OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	37
Comparing regional membership: people-centric citizenship norms in ECOWAS and ASEAN	23
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	22
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	21
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	17
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	17
The legacy of Being Political	16
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	14
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	13
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	13
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	13
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	13
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	13
Undocumented migrants’ citizenship in pandemic times: the South Korean case	12
Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies	12
Weaponising naturalised citizenship: mitigating the risks of war mobilisation in Putin’s Russia	12
Right, righteousness, and act: why should Confucian activists be regarded as citizens in the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China?	11
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry	11
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	10
Heroic citizenship	10
‘Whether you like it or not, this is the future!’: everyday negotiations of the community’s boundary in urban space	10
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	9
Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies	9
Temporalities of citizenship among Finnish Somali women: simultaneities, disruptions and accelerations along the refugeeness-citizenship continuum	9
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: The toré ritual as a decolonial indigenous practice in the Northeast Region	9

Dreams of mass repatriation: government and far-right expansions of deportability in Sweden	8
Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism	8
Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans	8
Participation and contested forms of citizenship in the City of Sanctuary	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
Islam, chineseness and citizenship: Sinicizing Muslim minority, becoming Chinese citizen	8
The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives	8
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	7
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	7
Refugee and asylum-seeking women’s lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration	7
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	7
Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey	7
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	7
Components of reproductive citizenship: narratives from a restrictive abortion landscape	7
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	6
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	6
Street art in the Athens of crisis: preserving the democratic acquis and national identity	6
Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis	6
The rise of cybernetic citizenship	6
Refugee citizenship: citizenship as a means to make a claim about refugeehood	6
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	6
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	6
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	6
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	6
Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion	6
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	6
Organic vs. inorganic citizenship	6
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	5
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	5
Activating citizens: the contribution of the Capability Approach to critical citizenship studies and to understanding the enablers of engaged citizenship	5
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	5
Three shades of ‘urban-digital citizenship’: borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town	5
Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work	5
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	5
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	5
Afterword: on communities, language, and everyday (academic) citizenship	5
Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony	5
Reflections on citizenship: between promise and practice	5
Categorical boundaries: the political production of kinship and citizenship	5
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	5
Afterword	5
Exploring the links between language, everyday citizenship, and community	5
Beyond ‘birth tourism’: transnational birth mobilities and dual citizenship amid geopolitical instability	5
The problem with the Comoros solution: affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon	5
Afterword: aesthetic citizenship and Necropolitics	5
Understanding acts of citizenship: stories of black activism in Greece	4
Between citizens and sit-inners: the 2017 Kamour sit-in and disidentification in Tunisia’s south	4
Speaking up, rising above: Latina lived citizenship in the metropolitan US South	4
Skeptically self-governed citizens: the ‘volunteer!’ injunction as a predicament of neoliberal life	4
From ethnic segregation to equal political status: the Making of the concept of citizenship in early modern China	4

Act up against citizenship: a plea to citizenship studies	4
Armed groups, states and families: accounting for the dead as an element of humane treatment	4
Affecting belonging: experimental education, cultural resources, and affective cultural citizenship in contemporary China	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
‘I was braver when I was younger’: contingent legality and noncitizen schooling among children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia	4
What does the ideal citizen look like in China’s new era? A bottom-up view	4
A philosophy of the theory of “acts of citizenship” woven into the fabric of a political anthropology of citizenship	4
Worker centres and coming out politics in migrant struggles	4
Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	4
The speaking citizen: language requirements and linguistic neoliberal colonialisms	3
Correction Notice	3
Sounds of a migrant city: radio representation and cultural citizenship in the case of Shenzhen, China	3
The city and the clock in planetary times: revisiting Isin’sBeing Politicaltwenty years on	3
The popular sovereignty of Indigenous peoples: a challenge in multi-people states	3
Gendered gratitude: the civic subjectivity of israeli women soldiers	3
Claiming rights. The mobilization of youth of migrant descent for access to citizenship rights in Italy	3
‘Otherness as a condition of citizenship’: alterity, extimacy and citizenship after orientalism	3
Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy	3
‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan	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
Let’s keep boys out: promoting exclusion as a means to actualize feminist digital citizenship in China	3
A labour of love (the right to philosophy)	2
Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far	2
Legal identity at the margins: the impact of violent conflict on birth registration in India	2
Employable femininity and multisensorial hierarchies: becoming aesthetic citizens in Nepal’s aviation training industry	2
Being or becoming democratic citizens? Young people’s liminal participation between everyday life and politics	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
Citizenship in pandemic times	2
Reconstructing citizenship (again)	2
Citizenship and difference in France: colonial histories and postcolonial controversies	2
Platform Urbanization, its recent acceleration, and implications on citizenship. The case of Singapore	2
The rise of reparative citizenship	2
Towards de-Westernism in citizenship studies: implications from China	2
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations	2
Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics	2
The invisible hard work of retrieving papers: Syrians and the paradoxes of integration in Germany	2
Empirical understandings of informal citizenship and membership: internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic Of Congo	2
Citizenship denied, deferred and assumed: a legal history of racialized citizenship in Myanmar	2
Head or heart? Unpacking the subjective dimension of citizenship acquisition: insights from migrants’ narratives in Spain	2
When the universal right to education meets the liminal legality of migrant children	2
The materiality of lived citizenship: mobilising against infrastructural neglect in Egypt’s Nile Delta	2
The work ‘ethics’: negotiating a neoliberalized and respectable lesbian citizenship in a group of ‘post-90s’ Chinese lesbians’ discourses	2