OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 25. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	66
Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies	51
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	42
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	42
Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	41
‘You can settle here’: immobility aspirations and capabilities among youth from rural Honduras	40
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	40
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	39
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	37
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	34
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	34
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	33
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	32
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation	32
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	32
Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city	31
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	30
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	28
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	26
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process	25
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	25
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants	25
Earned citizenship and fairness	25
Israel, the Jewish diaspora, and the Palestinian refugee issue: a mixed relationship	25

Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK