OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asian and Pacific Migration Journal is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The invisibility of Filipino women in rural Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
How Chinese female migrants in South Korea overcome constraints to participate in leisure activities	22
Experiences of i-Kiribati with labor mobility schemes	17
Internal Migration in Contemporary India MishraDeepak K. ed. Internal Migration in Contemporary India. London: Routledge2025. 292 pp.: ISBN: 9781032777993.	17
Accumulating delay: Filipino Time, COVID-19 and experiences of male returnees in Cebu	12
Providers, pioneers, protectors: Sending company identities and practices in Indonesia’s international labor migration	10
At home, everywhere and nowhere: Privilege, mobility and the digital nomad paradox in Southeast Asia	9
Reforms or deforms? The rise and decline of the rentier middle class in the United Arab Emirates	8
Central Asian migrants at the US-Mexico border: An exploration of causes	7
Immigration and labor shortages: Learning from Japan and the United Kingdom	7
Report of the South Asian labor migration and maritime migrants conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, 21-23 May 2022 ^,	7
Social and economic integration of highly educated/high-skilled migrants in East and Southeast Asia: Overview of the Special Issue	7
Who are leaving metropolitan areas in the post-COVID-19 era: An analysis of urban residents’ migration decisions in Japan	6
A transition in the Journal	6
A reflective study on the intricate history of Chinese immigration in Peninsular Malaysia	6
Distress return migration amid COVID-19: Kerala’s response	6
New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers	5
Older women migrants in Malaysia and their left-behind families	5
Navigating social landscapes: Exploring the social well-being of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia	5
The socio-political background of Gulf migration and labor policy reforms	4
Tienshi Lara Chen Stateless: Translated by Louis Carlet, National University of Singapore Press Tienshi Lara Chen Stateless: Translated by Louis Carlet, National University of Singapore Press (2023).	4
Labor exploitation, discrimination and coping tactics of male forced migrants in Türkiye	4
Saudization in a “Saudi First” kingdom	3
Subject Index	3
Book review: Migration and development in India: The Bihar experience	3

Precariousness and vulnerability: Seafarers in the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Trustees, delegates and responsiveness: An interpretive case study of Chinese New Zealanders’ participation in representative politics	3
Women’s social resilience in the context of male out-migration in Dehradun district, India	3
Age, wage and vintage: Empirical validation of brain drain in the migration of Indian knowledge workers to the United States of America	3
The economic visions of the Gulf states and their approaches to migrants	3
Caring for elderly parents while living away: Sri Lanka’s professional and skilled emigrants	3
Rethinking the migration-development nexus in the post-COVID-19 era	3
Regulating recruitment and contracting of migrant fishers from Indonesia	3
Subject Index	3
Democracy comprehension and life satisfaction among North Korean defectors: The overlooked role of ideological adaptation	3
Neoliberal migration states in the Gulf: High-skilled migrants, domestic socio-legal reforms and the centralized migration management in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates	3
Book review: Ethnic dissent and empowerment: Economic migration between Vietnam and Malaysia	3
Tales of the sea: Seafarers’ sense of place in the management of socialities and safety culture at sea	2
Why stay, why return: Mobility choices of Indian scientists and engineers	2
The impact of “Nitaqat” on Indian high-skilled migration to Saudi Arabia	2
COVID-19 and the precarity of Indonesian workers in the oil palm production in Sabah, East Malaysia	2
Internal student migration in India: Impact of the COVID-19 crisis	2
Transnational migration and gender capital: South Korean women’s guesthouse business in the Philippines	2
A gendered analysis of family, work, social spheres and life satisfaction: The case of highly educated migrants in Hong Kong	2
Discrimination during COVID-19: Assessing migrant workers’ vulnerability to forced labor in Thailand’s seafood industry	2
Which hierarchy matters? Subjective social status, status incongruence and well-being among high-skilled Mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong	2
Emergent political remittances during the pandemic: Evidence from a survey of overseas Filipino workers	2
Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics of Play ArnaldoConstancio R.Jr. Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics of Play. New York University Press. New York, 2024, 19	2
The leadership role and collective action of Malayan Chinese in the Nanyang Volunteer Mechanics Organization (1937–1945)	2
Digital technologies and migration management in Malaysia: The technology-migration nexus	2
Integration of international marriage migrants: Russian-speaking female marriage migrants in Japan and South Korea	2
Migrant immobilities beyond the pandemic: Changing migration patterns and aspirations	2
The embodied waste laborer: Waste, value and labor among Pakistani workers in Hong Kong’s informal street market	2
Employment as an anchor: The prospects of emerging East Asian skilled migration regimes through the lens of migrants’ access to the labor market	1
The logics of staying for highly skilled Asian migrants in Japan	1
Book review: Tangled mobilities: Places, affects, and personhood across social spheres in Asian migration Fresnoza-FlotAsuncionLiu-FarrerGracia (eds), Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personho	1
Mediating effects of religious coping on acculturative stress and life satisfaction: Focus on Sri Lankan migrant workers in Korea	1
The realities of return migration: Reintegrating women migrant domestic workers in Sri Lanka	1
New immigrant destinations and the role of the migration industry: Moving Filipino domestic workers to Mainland China	1
Maternal strategies and embodied practices: The making of transnational identity for mixed-ethnic children of Vietnamese marriage migrant mothers in Taiwan	1
Chinese guardian mothers in Thailand: Cultural constraints, societal obstacles and tactical changes	1
“I don’t really feel a big difference between an international and the locals”: Exploring educational migrants’ experience of New Zealand as a study and migration destination	1
Can technology break the invisible wall? Exploring mobile application needs and preferences among North Korean refugees in South Korea	1
Investment across borders: How diaspora firms weigh financial returns and emotional-social drivers	1
In the interstice of health and economy: The discourse of bio-citizenship and the black economy among Filipino migrant domestic workers in Belgium during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Reflections on the multi-sectoral response to COVID-19 in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps	1
Encounters of Syrian refugees and locals in the informal garment sector of Esenler district, Istanbul	1
Filipino technical interns and specified skilled workers in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic: A typology of (im)mobility patterns	1
Navigating relationship-building among young North Korean defectors in South Korea: From structural isolation to strategic connections	1
Trapped in the COVID-19 pandemic: Seafarers and the global crew change crisis	1
When nomads become migrants: A case study of Mongolia	1
Infection, temporality and inequality: Sanitizing foreign bodies and protecting public health in Taiwan	1
Skilled but stalled: Understanding disadvantages among highly skilled Indian migrants in Germany	1
Exploring the interplay of migrant entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence and social integration of marriage migrant women in South Korea	1
Book review: Migrant Workers in Singapore. Lives and Labor in a Transient Migration Regime	1

Subject Index	1
Spatial spillover effects of fiscal expenditure and economic opportunity on internal migration in Taiwan	1
Book review: The Politics of International Marriage in Japan	1