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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategies of Divergence: Local Authorities, Law, and Discretionary Spaces in Migration Governance	27
Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Women Refugees in South Africa	26
Refugee Children and Families During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Resilience Framework for Mental Health	23
Navigating Institutions for Integration: Perceived Institutional Barriers of Access to the Labour Market among Refugee Women in Sweden	22
When ‘Self-Sufficiency’ Is Not Sufficient: Refugee Integration Discourses of US Resettlement Actors and the Offer of Refuge	21
Policies of Exclusion: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon	20
A Scoping Review of Social Support Research among Refugees in Resettlement: Implications for Conceptual and Empirical Research	17
Governing Practices and Strategic Narratives for Syrian Refugee Returns	16
Refugees’ Transnational Livelihoods and Remittances: Syrian Mobilities in the Middle East Before and After 2011	16
Informing Hard-to-Reach Immigrant Groups about COVID-19—Reaching the Somali Population in Oslo	16
Gender Differences in Second Language Proficiency—Evidence from Recent Humanitarian Migrants in Germany	14
Asylum Regimes and Refugee Experiences of Precarity: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Turkey	13
Realities of School ‘Integration’: Insights from Syrian Refugee Students in Jordan’s Double-Shift Schools	13
There’s an App for That: Context, Assumptions, Possibilities and Potential Pitfalls In the Use of Digital Technologies To Address Refugee Mental Health	12
Addressing the Educational Needs of Street Children in Lebanon: A Hotchpotch of Policy and Practice	11
Refugee Solidarity Along the Balkan Route	11
Family Strategies in Refugee Journeys to Europe	11
Carving Out Space for Equitable Collaborative Research in Protracted Displacement	11
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
‘Fitting In’ and ‘Giving Back’: Constructions of Australia’s ‘Ideal’ Refugee Through Discourses of Assimilation and Market Citizenship	10
The Capability ‘To Be Secure’: Media Coverage of African Asylum Seekers During Covid-19 in Israel	10
Between Discipline and Neglect: The Regulation of Asylum Accommodation in Spain	10
The Value of Refugees: UNHCR and the Growth of the Global Refugee Industry	10
Greece’s Discriminatory Migrant Regime: Volunteers, Informal Street-Level Bureaucrats, and Moral Rationalities	10

De-Bordering Solidarity: Civil Society Actors Assisting Refused Asylum Seekers in Small Cities	9
Departing or Being Deported? Poland’s Approach towards Humanitarian Migrants	9
Sustainability in Refugee Camps: A Comparison of the Two Largest Refugee Camps in the World	9
(Re-)Construction of Identity and Belonging after Forced Migration: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach	9
Oral Health Status and Dental Treatment Needs in Syrian Refugee Children in Zaatari Camp	9
The Concept of the ‘Good Refugee’ in Cambodian and Hazara Refugee Narratives and Self-Representation	8
Health, Integration and Agency: Sport Participation Experiences of Asylum Seekers	8
Artificial Intelligence for a Reduction of False Denials in Refugee Claims	8
Accumulated Homelessness: Analysing Protracted Displacement along Eritreans’ Life Histories	8
Beyond the Partnership Debate: Localizing Knowledge Production in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies	8
Refugee Sponsorship and Family Reunification	8
Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	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
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	7
Is Australia a Model for the UK? A Critical Assessment of Parallels of Cruelty in Refugee Externalization Policies	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
Reforming Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms for Displaced Populations: Evidence from the Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project, Pakistan	7
Power, Participation, and ‘peer researchers’: Addressing Gaps in Refugee Research Ethics Guidance	7
Problems and Issues Concerning Social Integration of Elderly Refugees in Turkey	7
From Refugee to Resident in the Digital Age: Refugees’ Strategies for Navigating in and Negotiating Beyond Uncertainty During Reception and Settlement in The Netherlands	7
Pragmatic Mobilities and Uncertain Lives: Agency and the Everyday Mobility of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda	7
The Politics of Return: Understanding Trajectories of Displacement and the Complex Dynamics of ‘Return’ in Central and East Africa	7
‘I Try Not to Be Dominant, but I’m a Lawyer!’: Advisor Resources, Context, and Refugee Credibility	7
Understanding Successful Refugee Resettlement in the US	7
The Comparative Analysis of Life Satisfaction Among Syrian, Iranian, and Afghan refugees in Turkey: The case of Denizli	7
Belonging through Higher Education: The Case of Syrian Youth in Turkey	6
Negotiating Refugee Deservingness at Europe’s Southern Frontier: Masculinity and Race in Sicilian Asylum Centres	6
(Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey	6
Child Marriage in Yemen: A Mixed Methods Study in Ongoing Conflict and Displacement	6
Displaced Syrian Mental Health Workers: An Investigation of Professional Quality of Life	6
Refugee Community-Based Organizations: Resources, Power, and Dependency	6
Logistification and Hyper-Precarity at the Intersection of Migration and Pandemic Governance: Refugees in the Turkish Labour Market	6
International Norms of Asylum and Burden-Sharing: A Case Study of Bangladesh and the Rohingya Refugee Population	6
The Meaning of Marriage to the Rohingya Refugees, and Their Survival in Bangladesh	6
Brothers, Workers or Syrians? The Politics of Naming in Lebanese Municipalities	6
Exploring Parenting Narratives in Asylum Seeking Populations in Sweden: Examining the Effect of Post-Migration Stress on Families through Grounded Theory	6
Refugee Children’s Resilience: A Qualitative Social Ecological Study of Life in a Camp	6
