Journal of Refugee Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Refugee Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Borders of Migrant and Refugee Activism in South Africa25
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home M. Dogon and J. Krajeski25
Social networks and the dead: learning from South Sudanese military widows in exile in Khartoum (Sudan)22
Discrimtination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees By Lamis Elmy AbdelaatyFraming Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries Across the World By Daniel Dre21
From camp to quarter: the contention of post-disaster social housing in al-Mankubin, North Lebanon16
The Power of Positive Thinking: How Positive Opinions of Refugees’ Impact on the Host Society Generate Positive Behavioural Intentions16
Borderland Porosities: Migratory Journeys and Migrant Politics in Lebanon and Turkey15
‘The Great and Miserable Flight’: The Experiences of Refugees in Newsprint during the Thirty Years’ War13
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance Louis Brehony13
Data-driven futures of international refugee law13
Towards black methods in research with refugees13
Magic bullet or questionable remedy? Discussing the use of Meta advertising to recruit hard-to-reach migrants for surveys12
Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity. By Zein Murib.12
Constructions of Multiple Deservingness Frames towards Refugees in Everyday Work Life in İzmir12
Humanitarian hacking: Merging refugee aid and digital capitalism11
Policy Entrepreneurship and the Drafting of Refugee Law in a Non-Signatory Country: The Case of Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism11
What Kind of Weapon Is Education? Teleological Violence, Local Integration, and Refugee Education in Northern Ethiopia11
The African ‘Other’ as Displaced Enslaved and Refugee: Internal Borders across Time and Place11
Creating Educational Borderlands: Civic Learning in a Syrian School in Lebanon11
Capturing the Border in Refugee Solidarity Camp Visits and City Tours in Germany: Theorizing Relationality through the Border as Horizon in Refugee/Migrant Solidarity Activism as Citizenship Politics11
Transnational belonging and disrupted care relationships10
Three approaches to the 1951 Convention: The case for a dialectical approach10
LGBTIQ+ refugees in India: RSD and the implications of legal developments in the country of asylum10
2021 Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford10
Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism By Ali Bhagat10
Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora. By B. Camminga and John Marnell9
Unequal refugeeness. Race, gender, and co-belligerence from Poles in colonial Africa to Ukrainians in Poland9
The Madrigals Who Live on the Other Side of the Pacific: A review of Encanto. Howard, Bryon; Bush, Jared (Director); Castro Smith, Charise (co-director)9
Refugee Status, Permanent Residency, and Citizenship: The re-making of categories among Palestinian youth in East Jerusalem9
‘NO MORE WALLS IN THE SEAS’: Migration graffscapes and migrants’ messages while en route to and in Europe9
Higher education in displacement: empowering pathway or double-edged institution? Insights from Belarusian students’ experiences9
Survivalist mobilities: freedom of movement and the economic lives of settlement refugees in Uganda8
Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues8
Intermediaries and opacity: understanding refugee family reunification through migration infrastructures8
Implications of refugee crisis on public sector healthcare organizations: Empirical observation from Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh8
Many a Slip between Cup and Lip: Navigating Noncitizenship and School-to-Work Transitions in Kakuma Refugee Camp7
Performing, contesting, and resisting internal bordering of refugee rights in Costa Rica7
Do Work Permits Work? The Impacts of Formal Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Jordan7
Empowering Ukrainian refugees in Seattle: integrating hazard preparedness education into resettlement research7
Refugee Illegality: Governing Refugees via Rescaling Borders in Turkey7
Tracing housing aid modalities and solutions to protracted displacement: experiences among Sri Lanka’s northern Muslims7
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger By David Hinton7
Refugee Participation through Representative Committees: UNHCR and the Sudanese Committee in Beirut6
South African attitudes towards refugee settlement: Examining the importance of threat perceptions6
Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution. By Robert F. Barsky6
Cross-effects of cultural and gay capitals in access to refugee status on the grounds of SOGI in France: Study of the formal and informal preparations of West African men for asylum trials6
Towards a Shared Practice of Encampment: An Historical Investigation of UNRWA and the UNHCR to 19676
Accountability without accounting: missing and inconsistent labeling of refugee and asylee students in state datasets6
Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan By Alessandro Monsutti6
Correction to: Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK6
Motherhood on the move: forced migrant women from Ukraine6
‘Chileans ex Romania’: Resettlement, Containment, and the Limits of UNHCR’s Global Ambitions during the Cold War6
Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Protection of Refugees and Refugee Camps6
Using forced migration to foster emergence? International aid and development policies in Cameroon5
How Rohingya refugee parents support children’s prosocial development in crisis-affected and resettlement contexts: Findings from India and Canada5
Migration Control in Practice. Before and Within the Borders of the State. Edited by Federica Infantino and Djordje Sredanovic5
After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labor in Mauritania By Hassan Ould Moctar5
Fadh, Sharaf and Respectable Passing as New Frameworks for Understanding Transmasculinity in the MENA Region: Case Studies of Transmasculine Refugees in Lebanon5
