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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategies of Divergence: Local Authorities, Law, and Discretionary Spaces in Migration Governance	24
Refugee Children and Families During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Resilience Framework for Mental Health	22
Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Women Refugees in South Africa	22
Research with Refugees in Fragile Political Contexts: How Ethical Reflections Impact Methodological Choices	22
When ‘Self-Sufficiency’ Is Not Sufficient: Refugee Integration Discourses of US Resettlement Actors and the Offer of Refuge	17
Navigating Institutions for Integration: Perceived Institutional Barriers of Access to the Labour Market among Refugee Women in Sweden	17
A Scoping Review of Social Support Research among Refugees in Resettlement: Implications for Conceptual and Empirical Research	17
Linking Migration Aspirations to Integration Prospects: The Experience of Syrian Refugees in Sweden	17
Refugees’ Transnational Livelihoods and Remittances: Syrian Mobilities in the Middle East Before and After 2011	16
Governing Practices and Strategic Narratives for Syrian Refugee Returns	15
Policies of Exclusion: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon	15
Informing Hard-to-Reach Immigrant Groups about COVID-19—Reaching the Somali Population in Oslo	15
Asylum Regimes and Refugee Experiences of Precarity: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Turkey	12
Realities of School ‘Integration’: Insights from Syrian Refugee Students in Jordan’s Double-Shift Schools	12
Gender Differences in Second Language Proficiency—Evidence from Recent Humanitarian Migrants in Germany	12
There’s an App for That: Context, Assumptions, Possibilities and Potential Pitfalls In the Use of Digital Technologies To Address Refugee Mental Health	12
Storytelling in Research with Refugees: On the Promise and Politics of Audibility and Visibility in Participatory Research in Contexts of Forced Migration	11
Solidarity, Social Justice, and Faith: Humanitarian Action on the U.S.-Mexico Border	11
Addressing the Educational Needs of Street Children in Lebanon: A Hotchpotch of Policy and Practice	11
Carving Out Space for Equitable Collaborative Research in Protracted Displacement	11
‘Fitting In’ and ‘Giving Back’: Constructions of Australia’s ‘Ideal’ Refugee Through Discourses of Assimilation and Market Citizenship	10
Navigating Social Spaces: Armed Mobilization and Circular Return in Eastern DR Congo	10
Refugee Solidarity Along the Balkan Route	10
The Value of Refugees: UNHCR and the Growth of the Global Refugee Industry	9
Family Strategies in Refugee Journeys to Europe	9

Refugees Who Mean Business: Economic Activities in and Around the Rohingya Settlements the Rohingya Settlements in Bangladesh	9
De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities	9
Between Discipline and Neglect: The Regulation of Asylum Accommodation in Spain	9
The Capability ‘To Be Secure’: Media Coverage of African Asylum Seekers During Covid-19 in Israel	9
Oral Health Status and Dental Treatment Needs in Syrian Refugee Children in Zaatari Camp	9
Geographical Trajectories of Refugees in Sweden: Uncovering Patterns and Drivers of Inter-Regional (Im)mobility	9
The Concept of the ‘Good Refugee’ in Cambodian and Hazara Refugee Narratives and Self-Representation	8
Departing or Being Deported? Poland’s Approach towards Humanitarian Migrants	8
Moving Toward ‘Home’: Love and Relationships through War and Displacement	8
Health, Integration and Agency: Sport Participation Experiences of Asylum Seekers	8
Sustainability in Refugee Camps: A Comparison of the Two Largest Refugee Camps in the World	8
Greece’s Discriminatory Migrant Regime: Volunteers, Informal Street-Level Bureaucrats, and Moral Rationalities	8
Understanding (in)tolerance between Hosts and Refugees in Lebanon	8
Artificial Intelligence for a Reduction of False Denials in Refugee Claims	7
The Comparative Analysis of Life Satisfaction Among Syrian, Iranian, and Afghan refugees in Turkey: The case of Denizli	7
Accumulated Homelessness: Analysing Protracted Displacement along Eritreans’ Life Histories	7
‘To the Arabic Community Disability Is Not Normal’: Multiple Stakeholder Perceptions of the Understandings of Disability among Iraqi and Syrian People from Refugee Backgrounds	7
