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

Article	Citations
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	42
Comparing regional membership: people-centric citizenship norms in ECOWAS and ASEAN	26
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status	18
Reconceptualising language tests for citizenship as raciolinguistic border regimes	17
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	17
The dilemmas around digital citizenship in a post-Brexit and post-pandemic Northern Ireland: towards an algorithmic nation?	17
Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control	16
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	16
The legacy of Being Political	16
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	15
Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India	15
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	15
Invisible but deportable non-citizens: constitutive citizenship and acts of Filipino irregular migrants in China	13
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	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
Heroic citizenship	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
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
Participation and contested forms of citizenship in the City of Sanctuary	9
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	9
Dreams of mass repatriation: government and far-right expansions of deportability in Sweden	9

Right, righteousness, and act: why should Confucian activists be regarded as citizens in the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China?	9
Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans	9
Islam, chineseness and citizenship: Sinicizing Muslim minority, becoming Chinese citizen	8
Components of reproductive citizenship: narratives from a restrictive abortion landscape	8
Street art in the Athens of crisis: preserving the democratic acquis and national identity	8
Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism	8
The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives	8
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	8
Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey	8
Movements of migration within and beyond citizenship	8
Refugee and asylum-seeking women’s lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration	8
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	7
Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia	7
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility	7
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	7
Organic vs. inorganic citizenship	6
National citizenship and postcolonial racism	6
Enacting and contesting citizenship in Algeria beyond the Hirak:The strategic uses of exit, voice and loyalty	6
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	6
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	6
Contested citizenship in the liminal spaces of a divided Cyprus	6
Forensic citizenship among families of missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border	6
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	6
The rise of cybernetic citizenship	6
Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis	6
Activating citizens: the contribution of the Capability Approach to critical citizenship studies and to understanding the enablers of engaged citizenship	5
Refugee citizenship: citizenship as a means to make a claim about refugeehood	5
Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony	5
Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work	5
Reflections on citizenship: between promise and practice	5
Afterword: citizenship in pandemic times	5
Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: everyday politics, mobilization and belonging	5
Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam	5
The problem with the Comoros solution: affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon	5
Categorical boundaries: the political production of kinship and citizenship	5
Beyond ‘birth tourism’: transnational birth mobilities and dual citizenship amid geopolitical instability	5
Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures	5
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	5
Three shades of ‘urban-digital citizenship’: borders, speculation, and logistics in Cape Town	5
Auditing cultural citizenship in border checkpoints: perspective on a media event	4
Affecting belonging: experimental education, cultural resources, and affective cultural citizenship in contemporary China	4
From ethnic segregation to equal political status: the Making of the concept of citizenship in early modern China	4
Understanding acts of citizenship: stories of black activism in Greece	4
Afterword: aesthetic citizenship and Necropolitics	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
Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey	4
Skeptically self-governed citizens: the ‘volunteer!’ injunction as a predicament of neoliberal life	4
Act up against citizenship: a plea to citizenship studies	4
‘I was braver when I was younger’: contingent legality and noncitizen schooling among children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia	4
A philosophy of the theory of “acts of citizenship” woven into the fabric of a political anthropology of citizenship	3

Can citizenship studies escape citizenism?	3
Correction Notice	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
Gendered gratitude: the civic subjectivity of israeli women soldiers	3
The city and the clock in planetary times: revisiting Isin’sBeing Politicaltwenty years on	3
Claiming rights. The mobilization of youth of migrant descent for access to citizenship rights in Italy	3
What does the ideal citizen look like in China’s new era? A bottom-up view	3
‘The world we share’: everyday relations and the political consequences of refugee-refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan	3
Let’s keep boys out: promoting exclusion as a means to actualize feminist digital citizenship in China	3
Contested beings: citizenship along the riparian zone in the India–Bangladesh borders	3
‘Otherness as a condition of citizenship’: alterity, extimacy and citizenship after orientalism	3
Between citizens and sit-inners: the 2017 Kamour sit-in and disidentification in Tunisia’s south	3
Emerging digital citizenship regimes: Pandemic, algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan, and stateless citizenships	2
Forging citizenship in China’s borderlands: state tactics, everyday struggles, and the pluralization of belonging	2
The materiality of lived citizenship: mobilising against infrastructural neglect in Egypt’s Nile Delta	2
Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges	2
Citizenship and difference in France: colonial histories and postcolonial controversies	2
The rise of reparative citizenship	2
The invisible hard work of retrieving papers: Syrians and the paradoxes of integration in Germany	2
Reconstructing citizenship (again)	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
Hierarchies of membership and the management of global population: reflections on citizenship and racial ordering	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
Employable femininity and multisensorial hierarchies: becoming aesthetic citizens in Nepal’s aviation training industry	2
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India’s Eastern Borderlands	2
Legal identity at the margins: the impact of violent conflict on birth registration in India	2
Citizenship in pandemic times	2
Being or becoming democratic citizens? Young people’s liminal participation between everyday life and politics	2
Transcending non-citizenship? Looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective	2
Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far	2
‘Paused citizens’: waiting and negotiating liminality in Assam, India	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
Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations	2
Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications	2
When the universal right to education meets the liminal legality of migrant children	2
Platform Urbanization, its recent acceleration, and implications on citizenship. The case of Singapore	2
A labour of love (the right to philosophy)	2
Transnational citizenship pathways of Chinese professional migrants in Singapore: negotiating provisionality, permanence, and emerging precarity in (post-)pandemic times	2
Citizen-subjects in an ethnocratic regime: Palestinians in Israel within a settler colonial context	2
Towards de-Westernism in citizenship studies: implications from China	2