The Politics of Uncertainty: Producing, Reinforcing, and Mediating (Legal) Uncertainty in Local Refugee Reception—Introduction to the Special Issue	6
#IamaRefugee: Social Media Resistance to Trump's ‘Muslim Ban’	6
Community-Led Education among Rohingya Refugees and the Politics of Refugee Education in Bangladesh	5
No Longer a ‘Lost Generation’? Opportunities and Obstacles of Online and Blended Learning Programmes for Syrian Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon	5
Making Sense of the Global: A Systematic Review of Globalizing and Localizing Dynamics in Refugee Governance	5
Are Refugees (Really) a Hard-to-Survey Group? Fieldwork Experience with Syrian Refugees in Germany	5
The (Non-)Status of ‘Duldung’: Non-Deportability in Germany and the Politics of Limitless Temporariness	5
Older Refugees and Internally Displaced People in African Countries: Findings from a Scoping Review of Literature	5
Autotopographies of Forced Displacement: City Walking Tours as a Path for Political Visibility	5
We Are Here for the Future of Our Kids: Parental Involvement in Refugee Adolescents’ Educational Endeavours in the United States	5
Influencing Factors of Loneliness Among Hmong Older Adults in the Premigration, Displacement, and Postmigration Phases	5
A Sense of No Future in an Uncertain Present: Altruism and Risk-Seeking among Syrian Refugees in Jordan	5

Self-selection of Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons in Europe	5
Refugee Participation through Representative Committees: UNHCR and the Sudanese Committee in Beirut	5
Forced Migration as a Crisis in Masculinity: A Sociological Approach to Refugee Men’s Remasculinization Strategies in Turkey	5
The Effects of Limited Work Opportunities on Transitions to Adulthood among Young Refugees in Uganda and Jordan	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
Memories, Mementos, and Memorialization of Young Unaccompanied Afghans Navigating within Europe	4
Are Refugees Really Welcome? Understanding Northern Ireland Attitudes Towards Syrian Refugees	4
Business People in War Times, the ‘Fluid Capital’ and the ‘Shy Diaspora’: The Case of Syrians in Turkey	4
Syrians in Sweden: Constructing Difference Regarding Gender and Family	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
Prosocial Development in Refugee Children	4
Introduction by Editors: Power in Forced Migration Research Methods	4
Explanatory Model of the Relationships Between Self-Efficacy and Personal Learning Environments in Immigrant Minors Without a Legal Guardian	4
‘Refugee Education Is Our Responsibility’: How Governance Shapes the Politics of Bridging the Humanitarian—Development Divide	4
‘Do Like You Did in Aleppo’: Negotiating Space and Place Among Syrian Musicians in Istanbul	4
Moderating Uncertainty: The Reception of Refugee Children in the German Early Childhood Education and Care Sector	4
In Limbo: Survey of Impact of COVID-19 on Venezuelan Migrants in Trinidad and Tobago	4
Building a Life in Australia: Young Hazara Men and the Journey to ‘Adulthood’	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
The Road Back Home is Never Long: Refugee Return Migration	4
Boundary-Making and Political Activism in Protracted Exile: Second-Generation Tibetan Refugees in India	4
Moving on from Dutch to English: Young Refugees Feeling Betrayed by the Dutch Language Integration Policy and Seeking for More Inclusive Environments	4
Education, Ontological Security, and Preserving Hope in Liminality: Learning from the Daily Strategies Exercised by Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan	3
Salutogenic and Pathogenic Factors Among Young Adult Refugees in Germany: An Exploratory Study	3
To Donate or Not To Donate: Visual Framing of the Rohingya Refugees, Attitude Towards Refugees and Donation Intentions	3
Guiding Refugee Women Who Have Experienced Violence: Representation of Trust in Counsellors’ Journals	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
Introduction to Special Issue: Displaced Syrians	3
When the Government Comes to the Neighbourhood: Everyday Regulations and Syrian Refugees’ Encounters with Local State Authorities	3
Success or Self-Sufficiency? The Role of Race in Refugees’ Long-Term Economic Outcomes	3
‘We know more than that’: The Underemployment Experiences of College-educated Iraqi Refugees Living in the US	3
Similar History and Different Strategies of ‘Arrival’: Female Yazidi Survivors of the Islamic State in Germany	3
Supporting Exiles: The Role of Academics for Chile	3
Suffering to Save Lives: Torture, Cruelty, and Moral Disengagement in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres	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
Launching the new Reviews section of Journal of Refugee Studies	3
Who Is a Refugee in Jordan? Hierarchies and Exclusions in the Refugee Recognition Regime	3
Iranian Refugee Entrepreneurship and Inclusion in the Netherlands	3
Home Is Where the Heart Is: Identity, Return and the Toleka Bicycle Taxi Union in Congo’s Equateur	3
Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones	3
Prevalence of Child Marriage Among Yemeni and Somali Refugee and Host Communities in Djibouti, 2019	3
‘Scholars at Risk’ in Germany: Forced Migration and Agency in Forced Migration Decision-Making	3
Well-Founded Fear of Algorithms or Algorithms of Well-Founded Fear? Hybrid Intelligence in Automated Asylum Seeker Interviews	3
Palestinians and Europe’s ‘Refugee Crisis’ Seeking Asylum in France in the Wake of the Syrian War	3
Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Representative Structures in South Africa: The case study of Somali, Congolese, and Ethiopian communities	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
The Syrian Emergency: A Catalyst for Change in the International Refugee Regime	3
Psychological Distress Among Bhutanese Refugees Living in the Northeast Region of the United States	3
Food, Care, and Carceral Power: The Politics of Commensality in Australian Immigration Detention	3
The Secret Life of Energy in Refugee Camps: Invisible Objects, Technologies, and Energy Systems in Humanitarianism	3
Understanding Out-Mobility and Radical-Right Support as Responses to Differentiated Refugee Exposure	3