Power, Participation, and ‘peer researchers’: Addressing Gaps in Refugee Research Ethics Guidance	7
Refugee Sponsorship and Family Reunification	7
(Re-)Construction of Identity and Belonging after Forced Migration: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach	7
The Politics of Return: Understanding Trajectories of Displacement and the Complex Dynamics of ‘Return’ in Central and East Africa	7
Effect of Small Group Communication Counseling Intervention Strategy on Knowledge and Intention Towards Painting Among Internally Displaced Persons of the Farmers/Herdsmen Conflict in Benue State	7
Social Connections and Displacement from South Sudan to Uganda: Towards a Relational Understanding of Survival during Conflict	7
Problems and Issues Concerning Social Integration of Elderly Refugees in Turkey	6
Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	6
Pragmatic Mobilities and Uncertain Lives: Agency and the Everyday Mobility of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda	6
Reforming Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms for Displaced Populations: Evidence from the Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project, Pakistan	6
‘Street-Level Justifications’: Service Providers Mediating Refugee Reception in the Urban Context of Istanbul	6
Understanding Successful Refugee Resettlement in the US	6
Displaced Syrian Mental Health Workers: An Investigation of Professional Quality of Life	6
‘I Try Not to Be Dominant, but I’m a Lawyer!’: Advisor Resources, Context, and Refugee Credibility	6
Logistification and Hyper-Precarity at the Intersection of Migration and Pandemic Governance: Refugees in the Turkish Labour Market	6
Beyond the Partnership Debate: Localizing Knowledge Production in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies	6
Brothers, Workers or Syrians? The Politics of Naming in Lebanese Municipalities	6
How Does Multi-Level Governance Create Capacity to Address Refugee Needs, and with What Limitations? An Analysis of Municipal Responses to Syrian Refugees in Istanbul	6
Exploring Parenting Narratives in Asylum Seeking Populations in Sweden: Examining the Effect of Post-Migration Stress on Families through Grounded Theory	5
Is Australia a Model for the UK? A Critical Assessment of Parallels of Cruelty in Refugee Externalization Policies	5
Refugee Children’s Resilience: A Qualitative Social Ecological Study of Life in a Camp	5
No Longer a ‘Lost Generation’? Opportunities and Obstacles of Online and Blended Learning Programmes for Syrian Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon	5
Sampling on the Dependent Variable: An Achille's Heel of Research on Displacement?	5
Planning for Belonging: Including Refugee and Asylum Seeker Students	5
From Refugee to Resident in the Digital Age: Refugees’ Strategies for Navigating in and Negotiating Beyond Uncertainty During Reception and Settlement in The Netherlands	5
#IamaRefugee: Social Media Resistance to Trump's ‘Muslim Ban’	5
We Are Here for the Future of Our Kids: Parental Involvement in Refugee Adolescents’ Educational Endeavours in the United States	5
A Sense of No Future in an Uncertain Present: Altruism and Risk-Seeking among Syrian Refugees in Jordan	5
The Meaning of Marriage to the Rohingya Refugees, and Their Survival in Bangladesh	5
Autotopographies of Forced Displacement: City Walking Tours as a Path for Political Visibility	5
In Limbo: Survey of Impact of COVID-19 on Venezuelan Migrants in Trinidad and Tobago	4
Torture, Psychological Inflexibility, and Mental Health Outcomes among Resettled Refugees in the United States	4
Building a Life in Australia: Young Hazara Men and the Journey to ‘Adulthood’	4

Are Refugees Really Welcome? Understanding Northern Ireland Attitudes Towards Syrian Refugees	4
Syrians in Sweden: Constructing Difference Regarding Gender and Family	4
‘Do Like You Did in Aleppo’: Negotiating Space and Place Among Syrian Musicians in Istanbul	4
Belonging through Higher Education: The Case of Syrian Youth in Turkey	4
The (Non-)Status of ‘Duldung’: Non-Deportability in Germany and the Politics of Limitless Temporariness	4
Introduction by Editors: Power in Forced Migration Research Methods	4
Self-selection of Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons in Europe	4
Business People in War Times, the ‘Fluid Capital’ and the ‘Shy Diaspora’: The Case of Syrians in Turkey	4
Refugee Participation through Representative Committees: UNHCR and the Sudanese Committee in Beirut	4
