OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Migration Review is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
(Im)mobility in the Age of COVID-19	81
The Refugee Paradox During Wartime in Europe: How Ukrainian and Afghan Refugees are (not) Alike	56
Suppression, Spikes, and Stigma: How COVID-19 Will Shape International Migration and Hostilities toward It	33
Discrimination of Black and Muslim Minority Groups in Western Societies: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments	28
Which Integration Policies Work? The Heterogeneous Impact of National Institutions on Immigrants’ Labor Market Attainment in Europe	27
Climate Change, Drought, and Potential Environmental Migration Flows Under Different Policy Scenarios	26
Time to Mainstream the Environment into Migration Theory?	19
A Global Meta-analysis of the Immigrant Mortality Advantage	18
Precarious Times, Professional Tensions: The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability	17
Does Facilitated and Early Access to the Healthcare System Improve Refugees’ Health Outcomes? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Germany	17
International Migration and the (Un)happiness Push: Evidence from Polish Longitudinal Data	16
Immigrant Women’s Economic Outcomes in Europe: The Importance of Religion and Traditional Gender Roles	16
Toward an Early Warning System for Monitoring Asylum-Related Migration Flows in Europe	15
What Shapes Attitudes Toward Homosexuality among European Muslims? The Role of Religiosity and Destination Hostility	14
Decline, Revival, Change? Religious Adaptations among Muslim and Non-Muslim Immigrant Origin Youth in Norway	13
Foreign Accents in the Early Hiring Process: A Field Experiment on Accent-Related Ethnic Discrimination in Germany	12
The Integration Paradox: A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Complex Relationship Between Integration and Reports of Discrimination	11
Ethnic Wage Penalty and Human Capital Transferability: A Comparative Study of Recent Migrants in 11 European Countries	11
Bridges or Barriers? The Relationship between Immigrants’ Early Labor Market Adversities and Long-term Earnings	11
A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020	11
From “Sea Turtles” to “Grassroots Ambassadors”: The Chinese Politics of Outbound Student Migration	10
Actors, Ideas, and International Influence: Understanding Migration Policy Change in South America	10
When Diaspora Politics Meet Global Ambitions: Diaspora Institutions Amid China's Geopolitical Transformations	10
Implications of the Rohingya Relocation from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, Bangladesh	10
Where Would Ukrainian Refugees Go if They Could Go Anywhere?	9

Bonding Social Capital, Afghan Refugees, and Early Access to Employment	9
The Effect of Immigrant Integration Policies on Public Immigration Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the United Kingdom	9
Do Gender-role Values Matter? Explaining New Refugee Women’s Social Contact in Germany	9
Navigating to the Top in an Egalitarian Welfare State: Institutional Opportunity Structures of Second-generation Social Mobility	9
What Drives Migration to Europe? Survey Experimental Evidence from Lebanon	9
Fathers’ Migration and Academic Achievement among Left-behind Children in India: Evidence of Continuity and Change in Gender Preferences	8
Wages of Skilled Migrant and Native Employees in Germany: New Light on an Old Issue	8
Does Personality Matter? Noncognitive Skills and the Male Migrant Wage Gap in Germany	8
Cumulative Experiences of Immigration Enforcement Policy and the Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Asian and Latinx Immigrants in the United States	8
The Polarizing Effect of Anti-Immigrant Violence on Radical Right Sympathies in Germany	8
Restricting Human Movement During the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Research Avenues in the Study of Mobility, Migration, and Citizenship	8
Exclusionary Contexts Frustrate Cultural Integration: Migrant Acculturation Into Support for Gender Equality in the Labor Market in Western Europe	7
Young Gazan Refugees, Sport and Social Media: Understanding Migration as a Process of Becoming	7
Immigrant Legal Status among Essential Frontline Workers in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic Era	6
“New White Ethnics” or “New Latinos”? Hispanic/Latino Pan-ethnicity and Ancestry Reporting among South American Immigrants to the United States	6
