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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	34
Beyond return and resettlement: The impact of exposure and interactions on the post-conflict development of North Waziristan	26
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	26
Attracting migrants through the backdoor: Business migration in Switzerland	24
Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: the role of gender and migration status	21
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	18
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	17
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	17
From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants	17
Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada	15
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration	14
Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility	13
Shared immigration process, different perspectives: The impact of immigration-related gaps on couple relationships	12
Immigrants’ negotiation of the homeland and the hostland: Transnational transformation of perception and usage of Korean hagwons	12
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	12
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	11
Instituting the global: The racial analytics of migration	11
Wayfinding in arts-based methods: Navigating home, belonging, and the future with children born of conflict-related sexual violence in northern Uganda	10
From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	10
Data triangulation strategies to design a representative household survey of hosts and Rohingya displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	9
‘Life is peaceful here’: Nigerian refugees in Limassol between colonial afterlives and city-making	9
Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	8
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	8
Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	8
“Smuggled Stories in the Settler-State”: Book Review on Shannon Speed’s Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State	8

Stability and change in attitudes towards homosexuality among immigrant-origin adolescents in Norway	7
Urban encounters: Introduction to the special issue	7
‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London	7
Overseas immigration liaison officers: ‘Knowledge brokers’ and transnational spaces of mid-level negotiations shaping extraterritorial migration control practices	7
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	7
Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter	7
Correction to: Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries	6
‘Global talent’ or ‘labour migrant’?—Discursive noise and the strategic organization of difference in the competition state	6
What explains immigrant–native gaps in European labor markets: The role of institutions	6
Conformans novas selves: The significance of Balkan route migrants’ possible and future narrative identities	6
Fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Spain: intergenerational convergence to the native population’s behaviour?	6
Slavery, lived realities, and the decolonisation of forced migration histories: An interview with Dr Portia Owusu	6
Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis. Immobilisation, mobilisation, and normalisation?	5
Floating sanctuaries: The ethics of search and rescue at sea	5
The impact of the Internet on migration aspirations and intentions	5
Reevaluating the role of information in transit migration: the case of Central American migrants crossing Mexico	5
Second Latin American migratory boom in Spain: From recovery to COVID-19	4
Andrea Segre’s Cinema of Engagement	4
The poetics of togetherness: Conviviality of asylum-seekers in the shadow of Hong Kong	4
Immigrant legalization: A dilemma between justice and the rule of law	4
State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic	4
Germany, year 2020. The tension between asylum right, border control, and economy, through the imperative of deservingness	4
‘Making sense’ of Turkey’s refugee policy: The case of the Directorate General of Migration Management	3
Correction to: Colonized subjects and their emigration experiences. The case of Iranian students and their integration strategies in Western Europe	3
Psycho-social wellbeing in migration studies—the potential of the concept of actionability	3
Migrant integration in Turkey: Travels of a concept across borders and domains of knowledge production	3
International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Digital migration, by Koen Leurs	3
Illusions of objectivity: The two functions of country of origin information in asylum assessment	3
Correction to: Subjective and intangible factors in migration decision-making: A review of side-lined literature	3
Infrastructures of migration and the ordering of privilege in mobility	3
Examining the higher education–migration nexus in China: Intellectual migration in an emerging destination	3