OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Migration Studies is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	51
Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom	36
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	28
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	27
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	25
Correction to: Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places	25
Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand	23
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	21
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	21
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	21
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	19
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	18
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	18
Integration, cultural preservation and transnationalism through state supported immigrant organizations: a study of Sweden’s national ethnic associations	16
Democracy, visa-waivers, and international mobility	15
Assessing the impact of migration on the happiness of household women left behind: evidence from Punjab, Pakistan	15
Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol	14
From shared experiences of gendered racism to converging interpretations? Exploring the formation of a decolonial standpoint by women of Moroccan descent in postcolonial France	14
The hidden power of provincial and territorial immigration programs in shaping Canada’s immigration landscape	13
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	13
Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter	13
We are all migrants	13
Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma	13
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison	13
Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during russian invasion of ukraine: The case of slovakia	12

Towards equality: joining forces with arts and culture in the struggle for change in migration societies	12
The case for increased centralization in integration governance: the neglected perspective	11
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	11
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	11
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	11
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	10
Strangers in paradise? The wellbeing of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments	10
Health-related lifestyle behaviours and healthcare utilisation among adolescent immigrants in Europe	10
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	10
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	10
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	9
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK	9
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	9
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	9
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	8
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	8
Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe	8
Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales	8
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	8
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	7
Correction: Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	7
Accessing the public workforce: Organisational recruitment practices and the inclusion or exclusion of individuals of immigrant origin	7
Contagion effect of migration fear in pre and European refugee’s crisis period: evidence from multivariate GARCH and wavelet empirical analysis	7
Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies	7
Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review	7
The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam	6
The well-being of newly regularized migrant workers: Determinants of their satisfaction with life as compared to undocumented migrant workers and regular local residents	6
Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa	6
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	6
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts	6
Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states	6
Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth	6