OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geopolitics is 6. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism	47
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management	44
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance: A Radical View	40
Self-Sovereignty for Refugees? The Contested Horizons of Digital Identity	38
Controlling the Schengen Information System (SIS II): The Infrastructural Politics of Fragility and Maintenance	34
Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty	33
Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones	28
Borderwork Creep in West Africa’s Sahel	26
Fixing State Vision: Interoperability, Biometrics, and Identity Management in the EU	24
‘When Migrants Become Messengers’: Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal	22
De-centring the Securitisation of Asylum and Migration in the European Union: Securitisation, Vulnerability and the Role of Turkey	20
Extract, Datafy and Disrupt: Refugees’ Subjectivities between Data Abundance and Data Disregard	20
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin	19
From Territoriality to Borderscapes: The Conceptualisation of Space in Border Studies	19
Humanitarianism and the ‘Migration Fix’: On the Implication of NGOs in Racial Capitalism and the Management of Relative Surplus Populations	19
Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions	19
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance	18
Waiting to Move On: Migration, Borderwork and Mobility Economies in Libya	17
The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks	17
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes	16
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean	16
Urban Geopolitics and the Decentring of Migration Diplomacy in EU-Moroccan Affairs	16
Trained to Disbelieve: The Normalisation of Suspicion in a Swiss Asylum Administration Office	16
Remote Warfare and the Retooling of American Primacy	15
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond	15

Autonomy of Migration and the Radical Imagination: Exploring Alternative Imaginaries within a Biometric Border	15
Migration and the African Timespace Trap: More Europe for the World, Less World for Europe	15
Borderwork in the Expanded EU-African Borderlands	14
Drones for Border Surveillance: Multipurpose Use, Uncertainty and Challenges at EU Borders	14
Intensifications of Border Governance and Defiant Migration Trajectories in Ethiopia	14
Property, Citizenship, and Invisible Dispossession in Myanmar’s Urban Frontier	13
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions	13
Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence	13
The Twenty Years’ Crisis of European Energy Security: Central and Eastern Europe and the US	12
Registration as a Border: Shaping the Population at the Local Level in Italy	12
EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience	12
Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders	12
Borderwork in the Grey Zone: Everyday Resistance within European Border Control Initiatives in Mali	11
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management	11
Bureaucratic Sociability, or the Missing Eighty Percent of Effectiveness: The Case of Diplomacy	11
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective	11
The Changing Dynamics of Regionalism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of the Three Seas Initiative	11
‘Request Denied’: Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation and Treason for Border and Migration Studies	10
The Geopolitics of Returns: Geopolitical Reasoning and Space-Making in Turkey’s Repatriation Regime	10
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime	9
Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty	9
Diabolical Suggestions: Disinformation and the Curious Scale of Nationalism in Ukrainian Geopolitical Fault-line Cities	9
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route	9
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration	8
The Geopolitics of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Harmonizing Competing Visions or Reinforcing Extractive Agriculture?	8
The ‘Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean’ as a Threat to Women’s Security in the EU? A Contrapuntal Reading	8
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine	8
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa	8
After the Rice Frontier: Producing State and Ethnic Territory in Northwest Myanmar	8
Civil Society and Municipal Activism Around Migration in the EU: A Multi-Scalar Alliance-Making	8
Assembling a Critical Toponymy of Diplomacy: The Case of Ankara, Turkey	7
Engaging the Geopolitics of Asylum Seeking: The Care/control Function of Vulnerability Assessments in the Context of the EU–Turkey Agreement	7
The Geopolitics of China’s Overseas Port Investments: A Comparative Analysis of Greece and Pakistan	7
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe	7
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR	7
Booking Engines as Battlefields: Contesting Technology, Travel, and Territory in Taiwan and China	7
The Bioeconomy of Sahel Borders: Informal Practices of Revenue and Data Extraction	7
Suspicious Infrastructures: Automating Border Control and the Multiplication of Mistrust through Biometric E-Gates	7
The Geopolitics of State Recognition in a Transitional International Order	7
The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific	7
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria	7
Translating EUrope’s Return Migration Regime to The Gambia: The Incorporation of Local CSOs	7
Defending Europe at the Trianon Border: Geopolitical Visions of Nationhood and the Remaking of Hungary’s Southern Border	6
Migrant Agency and Counter-Hegemonic Efforts Among Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Response to Geopolitical Control and Exclusion	6
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System	6
“Asylum is Not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border	6
Serbia after Yugoslavia: Caught between Geopolitics and Liberal Promises	6
European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control	6
Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees: More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route	6
Moral Exclusion, Dehumanisation, and Continued Resistance to Return: Experiences of Refused Afghan Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands	6

Liquid or Solid Warfare? Autocratic States, Non-State Armed Groups and the Socio-Spatial Dimension of Warfare in Yemen	6
The ‘Pivot to the East‘ and China in Russian Discourse	6
Moral Borderwork: Policies, Policing, and Practices of Migrant Smuggling at the EU-Morocco Border	6
More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies	6