Formal and informal integration in contexts of displacement: Exploring implications for youth civic identities5
Book Review—The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers. By Kate Reed and Marcia C. Schenck, eds5
Correction to: Making ‘The Process’: Sexual Vulnerability and Burundian Refugee Boys and Young Men’s Strategies for Onward Migration from Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda5
Acculturation and mental health outcomes in adolescents from asylum seeker and labor migrant families in Israel5
Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth Annika Lems5
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency. By Melissa Gatter5
Curriculum Choices for Refugees: What UNRWA’s History Can Tell Us about the Potential of UN Education Programs to Address Refugees’ ‘Unknowable Futures’5
‘Enjoying Time Alone’: Exploring Solitude as a Positive Space for Refugee Wellbeing5
Surveying Diverse Subpopulations in Refugee Studies: Reflections on Sampling, Implementation, and Translation Strategies Drawn from Experiences with a Regional Quantitative Survey on Refugee Parents i5
Relationship between self-efficacy, coping, and sense of community in native and refugee adolescent girls5
Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence5
Things We Lost to the Water. By Eric Nguyen4
The Glass Wall. By Goran Baba Ali4
The (Non-)Status of ‘Duldung’: Non-Deportability in Germany and the Politics of Limitless Temporariness4
Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations4
Measuring and assessing refugee success in the USA: a scoping review of quantitative studies4
Suffering to Save Lives: Torture, Cruelty, and Moral Disengagement in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres4
‘I knew about political asylum, but not about asylum for gay people’: How queer exiles come to apply (or not) for SOGI asylum in France4
(Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey4
‘But You Try to Dig the Hole; Why?’: A Review of the Hearing. The Hearing [Die Anhörung]4
Understanding the politics of refugee law and policy making: Interdisciplinary and empirical approaches4
Hope in the Ruins of Home: Narrative Meaning-Making of Forced Displacement, Place Attachment, and Deferred Future Resettlement in Varosha4
Gatekeeping in asylum interviews: institutional bias and narrative inequality in South Korea’s refugee screening process4
Refugee exposure and attitudes toward refugees in a developing country context: evidence from Türkiye4
Samira Surfs Rukhsanna Guidroz and Illustrated by Fahmida Azim4
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination. By Anthea Vogl4
Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below. By Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi4
Boundary-Making and Political Activism in Protracted Exile: Second-Generation Tibetan Refugees in India4
Internal Displacement and the Law Walter Kälin4
Land for refugees: sharing and exchanging in Northern Uganda4
Education, Ontological Security, and Preserving Hope in Liminality: Learning from the Daily Strategies Exercised by Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan4
Multi-stakeholder knowledge exchange events as a tool of migration infrastructure: evidence from the North West of England3
Border Abolitionism: Migrants’ Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles and Rescue Martina Tazzioli3
Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology (1st ed.). By V.D. Volkan3
De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities3
What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda3
Credible fictions: how states stage refugee governance for geopolitical gain3
Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions3
Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto. By E. Okporo3
Bringing care in: The meaning of care in refugee solidarity movements3
When Stars Are Scattered. By Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed3
Chronicles of Disappearance: Palestinian Encampment in the Bekaa Valley (1948–1951)3
Correction to: Methods for the Future, Futures for Methods: Collaborating with Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan3
Telling the gendered story: the construction of migrant subjectivities in UNHCR’s animated information campaign3
What Becomes a Refugee Camp? Making Camps for European Refugees in North Africa and the Middle East, 1943–463
Durable solutions: to what and for whom?3
Climate Displacement By Jamie Draper3
Climate risks for displaced populations: a scoping review and research agenda3
At the Crossroads between Care and Control: A Cross-Country Comparison of Assisted Return3
‘There seems to be some disparity then between our Syrian and Iraqi refugee children who seemed to have everything’: Constructing ‘good refugees’ and the ensuing equity issues in Australian sch3
Multi-scalar and diasporic integration: Kurdish populations in Europe between state, diaspora and geopolitics3
Resettlement vs. spontaneous applications: Canadians’ attitudes to asylum policy in a comparative perspective3
Bargaining (in)visibility: Rohingya refugees and the politics of visibility in India3
The 2021 UNHCR-IE SOGI Global Roundtable on Protection and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Forced Displacement: Toward a New Vision for LGBTIQ+ Refugee Protection3
A long journey home: losing and remaking home following displacement (Berghahn, Forced Migration Series 53. 2025) By Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia3
Correction to: Out of Sight, Out of Mind2
Later Is aCis-HeteroPatriarchal Time Zone: Narratives of Resistance to LGBTQI+ Inclusion amongst Humanitarian Practitioners2
The Secret Life of Energy in Refugee Camps: Invisible Objects, Technologies, and Energy Systems in Humanitarianism2
Well-Founded Fear of Algorithms or Algorithms of Well-Founded Fear? Hybrid Intelligence in Automated Asylum Seeker Interviews2
Domicide: Architecture, War, and the Destruction of Home in Syria. By Ammar Azzouz2
