OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Migration Review is 4. 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
Book Review: An Address in Paris Mbodj-PouyeAïssatou. 2023. An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants. New York: Columbia University Press. $35.	156
Age at Migration and the Political Integration of Immigrants — Evidence From a Sibling Analysis	55
Book Review: In Search of Home Camaj R. Klement. (2025). The Migration of Albanians from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States: In Search of Home. Oxford: Routledge. 173. $108.00.	38
The Impacts of Syrian Refugees on Natives’ Health Outcomes	38
Canadian and Australian Immigration Policy Trends: An Institutional Isomorphic Comparative Historical Analysis	33
Focus-Group Workshops as a Reciprocal Method of Research and Support: The Case of Volunteers Assisting Ukrainian Displaced Migrants	31
Resilient Remittances? Examining Immigrant Remittances from the United States to Latin America During Covid-19	27
Why do Citizens Criminalize Migrants? Experimental Evidence from a Multi-Role Country, Mexico	26
Global Evidence on the Relative Importance of Nonfinancial Drivers of International Migration Intentions	21
Book Review: On Transits and Transitions	21
Regulating the Undesirable: Statusless Women in Israel	21
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnic Trust Network and Expanded Social Engagement Among North Korean Refugees in London	20
How Much Does Migration Affect Labor Supply in Europe? Methodological Insights and Contemporary Evidence from the European Union and Selected European Countries	20
Digital Nomadism and the Emergence of Digital Nomad Visas: What Policy Objectives Do States Aim to Achieve?	19
Dreaming of a Remittance House: Understanding Transnational Housing Aspirations	19
The Evolution of the Returns to Schooling for Refugees and Other Immigrants in the United States	18
Public Support for Migrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of North Koreans in the Republic of Korea	18
The Inflow of Refugees and Educational Attainment of U.S. Natives: Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift	17
Partner Choice and Economic Outcomes among the Children of Immigrants	16
Book Review: The Opportunity Trap	15
Web Scraping for Migration, Mobility, and Migrant Integration Studies: Introduction, Application, and Potential Use Cases	15
Travel Bloggers as ‘Digital Nomads’–How Can Understanding This Lifestyle Migration Help us to Think About the Future of Work, Migration and Technology?	14
Book Review: Everyday Futures Canizales, Stephanie L. and O'Connor, Brendan H.2025. Everyday Futures: Language as Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 240 pp	14
Then and Now: Romanian Returnees Contemplating Future Migration	14
Immigration and New Firm Formation – Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Germany	14

Book Review: The EU Migrant Generation in Asia Hof, Helena. 2022. The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 264 pages. GBP	14
Subjectivity in Welfare Mobilities: Rethinking Welfare as a Structure, a Process, and an Experience	13
Isolated from Home, Trapped by Remittances: How Isolation Leads to Affective and Moral Pressures on North Korean Remittances	13
The Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions Among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in Norway and Sweden	13
Trust in Transit: External Migration Control and Migrants’ Perceptions of Humanitarian Borderwork in the Sahel	13
Countering Brain Drain through Circulation and Linkage: Illustrations and Lessons from China and India	13
Does City Size Affect International Migrants and Native-Born Workers Differently? Exploring Inequalities in Unemployment and Occupations Across Spanish Cities	13
Book Review: Homesick WaltonEmily. 2026. Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 153 pages. $26.00.	13
Immigration and Fertility in the United States	12
Book Review: The Shape of Belonging Ögtem-YoungÖzlem. 2024. The Shape of Belonging: For Unaccompanied Young Migrants. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 167 pp. Hardback £80.00.	12
Legal Status Categorization, Transitions, Starting Points as Employment Stratifying Mechanisms: Evidence from US Student-Migrant-Workers	11
Book Review: Everyday Activists C. M.Getrich, 2025. Everyday Activists: Undocumented Immigrants’ Quest for Justice and Well-Being. New York: New York University Press. 285 Pages, $89.00.	11
Participation in Social Movement and Emigration Intention: A Study of Hong Kong Social Movement in 2019	11
Climate Change, Violence, and Remittance Flows in Mexico	11
The Changing Job Instability of UK Immigrants at the Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity, 1992–2023	11
Book Review: Historias migratorias y educativas de estudiantes transfronterizos entre Estados Unidos y México Huerta Cordova, Vilma, Kleyn, Tatyana, and López Gopar, Mario Enrique. 2023. Historias mig	11
Migration Governance in Pakistan: Institutional Challenges and Data Gaps	11
Contesting Boundaries and Navigating Identities: Second-Generation Adult Children from Cross-Border Marriages in Taiwan	10
Childbearing Across Immigrants and Their Descendants in Sweden: The Role of Generation and Gender	10
