OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Migration Review is 3. 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
Age at Migration and the Political Integration of Immigrants — Evidence From a Sibling Analysis	90
Regulating the Undesirable: Statusless Women in Israel	36
Why do Citizens Criminalize Migrants? Experimental Evidence from a Multi-Role Country, Mexico	33
Digital Nomadism and the Emergence of Digital Nomad Visas: What Policy Objectives Do States Aim to Achieve?	31
Book Review: On Transits and Transitions	22
Global Evidence on the Relative Importance of Nonfinancial Drivers of International Migration Intentions	22
Dreaming of a Remittance House: Understanding Transnational Housing Aspirations	21
Resilient Remittances? Examining Immigrant Remittances from the United States to Latin America During Covid-19	20
How Much Does Migration Affect Labor Supply in Europe? Methodological Insights and Contemporary Evidence from the European Union and Selected European Countries	18
Book Review: An Address in Paris	16
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnic Trust Network and Expanded Social Engagement Among North Korean Refugees in London	16
Immigration and New Firm Formation – Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Germany	15
Subjectivity in Welfare Mobilities: Rethinking Welfare as a Structure, a Process, and an Experience	15
Web Scraping for Migration, Mobility, and Migrant Integration Studies: Introduction, Application, and Potential Use Cases	14
Exclusionary Contexts Frustrate Cultural Integration: Migrant Acculturation Into Support for Gender Equality in the Labor Market in Western Europe	14
The Evolution of the Returns to Schooling for Refugees and Other Immigrants in the United States	14
Trust in Transit: External Migration Control and Migrants’ Perceptions of Humanitarian Borderwork in the Sahel	14
Book Review: The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco	13
Book Review: The Opportunity Trap	13
Public Support for Migrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of North Koreans in the Republic of Korea	12
The Inflow of Refugees and Educational Attainment of U.S. Natives: Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift	12
Understanding Adverse Outcomes in Gulf Migration: Evidence from Administrative Data from Sri Lanka	11
Partner Choice and Economic Outcomes among the Children of Immigrants	11
Travel Bloggers as ‘Digital Nomads’–How Can Understanding This Lifestyle Migration Help us to Think About the Future of Work, Migration and Technology?	11
Transnational Parenthood and Migrant Subjective Well-Being in Italy	10

Immigration and Fertility in the United States	10
Discrimination of Black and Muslim Minority Groups in Western Societies: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments	10
Book Review: Historias migratorias y educativas de estudiantes transfronterizos entre Estados Unidos y México	10
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.	10
Implications of the Rohingya Relocation from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, Bangladesh	10
Migration Governance in Pakistan: Institutional Challenges and Data Gaps	9
The Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions Among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in Norway and Sweden	9
Book Reviews: Migration and Political Theory	9
Does City Size Affect International Migrants and Native-Born Workers Differently? Exploring Inequalities in Unemployment and Occupations Across Spanish Cities	9
Participation in Social Movement and Emigration Intention: A Study of Hong Kong Social Movement in 2019	9
Immigration and the Boundaries of Black Political Subjecthood in Argentina and Chile	9
Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering: The Securitization of Migration Policy in Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Migration Aspirations and Adolescents’ Ideal age at Union Formation in Western Mexico	8
How Do Immigration Policies Affect Voter Support for Low-Skilled Immigrants? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	8
Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”	7
Mediating Mobility in West Africa: Improvisation, Culture, and Volatility in Migration Infrastructures	7
Capacity and Priority: Explaining the Regulatory Roles of Labor Brokers in China's Newly Established Guestworker Program	6
Religion, Ideology, and Political Parties’ Positions on Refugees in South Asia and the Middle East	6
A Migratory Ecosystem: Legibility, Visibility, and the Role of Organizations in Ecuador	6
Who Wants to Leave? Global Survey Evidence on How Individual Emigration Aspirations Differ Between Peaceful and Conflict-Affected Contexts	6
Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective	6
Why Are Children of Immigrants Less Geographically Mobile? Examining the Role of Economic Disadvantage and Family Networks	6
Are Healthcare Systems Failing Immigrants? Transnational Migration and Social Exclusion in the Workers’ Compensation Process in Québec	6