Making Sense of the Global: A Systematic Review of Globalizing and Localizing Dynamics in Refugee Governance	4
The Role of Expert Witnesses in the Adjudication of Religious and Culture-based Asylum Claims in the United Kingdom: the Case Study of ‘Witchcraft’ Persecution	4
The Effects of Limited Work Opportunities on Transitions to Adulthood among Young Refugees in Uganda and Jordan	4
Are Refugees (Really) a Hard-to-Survey Group? Fieldwork Experience with Syrian Refugees in Germany	4
(Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey	4
International Norms of Asylum and Burden-Sharing: A Case Study of Bangladesh and the Rohingya Refugee Population	4
Forced Unemployment or Undocumented Work: The Burden of the Prohibition to Work for Asylum Seekers in the UK	4
Expanding Refugee Ineligibility: Canada’s Response to Secondary Refugee Movements	4
Forced Migration as a Crisis in Masculinity: A Sociological Approach to Refugee Men’s Remasculinization Strategies in Turkey	4
The Road Back Home is Never Long: Refugee Return Migration	4
Refugee Community-Based Organizations: Resources, Power, and Dependency	4
Prosocial Development in Refugee Children	3
Moving on from Dutch to English: Young Refugees Feeling Betrayed by the Dutch Language Integration Policy and Seeking for More Inclusive Environments	3
The Media and Displacements: News Frames of Victims of Herders/Farmers Conflict in Nigeria	3
Explanatory Model of the Relationships Between Self-Efficacy and Personal Learning Environments in Immigrant Minors Without a Legal Guardian	3
Refugees but not Refugees: The UAE’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis Viewed through the Lived Experience of Syrians in Abu Dhabi	3
Cold War Refugees: South Korea’s Entry into the International Refugee Regime, 1950–1992	3
Child Marriage in Yemen: A Mixed Methods Study in Ongoing Conflict and Displacement	3
Psychological Distress Among Bhutanese Refugees Living in the Northeast Region of the United States	3
‘We know more than that’: The Underemployment Experiences of College-educated Iraqi Refugees Living in the US	3
The Secret Life of Energy in Refugee Camps: Invisible Objects, Technologies, and Energy Systems in Humanitarianism	3
Supporting Exiles: The Role of Academics for Chile	3
Understanding Out-Mobility and Radical-Right Support as Responses to Differentiated Refugee Exposure	3
Well-Founded Fear of Algorithms or Algorithms of Well-Founded Fear? Hybrid Intelligence in Automated Asylum Seeker Interviews	3
The Politics of Uncertainty: Producing, Reinforcing, and Mediating (Legal) Uncertainty in Local Refugee Reception—Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Guiding Refugee Women Who Have Experienced Violence: Representation of Trust in Counsellors’ Journals	3
‘Refugee Education Is Our Responsibility’: How Governance Shapes the Politics of Bridging the Humanitarian—Development Divide	3
Iranian Refugee Entrepreneurship and Inclusion in the Netherlands	3
When the Government Comes to the Neighbourhood: Everyday Regulations and Syrian Refugees’ Encounters with Local State Authorities	3
Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones	3
‘Scholars at Risk’ in Germany: Forced Migration and Agency in Forced Migration Decision-Making	3
Boundary-Making and Political Activism in Protracted Exile: Second-Generation Tibetan Refugees in India	3
The Moral Politics of LGBTI Asylum: How the State Deals with the SOGI Framework	3
Is Uganda’s Progressive Refugee Policy Equalizing the Food Security of National and Refugee Households?	3
Digitization Without Digital Evidence: Technology and Sweden’s Asylum System	3
Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Representative Structures in South Africa: The case study of Somali, Congolese, and Ethiopian communities	3
Community-Led Education among Rohingya Refugees and the Politics of Refugee Education in Bangladesh	3
Introduction to Special Issue: Displaced Syrians	3
Older Refugees and Internally Displaced People in African Countries: Findings from a Scoping Review of Literature	3
Negotiating Refugee Deservingness at Europe’s Southern Frontier: Masculinity and Race in Sicilian Asylum Centres	3
Moderating Uncertainty: The Reception of Refugee Children in the German Early Childhood Education and Care Sector	3
Similar History and Different Strategies of ‘Arrival’: Female Yazidi Survivors of the Islamic State in Germany	3