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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	22
The materiality of lived citizenship: mobilising against infrastructural neglect in Egypt’s Nile Delta	17
Insurgent citizens in the U.S. detention regime: a case study of mobilization and rights claims from within an Ohio immigration prison	16
The dynamics of localized citizenship at the grassroots in China	13
Speaking up, rising above: Latina lived citizenship in the metropolitan US South	12
Transnational citizenship: political practices of Kurdish migrants’ descendants in France and Germany	10
Humanitarian activist citizens: the emergence of a ‘victim’ political subjectivity in Colombia	10
Understanding acts of citizenship: stories of black activism in Greece	9
The partialization (and parcelization) of citizenship?	9
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	9
Act up against citizenship: a plea to citizenship studies	9
Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications	8
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	8
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands	8
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	8
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	8
Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges	8
Citizenship: flexible, fungible, fragile	8
Seeing citizenship: singularity, multiplicity, complexity in times of crisis	8
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	8
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	7
Employable femininity and multisensorial hierarchies: becoming aesthetic citizens in Nepal’s aviation training industry	7
Hierarchies of membership and the management of global population: reflections on citizenship and racial ordering	7
Glamorous citizens: young women, state parades and the affective politics of belonging in Yaoundé, Cameroon	7
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations	6

What does the ideal citizen look like in China’s new era? A bottom-up view	6
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	6
Creating the governable population: authoritarian cultural citizenship and the ethnic minorities in a Sino-Tibetan intercultural area in contemporary China	6
Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	6
From ethnic segregation to equal political status: the Making of the concept of citizenship in early modern China	6
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	5
‘Paused citizens’: waiting and negotiating liminality in Assam, India	5
Immigration status and policing in Canada: current problems, activist strategies and abolitionist visions	5
Citizens of nowhere: illegal slavery and racial silence in the African and Indigenous histories of Postcolonial Brazil	5
Translators as mediators of citizenship: rethinking community in relational translation	5
Making green extreme: defending fossil fuel hegemony through citizen exclusion	5
Emerging digital citizenship regimes: Pandemic, algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan, and stateless citizenships	5
Weddings amidst War: the intimate and insurgent politics of marriage	5
The speaking citizen: language requirements and linguistic neoliberal colonialisms	5
Organic vs. inorganic citizenship	5
National citizenship, migrant deportation and gender/sexual logics of home	5
Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics	5
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	5
Ex-centric citizenship: bolivian migration and violence in Argentina	5
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	5
The legacy of Being Political	5
Beauty banned: navigating aesthetic citizenship in Rwandan borderlands	4
A philosophy of the theory of “acts of citizenship” woven into the fabric of a political anthropology of citizenship	4
Constitutional moments and resurgent citizenship	4
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	4
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	4
Citizenship and agency in the context of Nicaragua’s participatory authoritarianism	4
Dressing masculinities: muted colours, aesthetic citizenship and nation-building in Tashkent, Uzbekistan	4
Accruing whiteness: power and resistance in prerequisite citizenship cases of immigrants from the ‘Middle East’	4
Citizenship in the age of populism	4
Speaking the language of the ‘other’: negotiating cultural boundaries through language in chitmahals in Indo-Bangladesh borders	4
Gendered gratitude: the civic subjectivity of israeli women soldiers	4
From acts of citizenship to transnational lived citizenship: potential and pitfalls of subversive readings of citizenship	4
The rise of cybernetic citizenship	4
‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan	4
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	4
Precarious citizenship: detection, detention and ‘deportability’ in India	4
Marriage migration, family and citizenship in Asia	4
Social policy with tunnel vision: problems of state efforts to curb adolescent pregnancy in post 1988 Brazil	4
Armed groups, states and families: accounting for the dead as an element of humane treatment	3
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	3
Between citizens and sit-inners: the 2017 Kamour sit-in and disidentification in Tunisia’s south	3
‘Otherness as a condition of citizenship’: alterity, extimacy and citizenship after orientalism	3
Undocumented migrants’ citizenship in pandemic times: the South Korean case	3
Remember to die: recovering belonging in diasporic end of life art	3
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	3
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	3
The nomos of mobile commons: towards a nomadic constitution of Europe	3
Showcase citizens: citizenship in the making along the borders of post-colonial South Asia	3
State, citizenship and gender-variant communities in India	3

Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony	3
Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and rescue. The memory of solidarity at the Alpine border	3
