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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Embracing whiteness, becoming Western. The case of Polish expatriates in Saudi Arabia	122
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	80
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	74
Don’t count me out: erasure of ethnicity and ethnic groups from national censuses	73
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	69
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	62
Can activation of a shared identity increase cooperation between natives and migrants?	57
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	55
More than resilience: adaptive pragmatism and the everyday navigation of the integration landscape in Belgium	55
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship	46
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	44
Earned citizenship and fairness	42
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	42
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process	42
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	40
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	39
‘Not like those Lebs’: intra-ethnic distinction and conditional citizenship in regional Australia	39
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	39
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city	34
Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan	33
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	30
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	29
Stay or go? Post-Brexit and COVID-19 dilemmas of Return in British expatriate retiree communities in Spain	29
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	28

Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	28
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants	26
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	26
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	26
Migration experience, hukou status, and political alienation in Chinese grassroots elections	26
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	26
Return migration and employment mobility: a pan-European analysis	26
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation	26
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	26