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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Stay or go? Post-Brexit and COVID-19 dilemmas of Return in British expatriate retiree communities in Spain	111
Embracing whiteness, becoming Western. The case of Polish expatriates in Saudi Arabia	71
Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic	65
Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?	64
Temporalities and change in Senegalese and Gambian self-organisation in Germany: accelerated immigration, demographic dynamics, and political opportunities	63
Sanctuary, firewalls, regularisation: three inclusive responses to the presence of irregular migrants	56
Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements	52
Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka	52
Work and identity in direct selling: meaning from work and exploitation in an undocumented immigrant network	50
Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan	42
The green bus and the viapolitics of intra-state deportations in Syria	39
Don’t count me out: erasure of ethnicity and ethnic groups from national censuses	38
How political reception contexts shape location decisions of immigrants	38
The quest for a good old age: mobility, immobility and Puerto Rican aging in the United States	37
The contemporary uses of the ‘values of the Republic’ in the French naturalisation process	37
Can we do it together? Co-designing attentive practices with and for forced migrants in seven countries	37
Essential, lonely and exploited: why mobile EU workers’ labour rights are not enforced	37
Performing race, class, and status: identity strategies among Latin American women migrants in London	35
Earned citizenship and fairness	33
Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK	32
‘Not like those Lebs’: intra-ethnic distinction and conditional citizenship in regional Australia	30
Coerced return: formal policies, informal practices and migrants’ navigation	29
The social front door: the role of social infrastructures for migrant arrival	28
Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers	28
Labour market hierarchies within and beyond the EU: Poland’s politics of migration	27

Cross-ethnic integration through participation in leisure organisations? Evidence from two-wave panel data	27
More than resilience: adaptive pragmatism and the everyday navigation of the integration landscape in Belgium	26
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon	26
Migration industries bringing physicians to Sweden: Polish and Iraqi cases	26
Can activation of a shared identity increase cooperation between natives and migrants?	26