OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Citizenship Studies is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing regional membership: people-centric citizenship norms in ECOWAS and ASEAN	21
Where is Amarildo? – Who killed Marielle? – state-sanctioned circulations, online memes and black presence in the cityscape of Rio de Janeiro	19
On becoming citizens of the ‘non-existent’: document production and Syrian-Circassian wartime migration to Abkhazia	17
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	13
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: family practices, kinning and dekinning as the fragile work of legal status	12
Invisible but deportable non-citizens: constitutive citizenship and acts of Filipino irregular migrants in China	11
The governance of vulnerable migrants: procedure, resources and affect in asylum reception	11
Syrian ‘brokers of care’ and lived citizenship in Istanbul	10
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society	9
The legacy of Being Political	9
Legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states: interdisciplinary approaches pushing us back, better-equipped, to international law?	8
“Go back to where you come from”: the national re-making of racist borders”	8
Making immigrants into settlers: settler colonial common sense in Canadian citizenship guides	8
Weaponising naturalised citizenship: mitigating the risks of war mobilisation in Putin’s Russia	7
Citizenship formation in context: student engagement with Core Socialist Values in Chinese universities	7
Heroic citizenship	7
Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India’s emigrant and emigration policies	7
Religion, migration, and the politics of recognition: mediated citizenship and the Tai Association in the China-Myanmar-Thailand borderlands	7
Undocumented migrants’ citizenship in pandemic times: the South Korean case	7
‘Without an address, you do not exist’: the administrative invisibility of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium	6
Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies	6
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry	6
Securitization and militarized quarantine of Roma settlements during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia	6
Who are they? Deconstructing non-citizenship in India	6

Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans	6
Flights across the Channel: tracing the memories and heritage of maritime migration in the English Channel	5
Dreams of mass repatriation: government and far-right expansions of deportability in Sweden	5
Islam, chineseness and citizenship: Sinicizing Muslim minority, becoming Chinese citizen	5
Second-class EUropean citizenship: deportation of Poles under the European Arrest Warrant	5
Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism	5
The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship	5
Visibility regimes and the infrastructures of citizenship: content moderation as digital governance	5
Participation and contested forms of citizenship in the City of Sanctuary	5
Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey	5
Components of reproductive citizenship: narratives from a restrictive abortion landscape	5
Street art in the Athens of crisis: preserving the democratic acquis and national identity	5
‘Abraham and Moses were entrepreneurs’: the making of the entrepreneurial-Zionist citizen in Israeli education	5
Digital citizen humanitarianism: challenging borders and connecting weak ties	5
Negotiating citizenship in carceral spaces: experiences of incarcerated Bangladeshi women	5
The necropolitics of statelessness: coloniality, citizenship, and disposable lives	5
Independentist narrative among diasporan Rojhelatî (Eastern) Kurds: practices of transborder citizenship, dynamics and lines of contestation	5
Legacy of ‘exceptional’ citizenship: revisiting the debates and history of citizenship in post-colonial Assam	5
Citizenship as spiritual practice: the role of spiritualty in youth activism	5
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship	5
Transnational children and the right to family life: lessons following the COVID-19 crisis	4
The Green Line as a state of exception: politics of enmity and the production of (non) border regime in Cyprus	4
Looking beyond the chicken’s neck: re-thinking the lives and connections of borderland citizens in the Darjeeling-Nepal border	4
Legal identity in limbo: humanitarian challenges and responses to civil documentation issued by de facto authorities in Northwest Syria	4
Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony	4
Contested citizenship in the liminal spaces of a divided Cyprus	4
How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin	4
Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma	4