OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework	183
Multilevel governance in trouble: the implementation of asylum seekers’ reception in Italy as a battleground	48
Reframing ‘integration’: acknowledging and addressing five core critiques	40
Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience	37
Barcelona: municipalist policy entrepreneurship in a centralist refugee reception system	27
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
Theorizing interactions of migrant transnationalism and integration through a multiscalar approach	20
Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy	18
Between fragmentation and institutionalisation: the rise of migration studies as a research field	16
Immigration policy mismatches and counterproductive outcomes: unauthorized migration to the U.S. in two eras	16
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	15
Campaigning across continents: how Latin American parties link up with migrant associations abroad	15
On migration, geography, and epistemic communities	13
Unequal internationalisation and the emergence of a new epistemic community: gender and migration	13
Shifts in the global migration order and migration transitions in Europe: the cases of Turkey and Russia	12
A comparative analysis of changes in anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe: 1990–2017	12
Governing displaced migration in Europe: housing and the role of the “local”	12
Multifocality and opportunity structure: towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship	11
Hybrid identity and practices to negotiate belonging: Madrid’s Muslim youth of migrant origin	11
“By women, for women, and with women”: on the integration of highly qualified female refugees into the labour Markets of Berlin and Brandenburg	11
Three sub-Saharan migration systems in times of policy restriction	10
A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights	10
Measuring migration 2.0: a review of digital data sources	10
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK	10
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK	9

An eye for an ‘I:’ a critical assessment of artificial intelligence tools in migration and asylum management	9
Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies	9
Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom	9
Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia	9
Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa	9
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Seeking asylum in Scandinavia: a comparative analysis of recent restrictive policy responses towards unaccompanied afghan minors in Denmark, Sweden and Norway	9
Innovative strategies for the reception of asylum seekers and refugees in European cities: multi-level governance, multi-sector urban networks and local engagement	9
Disentangling entangled mobilities: reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies	9
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	9
Naturalisation in context: how nationality laws and procedures shape immigrants’ interest and ability to acquire nationality in six European countries	8
Social contact and encounter in asylum seeker reception: the Utrecht Refugee Launchpad	8
Political parties abroad as actors of transnational politics	8
Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places	8
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	8
Is migration a unique field of study in social sciences? A response to Levy, Pisarevskaya, and Scholten	8
An organizational approach to the Philippine migration industry: recruiting, matching and tailoring migrant domestic workers	8
Bridging the state and market logics of refugee labour market inclusion – a comparative study on the inclusion activities of German professional chambers	8
How can we categorise ‘nationality’ and ‘second generation’ in surveys without (re)producing stigmatisation?	7
What does it mean to “go beyond race”?	7
Two cheers for Migration Studies	7
Building inclusive cities: reflections from a knowledge exchange on the inclusion of newcomers by UK local authorities	7
(Dis)connecting migration: transnationalism and nationalism beyond connectivity	7
The Grandhotel Cosmopolis – a concrete utopia? Reflections on the mediated and lived geographies of asylum accommodation	7
Bringing anchoring and embedding together: theorising migrants’ lives over-time	7
Migration and mobility of third-country national labour workers to and inside Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic – a legal analysis	7
Schools as spaces for in/exclusion of young Mainland Chinese students and families in Hong Kong	7
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sri Lankan migrants in Qatar	7