OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Migration Studies is 2. 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
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	27
‘Life is peaceful here’: Nigerian refugees in Limassol between colonial afterlives and city-making	26
Refugee protection: ‘Here’ or ‘there’?	23
How can Mexican migrants reduce the risk of being abandoned by smugglers while clandestinely crossing the US–Mexico border?	19
Migration and development in Ethiopia: Exploring the mechanisms behind an emerging mobility transition	13
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	13
Germany, year 2020. The tension between asylum right, border control, and economy, through the imperative of deservingness	13
Strategic calculations? Partisan differences in support for Puerto Rican migration to the mainland USA	13
Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	11
Restricting emigration for their protection? Exit controls and the protection of (women) migrant workers	11
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	11
‘United through our values’? Expressing unity through value-talk after terrorism in France and Norway	10
Data triangulation strategies to design a representative household survey of hosts and Rohingya displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	10
Continuum, process, and dyad: three readings of the migration–mobility nexus	10
Andrea Segre’s Cinema of Engagement	9
Continual arrival and the longue durée: Emplacement as activism among migrant workers in Hong Kong	8
From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	8
Introduction to Special Issue: Family Migration in Times of Crisis	7
Kept apart: Routine family separation in the UK family immigration system as times of crises	7
We Had to Leave [Meidän piti lähteä]. By Sanna Pelliccioni	7
Urban encounters: Introduction to the special issue	7
Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	7
‘Silence is golden’: Vladimir Vertlib’s literary explorations of silence in migration	7
Migrants’ perspectives on environmental change and translocal practices in Morocco, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo	6
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	6

The poetics of togetherness: Conviviality of asylum-seekers in the shadow of Hong Kong	6
Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market	6
Beyond return and resettlement: The impact of exposure and interactions on the post-conflict development of North Waziristan	6
Beyond the binary debates in migration: Experiences of Fulani nomads, sedentary Fulani, and autochthone farmers in Agogo, Ghana	6
Stability and change in attitudes towards homosexuality among immigrant-origin adolescents in Norway	6
The impact of migration on wages in Costa Rica	6
Understanding aspirations to stay: Relative endowment within a time–space perspective	5
State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic	5
“Smuggled Stories in the Settler-State”: Book Review on Shannon Speed’s Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State	5
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	5
Second Latin American migratory boom in Spain: From recovery to COVID-19	5
Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders	5
‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London	5
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	5
Photography and the diasporic condition. A travel in the writer Sabyl Ghoussoub’s family photographs	4
Was it all worth it? The consequences of parental migration decisions for the life satisfaction of their descendants	4
L’immigrazione spiegata ai bambini. Il viaggio di Amal	4
Erratum to: Was it all worth it? The consequences of parental migration decisions for the life satisfaction of their descendants	4
Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: the role of gender and migration status	3
Political integration and the career opportunities of immigrants in political parties: Experiences from Swedish party organisations	3
Building social capital in a new home country. A closer look into the predictors of bonding and bridging relationships of migrant populations at different education levels	3
Social reproduction against administrative bordering: Struggles to reproduce legal legibility among temporary student-migrants in Finland	3
Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter	3
The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field?	3
‘Making sense’ of Turkey’s refugee policy: The case of the Directorate General of Migration Management	3
International migration and shifts in subjective well-being: A longitudinal study using German panel data	3
Mind the gap: The role of family policies and the gender-egalitarian climate in shaping gender and ethnic labour market inequalities in Europe	3
The demographic determinants of inter-provincial migration declines in Canada: A decomposition analysis	3
International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	3
‘Frontline corruption and emigration in the Western Balkans’	3
The centre cannot hold: Arrival, margins, and the politics of ambivalence introduction to ‘arrival at the margins’, a special issue of migration studies	3
Migrant integration in Turkey: Travels of a concept across borders and domains of knowledge production	2
The Mediterranean. By Armin Greder	2
Caravana al Norte: La larga caminata de Misael//Caravan to the North: Misael’s Long Walk. By Jorge Argueta	2
Exposure to past immigration waves and attitudes toward newcomers	2
‘Global talent’ or ‘labour migrant’?—Discursive noise and the strategic organization of difference in the competition state	2
Illusions of objectivity: The two functions of country of origin information in asylum assessment	2
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	2
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	2
The Arrival. By Shaun Tan	2
Rethinking Christianity in the Migration Process	2
‘Intimacy as method’: Ethnographic reflections on equitable knowledge production in migration research	2
Infrastructures of migration and the ordering of privilege in mobility	2
Correction to: Subjective and intangible factors in migration decision-making: A review of side-lined literature	2
The role of migration in enhancing resilience to climate change	2
Identity or interests? Religious conservatives’ attitudes toward Syrian refugees in Turkey	2
‘Art doesn’t just reflect the world—it engages with it’	2