Let’s keep boys out: promoting exclusion as a means to actualize feminist digital citizenship in China	3
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	3
Naturalization in African states: its past and potential future	3
The popular sovereignty of Indigenous peoples: a challenge in multi-people states	3
Can citizenship studies escape citizenism?	3
Documenting life amidst the Syrian war: Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s performance of statehood through identity documents	2
Citizenship Diversified: Bali-Hindu Customary Institutions and Democratization	2
Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies	2
Precarious reproductive citizenship: gaps in employment protections for pregnant precarious status migrants in Canada	2
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	2
Wong Kim Ark ’s children: immigrant citizenship under Chinese exclusion	2
The city and the clock in planetary times: revisiting Isin’sBeing Politicaltwenty years on	2
Within, beyond, and after citizenship: the interplay between visibility and invisibility among migrants in Patras	2
Unequal access: wealth as barrier and accelerator to citizenship	2
Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy	2
Intimate standardisation: how the activating welfare state localises citizens and standardises welfare	2
Citizenship Matters: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Global Perspective on Naturalization	2
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	2
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	2
Confucian education, cultural responsibility, and Chinese identity: why do Chinese immigrant parents engage their children in learning Confucian classics?	2
Understanding the impact on children’s citizenship of participating in community-based action research	2
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	2
Refugee citizenship: citizenship as a means to make a claim about refugeehood	2
Imperial afterlives: citizenship and racial/caste fragility in Canada and India	2
Sounds of a migrant city: radio representation and cultural citizenship in the case of Shenzhen, China	2
Further to the bottom of the hierarchy: the stratification of forced migrants’ welfare rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	2
Navigating citizenship and motherhood in and beyond Berlin	2
Introduction: reconsidering Chinese citizenship: cultural roots and cultural reach	2
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	2
Becoming ambivalent subjects of labour rights: subaltern mobilisations, the law and the state	1
Data-Driven Citizenship Regimes in Contemporary Urban Scenarios: An Introduction	1
Transcending non-citizenship? Looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective	1
The symbiosis of state and citizens: Yan Fu’s transformation of Chinese citizenship idea	1
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	1
Correction Notice	1
Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far	1
Reorganization of borders, migrant workers, and the coloniality of power	1
Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: The toré ritual as a decolonial indigenous practice in the Northeast Region	1
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	1
‘Whether you like it or not, this is the future!’: everyday negotiations of the community’s boundary in urban space	1
Temporalities of citizenship among Finnish Somali women: simultaneities, disruptions and accelerations along the refugeeness-citizenship continuum	1
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	1
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	1
Right, righteousness, and act: why should Confucian activists be regarded as citizens in the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China?	1
Citizenship as status, habitus and acts: Language requirements and civic orientation in Sweden	1
‘To be human is to bury the enemy dead’: migrant deaths, posthumous citizenship, and the ‘soldier-migrant analogy’ in the refugee crisis	1
Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work	1
Citizenship and statelessness among mobile maritime populations: the case of the Moken in Thailand	1
Citizenship and Bleakness	1
Congolese mothers, affective circuits and ‘acts of citizenship’ in Russia	1
Claiming rights. The mobilization of youth of migrant descent for access to citizenship rights in Italy	1
Afterword: on communities, language, and everyday (academic) citizenship	1
Afterword	1
Decarceral Futures: Bridging Immigration and Prison Justice towards an Abolitionist Future	1
Decolonising the language of citizenship	1
Afterword: language, affect and everyday citizenship	1
(Non)recognition of legal identity in aspirant states: evidence from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria	1
Citizenship and monogamy in Canada: the case of the Shafia family murders	1
Subaltern citizenship: naturalization and belonging for New Russian citizens from Central Asia	1
Citizenship denied, deferred and assumed: a legal history of racialized citizenship in Myanmar	1
Heroic citizenship	1
A Sisyphean task of qualifying for digital citizenship? The precarious learning processes of disadvantaged migrant women in the context of inordinate expectations	1
Self-Il/legalisation and political subjecthood: Syrian migrant women in the EU	1
Migrant women becoming British citizens: care and coloniality	1
Dedemocratizing citizenship: how neoliberalism used market justice to move from welfare queening to authoritarianism in 25 short years	1
Exploring the links between language, everyday citizenship, and community	1
Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies	1
Rethinking sanctuary cities in Canada: reflecting on a decade of municipal access without fear policies	1
Sexual citizenship: rhetoric or reality for Rural Gay Men in Ireland and England?	1
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	1
Reluctant border agents: enlistment of transportation workers in procedures to limit refugee mobilities in Turkey	1