OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Refugee Studies 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home M. Dogon and J. Krajeski	33
Young Newcomers’ Convoy of Social Relations: The Supportive Network of Accompanied Refugee Minors in Urban Belgium	28
World War Z. An Oral History of the Zombie War. Edited by Max Brooks	22
The Borders of Migrant and Refugee Activism in South Africa	14
The Power of Positive Thinking: How Positive Opinions of Refugees’ Impact on the Host Society Generate Positive Behavioural Intentions	14
Data-driven futures of international refugee law	13
(Re-)Construction of Identity and Belonging after Forced Migration: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach	13
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance Louis Brehony	11
Towards black methods in research with refugees	11
Borderland Porosities: Migratory Journeys and Migrant Politics in Lebanon and Turkey	11
Constructions of Multiple Deservingness Frames towards Refugees in Everyday Work Life in İzmir	10
Remodelling (Un)certainty: Outsourcing and Auditing Refugee Reception in Switzerland	10
Transnational belonging and disrupted care relationships	9
Introduction to Special Issue: Displaced Syrians	9
What Kind of Weapon Is Education? Teleological Violence, Local Integration, and Refugee Education in Northern Ethiopia	9
The African ‘Other’ as Displaced Enslaved and Refugee: Internal Borders across Time and Place	9
Humanitarian hacking: Merging refugee aid and digital capitalism	9
Creating Educational Borderlands: Civic Learning in a Syrian School in Lebanon	9
Three approaches to the 1951 Convention: The case for a dialectical approach	9
From camp to quarter: the contention of post-disaster social housing in al-Mankubin, North Lebanon	9
‘The Great and Miserable Flight’: The Experiences of Refugees in Newsprint during the Thirty Years’ War	9
Policy Entrepreneurship and the Drafting of Refugee Law in a Non-Signatory Country: The Case of Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism	8
The Doll. By Nhung N. Tran-Davies and Illustrated by Ravy Puth	8
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 Politics	8
2021 Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford	7

Survivalist mobilities: freedom of movement and the economic lives of settlement refugees in Uganda	7
Sexual Health among HIV-Negative Gay and Bisexual Men in Lebanon: A Comparison between Native and Immigrant/Refugee Communities	7
Implications of refugee crisis on public sector healthcare organizations: Empirical observation from Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh	7
Higher education in displacement: empowering pathway or double-edged institution? Insights from Belarusian students’ experiences	7
Unequal refugeeness. Race, gender, and co-belligerence from Poles in colonial Africa to Ukrainians in Poland	7
Refugee Status, Permanent Residency, and Citizenship: The re-making of categories among Palestinian youth in East Jerusalem	7
‘NO MORE WALLS IN THE SEAS’: Migration graffscapes and migrants’ messages while en route to and in Europe	7
Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism By Ali Bhagat	7
Refugee Illegality: Governing Refugees via Rescaling Borders in Turkey	6
Do Work Permits Work? The Impacts of Formal Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Jordan	6
Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues	6
Performing, contesting, and resisting internal bordering of refugee rights in Costa Rica	6
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)	6
Many a Slip between Cup and Lip: Navigating Noncitizenship and School-to-Work Transitions in Kakuma Refugee Camp	6
South African attitudes towards refugee settlement: Examining the importance of threat perceptions	6
Motherhood on the move: forced migrant women from Ukraine	5
When the Government Comes to the Neighbourhood: Everyday Regulations and Syrian Refugees’ Encounters with Local State Authorities	5
Towards a Shared Practice of Encampment: An Historical Investigation of UNRWA and the UNHCR to 1967	5
Refugee Participation through Representative Committees: UNHCR and the Sudanese Committee in Beirut	5
Storytelling in Research with Refugees: On the Promise and Politics of Audibility and Visibility in Participatory Research in Contexts of Forced Migration	5
Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution. By Robert F. Barsky	5
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger By David Hinton	5
Refugees, Democracy and the Law: Political Rights at the Margins of the State. By Dana Schmalz The Political Philosophy of Refuge. Edited by David Miller and Christine Straehle	5
Curriculum Choices for Refugees: What UNRWA’s History Can Tell Us about the Potential of UN Education Programs to Address Refugees’ ‘Unknowable Futures’	5
Problems and Issues Concerning Social Integration of Elderly Refugees in Turkey	5
Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Protection of Refugees and Refugee Camps	5
