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Papers

(The median citation count of Citizenship Studies is 2. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Emerging digital citizenship regimes: Pandemic, algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan, and stateless citizenships	22
Citizenship as status, habitus and acts: Language requirements and civic orientation in Sweden	17
Unequal access: wealth as barrier and accelerator to citizenship	16
The invisible hard work of retrieving papers: Syrians and the paradoxes of integration in Germany	13
Marriage migration, family and citizenship in Asia	12
Precarious citizenship: detection, detention and ‘deportability’ in India	10
Everyday discourse as a space of citizenship: the linguistic construction of in-groups and out-groups in online discussion boards	10
Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far	9
Becoming ambivalent subjects of labour rights: subaltern mobilisations, the law and the state	9
Platform Urbanization, its recent acceleration, and implications on citizenship. The case of Singapore	9
Transnational marriage migration and the negotiation of precarious pathways beyond partial citizenship in Singapore	8
‘Whether you like it or not, this is the future!’: everyday negotiations of the community’s boundary in urban space	8
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	8
Informing for the sake of it: legal intricacies, acceleration and suspicion in the German and Swiss migration regimes	8
Right, righteousness, and act: why should Confucian activists be regarded as citizens in the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China?	8
Held at the gates of Europe: barriers to abolishing immigration detention in Turkey	8
Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges	8
From ‘social problems’ to ‘social assets’: geopolitics, discursive shifts in children of Southeast Asian marriage migrants, and mother-child dyadic citizenship in Taiwan	8
Data-Driven Citizenship Regimes in Contemporary Urban Scenarios: An Introduction	8
Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion	8
Malignant citizenship: race, imperialism, and Puerto Rico-United States entanglements	7
Reframing political space. Pro-European mobilisation and the enactment of european citizenship	7
Decarceral Futures: Bridging Immigration and Prison Justice towards an Abolitionist Future	7
Speaking the language of the ‘other’: negotiating cultural boundaries through language in chitmahals in Indo-Bangladesh borders	7
Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and rescue. The memory of solidarity at the Alpine border	7

Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	7
States and human immobilization: bridging the conceptual separation of slavery, immigration controls, and mass incarceration	6
Citizenship: flexible, fungible, fragile	6
The linguistic boundary problem	6
Navigating citizenship and motherhood in and beyond Berlin	6
Learning to be Legal: Transition Narratives of Joy and Survivor Guilt of Previously Undocumented 1.5-Generation Latinx Immigrants in the United States	6
Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy	6
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	5
Silent citizenship: choices, tactics and claims-making among sexual citizens	5
Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’	5
Reclaiming citizenship from police violence	5
Citizenship denied, deferred and assumed: a legal history of racialized citizenship in Myanmar	5
The rise of cybernetic citizenship	5
Towards de-Westernism in citizenship studies: implications from China	5
Legal identity in a looking-glass world: documenting citizens of aspirant states	5
Responding to the call for the Super Citizen: migrants’ ambivalent experiences of naturalization in Germany and the United Kingdom	5
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	5
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	5
Procedural (in)justice for EU citizens moving to Belgium: an inquiry into municipal registration practices	5
Photovoice as an unfamiliar act of citizenship: everyday belonging, place-making and political subjectivity	5
Three shades of ‘urban-digital citizenship’: borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town	5
Congolese mothers, affective circuits and ‘acts of citizenship’ in Russia	5
Migrant justice as reproductive justice: birthright citizenship and the politics of immigration detention for pregnant women in Canada	5
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	4
Further to the bottom of the hierarchy: the stratification of forced migrants’ welfare rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	4
‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan	4
Translators as mediators of citizenship: rethinking community in relational translation	4
Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	4
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands	4
Citizenship beyond the normative script: young immigrants’ volunteering as a practice of ‘citizenship from below’	4
(Non)recognition of legal identity in aspirant states: evidence from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria	4
Migrant women becoming British citizens: care and coloniality	4
Citizenship Matters: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Global Perspective on Naturalization	4
From acts of citizenship to transnational lived citizenship: potential and pitfalls of subversive readings of citizenship	4
Armed groups, states and families: accounting for the dead as an element of humane treatment	4
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	4
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	4
Reshaping conceptions of citizenship? German Business sector engagement and refugee integration	4
Substituting immigration detention centres with ‘open prisons’ in Indonesia: alternatives to detention as the continuum of unfreedom	4
Documenting life amidst the Syrian war: Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s performance of statehood through identity documents	4
Indigenous citizenship, shared fate, and non-ideal circumstances	4
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	4
Immigration status and policing in Canada: current problems, activist strategies and abolitionist visions	4
Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications	4
‘What about it is unclear? I mean I was born here:’ Ungeklärte Staatsangehörigkeit and the (re-)production of de facto statelessness in Ge	4
Citizenship, minorities and the police: attitudes of Jewish Ethiopian Israelis toward police reforms	4
Citizenship struggles: 25th anniversary special issue	3
Penalizing ‘runaway’ migrant wives: commercial cross-border marriages and home space as confinement	3
Reluctant border agents: enlistment of transportation workers in procedures to limit refugee mobilities in Turkey	3
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: The toré ritual as a decolonial indigenous practice in the Northeast Region	3

