OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 23. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Politicising immigration in times of crisis	55
The conceptual limits of the ‘migration journey’. De-exceptionalising mobility in the context of West African trajectories	52
The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices	52
Beyond here and there: (re)conceptualising migrant journeys and the ‘in-between’	43
West African interests in (EU) migration policy. Balancing domestic priorities with external incentives	43
Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate	35
Millionaire mobility and the sale of citizenship	35
On the Coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia	34
The interplay between structural and systemic vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: migrant agricultural workers in informal settlements in Southern Italy	34
Circumstantial migration: how Gambian journeys to China enrich migration theory	33
The spiralling of the securitisation of migration in the EU: from the management of a ‘crisis’ to a governance of human mobility?	32
Precarious migrants, migration regimes and digital technologies: the empowerment-control nexus	32
Intellectual migration: considering China	32
The changing patterns of international student mobility: a network perspective	31
New theoretical dialogues on migration in China: introduction to the special issue	29
The centre-right versus the radical right: the role of migration issues and economic grievances	27
(Un)settled sojourners in cities: the scalar and temporal dimensions of migrant precarity	27
Reimagining Chinese diasporas in a transnational world: toward a new research agenda	26
Soft violence: migrant domestic worker precarity and the management of unfree labour in Singapore	26
Defining and transforming local migration policies: a conceptual approach backed by evidence from Germany	26
East–west inequalities and the ambiguous racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans’	24
Breaking down the barriers: educational paths, labour market outcomes and wellbeing of children of immigrants	24
The EU and migration in the Mediterranean: EU borders’ control by proxy	23
Promising precarity: the lives of Dublin’s international students	23
Racial marker, transnational capital, and the Occidental Other: white Americans’ experiences of whiteness on the Chinese mainland	23

Radical Hope in asylum seeking: political agency beyond linear temporality	23
Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? A systematic review of the empirical evidence	23