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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Prejudice-relevant Correlates of Attitudes towards Refugees: A Meta-analysis	55
Refugee-Integration-Opportunity Structures: Shifting the Focus From Refugees to Context	54
Media Framing Dynamics of the ‘European Refugee Crisis’: A Comparative Topic Modelling Approach	51
Old Concepts Making New History: Refugee Self-reliance, Livelihoods and the ‘Refugee Entrepreneur’	37
Refugees as Actors? Critical Reflections on Global Refugee Policies on Self-reliance and Resilience	28
What Difference do Mayors Make? The Role of Municipal Authorities in Turkey and Lebanon’s Response to Syrian Refugees	25
From Refugee to Entrepreneur? Challenges to Refugee Self-reliance in Berlin, Germany	21
Refugee Children and Families During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Resilience Framework for Mental Health	17
‘We can’t integrate in Europe. We will pay a high price if we go there’: Culture, Time and Migration Aspirations for Syrian Refugees in Istanbul	17
Research with Refugees in Fragile Political Contexts: How Ethical Reflections Impact Methodological Choices	17
Refugee-Run Grassroots Organizations: Responsive Assistance beyond the Constraints of US Resettlement Policy	14
Refugees’ Transnational Livelihoods and Remittances: Syrian Mobilities in the Middle East Before and After 2011	14
Theorizing the Refugee Humanitarian-development Nexus: A Political-economy Analysis	14
The Kalobeyei Settlement: A Self-reliance Model for Refugees?	13
What Happened to Children Who Returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda?	13
Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Women Refugees in South Africa	12
Informing Hard-to-Reach Immigrant Groups about COVID-19—Reaching the Somali Population in Oslo	12
Strategies of Divergence: Local Authorities, Law, and Discretionary Spaces in Migration Governance	12
The Mediating Role of Perceived Threat in the Relationship between Casual Contact and Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees in Turkey	12
Towards a Neo-cosmetic Humanitarianism: Refugee Self-reliance as a Social-cohesion Regime in Lebanon’s Halba	12
Public Attitudes towards Refugees in Germany: What Drives Attitudes towards Refugees in Comparison with Immigrant Workers from European Union Countries?	12
Refugees and Guesthood in Turkey	12
Governing Practices and Strategic Narratives for Syrian Refugee Returns	11
Linking Migration Aspirations to Integration Prospects: The Experience of Syrian Refugees in Sweden	11
The Survival Job Trap: Explaining Refugee Employment Outcomes in Chicago and the Contributing Factors	11

Reactions towards Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands: Associations with Right-wing Ideological Attitudes, Threat and Perceptions of Asylum Seekers as Legitimate and Economic	11
Non-communicable Diseases among Refugee Claimants in Greek Refugee Camps: Are Their Health-care Needs Met?	10
Self-reliance as a Concept and a Spatial Practice for Urban Refugees: Reflections from Delhi, India	10
Social Capital’s Role in Humanitarian Crises	9
Navigating Institutions for Integration: Perceived Institutional Barriers of Access to the Labour Market among Refugee Women in Sweden	9
Storytelling in Research with Refugees: On the Promise and Politics of Audibility and Visibility in Participatory Research in Contexts of Forced Migration	9
A Scoping Review of Social Support Research among Refugees in Resettlement: Implications for Conceptual and Empirical Research	9
Acculturation of Syrian Refugees in the Netherlands: Religion as Social Identity and Boundary Marker	9
Being Normal: Stigmatization of Lord’s Resistance Army Returnees as ‘Moral Experience’ in Post-war Northern Uganda	9
Causes of family separation and barriers to reunification: Syrian refugees in Jordan	9
The Capability ‘To Be Secure’: Media Coverage of African Asylum Seekers During Covid-19 in Israel	9
Navigating Social Spaces: Armed Mobilization and Circular Return in Eastern DR Congo	8
Layered journeys: Experiences of fragmented journeys among young Afghans in Greece and Norway	8
Effects of the Refugee Crisis on Perceptions of Asylum Seekers in Recipient Populations	8
Discussing the Populist Features of Anti-refugee Discourses on Social Media: An Anti-Syrian Hashtag in Turkish Twitter	8
Refugees Who Mean Business: Economic Activities in and Around the Rohingya Settlements the Rohingya Settlements in Bangladesh	8
Policies of Exclusion: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon	8