Capacity and Priority: Explaining the Regulatory Roles of Labor Brokers in China's Newly Established Guestworker Program	10
Mediating Mobility in West Africa: Improvisation, Culture, and Volatility in Migration Infrastructures	10
Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”	10
Book Review: Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan	9
Religion, Ideology, and Political Parties’ Positions on Refugees in South Asia and the Middle East	9
Migration Aspirations and Adolescents’ Ideal age at Union Formation in Western Mexico	9
Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering: The Securitization of Migration Policy in Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
A Migratory Ecosystem: Legibility, Visibility, and the Role of Organizations in Ecuador	8
Marriage Channels, Temporal Inequality, and Migration Decision-Making Agency: Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Asia	8
Immigration and the Boundaries of Black Political Subjecthood in Argentina and Chile	8
The Political Ecology of Philippine Migration in a Changing Climate	8
Book Review: The Migration Question TalaniL. S.RosinaM. (2025). The Migration Question: Politics, Economics and the Failure of Border Security. Oxford University Press. 316 pp. $46.98.	8
How Do Immigration Policies Affect Voter Support for Low-Skilled Immigrants? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	8
Beyond the Economics Versus Culture Divide: Neoliberal Migration Policy	8
Introduction: Philippine Labor Migration 50 Years Later	8
Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective	8
Family Separation Among Migrants in Need of International Protection: Anticipation, Duration, and Agency	8
Why Are Children of Immigrants Less Geographically Mobile? Examining the Role of Economic Disadvantage and Family Networks	8
Local Turn Through International Networking: Istanbul's Migration City Diplomacy	8
Are Healthcare Systems Failing Immigrants? Transnational Migration and Social Exclusion in the Workers’ Compensation Process in Québec	8
Who Wants to Leave? Global Survey Evidence on How Individual Emigration Aspirations Differ Between Peaceful and Conflict-Affected Contexts	7
Book Review: Lived Refuge NguyenVinh. 2023. Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience. Oakland: University of California Press. xviii+163 Pp., $34.95 (paperback), free (e-book).	7
The Perpetual Influence of Historical Trauma: A Broad Look at Indigenous Families and Communities in Areas Now Called the United States and Canada	7
Taking Care of Others and the Self through Islamic Funeral Service in Berlin	7
Review Essay: Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and DevelopmentThe Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and AssistanceThe Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Econom	7
Book Review: Searching for Sweetness: Women's Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho	7
Family Matters: The Impact of National Policies on Asylum Destinations	7
Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 2021	7
Population Innumeracy and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Case of South Africa	7
Book Review: The Refugee System	7
Unauthorized Identity Craft: Rethinking “Fraud” in the Study of Migration	6

Does Time Since Arrival have an Effect on Immigrants’ Preferences for Vocational Education and Training Programs in Switzerland?	6
Judicial Framing and Immigration Policymaking: Israel's Policy toward Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers	6
Book Review: Moved by Modernity SchewelKerilyn. 2025. Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 275. $29.95.	6
Refugee Return without Refoulement : Rethinking State Strategies to Evade Asylum Norms	6
Dragons Soaring to Success – Zodiac Sign, Education, and Wages of Immigrants from Chinese Societies in Germany	6
No Safe Place: Violence among Unaccompanied Refugee Children Seeking Asylum in Kenya	6
Book Review: The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing‘s Koreatown	6
Toward a Neoliberal Regime of Belonging?: Rethinking Contemporary Statelessness Governance in Thailand	6
Governance Through Uncertainty and the Making of Mixed-Status Venezuelan Families in Chile and Colombia	6
Imposed Invisibility: Unraveling Identities Through Negotiations of Categories among People Raised in Germany by Polish Parents	6
The Uncertainty of Forced Displacement: How Language and Violence Shaped Displacement Trajectories During Russia's Invasion of Ukraine	6
Book Review: Did You Say “Migrant”? V. Mistiaen 2025. Did You Say “Migrant”? Media Representations of People on the Move. Éditions del’Université de Bruxelles. 300 pp. €31.00	6
The Glaring Gap: Undervalued and Unrecognized Knowledges and Expertise in International Migration Research	6
Book Review: Outsourcing Control	6
The Elusiveness of Life: Birth Outcomes Among Venezuelan Migrant Mothers in Colombia	6
The Development and Dismantling of Fragmented Protection: Rohingya Refugee Experiences of Fragmented Governance Across India	6
Quantitative Data Availability and Measurement of US Immigrant and Immigration Policies: IMR Methods Note	6
Book Review: Social Networks and Migration Ryan, L., 2023. Social Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and Resources. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 214 page, £27.99.	6