Free Movement and Welfare in the European Union: The Social Consequences of the Right to Exit	6
The Impact of Place of Origin on International and Domestic Graduates’ Mobility in China	6
Are They Still Aiming High? The Development of Educational Aspirations of Lower Secondary School Students With Immigrant Backgrounds in Germany	6
Determinants of Intended Return Migration among Refugees: A Comparison of Syrian Refugees in Germany and Turkey	6
Multidimensionality in the Integration of First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Europe: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation	6
Health-Care Utilization of Refugees: Evidence from Austria	6
Collectivized Discretion: Seeking Explanations for Decreased Asylum Recognition Rates in Finland After Europe's 2015 “Refugee Crisis”	5
Homestay Accommodation for Refugees (in Europe). A Literature Review	5
Gendered and Stratified Family Formation Trajectories in the Context of Latin American Migration, 1950 to 2000	5
Public Attitudes to Immigration in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Little Change in Policy Preferences, Big Drops in Issue Salience	5
Policy Change, Threat Perception, and Mobility Catalysts: The Trump Administration as Driver of Asylum Migration to Canada	5
Divergent Immigrant Health Trajectories: Disparities in Physical Health Using a Multidimensional Conceptualization of Legal Status	5
“I Will Return Strong”: The Role of Life Aspirations in Refugees’ Return Aspirations	5
In the Ear of the Listener: The Role of Foreign Accent in Interethnic Friendships and Partnerships	5
The Labor Force Trajectories of Immigrant Women in the United States: Intersecting Individual and Gendered Cohort Characteristics	5
Migrant Remittances and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Income Classifications	5
The Map and the Territory: The Use of Country Information in Asylum Assessments	5
Food Insecurity and International Migration Flows	5
Immigrant Men’s Economic Adaptation in Changing Labor Markets: Why Gaps between Turkish and German Men Expanded, 1976–2015	5
Spatial Assimilation at a Halt? Intergenerational Persistence in Neighborhood Contexts among Immigrant Minorities in Norway	5
The Legacy of Conflict: Reconstruction and Migration in the Aftermath of Civil War in Tajikistan	4
Immigration, Sanctuary Policies, and Public Safety	4
Point of Reference: A Multisited Exploration of African Migration and Fertility in France	4
Remittances and Protests against Crime in Mexico	4
Safety, Shame, and Ambiguity — the Case of Ukrainian Male Refugees	4
Unraveling Migration Policy-Making in the Land of “No Immigrants”: Japanese Bureaucracy and the Discursive Gap	4
Refugee Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review of Prior Research and Agenda for Future Research	4
Linguistic Barriers to Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration in Italy	4
Do Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) Support Self-Reliance among Urban Refugees? Evidence from Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia	4
Bargaining Power: A Framework for Understanding Varieties of Migration Experience	4
“No Place for Old Men”: Immigrant Duration, Wage Theft, and Economic Mobility among Day Laborers in Denver, Colorado	4
National Cultural Frames and Muslims’ Economic Incorporation: A Comparison of France and Canada	4
Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019	3
Who Wants to Leave? Global Survey Evidence on How Individual Emigration Aspirations Differ Between Peaceful and Conflict-Affected Contexts	3
Components of Context: Respecifying the Role of Context in Migration Research	3

Possible Citizens: Migration Enforcement as the Performance of Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates	3
Understanding Adverse Outcomes in Gulf Migration: Evidence from Administrative Data from Sri Lanka	3
Does Emancipation Matter? Fertility of Chinese International Migrants to the United States and Nonmigrants during China’s One-child Policy Period	3
Sexuality, Migration, and LGB Policy: A Portrait of Immigrants in Same-Sex Couples in the United States	3
How Homeland Experiences Shape Refugee Belonging: Rethinking Exile, Home, and Integration in the Syrian Case	3
The Migration Response to Food Insecurity and Household Shocks in Southwestern Ethiopia, 2005–2008	3
