OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Migration 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	31
Continual arrival and the longue durée: Emplacement as activism among migrant workers in Hong Kong	25
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	23
Beyond return and resettlement: The impact of exposure and interactions on the post-conflict development of North Waziristan	22
Was it all worth it? The consequences of parental migration decisions for the life satisfaction of their descendants	16
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	16
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	15
Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: the role of gender and migration status	15
From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants	13
Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada	13
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration	13
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	13
An Open Invitation—Depicting Immigration: What Can Words, Images, and Notes Do?	12
Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility	12
Shared immigration process, different perspectives: The impact of immigration-related gaps on couple relationships	11
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	10
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	10
Immigrants’ negotiation of the homeland and the hostland: Transnational transformation of perception and usage of Korean hagwons	10
Instituting the global: The racial analytics of migration	9
From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	9
‘Life is peaceful here’: Nigerian refugees in Limassol between colonial afterlives and city-making	8
Data triangulation strategies to design a representative household survey of hosts and Rohingya displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	8
Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	8
Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	7
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	7

“Smuggled Stories in the Settler-State”: Book Review on Shannon Speed’s Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State	7
‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London	7
Stability and change in attitudes towards homosexuality among immigrant-origin adolescents in Norway	7
Urban encounters: Introduction to the special issue	7
‘Global talent’ or ‘labour migrant’?—Discursive noise and the strategic organization of difference in the competition state	6
Overseas immigration liaison officers: ‘Knowledge brokers’ and transnational spaces of mid-level negotiations shaping extraterritorial migration control practices	6
Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter	6
Conformans novas selves: The significance of Balkan route migrants’ possible and future narrative identities	6
‘Art doesn’t just reflect the world—it engages with it’	6
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	6
Slavery, lived realities, and the decolonisation of forced migration histories: An interview with Dr Portia Owusu	6
Rethinking Christianity in the Migration Process	6
What explains immigrant–native gaps in European labor markets: The role of institutions	5
Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis. Immobilisation, mobilisation, and normalisation?	5
Immigrant legalization: A dilemma between justice and the rule of law	5
Reevaluating the role of information in transit migration: the case of Central American migrants crossing Mexico	5
Fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Spain: intergenerational convergence to the native population’s behaviour?	5
Correction to: Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries	5
Andrea Segre’s Cinema of Engagement	4
The poetics of togetherness: Conviviality of asylum-seekers in the shadow of Hong Kong	4
The impact of the Internet on migration aspirations and intentions	4
Germany, year 2020. The tension between asylum right, border control, and economy, through the imperative of deservingness	4
Floating sanctuaries: The ethics of search and rescue at sea	4
Infrastructures of migration and the ordering of privilege in mobility	3
‘Making sense’ of Turkey’s refugee policy: The case of the Directorate General of Migration Management	3
International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Does free movement of workers boost immigrant employment? New evidence from Germany	3
Correction to: Subjective and intangible factors in migration decision-making: A review of side-lined literature	3
Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market	3
Migrant integration in Turkey: Travels of a concept across borders and domains of knowledge production	3
Identity or interests? Religious conservatives’ attitudes toward Syrian refugees in Turkey	3
Second Latin American migratory boom in Spain: From recovery to COVID-19	3
State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic	3
Illusions of objectivity: The two functions of country of origin information in asylum assessment	3