Book Review: Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan	6
Contesting Boundaries and Navigating Identities: Second-Generation Adult Children from Cross-Border Marriages in Taiwan	6
Childbearing Across Immigrants and Their Descendants in Sweden: The Role of Generation and Gender	6
Marriage Channels, Temporal Inequality, and Migration Decision-Making Agency: Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Asia	6
Point of Reference: A Multisited Exploration of African Migration and Fertility in France	5
Does Self-Employment Contribute to Immigrants’ Economic Integration? Examining Patterns of Self-Employment Exit in Belgium	5
Book Review: Intimate Strangers	5
Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 2021	5
Does It Pay Off? Understanding Subjective Employment Mobility of European Physicians in Germany	5
Judicial Framing and Immigration Policymaking: Israel's Policy toward Self-Claiming Palestinian Informers	5
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	5
Population Innumeracy and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Case of South Africa	5
Family Matters: The Impact of National Policies on Asylum Destinations	5
Book Review: Searching for Sweetness: Women's Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho	5
Collectivized Discretion: Seeking Explanations for Decreased Asylum Recognition Rates in Finland After Europe's 2015 “Refugee Crisis”	5
Book Review: Hopelessly Alien	5
Imposed Invisibility: Unraveling Identities Through Negotiations of Categories among People Raised in Germany by Polish Parents	5
Remittances and Protests against Crime in Mexico	5
Book Review: Lived Refuge	5
Book Review: The Refugee System	5
Taking Care of Others and the Self through Islamic Funeral Service in Berlin	5
The Perpetual Influence of Historical Trauma: A Broad Look at Indigenous Families and Communities in Areas Now Called the United States and Canada	5
The Glaring Gap: Undervalued and Unrecognized Knowledges and Expertise in International Migration Research	5
U.S. Sanctuary Policies and Mexicans’ Migration Preferences: A Conjoint-Experimental Study	5
Book Review: The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing‘s Koreatown	5
No Safe Place: Violence among Unaccompanied Refugee Children Seeking Asylum in Kenya	5
The Map and the Territory: The Use of Country Information in Asylum Assessments	5

Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus	4
With Time We Learn to Trust Others? Long-Standing Ethnic Diversity, Recent Immigration, and Out-Group Trust in Russia	4
Book Review: “Migration, Mobility and the Creative Class.”	4
Review Essay: Moving Beyond the Migration State	4
Book Review: Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorship	4
Book Review: Outsourcing Control	4
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,	4
The Refugee Paradox During Wartime in Europe: How Ukrainian and Afghan Refugees are (not) Alike	4
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention	4
Digital Nomads in Conversation: Reddit-based Analysis and the Future of Nomadic versus Migrant Career Journeys	4
Does Time Since Arrival have an Effect on Immigrants’ Preferences for Vocational Education and Training Programs in Switzerland?	4
Quantitative Data Availability and Measurement of US Immigrant and Immigration Policies: IMR Methods Note	4
Why Has Migration Research So Little Impact? Examining Knowledge Practices in Migration Policy Making and Migration Studies	4
Badante or Bride? Patterns of Female Migration in Italy, Japan, Korea, and Spain	4
Of Rice and Men: Rice Consumption-Based Estimates of Undocumented Persons in Malaysia	3
How Social Networks Shape Refugee Movements in Wartime: Evidence from the Russian Attack on Ukraine	3
Reimagining “Integration” in the Light of the New Forms of Mobility	3
Climate Change, Drought, and Potential Environmental Migration Flows Under Different Policy Scenarios	3
Book Review: Exit	3
Can We See Their ID? Measuring Immigrants’ Legal Trajectory: Lessons From a French Survey	3
Book Review: The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life	3
Book Review: Argonauts of West Africa	3
Book Review: Fragments of Home	3
Forced Migration and the Politics of Belonging: Integration Policy, National Debates and Migrant Strategies	3
Jigsaw Migration: How Mixed Citizenship LGBTQ Families (Re)Assemble Their Fragmented Citizenship	3
Criminal Victimization of Central American Migrants in Transit Through Mexico	3
Book Review	3
Book Review: New year, new plans for IMR’s book review section	3
Immigration, Sanctuary Policies, and Public Safety	3
The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century	3
Book Review: Asylum as Reparation	3
The Value of Illegality: Venezuelan Migrants in Ecuador and the (Re)Entrenchment of Neoliberal Capitalism	3
Theorizing Legitimacy in Migration Research	3
Externally Driven Border Control in West Africa: Local Impact and Broader Ramifications	3
Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies	3
Book Review: Waiting for the Revolution to End	3