Book Review: Intimate Strangers ToyotaTritia. 2023. Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 226 pp., $3	5
Does It Pay Off? Understanding Subjective Employment Mobility of European Physicians in Germany	5
The Refugee Paradox During Wartime in Europe: How Ukrainian and Afghan Refugees are (not) Alike	5
Migration Diplomacy as a Path to Taiwan's International Participation	5
Book Review: “Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class.” HughesEllenWebberDon J.and ParryGlenn.2024. “Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class.” Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 191 pp.	5
Workplace Arrangement and Language Acquisition of Immigrants	5
Irregular and Forced Migration within Asia: Governance, Marginality, and Labor	5
Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus	5
Book Review: Urban Refugees and Digital Technology Martin-ShieldsCharles. 2024. Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Rethinking Integration in the Digital Age. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024,	5
U.S. Sanctuary Policies and Mexicans’ Migration Preferences: A Conjoint-Experimental Study	5
With Time We Learn to Trust Others? Long-Standing Ethnic Diversity, Recent Immigration, and Out-Group Trust in Russia	5
Book Review: Hearts of Freedom Duschinsky, Peter, Colleen Lundy, Michael J. Molloy, Allan Moscovitch, and Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe, 2025. Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees. Mont	5
Can We See Their ID? Measuring Immigrants’ Legal Trajectory: Lessons From a French Survey	5
Book Review: Argonauts of West Africa	5
Book Review: Hopelessly Alien LouisCorsino. 2024. Hopelessly Alien . The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights. Albany, NY: State University	5
Forced Migrants’ Agency in a Life Course Approach—A Conceptual Proposal and Empirical Illustration	5
Segmented Network Embeddedness: Influence of Cultural Capital on Social Networks and Business Models Among Chinese Entrepreneurs in Ikebukuro, Tokyo	5
Why People Migrate: Testing Socio-Psychological Explanations of Migration Aspirations, Plans, Preparations, and Irregularity	5
Public Belief in the “Great Replacement Theory”	5
Why Has Migration Research So Little Impact? Examining Knowledge Practices in Migration Policy Making and Migration Studies	5
Book Review: Young and Undocumented AlbarracínJulia. 2025. Young and Undocumented: Political Belonging in Uncertain Times. New York: New York University Press. 288 pages. $30.00.	5
Book Review: Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience	4
Book Review: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles CanizalesStephanie L.2024. Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States. Oakland: University of California Press. 338. $29	4
How Social Networks Shape Refugee Movements in Wartime: Evidence from the Russian Attack on Ukraine	4
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention	4
Criminal Victimization of Central American Migrants in Transit Through Mexico	4
Jigsaw Migration: How Mixed Citizenship LGBTQ Families (Re)Assemble Their Fragmented Citizenship	4
Book Review: Asylum as Reparation	4
Book Review: Global Warming and Mass Migration Soukharev, Boris. 2025. Global Warming and Mass Migration: Climate Change and Its Impact on Migration to the North. Cham: Springer. 356 pages. Paperback	4
Reimagining “Integration” in the Light of the New Forms of Mobility	4
Forced Migration and the Politics of Belonging: Integration Policy, National Debates and Migrant Strategies	4
Book Review: Exit	4
The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century	4
Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies	4
Review Essay: Moving Beyond the Migration State	4
Book Review	4
Externally Driven Border Control in West Africa: Local Impact and Broader Ramifications	4
Embedding Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Solidarity Contexts: A Cross-European Study	4
China's International Migration from 1990 to 2020: A Panel Comparison Between Immigration and Emigration	4
Book Review: African Football Migration	4
The Value of Illegality: Venezuelan Migrants in Ecuador and the (Re)Entrenchment of Neoliberal Capitalism	4
Book Review: The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life	4
Book Review: Waiting for the Revolution to End Charlotte Al-Khalili. 2023. Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian displacement, time and subjectivity. London: UCL Press. 234 pp., Paperback £30.00.	4
Digital Nomads in Conversation: Reddit-based Analysis and the Future of Nomadic versus Migrant Career Journeys	4
Book Review: Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorship	4
Of Rice and Men: Rice Consumption-Based Estimates of Undocumented Persons in Malaysia	4
Book Review: Migrant Social Networks in Cape Town ChekeroTamuka. 2025. Resilient Social Networks and Mobility Strategies among Migrants in Cape Town. Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing Common I	4
Book Review: Sideways Migration Deborah Reed-Danahay 2025. Sideways Migration: Being French in London. New York: Routledge. 178 pp. £135.00.	4
Spatial Segregation in Action? An Empirical Assessment of Population Concentration of Foreigners and Nationals in Italy, 2002–2018	4
The Social Inclusion of Migrants Between Policy and Practice: Lessons from Uruguay	4