Reorganization of borders, migrant workers, and the coloniality of power	3
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	3
A Foucauldian perspective on the denationalisation of terrorists: sovereign means, biopolitical ends?	3
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	3
Legal identity at the margins: the impact of violent conflict on birth registration in India	3
Self-Il/legalisation and political subjecthood: Syrian migrant women in the EU	3
Negotiating citizenship and reforging Muslim identities: the case of young women of Japanese-Pakistani Parentage	3
Decolonising the language of citizenship	3
Crisis, capital accumulation, and the ‘Crimmigration’ fix in the aftermath of the global slump	3
Accruing whiteness: power and resistance in prerequisite citizenship cases of immigrants from the ‘Middle East’	3
The speaking citizen: language requirements and linguistic neoliberal colonialisms	3
Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics	3
Discretionary maternal citizenship: state hegemony and resistance of single marriage migrant mothers from mainland China to Hong Kong	3
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	3
Dedemocratizing citizenship: how neoliberalism used market justice to move from welfare queening to authoritarianism in 25 short years	3
Curated hostilities and the story of Abdoul Abdi: relational securitization in the settler colonial racial state	3
Gendered gratitude: the civic subjectivity of israeli women soldiers	3
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations	3
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	2
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	2
Mutual aid as abolitionist praxis	2
From earthquake victims to citizens: dependencies and precarious claims on the state in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan	2
The right to nationality of the Saharawis and their legal identity documents	2
ICE comes to Tennessee: violence work and abolition in the Appalachian South	2
The city and the clock in planetary times: revisiting Isin’sBeing Politicaltwenty years on	2
Naturalization in African states: its past and potential future	2
Ex-centric citizenship: bolivian migration and violence in Argentina	2
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	2
Weddings amidst War: the intimate and insurgent politics of marriage	2
Refugee and asylum-seeking women’s lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration	2
‘I take care and the state sabotages from the beginning to the end!’: tracing ‘volunteering’ in European provision arrangements for refugees and asylum seekers	2
Towards scholar-activism: transversal relations, dissent, and creative acts	2
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	2
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	2
The popular sovereignty of Indigenous peoples: a challenge in multi-people states	2
Hierarchies of membership and the management of global population: reflections on citizenship and racial ordering	2
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	2
The dynamics of localized citizenship at the grassroots in China	2
An illegal Republic: the formation and continuity of the collective legal identity of Karabakh Armenians	2
Implications of legal identity documentation issued by the Kurdish-led Self Administration in Northern Syria: competition and compromise with the central state	2
Claiming rights. The mobilization of youth of migrant descent for access to citizenship rights in Italy	2
Transcending non-citizenship? Looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective	2
The nomos of mobile commons: towards a nomadic constitution of Europe	2
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	2