OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Refugee Studies 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home M. Dogon and J. Krajeski	34
The Borders of Migrant and Refugee Activism in South Africa	28
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 Dre	23
The Power of Positive Thinking: How Positive Opinions of Refugees’ Impact on the Host Society Generate Positive Behavioural Intentions	16
Borderland Porosities: Migratory Journeys and Migrant Politics in Lebanon and Turkey	16
Social networks and the dead: learning from South Sudanese military widows in exile in Khartoum (Sudan)	16
From camp to quarter: the contention of post-disaster social housing in al-Mankubin, North Lebanon	16
‘The Great and Miserable Flight’: The Experiences of Refugees in Newsprint during the Thirty Years’ War	15
Data-driven futures of international refugee law	15
Towards black methods in research with refugees	15
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance Louis Brehony	15
Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity. By Zein Murib.	14
Humanitarian hacking: Merging refugee aid and digital capitalism	13
Magic bullet or questionable remedy? Discussing the use of Meta advertising to recruit hard-to-reach migrants for surveys	13
Constructions of Multiple Deservingness Frames towards Refugees in Everyday Work Life in İzmir	13
Creating Educational Borderlands: Civic Learning in a Syrian School in Lebanon	12
What Kind of Weapon Is Education? Teleological Violence, Local Integration, and Refugee Education in Northern Ethiopia	12
Transnational belonging and disrupted care relationships	12
Three approaches to the 1951 Convention: The case for a dialectical approach	11
LGBTIQ+ refugees in India: RSD and the implications of legal developments in the country of asylum	11
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	11
Implications of refugee crisis on public sector healthcare organizations: Empirical observation from Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh	10
Refugee Status, Permanent Residency, and Citizenship: The re-making of categories among Palestinian youth in East Jerusalem	10
‘NO MORE WALLS IN THE SEAS’: Migration graffscapes and migrants’ messages while en route to and in Europe	10
2021 Elizabeth Colson Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford	10

Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism By Ali Bhagat	10
Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum and Diaspora. By B. Camminga and John Marnell	10
Intermediaries and opacity: understanding refugee family reunification through migration infrastructures	9
Higher education in displacement: empowering pathway or double-edged institution? Insights from Belarusian students’ experiences	9
Unequal refugeeness. Race, gender, and co-belligerence from Poles in colonial Africa to Ukrainians in Poland	9
Tracing housing aid modalities and solutions to protracted displacement: experiences among Sri Lanka’s northern Muslims	8
Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues	8
Empowering Ukrainian refugees in Seattle: integrating hazard preparedness education into resettlement research	8
Survivalist mobilities: freedom of movement and the economic lives of settlement refugees in Uganda	8
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger By David Hinton	8
Many a Slip between Cup and Lip: Navigating Noncitizenship and School-to-Work Transitions in Kakuma Refugee Camp	8
Refugee Illegality: Governing Refugees via Rescaling Borders in Turkey	7
South African attitudes towards refugee settlement: Examining the importance of threat perceptions	7
Do Work Permits Work? The Impacts of Formal Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Jordan	7
Accountability without accounting: missing and inconsistent labeling of refugee and asylee students in state datasets	7
Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution. By Robert F. Barsky	7
‘Chileans ex Romania’: Resettlement, Containment, and the Limits of UNHCR’s Global Ambitions during the Cold War	7
Performing, contesting, and resisting internal bordering of refugee rights in Costa Rica	7
Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan By Alessandro Monsutti	7
Motherhood on the move: forced migrant women from Ukraine	6
How Rohingya refugee parents support children’s prosocial development in crisis-affected and resettlement contexts: Findings from India and Canada	6
Using forced migration to foster emergence? International aid and development policies in Cameroon	6
Book Review—The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers. By Kate Reed and Marcia C. Schenck, eds	6
Curriculum Choices for Refugees: What UNRWA’s History Can Tell Us about the Potential of UN Education Programs to Address Refugees’ ‘Unknowable Futures’	6
Correction to: Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK	6
‘Enjoying Time Alone’: Exploring Solitude as a Positive Space for Refugee Wellbeing	6
Towards a Shared Practice of Encampment: An Historical Investigation of UNRWA and the UNHCR to 1967	6
Acculturation and mental health outcomes in adolescents from asylum seeker and labor migrant families in Israel	6
Migration Control in Practice. Before and Within the Borders of the State. Edited by Federica Infantino and Djordje Sredanovic	6
Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Protection of Refugees and Refugee Camps	6
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	6
Formal and informal integration in contexts of displacement: Exploring implications for youth civic identities	6
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency. By Melissa Gatter	6
Fadh, Sharaf and Respectable Passing as New Frameworks for Understanding Transmasculinity in the MENA Region: Case Studies of Transmasculine Refugees in Lebanon	6
Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth Annika Lems	5
Relationship between self-efficacy, coping, and sense of community in native and refugee adolescent girls	5
Internal Displacement and the Law Walter Kälin	5
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	5
Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations	5
Land for refugees: sharing and exchanging in Northern Uganda	5
Refugee exposure and attitudes toward refugees in a developing country context: evidence from Türkiye	5
After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labor in Mauritania By Hassan Ould Moctar	5
‘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	5
Samira Surfs Rukhsanna Guidroz and Illustrated by Fahmida Azim	5
(Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey	4
Boundary-Making and Political Activism in Protracted Exile: Second-Generation Tibetan Refugees in India	4
Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below. By Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi	4
Who Owns the Future of Syrians in Lebanon? Intimate Family Explorations of Refugees’ Own Search for Durable Solutions	4
Correction to: Methods for the Future, Futures for Methods: Collaborating with Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan	4
Multi-scalar and diasporic integration: Kurdish populations in Europe between state, diaspora and geopolitics	4

The Glass Wall. By Goran Baba Ali	4
Things We Lost to the Water. By Eric Nguyen	4
Measuring and assessing refugee success in the USA: a scoping review of quantitative studies	4
Education, Ontological Security, and Preserving Hope in Liminality: Learning from the Daily Strategies Exercised by Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan	4
The (Non-)Status of ‘Duldung’: Non-Deportability in Germany and the Politics of Limitless Temporariness	4
What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda	4
‘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 sch	4
Chronicles of Disappearance: Palestinian Encampment in the Bekaa Valley (1948–1951)	4
Hope in the Ruins of Home: Narrative Meaning-Making of Forced Displacement, Place Attachment, and Deferred Future Resettlement in Varosha	4
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination. By Anthea Vogl	4
Gatekeeping in asylum interviews: institutional bias and narrative inequality in South Korea’s refugee screening process	4
Understanding the politics of refugee law and policy making: Interdisciplinary and empirical approaches	4
Credible fictions: how states stage refugee governance for geopolitical gain	4
Resettlement vs. spontaneous applications: Canadians’ attitudes to asylum policy in a comparative perspective	4
De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities	4
What Becomes a Refugee Camp? Making Camps for European Refugees in North Africa and the Middle East, 1943–46	4
‘But You Try to Dig the Hole; Why?’: A Review of the Hearing. The Hearing [Die Anhörung]	4