateral Agreements on Migrant Workers in the Construction Industry in Israel	7
Sustainability and Resilience in Migration Governance for a Post-pandemic World	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	7
Agency as Capabilities: Ambivalent Processes of (Dis)Empowerment Among Latin American Female Domestic Workers in Andalusia, Spain	7
Determinants of Refugees’ Identification with Country of Origin and Host Country and Their Naturalization Intentions: Evidence from Germany	7
Transferring Skills but Not Progressing: Labour Market Trajectories of intra-European West-to-West Movers	6
Family Functioning and the Psychological Wellbeing of Refugee-Background Youth in Australia	6
Pretending to be Domestic Workers to be ‘Legal’. Uneven Performances of Deservingness Within Italy’s Labour Migration Regime	6
The Bordering Practices of Canadian Newspapers (2011-2022): “Canada is the Hope of the World”	6
Crafting Individual Resilience Through Social Capital in Times of Conflict: A Qualitative Study on Ukrainian Refugees in Germany	6
Host Communities and Elderly Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Discourse of Conflict and Peaceful Co-Existence	6
The Well-Being of Forced Migrants in Finland: A Capabilities Approach-Based Examination	6
Exploring the Joint Role of Outgroup Identification and Empathic Concern in Reducing Perceived Immigrant Threat and Motivating Pro-Immigrant Collective Action	6
The Battleground of Migration Politics in Prague Amid the (Poly)Crisis	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
Dispositional Gratitude Trajectories of Syrian Origin Young Adults in the Netherlands	5
Immigrant Work and the Production of Italian Agrifood: The Variants of Subordinate Integration	5
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’	5
Framing Migration and Migrants Through Border Crises: The Case of Ceuta and Melilla	5
An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India	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
Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas	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
Protestant Churches’ Space-Sharing with Immigrant Congregations	5
Managing Migration Through Foreign Aid in Mexico and Central America: The Role of U.S. Conditionality on Mexico’s Migration Policies	5
The Cruel Optimism of Work Permits: Vulnerabilities and Deportability Among Rejected Asylum-Seekers and International Students Pursuing Track Changes in Sweden	4
Migration Crisis Revisited: Our Approach to a “Joker Card” Concept	4
Migration Management and Responsibility Sharing with Afghanistan Through EU Funding?	4
Migration Governance Through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives	4
Continuity and Change in Immigration Regimes: An Institutionalist Analysis of Italian Labor Immigration Regulations 1990–2020	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
From Funding to Financing: Complementary Pathways, Refugee Finance and the Emergence of the Refugee Entrepreneur	4
Examining Determinants of Employers’ Attitudes toward Hiring Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey	4
No Hope for the ‘Foreigners’: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa	4
Mobility of Unaccompanied Foreign Minors in the Strait of Gibraltar: An Approach Based on Organized Crime	4
Restrictive North versus Permissive South? Revisiting Dominant Narratives on the Evolution of the Refugee Regime	4
Desi but Liberal Men : Pakistani Brides Navigating Marriage, Migration and Integration Between Family and State	4
“It Has Been a Breath of Fresh Air” Participants’ Perception of the Impact of Self-Reliance Intervention Among Urban Refugees	4
Refugees and (Im)Migrants: (Re)Conceptualizing and (Re)Contextualizing Migration in the Media	4
Support Services for Immigrant and Refugee Women of Color Domestic Violence Survivors: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Barriers	4
The Causes and Consequences of Administrative Burdens in the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program	4
National Register of Citizens Assam, India: The Tangled Logic of Documentary Evidence	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
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid	4