Refugee Reception in Southern Africa: National and Local Policies in Zambia and South Africa. By Nicholas Maple2
Displacement as lived experience. Refugee relief and female leadership in the life and work of Toni Sender (1888–1964)2
More than a number: Exploring the impact of age(ing) on refugees’ experiences of arrival2
Child marriage and displacement: A qualitative study of displaced and host populations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq2
‘I Did Not Choose to Be in Your Country’: Social-Racial Hierarchies in Peru and Venezuelan Migrant Women’s Responses2
IDP perspectives on IDP participation2
Institutional analyses of refugee protection2
“We were together and we had our own family in each other”: refusing repatriation and forging gendered belonging as Hijra refugees in Kolkata2
The intersection between social relationships and policies in refugee integration: The role of emotional support2
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Chauka Please Tell Us the Time By Behrouz Boochani and Arash Kamali Sarvestani, MANUS Remember One Thing, We Are Human Beings By Angus McDonald2
Ethnographic approaches and international refugee law2
Private sponsorship prefigured: religious groups and Canada’s Cold War refugee policy2
When the best is the enemy of the good: the ironic negotiation process of Japan’s controversial asylum amendment bill2
‘Scholars at Risk’ in Germany: Forced Migration and Agency in Forced Migration Decision-Making2
Stuck and Exploited. Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles. Edited by Francesco Della Puppa and Giuliana Sanò2
Mismanagement and misinterpretations in asylum interviews: Perspectives from South Africa and Sweden2
What Can Data Justice Mean for Asylum Governance? The Case of Smartphone Data Extraction in Germany2
On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa During and After the Second World War By Jochen Lingelbach2
When the Palestinian refugee camp became a “squatter settlement”1
From Dadaab Camp to Kismayo City: A Call for Local Evidence to Inform Durable Solutions1
Cuando los niños se vuelven migrantes: Derechos humanos y excepciones violentas en México [When Children Become Migrants: Human Rights and Violent Exceptions in Mexico]. By Elisa Ortega Velazqu1
Displacement among Sri Lankan Tamil Migrants: The Diasporic Search for Home in the Aftermath of War. By Diotima Chattoraj1
Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons: Migration-Coloniality Necropolitics and Conviviality Infrastructure By Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez1
When does a refugee stop being a ‘refugee’? The social construction of refugeehood after cessation1
Correction to: Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence1
The Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment of Refugees. Edited by J. David Kinzie and George A. Keepers.1
UNHCR–state relations: transfer of authority over refugee status determination1
The Constructive Influence of the Homeland in Refugee Organizing: Darfurian Asylum Seekers in Israel1
Immigrant Agency: Hmong American Movements and the Politics of Racialized Incorporation. By Yang Sao Xiong1
‘But we have to be realistic’: examining the origins of temporary protection in the USA and European Union1
Temporary turn in the asylum regime and the deportable refugee: The case of Syrians in Türkiye1
Multilevel governance ‘from above’: Analysing Colombia’s system of co-responsibility for responding to internal displacement1
Starving for the nation: Tibetan hunger strikes and the making of political publics1
Self-selection of Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons in Europe1
Introduction: Irregularized Humanitarian Migrants—Policies, Rationales, and the Search for More Durable Solutions1
How do perceptions, fears, and experiences of violence and conflict affect considerations of moving internally and internationally?1
Refugee livelihood perspectives: Post-traumatic growth in histories of Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Tamil Refugees in Australia1
Correction to: Community-Led Education among Rohingya Refugees and the Politics of Refugee Education in Bangladesh1
Navigating Asylum, Resettlement, and Integration: Syrian Refugees in France Beyond the Suffering Slot1
From Refugees to Citizens? How Refugee Youth in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya Use Education to Challenge Their Status as Non-Citizens1
Changing tactics in negotiating refugee assistance policies and practices: A case study of an asylum seeker-led organization in Hong Kong1
Beyond victim and hero representations? A comparative analysis of UNHCR’s Instagram communication strategies for the Syrian and Ukrainian crises1
Reflections on arts-based research methods in refugee mental health: The role of creative exercises in nurturing positive coping with trauma and exile1
No Friend but the Mountains. By Behrouz Boochani1
National Inclusion Policy Openings/Barriers for Refugee Teachers: Critical Reflections from Kenya1
Addressing the Continuum of Violence with a Continuum of Resilience. Book Review ‘Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda’. By Ulrike Krause1
The Politics of Crisis-Making. Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon Estella Carpi1
Making Routes: Mobility and the Politics of Migration in the Global South. Edited by Gerda Heck, Eda Sevinin, Elena Habersky, and Carlos Sandoval-García1
A Review of the Research Ethics Guidelines Provided by IASFM, Kaldor Centre and German Network for Forced Migration Studies1
Messages from Ukraine Gregg Bucken-Knapp and Joonas Sildre1
Empowering refugee women in Brazil: the moral economy of corporate-sponsored initiatives for social integration1
TWAIL, archives, and refugee law1
Displaced Selves: Older African Adults in Forced Migration1
Technologies of life-making in the British refugee camps of the Southern Levant1
African Refugees. By Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso1
On Becoming an Artist Anew: Refugees’ Arrival in the Field of Cultural Production in Austria1
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