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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Do institutions matter for refugee integration? a comparison of case worker integration strategies in Switzerland and Canada	51
Emotionalized embeddedness: extending the mixed embeddedness framework through Korean entrepreneurship in China	41
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	39
Integrating lifestyle and welfare aspirations in (im)mobility decisions: perspectives from a relatively disadvantaged group in Tangier, Morocco	36
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	29
Lima is good enough: exploring role of city in coping strategies and future planning among Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru	26
Racialized unaccompanied minors: African children in United States immigration detention	25
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	25
Support for militarization from abroad: how Latinos in the United States respond to criminal violence in Latin America	22
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	19
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	19
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	19
Ius soli under siege: a comparative analysis of France and the United States	19
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	15
…when the category ‘migration’ lost its innocence for migration scholars. And what now? A plea for dialogue	15
Precarious labour in precarious times: the impact of the war in Israel/Palestine on non-citizen workers	14
“When they return home they do nothing for half a year”: opposing remittances and articulations of Romanian migrant labour in agriculture	14
Towards a global migration paradigm	13
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	13
Democracy, visa-waivers, and international mobility	12
From shared experiences of gendered racism to converging interpretations? Exploring the formation of a decolonial standpoint by women of Moroccan descent in postcolonial France	12
Migrantization of mobile EU citizens? Assessing the impact of political reception contexts on bureaucratic discrimination	12
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison	11
Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol	11
Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter	10

Assessing the impact of migration on the happiness of household women left behind: evidence from Punjab, Pakistan	10
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	10
Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence	10
A framework for understanding precarious economic incorporation of Ukrainian refugees in Central Eastern Europe	10
Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma	9
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	9
Strangers in paradise? The wellbeing of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments	9
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	9
Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during russian invasion of ukraine: The case of slovakia	9
The hidden power of provincial and territorial immigration programs in shaping Canada’s immigration landscape	9
Can older urban migrants achieve active aging? Variations by migration motivation, geographical scale and residential duration	8
Health-related lifestyle behaviours and healthcare utilisation among adolescent immigrants in Europe	8
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	8
Systematic literature reviews in migration studies: approaches to context-sensitive synthesis	8
Young migrants, “integration” and the local: critical reflections from European stakeholders	8
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	8
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	8
Political legacies and present perceptions of migrants	7
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	7
Factors influencing the spatial distribution of international retirement migrants settling in Hungary	7
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	7
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	7
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	7
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	7
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	7
Correction: Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	6
Governing migration in midsize cities: permanent temporariness, rigid policies and role of business	6
Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe	6
Migration, space and place	6
Decolonizing the migration archive: Haitian refugees at Fort Allen, Puerto Rico, 1981–82	6
Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth	6
Contagion effect of migration fear in pre and European refugee’s crisis period: evidence from multivariate GARCH and wavelet empirical analysis	6
“Steel Dragon City, shifting Chinese migrants”: Chinese communities in suspended motion in Dubai	6
Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states	6
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	6
Qualification as a key criterion? An analysis of Germany’s labour migration policy	6
Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review	6
Neglected intersections: a view from the South	6
The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam	6
Migrantisation: a key concept	6
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts	6
Infrastructuring migrant urban citizenship: homeless EU migrants and service providers’ facilitation of care and rights in pandemic Copenhagen	6