OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Citizenship Studies is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	35
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	22
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	22
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	20
The legacy of Being Political	20
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	17
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	17
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	15
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	12
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	12
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	12
Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies	11
Weaponising naturalised citizenship: mitigating the risks of war mobilisation in Putin’s Russia	11
Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies	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
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	10
Migrant women becoming British citizens: care and coloniality	10
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: The toré ritual as a decolonial indigenous practice in the Northeast Region	10
‘Whether you like it or not, this is the future!’: everyday negotiations of the community’s boundary in urban space	9
Temporalities of citizenship among Finnish Somali women: simultaneities, disruptions and accelerations along the refugeeness-citizenship continuum	9
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry	9
Sexual citizenship: rhetoric or reality for Rural Gay Men in Ireland and England?	9
Heroic citizenship	9
Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans	8

‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	8
Right, righteousness, and act: why should Confucian activists be regarded as citizens in the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China?	8
Participation and contested forms of citizenship in the City of Sanctuary	7
Dreams of mass repatriation: government and far-right expansions of deportability in Sweden	7
Islam, chineseness and citizenship: Sinicizing Muslim minority, becoming Chinese citizen	7
The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives	7
Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey	6
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	6
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	6
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	6
From ‘social problems’ to ‘social assets’: geopolitics, discursive shifts in children of Southeast Asian marriage migrants, and mother-child dyadic citizenship in Taiwan	6
Components of reproductive citizenship: narratives from a restrictive abortion landscape	6
Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism	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
Refugee and asylum-seeking women’s lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration	6
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	6
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	6
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	6
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	5
Afterword	5
Exploring the links between language, everyday citizenship, and community	5
The rise of cybernetic citizenship	5
Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion	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
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	5
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
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	5
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	5
Afterword: on communities, language, and everyday (academic) citizenship	5
Organic vs. inorganic citizenship	5
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	5
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	5
Activating citizens: the contribution of the Capability Approach to critical citizenship studies and to understanding the enablers of engaged citizenship	4
Beyond ‘birth tourism’: transnational birth mobilities and dual citizenship amid geopolitical instability	4
Categorical boundaries: the political production of kinship and citizenship	4
Skeptically self-governed citizens: the ‘volunteer!’ injunction as a predicament of neoliberal life	4
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	4
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	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
The problem with the Comoros solution: affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon	4
Three shades of ‘urban-digital citizenship’: borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town	4
Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work	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	3
Speaking up, rising above: Latina lived citizenship in the metropolitan US South	3
Let’s keep boys out: promoting exclusion as a means to actualize feminist digital citizenship in China	3

A philosophy of the theory of “acts of citizenship” woven into the fabric of a political anthropology of citizenship	3
The popular sovereignty of Indigenous peoples: a challenge in multi-people states	3
What does the ideal citizen look like in China’s new era? A bottom-up view	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
Gendered gratitude: the civic subjectivity of israeli women soldiers	3
The speaking citizen: language requirements and linguistic neoliberal colonialisms	3
Can citizenship studies escape citizenism?	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
Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	3
Worker centres and coming out politics in migrant struggles	3
Armed groups, states and families: accounting for the dead as an element of humane treatment	3
‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan	3
Sounds of a migrant city: radio representation and cultural citizenship in the case of Shenzhen, China	3
