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

Article	Citations
Comparing regional membership: people-centric citizenship norms in ECOWAS and ASEAN	19
Where is Amarildo? – Who killed Marielle? – state-sanctioned circulations, online memes and black presence in the cityscape of Rio de Janeiro	19
Refugees and the state: India’s varying response to Myanmarese refugees in recent times	18
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	18
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	18
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	16
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	15
The policing-citizenship nexus: sex work, criminalisation and the conditions of policed abandonment	15
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	15
The legacy of Being Political	14
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	14
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	14
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	12
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	11
Invisible but deportable non-citizens: constitutive citizenship and acts of Filipino irregular migrants in China	11
Weaponising naturalised citizenship: mitigating the risks of war mobilisation in Putin’s Russia	11
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	11
Who are they? Deconstructing non-citizenship in India	10
Heroic citizenship	10
Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies	10
Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies	10
Religion, migration, and the politics of recognition: mediated citizenship and the Tai Association in the China-Myanmar-Thailand borderlands	10
Undocumented migrants’ citizenship in pandemic times: the South Korean case	10
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	10
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry	10

Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	9
The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives	9
Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans	9
Dreams of mass repatriation: government and far-right expansions of deportability in Sweden	9
Islam, chineseness and citizenship: Sinicizing Muslim minority, becoming Chinese citizen	8
Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey	8
Negotiating citizenship in carceral spaces: experiences of incarcerated Bangladeshi women	8
Participation and contested forms of citizenship in the City of Sanctuary	8
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	7
Components of reproductive citizenship: narratives from a restrictive abortion landscape	7
Street art in the Athens of crisis: preserving the democratic acquis and national identity	7
Legacy of ‘exceptional’ citizenship: revisiting the debates and history of citizenship in post-colonial Assam	7
Second-class EUropean citizenship: deportation of Poles under the European Arrest Warrant	7
Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism	7
Independentist narrative among diasporan Rojhelatî (Eastern) Kurds: practices of transborder citizenship, dynamics and lines of contestation	7
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	6
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	6
‘Abraham and Moses were entrepreneurs’: the making of the entrepreneurial-Zionist citizen in Israeli education	6
Organic vs. inorganic citizenship	6
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	6
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	6
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	6
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	6
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	5
Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis	5
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	5
Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony	5
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	5
The rise of cybernetic citizenship	5
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	5
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	5
Looking beyond the chicken’s neck: re-thinking the lives and connections of borderland citizens in the Darjeeling-Nepal border	5
Contested citizenship in the liminal spaces of a divided Cyprus	5
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	5
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	5
Refugee citizenship: citizenship as a means to make a claim about refugeehood	5
Panopticon citizenship: an insider ethnography of surveillance and exclusion among Tamil returnees in India	5
Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work	4
The problem with the Comoros solution: affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon	4
Auditing cultural citizenship in border checkpoints: perspective on a media event	4
Three shades of ‘urban-digital citizenship’: borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town	4
Activating citizens: the contribution of the Capability Approach to critical citizenship studies and to understanding the enablers of engaged citizenship	4
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	4
Reflections on citizenship: between promise and practice	4
Afterword: aesthetic citizenship and Necropolitics	4
Beyond ‘birth tourism’: transnational birth mobilities and dual citizenship amid geopolitical instability	4
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	4
Categorical boundaries: the political production of kinship and citizenship	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
A philosophy of the theory of “acts of citizenship” woven into the fabric of a political anthropology of citizenship	3

Configurations of citizenship governance: membership asymmetries in times of crisis	3
Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	3
The speaking citizen: language requirements and linguistic neoliberal colonialisms	3
Armed groups, states and families: accounting for the dead as an element of humane treatment	3
Can citizenship studies escape citizenism?	3
Transcending non-citizenship? Looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective	3
Affecting belonging: experimental education, cultural resources, and affective cultural citizenship in contemporary China	3
From ethnic segregation to equal political status: the Making of the concept of citizenship in early modern China	3
‘I was braver when I was younger’: contingent legality and noncitizen schooling among children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia	3
Between citizens and sit-inners: the 2017 Kamour sit-in and disidentification in Tunisia’s south	3
Act up against citizenship: a plea to citizenship studies	3
‘Otherness as a condition of citizenship’: alterity, extimacy and citizenship after orientalism	3
The city and the clock in planetary times: revisiting Isin’sBeing Politicaltwenty years on	3
Citizenship denied, deferred and assumed: a legal history of racialized citizenship in Myanmar	3
Let’s keep boys out: promoting exclusion as a means to actualize feminist digital citizenship in China	3
What does the ideal citizen look like in China’s new era? A bottom-up view	3
Understanding acts of citizenship: stories of black activism in Greece	3
‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan	3
Citizenship anxiety and the politics of land ownership in the eastern Himalayas: the struggle of Nepalis in the Darjeeling hills	3
Contested beings: citizenship along the riparian zone in the India–Bangladesh borders	3
Transnational citizenship pathways of Chinese professional migrants in Singapore: negotiating provisionality, permanence, and emerging precarity in (post-)pandemic times	3
Employable femininity and multisensorial hierarchies: becoming aesthetic citizens in Nepal’s aviation training industry	2
Weddings amidst War: the intimate and insurgent politics of marriage	2
The materiality of lived citizenship: mobilising against infrastructural neglect in Egypt’s Nile Delta	2
Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications	2
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands	2
Platform Urbanization, its recent acceleration, and implications on citizenship. The case of Singapore	2
When the universal right to education meets the liminal legality of migrant children	2
The rise of reparative citizenship	2
A labour of love (the right to philosophy)	2
The invisible hard work of retrieving papers: Syrians and the paradoxes of integration in Germany	2
Introduction: beyond the territorial jigsaw: locating citizenship and its adjacent spaces in South Asian borderlands	2
Hierarchies of membership and the management of global population: reflections on citizenship and racial ordering	2
‘Paused citizens’: waiting and negotiating liminality in Assam, India	2
Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges	2
Citizenship in pandemic times	2
Forging citizenship in China’s borderlands: state tactics, everyday struggles, and the pluralization of belonging	2
Reconstructing citizenship (again)	2
Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far	2
Being or becoming democratic citizens? Young people’s liminal participation between everyday life and politics	2
Legal identity at the margins: the impact of violent conflict on birth registration in India	2
Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics	2
Creating the governable population: authoritarian cultural citizenship and the ethnic minorities in a Sino-Tibetan intercultural area in contemporary China	2
Towards de-Westernism in citizenship studies: implications from China	2
Head or heart? Unpacking the subjective dimension of citizenship acquisition: insights from migrants’ narratives in Spain	2
Citizen-subjects in an ethnocratic regime: Palestinians in Israel within a settler colonial context	2
Citizenship and difference in France: colonial histories and postcolonial controversies	2
Correction Notice	2