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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	20
Comparing regional membership: people-centric citizenship norms in ECOWAS and ASEAN	20
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	19
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	19
Where is Amarildo? – Who killed Marielle? – state-sanctioned circulations, online memes and black presence in the cityscape of Rio de Janeiro	18
The policing-citizenship nexus: sex work, criminalisation and the conditions of policed abandonment	16
Refugees and the state: India’s varying response to Myanmarese refugees in recent times	16
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	15
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	15
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	14
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	14
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	12
Invisible but deportable non-citizens: constitutive citizenship and acts of Filipino irregular migrants in China	12
The legacy of Being Political	11
Citizenship formation in context: student engagement with Core Socialist Values in Chinese universities	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
Undocumented migrants’ citizenship in pandemic times: the South Korean case	11
Religion, migration, and the politics of recognition: mediated citizenship and the Tai Association in the China-Myanmar-Thailand borderlands	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
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	9
Who are they? Deconstructing non-citizenship in India	9

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

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