Understanding acts of citizenship: stories of black activism in Greece	3
Correction Notice	2
Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far	2
Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy	2
Transcending non-citizenship? Looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective	2
Empirical understandings of informal citizenship and membership: internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic Of Congo	2
Legal identity at the margins: the impact of violent conflict on birth registration in India	2
Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges	2
The work ‘ethics’: negotiating a neoliberalized and respectable lesbian citizenship in a group of ‘post-90s’ Chinese lesbians’ discourses	2
Reconstructing citizenship (again)	2
Citizenship denied, deferred and assumed: a legal history of racialized citizenship in Myanmar	2
A labour of love (the right to philosophy)	2
Platform Urbanization, its recent acceleration, and implications on citizenship. The case of Singapore	2
The invisible hard work of retrieving papers: Syrians and the paradoxes of integration in Germany	2
Being or becoming democratic citizens? Young people’s liminal participation between everyday life and politics	2
The rise of reparative citizenship	2
Towards de-Westernism in citizenship studies: implications from China	2
Claiming rights. The mobilization of youth of migrant descent for access to citizenship rights in Italy	2
The city and the clock in planetary times: revisiting Isin’sBeing Politicaltwenty years on	2
‘Otherness as a condition of citizenship’: alterity, extimacy and citizenship after orientalism	2
Citizenship and difference in France: colonial histories and postcolonial controversies	2
When the universal right to education meets the liminal legality of migrant children	2
Citizenship in pandemic times	2
Head or heart? Unpacking the subjective dimension of citizenship acquisition: insights from migrants’ narratives in Spain	2
Understanding the impact on children’s citizenship of participating in community-based action research	1
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations	1
Self-Il/legalisation and political subjecthood: Syrian migrant women in the EU	1
Unequal access: wealth as barrier and accelerator to citizenship	1
Social policy with tunnel vision: problems of state efforts to curb adolescent pregnancy in post 1988 Brazil	1
Hierarchies of membership and the management of global population: reflections on citizenship and racial ordering	1
‘Paused citizens’: waiting and negotiating liminality in Assam, India	1
The materiality of lived citizenship: mobilising against infrastructural neglect in Egypt’s Nile Delta	1
Naturalization in African states: its past and potential future	1
Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics	1
Transnational marriage migration and the negotiation of precarious pathways beyond partial citizenship in Singapore	1
Towards scholar-activism: transversal relations, dissent, and creative acts	1
In search of ‘cultural invisibility’: cultivating Iranian-American diasporic citizenship in rural kentucky	1
Reorganization of borders, migrant workers, and the coloniality of power	1
From acts of citizenship to transnational lived citizenship: potential and pitfalls of subversive readings of citizenship	1
Data-Driven Citizenship Regimes in Contemporary Urban Scenarios: An Introduction	1
Further to the bottom of the hierarchy: the stratification of forced migrants’ welfare rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	1
Citizens of nowhere: illegal slavery and racial silence in the African and Indigenous histories of Postcolonial Brazil	1
Cultivating belonging in liminality: unaccompanied children and youth building a home at the Zimbabwean-South African borderland	1
Creating the governable population: authoritarian cultural citizenship and the ethnic minorities in a Sino-Tibetan intercultural area in contemporary China	1
Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications	1
Emerging digital citizenship regimes: Pandemic, algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan, and stateless citizenships	1
Precarious reproductive citizenship: gaps in employment protections for pregnant precarious status migrants in Canada	1
Everyday discourse as a space of citizenship: the linguistic construction of in-groups and out-groups in online discussion boards	1
Implications of legal identity documentation issued by the Kurdish-led Self Administration in Northern Syria: competition and compromise with the central state	1
The anticolonial settler: reflections on citizenship, violence and decolonisation	1
National citizenship, migrant deportation and gender/sexual logics of home	1
(Non)recognition of legal identity in aspirant states: evidence from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria	1
Confucian education, cultural responsibility, and Chinese identity: why do Chinese immigrant parents engage their children in learning Confucian classics?	1
Marriage migration, family and citizenship in Asia	1
Citizenship as status, habitus and acts: Language requirements and civic orientation in Sweden	1
Accruing whiteness: power and resistance in prerequisite citizenship cases of immigrants from the ‘Middle East’	1
Employable femininity and multisensorial hierarchies: becoming aesthetic citizens in Nepal’s aviation training industry	1
Weddings amidst War: the intimate and insurgent politics of marriage	1
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands	1
Within, beyond, and after citizenship: the interplay between visibility and invisibility among migrants in Patras	1
Discretionary maternal citizenship: state hegemony and resistance of single marriage migrant mothers from mainland China to Hong Kong	1
Penalizing ‘runaway’ migrant wives: commercial cross-border marriages and home space as confinement	1
Legal identity in a looking-glass world: documenting citizens of aspirant states	1