OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 24. 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
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	79
Earned citizenship and fairness	55
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	44
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	39
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	37
‘You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras	37
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	36
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	36
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	35
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants	34
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	33
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	33
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	31
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	31
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	31
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	30
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship	28
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	28
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	26
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city	25
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	25
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	24
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants	24
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality	24