OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Migration Studies is 7. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Continual arrival and the longue durée: Emplacement as activism among migrant workers in Hong Kong	32
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	25
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	23
Beyond return and resettlement: The impact of exposure and interactions on the post-conflict development of North Waziristan	22
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	18
Attracting migrants through the backdoor: Business migration in Switzerland	17
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	16
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	15
Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: the role of gender and migration status	15
Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada	14
An Open Invitation—Depicting Immigration: What Can Words, Images, and Notes Do?	13
From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants	13
Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility	13
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration	13
Shared immigration process, different perspectives: The impact of immigration-related gaps on couple relationships	12
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	12
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	11
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	10
Data triangulation strategies to design a representative household survey of hosts and Rohingya displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	9
From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	9
Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	8
Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	8
‘Life is peaceful here’: Nigerian refugees in Limassol between colonial afterlives and city-making	8
Stability and change in attitudes towards homosexuality among immigrant-origin adolescents in Norway	7

Urban encounters: Introduction to the special issue	7
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	7
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	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