OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Migration Studies is 1. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Migration as Adaptation?	58
Research on climate change and migration where are we and where are we going?	29
To vote or not to vote? Migrant electoral (dis)engagement in an enlarged Europe	21
‘We always open our doors for visitors’—Hospitality as homemaking strategy for refugee women in Istanbul	19
From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants	15
Twitter as social media arena for polarised social representations about the (im)migration: The controversial discourse in the Italian and international political frame	14
Fixed places, shifting distances: remittance houses and migrants’ negotiation of home in Ecuador	14
Queer kinship and the rights of refugee families	12
‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London	11
The ethics of migration policy dilemmas	10
What explains immigrant–native gaps in European labor markets: The role of institutions	9
Escaping from pollution: Air pollution and the settlement intentions of floating migrants in Chinese cities	9
Floating sanctuaries: The ethics of search and rescue at sea	9
Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market	9
The impact of the Internet on migration aspirations and intentions	8
The role of migration in enhancing resilience to climate change	7
Identity or interests? Religious conservatives’ attitudes toward Syrian refugees in Turkey	6
Chameleon brokers: A translocal take on migration industries in the Thai-Swedish wild berry business	6
Broadening the positionality in migration studies: Assigned insider category	6
Discrimination against Roma: Evidence from two survey experiments in Norway	6
Migration and development in Ethiopia: Exploring the mechanisms behind an emerging mobility transition	6
Educational and migration aspirations among children of Mexican migrant returnees in a border context	5
Welfare effect of international migration on the left-behind in Ghana: Evidence from machine learning	5
Immigrant legalization: A dilemma between justice and the rule of law	5
Renegotiating family: Social media and forced migration	5

Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders	5
Climate change, human mobility, and development	5
Mind the gap: The role of family policies and the gender-egalitarian climate in shaping gender and ethnic labour market inequalities in Europe	5
Refugee protection: ‘Here’ or ‘there’?	5
The elusive triple win: addressing temporary labour migration dilemmas through fair representation	4
Infrastructures of migration and the ordering of privilege in mobility	4
Globalised citizenship and the perceived legitimacy of immigration control: narratives and acts of resistance in immigration detention	4
Restricting emigration for their protection? Exit controls and the protection of (women) migrant workers	4
Migration and ‘pull factor’ traps	4
Rising stars in the global race for skill? A comparative analysis of Brazil, India, and Malaysia	4
Three rationalities for making sense of internal displacement in Ukraine	4
Power and proliferation: Explaining the fragmentation of global migration governance	4
Welcome in my back yard? Explaining cross-municipal opposition to refugees through outgroup size, outgroup proximity, and economic conditions	4
Addressing migrants’ well-being during COVID-19: An analysis of Chinese communities’ heritage language schools in Germany	4
Germany, year 2020. The tension between asylum right, border control, and economy, through the imperative of deservingness	4
Digital emotivescapes: Everyday media practices of Sahrawi refugee diasporic women in Spain and Mauritania	3
How Should We Talk About Climate Change and Migration?	3
Illusions of objectivity: The two functions of country of origin information in asylum assessment	3
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	3
Subjective and intangible factors in migration decision-making: A review of side-lined literature	3
Urban citizenship for all? Exploring the limits of an agenda in São Paulo’s squats	3
‘Physically sheltered but existentially homeless’: Losing home in the aftermath of conflict and displacement	3
The demographic determinants of inter-provincial migration declines in Canada: A decomposition analysis	3
Kept apart: Routine family separation in the UK family immigration system as times of crises	3
Spiritual ambiguity in interfaith humanitarianism: Local faith communities, Syrian refugees, and Muslim–Christian encounters in Lebanon and Jordan	3
Slavery, lived realities, and the decolonisation of forced migration histories: An interview with Dr Portia Owusu	3
International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	3
Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries	2
Towards a psychoanalytic migration studies: A son, a brother, a father, an American, and his house in a Cameroonian village	2
How migration intentions change during periods of political instability and violence: Panel survey evidence from Kenya	2
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	2
Banal bordering: Everyday encounters between migrants and security officers	2
Safe-zone schools and the academic performance of children in mixed-status households: Evidence from the ‘between the lines’ study	2
Exposure to past immigration waves and attitudes toward newcomers	2
Political integration and the career opportunities of immigrants in political parties: Experiences from Swedish party organisations	2
‘United through our values’? Expressing unity through value-talk after terrorism in France and Norway	2
Power (im)balances in ‘conversation triads’ within qualitative research projects in the field of (forced) migration: Chances and challenges in conversations between interpreter, (forced) migrant and r	2
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	2
Overseas immigration liaison officers: ‘Knowledge brokers’ and transnational spaces of mid-level negotiations shaping extraterritorial migration control practices	2
Beyond return and resettlement: The impact of exposure and interactions on the post-conflict development of North Waziristan	2
How can Mexican migrants reduce the risk of being abandoned by smugglers while clandestinely crossing the US–Mexico border?	2
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	2
The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field?	1
Second Latin American migratory boom in Spain: From recovery to COVID-19	1
‘Silence is golden’: Vladimir Vertlib’s literary explorations of silence in migration	1
From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	1
Strategic calculations? Partisan differences in support for Puerto Rican migration to the mainland USA	1
Spectrums of in/formality and il/legality: Negotiating business and migration-related statuses in arrival spaces	1
Introduction to Special Issue on Childrens’ Books	1

Exploring temporal and topical dynamics of research on climate/environment–migration nexus: A critical comparative perspective	1
Conflicted presence: The many arrivals of Palestinians in Lebanon	1
‘Art doesn’t just reflect the world—it engages with it’	1
‘Making sense’ of Turkey’s refugee policy: The case of the Directorate General of Migration Management	1
The poetics of togetherness: Conviviality of asylum-seekers in the shadow of Hong Kong	1
African perspectives on migration: Re-centring Southern AfricaDeviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration. By Rose JajiI Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belo	1
Continuum, process, and dyad: three readings of the migration–mobility nexus	1
Migration and intercommunal relationships: an interdisciplinary and inter-regional dialogue	1
The security implications of transnational population movements: A meta-analysis	1
Shared immigration process, different perspectives: The impact of immigration-related gaps on couple relationships	1
Claiming a postcolonial differential citizenship. Contestation of family migration rights in the Netherlands in the wake of Suriname’s independence	1
Does free movement of workers boost immigrant employment? New evidence from Germany	1
Walking the Elephant:Drawing as enactment of community	1
State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic	1
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	1
Beyond the binary debates in migration: Experiences of Fulani nomads, sedentary Fulani, and autochthone farmers in Agogo, Ghana	1
The glories of immigration: How soccer wins shape opinion on immigration	1
Continual arrival and the longue durée: Emplacement as activism among migrant workers in Hong Kong	1
Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis. Immobilisation, mobilisation, and normalisation?	1
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	1
What are we afraid of? Exploring risk and immigration detention	1
Migration aspirations in forced transnational families: the case of Syrians in Turkey	1