OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 26. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	93
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	69
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	53
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	43
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	43
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	42
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	41
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	40
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	40
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	39
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	34
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	34
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship	33
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants	33
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	33
Earned citizenship and fairness	33
Perceived pollution and selective out-migration: revisiting the role of income for environmental inequality	32
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants	31
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	30
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	29
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	28
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process	28
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	27
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation	26
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	26

Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city