OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Migration Studies is 5. 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
Continuum, process, and dyad: three readings of the migration–mobility nexus	10
‘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
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
Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	7
‘Silence is golden’: Vladimir Vertlib’s literary explorations of silence in migration	7
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
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
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
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	5
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