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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Borders of Migrant and Refugee Activism in South Africa	25
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home M. Dogon and J. Krajeski	25
Social networks and the dead: learning from South Sudanese military widows in exile in Khartoum (Sudan)	22
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	21
From camp to quarter: the contention of post-disaster social housing in al-Mankubin, North Lebanon	16
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	15
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance Louis Brehony	13
Data-driven futures of international refugee law	13
Towards black methods in research with refugees	13
‘The Great and Miserable Flight’: The Experiences of Refugees in Newsprint during the Thirty Years’ War	13
Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity. By Zein Murib.	12
Constructions of Multiple Deservingness Frames towards Refugees in Everyday Work Life in İzmir	12
Magic bullet or questionable remedy? Discussing the use of Meta advertising to recruit hard-to-reach migrants for surveys	12
Humanitarian hacking: Merging refugee aid and digital capitalism	11
Policy Entrepreneurship and the Drafting of Refugee Law in a Non-Signatory Country: The Case of Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism	11
What Kind of Weapon Is Education? Teleological Violence, Local Integration, and Refugee Education in Northern Ethiopia	11
The African ‘Other’ as Displaced Enslaved and Refugee: Internal Borders across Time and Place	11
Creating Educational Borderlands: Civic Learning in a Syrian School in Lebanon	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
Transnational belonging and disrupted care relationships	10
Three approaches to the 1951 Convention: The case for a dialectical approach	10
LGBTIQ+ refugees in India: RSD and the implications of legal developments in the country of asylum	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	9
Unequal refugeeness. Race, gender, and co-belligerence from Poles in colonial Africa to Ukrainians in Poland	9
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)	9
Refugee Status, Permanent Residency, and Citizenship: The re-making of categories among Palestinian youth in East Jerusalem	9
‘NO MORE WALLS IN THE SEAS’: Migration graffscapes and migrants’ messages while en route to and in Europe	9
Higher education in displacement: empowering pathway or double-edged institution? Insights from Belarusian students’ experiences	9
Survivalist mobilities: freedom of movement and the economic lives of settlement refugees in Uganda	8
Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues	8
Intermediaries and opacity: understanding refugee family reunification through migration infrastructures	8
Implications of refugee crisis on public sector healthcare organizations: Empirical observation from Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh	8
Performing, contesting, and resisting internal bordering of refugee rights in Costa Rica	7
Do Work Permits Work? The Impacts of Formal Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Jordan	7
Empowering Ukrainian refugees in Seattle: integrating hazard preparedness education into resettlement research	7
Refugee Illegality: Governing Refugees via Rescaling Borders in Turkey	7
Tracing housing aid modalities and solutions to protracted displacement: experiences among Sri Lanka’s northern Muslims	7
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger By David Hinton	7
Many a Slip between Cup and Lip: Navigating Noncitizenship and School-to-Work Transitions in Kakuma Refugee Camp	7
South African attitudes towards refugee settlement: Examining the importance of threat perceptions	6
Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution. By Robert F. Barsky	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
Towards a Shared Practice of Encampment: An Historical Investigation of UNRWA and the UNHCR to 1967	6
Accountability without accounting: missing and inconsistent labeling of refugee and asylee students in state datasets	6
Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan By Alessandro Monsutti	6
Correction to: Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK	6
Motherhood on the move: forced migrant women from Ukraine	6
‘Chileans ex Romania’: Resettlement, Containment, and the Limits of UNHCR’s Global Ambitions during the Cold War	6
Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Protection of Refugees and Refugee Camps	6
Refugee Participation through Representative Committees: UNHCR and the Sudanese Committee in Beirut	6
Using forced migration to foster emergence? International aid and development policies in Cameroon	5
How Rohingya refugee parents support children’s prosocial development in crisis-affected and resettlement contexts: Findings from India and Canada	5
Migration Control in Practice. Before and Within the Borders of the State. Edited by Federica Infantino and Djordje Sredanovic	5
After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labor in Mauritania By Hassan Ould Moctar	5
Fadh, Sharaf and Respectable Passing as New Frameworks for Understanding Transmasculinity in the MENA Region: Case Studies of Transmasculine Refugees in Lebanon	5
Formal and informal integration in contexts of displacement: Exploring implications for youth civic identities	5
Book Review—The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers. By Kate Reed and Marcia C. Schenck, eds	5
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	5
Acculturation and mental health outcomes in adolescents from asylum seeker and labor migrant families in Israel	5
Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth Annika Lems	5
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency. By Melissa Gatter	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
‘Enjoying Time Alone’: Exploring Solitude as a Positive Space for Refugee Wellbeing	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
Relationship between self-efficacy, coping, and sense of community in native and refugee adolescent girls	5
Geographies of Shame: Diachronic and Transnational Shame in Forced Migrants with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	5
The (Non-)Status of ‘Duldung’: Non-Deportability in Germany and the Politics of Limitless Temporariness	4
Measuring and assessing refugee success in the USA: a scoping review of quantitative studies	4
Suffering to Save Lives: Torture, Cruelty, and Moral Disengagement in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres	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	4
(Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey	4
‘But You Try to Dig the Hole; Why?’: A Review of the Hearing. The Hearing [Die Anhörung]	4

Understanding the politics of refugee law and policy making: Interdisciplinary and empirical approaches	4
Hope in the Ruins of Home: Narrative Meaning-Making of Forced Displacement, Place Attachment, and Deferred Future Resettlement in Varosha	4
Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations	4
Gatekeeping in asylum interviews: institutional bias and narrative inequality in South Korea’s refugee screening process	4
Refugee exposure and attitudes toward refugees in a developing country context: evidence from Türkiye	4
Samira Surfs Rukhsanna Guidroz and Illustrated by Fahmida Azim	4
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination. By Anthea Vogl	4
Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below. By Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi	4
Boundary-Making and Political Activism in Protracted Exile: Second-Generation Tibetan Refugees in India	4
Internal Displacement and the Law Walter Kälin	4
Land for refugees: sharing and exchanging in Northern Uganda	4
Education, Ontological Security, and Preserving Hope in Liminality: Learning from the Daily Strategies Exercised by Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan	4
Things We Lost to the Water. By Eric Nguyen	4
The Glass Wall. By Goran Baba Ali	4