OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is 24. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices	67
Politicising immigration in times of crisis	66
The conceptual limits of the ‘migration journey’. De-exceptionalising mobility in the context of West African trajectories	58
Beyond here and there: (re)conceptualising migrant journeys and the ‘in-between’	51
Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate	50
The interplay between structural and systemic vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: migrant agricultural workers in informal settlements in Southern Italy	38
On the Coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia	37
The spiralling of the securitisation of migration in the EU: from the management of a ‘crisis’ to a governance of human mobility?	34
Defining and transforming local migration policies: a conceptual approach backed by evidence from Germany	33
Reimagining Chinese diasporas in a transnational world: toward a new research agenda	32
East–west inequalities and the ambiguous racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans’	32
The centre-right versus the radical right: the role of migration issues and economic grievances	30
Temporary migration: category of analysis or category of practice?	30
Orbán’s political jackpot: migration and the Hungarian electorate	29
Understanding why immigrant children underperform: evidence from Italian compulsory education	28
Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? A systematic review of the empirical evidence	28
Breaking down the barriers: educational paths, labour market outcomes and wellbeing of children of immigrants	27
The centre no longer holds: the Lega, Matteo Salvini and the remaking of Italian immigration politics	26
Immigration, integration and citizenship: elements of a new political demography	26
The EU and migration in the Mediterranean: EU borders’ control by proxy	26
From illegalised migrant toward permanent resident: assembling precarious legal status trajectories and differential inclusion in Canada	26
The dynamics of recent refugees’ language acquisition: how do their pathways compare to those of other new immigrants?	26
EU Border technologies and the co-production of security ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’	26
Waiting for kin: a longitudinal study of family reunification and refugee mental health in Germany	25
Being far away from what you need: the impact of dispersal on resettled refugees’ homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands	24

Centre-right parties and immigration in an era of politicisation