OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 27. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Stay or go? Post-Brexit and COVID-19 dilemmas of Return in British expatriate retiree communities in Spain	132
Embracing whiteness, becoming Western. The case of Polish expatriates in Saudi Arabia	107
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	71
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	63
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	62
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants	56
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	54
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	49
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	49
Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan	46
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	42
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	39
Don’t count me out: erasure of ethnicity and ethnic groups from national censuses	37
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants	37
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	37
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	36
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	36
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	35
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process	35
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	33
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	31
Earned citizenship and fairness	31
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	29
‘Not like those Lebs’: intra-ethnic distinction and conditional citizenship in regional Australia	29
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	28

More than resilience: adaptive pragmatism and the everyday navigation of the integration landscape in Belgium	28
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	27