Empowerment in the Asylum-seeker Regime? The Roles of Policies, the Non-profit Sector and Refugee Community Organizations in Hong Kong	8
Self-reliance and Social Networks: Explaining Refugees’ Reluctance to Relocate from Kakuma to Kalobeyei	7
Losing the Right to Stay: Revocation of Refugee Permits in Norway	7
Realities of School ‘Integration’: Insights from Syrian Refugee Students in Jordan’s Double-Shift Schools	7
The ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe: Shortening Distances, Containment and Asymmetry of Rights—a Tentative Interpretation of the 2015–16 Events	7
The Affective Border: Missing Migrants and The Governance of Migrant Bodies at The EU’s Southern Frontier	7
Asylum Regimes and Refugee Experiences of Precarity: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Turkey	7
Health, Integration and Agency: Sport Participation Experiences of Asylum Seekers	7
Structural Inequality in Refugee Participation in Higher Education	7
Solidarity, Social Justice, and Faith: Humanitarian Action on the U.S.-Mexico Border	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	6
When ‘Self-Sufficiency’ Is Not Sufficient: Refugee Integration Discourses of US Resettlement Actors and the Offer of Refuge	6
Measuring the Self-Reliance of Refugees	6
Refugees Hosting Other Refugees: Endurance and Maintenance of Care in Ouzaii (Lebanon)	6
Double-edged risk: unaccompanied minor refugees (UMRs) in Sweden and their search for safety	6
Seeking Asylum in the Digital Era: Social-Media and Mobile-Device Vetting in Asylum Procedures in Five European countries	6
Oral Health Status and Dental Treatment Needs in Syrian Refugee Children in Zaatari Camp	6
‘Fitting In’ and ‘Giving Back’: Constructions of Australia’s ‘Ideal’ Refugee Through Discourses of Assimilation and Market Citizenship	6
Towards a Refugee Livelihoods Approach: Findings from Cameroon, Jordan, Malaysia and Turkey	6
The Comparative Analysis of Life Satisfaction Among Syrian, Iranian, and Afghan refugees in Turkey: The case of Denizli	6
Gender Differences in Second Language Proficiency—Evidence from Recent Humanitarian Migrants in Germany	6
Accumulated Homelessness: Analysing Protracted Displacement along Eritreans’ Life Histories	6
The Value of Refugees: UNHCR and the Growth of the Global Refugee Industry	6
Data Privacy and Displacement: A Cultural Approach	6
Living in Permanent Temporariness: The Multigenerational Ordeal of Living under Germany’s Toleration Status	6
Between Discipline and Neglect: The Regulation of Asylum Accommodation in Spain	6
Integrating Refugee Children and Youth: A Scoping Review of English and German Literature	6
Moving Toward ‘Home’: Love and Relationships through War and Displacement	5
Refugee Solidarity Along the Balkan Route	5
Forced Relocations: The Punitive Use of Mobility in Australia’s Immigration-detention Network	5
Social Connections and Displacement from South Sudan to Uganda: Towards a Relational Understanding of Survival during Conflict	5
Hope Among Refugee Children Attending the International School of Peace on Lesbos	5
Logistification and Hyper-Precarity at the Intersection of Migration and Pandemic Governance: Refugees in the Turkish Labour Market	5

Carving Out Space for Equitable Collaborative Research in Protracted Displacement	5
There’s an App for That: Context, Assumptions, Possibilities and Potential Pitfalls In the Use of Digital Technologies To Address Refugee Mental Health	5
Questionnaire Design and Translation for Refugee Populations: Lessons Learned from the REHEAL Study	5
Refugee Sponsorship and Family Reunification	5
Family Strategies in Refugee Journeys to Europe	5
Is the Refugee Health Screener a Useful Tool when Screening 14- to 18-Year-Old Refugee Adolescents for Emotional Distress?	5
Conflict resolution as cultural brokerage: how refugee leaders mediate disputes in Uganda’s refugee settlements	5
Assessing the Jordan Compact One Year On: An Opportunity or a Barrier to Better Achieving Refugees’ Right to Work	5
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	5
Understanding (in)tolerance between Hosts and Refugees in Lebanon	5
Pragmatic Mobilities and Uncertain Lives: Agency and the Everyday Mobility of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda	5
Sustainability in Refugee Camps: A Comparison of the Two Largest Refugee Camps in the World	5
Education for Humanity: higher education for refugees in resource-constrained environments through innovative technology	5
Acculturation, Social Support and Mental Health Outcomes among Syrian Refugees in Germany	4
Socio-economic Consequences of Displacement and Resettlement: A Case on the Planned Oil-refinery-development Project in the Albertine Region of Uganda	4