Migration Aspirations and Adolescents’ Ideal age at Union Formation in Western Mexico	3
Are Healthcare Systems Failing Immigrants? Transnational Migration and Social Exclusion in the Workers’ Compensation Process in Québec	3
Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering: The Securitization of Migration Policy in Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Sick Days: Logical Versus Survey Identification of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States	3
Next Stop: Europe? Aspirations for Secondary Migration Among Syrian Refugees in Jordan	3
Welfare Benefit Generosity and Refugee Integration	3
Labor Recruitment and Human Trafficking: Analysis of a Global Trafficking Survivor Database	3
Mass Preferences for the Free Movement of People in Africa: A Public Opinion Analysis of 36 Countries	3
Trajectories of Spatial Assimilation or Place Stratification? A Typology of Residence and Workplace Histories of Newly Arrived Migrants in Sweden	3
Acculturation Among Finnish Somalis: An Imitation Game Inquiry Into Bicultural Fluency	3
Gradations of Migrant Legality: The Impact of States’ Legal Structures and Bureaucracies on Immigrant Legalization and Livelihoods	3
Refugee Status, Settlement Assistance, and the Educational Integration of Migrants’ Children in the United States	3
Internal and International Migration and the Mental Health of “Left-Behind” Older Parents	3
Refugees Separated by the Global Color Line: The Power of Europeanness, Whiteness, and Sameness	3
Costa Rica as a Destination for Migrants in Need of International Protection: IMR Country Report	3
The Quest for Lifestyle: Reverse Family Migration among Hong Kong Returnee Parents	3
IMR Country Report – Nigerian Migration to Russia: Accommodation and Discrimination in a Post-Soviet Society	2
Does Changing the Narrative Improve Host Community Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh	2
Diasporas and Collective Remittances: From State-Driven to Unofficial Forms of Diaspora Engagement	2
Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”	2
Transnational Parenthood and Migrant Subjective Well-Being in Italy	2
How Social Networks Shape Refugee Movements in Wartime: Evidence from the Russian Attack on Ukraine	2
Badante or Bride? Patterns of Female Migration in Italy, Japan, Korea, and Spain	2
The Making of a “Lost Generation”: Child Labor among Syrian Refugees in Turkey	2
Importance of Personality Traits for Destination-Language Acquisition: Evidence for Refugees in Germany	2
Making Single Mothers Matter: Reflections on the Vulnerability and Agency of Displaced Persons in Postwar Occupied Austria and Beyond	2
Competing Family Pathways for Immigrants and Their Descendants in Germany	2
Spatial Incorporation of Multiple Immigrant Groups in Gateway Cities: Comparative Analysis of Sydney, Barcelona, and Prague	2
Integrating Traditional and Social Media Data to Predict Bilateral Migrant Stocks in the European Union	2
The Social Inclusion of Migrants Between Policy and Practice: Lessons from Uruguay	2
Influence of “Primary Groups” on New Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Africa	2
Negative Sentiment Toward Recent Migrants in a Post-Colonial City: A Case Study in Hong Kong	2
Transnational City Networks on Migration and Integration and Local Collaborative Governance: Establishing the Nexus	2
Effect of External Shocks on the Predictability of Remittance Flows From Developed Countries	2
“All the World's a Stage?” A Role Theory Analysis of City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance	2
Does Self-Employment Contribute to Immigrants’ Economic Integration? Examining Patterns of Self-Employment Exit in Belgium	2
Journey Effects? Waiting Periods in European Transit Countries and Subsequent Economic Integration of Refugees in Switzerland	2
Fitting in at the Top? Stigma and the Negotiation of Belonging Among the New Immigrant Elite in France	2
The Tradeoff of Temporariness: Economic and Social Impacts of H-2A Status on Mexican Migrant Men	2
The Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions Among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in Norway and Sweden	2
Permanent Membership: The Prohibition of Citizenship Renunciation	2
Mobility Repertoires: How Chinese Overseas Students Overcame Pandemic-Induced Immobility	2
Bureaucratic Migration Politics in West Africa: Opportunities and Dependencies Created by EU Funding	2