Problem-Solving Skills Groups for Female Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: A Study of a Mental Health Intervention	5
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 trials	5
Correction to: Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK	4
Relationship between self-efficacy, coping, and sense of community in native and refugee adolescent girls	4
Book Review—The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers. By Kate Reed and Marcia C. Schenck, eds	4
Corrigendum to: Life after violence in North India: Islamic relief organizations and transactional relationships in a plural humanitarian space	4
Refugee Settlement and Decision-Making Venue: Does Public Concern Instigate Preferences for Local Referendums? Experiences from Norwegian Cities	4
Using forced migration to foster emergence? International aid and development policies in Cameroon	4
Correction to: Making ‘The Process’: Sexual Vulnerability and Burundian Refugee Boys and Young Men’s Strategies for Onward Migration from Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda	4
Migration Control in Practice. Before and Within the Borders of the State. Edited by Federica Infantino and Djordje Sredanovic	4
What Do Asylum Seekers Prioritise—Safety or Welfare Benefits? The Influence of Policies on Asylum Flows to the EU15 Countries	4
Formal and informal integration in contexts of displacement: Exploring implications for youth civic identities	4
‘Enjoying Time Alone’: Exploring Solitude as a Positive Space for Refugee Wellbeing	4
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency. By Melissa Gatter	4
Fadh, Sharaf and Respectable Passing as New Frameworks for Understanding Transmasculinity in the MENA Region: Case Studies of Transmasculine Refugees in Lebanon	4
How Rohingya refugee parents support children’s prosocial development in crisis-affected and resettlement contexts: Findings from India and Canada	4
‘I knew about political asylum, but not about asylum for gay people’: How queer exiles come to apply (or not) for SOGI asylum in France	3
Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	3
Explanatory Model of the Relationships Between Self-Efficacy and Personal Learning Environments in Immigrant Minors Without a Legal Guardian	3
Guiding Refugee Women Who Have Experienced Violence: Representation of Trust in Counsellors’ Journals	3
Suffering to Save Lives: Torture, Cruelty, and Moral Disengagement in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres	3
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination. By Anthea Vogl	3
(Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey	3
Education, Ontological Security, and Preserving Hope in Liminality: Learning from the Daily Strategies Exercised by Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan	3

Gatekeeping in asylum interviews: institutional bias and narrative inequality in South Korea’s refugee screening process	3
The Limits of Primordial Affinity to Ethnic Trust: The Social Origins of Ethnic Trust among North Korean Refugees in London	3
Launching the new Reviews section of Journal of Refugee Studies	3
Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations	3
The Common Market Makes Us Richer and Brings Us Closer Together: An Impact Assessment of the Common Market Project at Nyarugusu Refugee Camp	3
Surveying Diverse Subpopulations in Refugee Studies: Reflections on Sampling, Implementation, and Translation Strategies Drawn from Experiences with a Regional Quantitative Survey on Refugee Parents i	3
Samira Surfs Rukhsanna Guidroz and Illustrated by Fahmida Azim	3
Internal Displacement and the Law Walter Kälin	3
Participation as Confrontation: Resistance Within and Outside the Mesas de Participación Established for IDPs in Colombia	3
Harsha Walia, Border and Rule	3
Memories, Mementos, and Memorialization of Young Unaccompanied Afghans Navigating within Europe	3
Once We Were Refugees: Refugees, Security, Solidarity and a View from the Global South—A Case Study of the Rohingya Reception in Bangladesh	3
Refugee Solidarity Along the Balkan Route	3
Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth Annika Lems	3
Correction to: Reinforcing and Contesting Neoliberal Citizenship: Legal Advocates and the Asylum Interview at the US–Mexico border	3
Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions on Young Refugees' Social Adjustment: A Meta-analysis	3
Things We Lost to the Water. By Eric Nguyen	3
Moving on from Dutch to English: Young Refugees Feeling Betrayed by the Dutch Language Integration Policy and Seeking for More Inclusive Environments	3
Making ‘The Process’: Sexual Vulnerability and Burundian Refugee Boys and Young Men’s Strategies for Onward Migration from Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda	3
Hope in the Ruins of Home: Narrative Meaning-Making of Forced Displacement, Place Attachment, and Deferred Future Resettlement in Varosha	3