Fostering Refugee Self-reliance: A Case Study of an Agency's Approach in Nairobi	4
The Concept of the ‘Good Refugee’ in Cambodian and Hazara Refugee Narratives and Self-Representation	4
‘I Try Not to Be Dominant, but I’m a Lawyer!’: Advisor Resources, Context, and Refugee Credibility	4
An Investment in the Future: Institutional Aspects of Credential Recognition of Refugees in Germany	4
Refugee entrepreneurship and self-reliance: the UNHCR and sustainability in post-conflict Sierra Leone	4
Sampling on the Dependent Variable: An Achille's Heel of Research on Displacement?	4
Higher Education in the Context of Mass Displacement: Towards Sustainable Solutions for Refugees	4
Syrian Refugees in Canada and Transculturalism: Relationship between Media, Integration and Identity	4
Resilience in liminality: how resilient moves are being negotiated by asylum-seeking families in the liminal context of asylum procedures	4
Brothers, Workers or Syrians? The Politics of Naming in Lebanese Municipalities	4
Addressing the Educational Needs of Street Children in Lebanon: A Hotchpotch of Policy and Practice	4
Problems and Issues Concerning Social Integration of Elderly Refugees in Turkey	3
A Sense of No Future in an Uncertain Present: Altruism and Risk-Seeking among Syrian Refugees in Jordan	3
The Asylum Hump: Why Country Income Level Predicts New Asylum Seekers, But Not New Refugees	3
The (Non-)Status of ‘Duldung’: Non-Deportability in Germany and the Politics of Limitless Temporariness	3
Arrhythmic Mobilities and Fragmented Journeys: Palestinians Seeking Safety in Sweden	3
Building Resilience by Becoming a Circus Artist	3
Business People in War Times, the ‘Fluid Capital’ and the ‘Shy Diaspora’: The Case of Syrians in Turkey	3
Settlement and Integration Policies in Federal Contexts: The Case of Refugees in Canada and Brazil	3
The Road Back Home is Never Long: Refugee Return Migration	3
The Meaning of Marriage to the Rohingya Refugees, and Their Survival in Bangladesh	3
Reforming Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms for Displaced Populations: Evidence from the Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project, Pakistan	3
Warriors of Self-reliance: The Instrumentalization of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan	3
We Are Here for the Future of Our Kids: Parental Involvement in Refugee Adolescents’ Educational Endeavours in the United States	3
Planning for Belonging: Including Refugee and Asylum Seeker Students	3
Artificial Intelligence for a Reduction of False Denials in Refugee Claims	3
Measurement of Social Integration: Syrian Women in Turkey	3
Refugee Children’s Resilience: A Qualitative Social Ecological Study of Life in a Camp	3
A Lack of Legal Protection and Limited Ways Out: How Asylum Seekers Cope with Liminality on Greek Islands: Lesbos and Chios	3
Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Representative Structures in South Africa: The case study of Somali, Congolese, and Ethiopian communities	3
New Perspectives on the European Refugee Crisis. An Empirical Review. Introduction to the special issue	3
Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	3
Experiences of Discrimination and Self-reported Health	3
Problematizing Parenting: The Regulation of Parenting Practices within Reception Centres for Syrian Refugees in Ireland	3
The Dilemma of Ghana-Based Liberian Refugees and the Challenges of Repatriation and Integration	3
‘Do Like You Did in Aleppo’: Negotiating Space and Place Among Syrian Musicians in Istanbul	3
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	3
Understanding Successful Refugee Resettlement in the US	3
‘Street-Level Justifications’: Service Providers Mediating Refugee Reception in the Urban Context of Istanbul	3
Where To Go? Drivers of Venezuelan Asylum Seekers	3
Guiding Refugee Women Who Have Experienced Violence: Representation of Trust in Counsellors’ Journals	3
Greece’s Discriminatory Migrant Regime: Volunteers, Informal Street-Level Bureaucrats, and Moral Rationalities	3
Forced Migration Magnitude and violence in international crises: 1945–2015	3
Geographical Trajectories of Refugees in Sweden: Uncovering Patterns and Drivers of Inter-Regional (Im)mobility	3
The Politics of Return: Understanding Trajectories of Displacement and the Complex Dynamics of ‘Return’ in Central and East Africa	3
Displaced Syrian Mental Health Workers: An Investigation of Professional Quality of Life	3
Moderating Uncertainty: The Reception of Refugee Children in the German Early Childhood Education and Care Sector	3