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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Care without Control: The Humanitarian Industrial Complex and the Criminalisation of Solidarity	51
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management	38
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism	37
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance: A Radical View	36
Self-Sovereignty for Refugees? The Contested Horizons of Digital Identity	32
Controlling the Schengen Information System (SIS II): The Infrastructural Politics of Fragility and Maintenance	29
Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty	25
‘Vulnerable Refugees’ and ‘Voluntary Deportations’: Performing the Hotspot, Embodying Its Violence	24
Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones	22
Fixing State Vision: Interoperability, Biometrics, and Identity Management in the EU	22
Borderwork Creep in West Africa’s Sahel	21
The Shifting Landscape of International Resettlement: Canada, the US and Syrian Refugees	21
The EU Trust Fund for Africa: Geopolitical Space Making through Migration Policy Instruments	19
‘When Migrants Become Messengers’: Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal	19
(Im)moral Borders in Practice	17
Extract, Datafy and Disrupt: Refugees’ Subjectivities between Data Abundance and Data Disregard	17
De-centring the Securitisation of Asylum and Migration in the European Union: Securitisation, Vulnerability and the Role of Turkey	16
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin	16
Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions	15
Should (S)he Stay or Should (S)he Go? – Street-level Suspicion and the Construction of the ‘(Un)deserving Migrant’	15
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance	15
Remote Warfare and the Retooling of American Primacy	14
Urban Geopolitics and the Decentring of Migration Diplomacy in EU-Moroccan Affairs	14
Intensifying Fissures: Geopolitics, Nationalism, Militarism, and the US Response to the Novel Coronavirus	14
Trained to Disbelieve: The Normalisation of Suspicion in a Swiss Asylum Administration Office	14

Waiting to Move On: Migration, Borderwork and Mobility Economies in Libya	13
Borderwork in the Expanded EU-African Borderlands	13
Migration and the African Timespace Trap: More Europe for the World, Less World for Europe	13
Memory and Everyday Borderwork: Understanding Border Temporalities	13
Geopolitics, (Re)territorialisation, and China’s Patriotic Tourism in the South China Sea	13
Autonomy of Migration and the Radical Imagination: Exploring Alternative Imaginaries within a Biometric Border	12
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean	12
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes	12
Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence	12
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond	12
Humanitarianism and the ‘Migration Fix’: On the Implication of NGOs in Racial Capitalism and the Management of Relative Surplus Populations	12
From Territoriality to Borderscapes: The Conceptualisation of Space in Border Studies	12
Migration Governance in the Mediterranean: The Siracusa Experience	11
Introduction: Domesticating Geopolitics	11
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions	10
Inter-National Conspiracy? Speculating on the Myitsone Dam Controversy in China, Burma, Kachin, and a Displaced Village	10
Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders	10
Borderwork in the Grey Zone: Everyday Resistance within European Border Control Initiatives in Mali	10
Drones for Border Surveillance: Multipurpose Use, Uncertainty and Challenges at EU Borders	10
The Changing Dynamics of Regionalism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of the Three Seas Initiative	10
Reconfiguring Desecuritization: Contesting Expert Knowledge in the Securitization of Migration	10
Intensifications of Border Governance and Defiant Migration Trajectories in Ethiopia	9
Property, Citizenship, and Invisible Dispossession in Myanmar’s Urban Frontier	9
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective	9
The Twenty Years’ Crisis of European Energy Security: Central and Eastern Europe and the US	9
Pornography at the Border: Ethnosexual Borderscapes, Gendered Violence, and Embodied control	9
Researching Visual Manifestations of Border Spaces and Experiences: Conceptual and Methodological Perspectives	8
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime	8
‘Request Denied’: Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation and Treason for Border and Migration Studies	8
EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience	8
Diabolical Suggestions: Disinformation and the Curious Scale of Nationalism in Ukrainian Geopolitical Fault-line Cities	8
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management	8
Lives in Waiting	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
Registration as a Border: Shaping the Population at the Local Level in Italy	7
Base Built in the Middle of ‘Rice Fields’: A Politics of Ignorance in Okinawa	7
The Geopolitics of Returns: Geopolitical Reasoning and Space-Making in Turkey’s Repatriation Regime	7
The ‘Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean’ as a Threat to Women’s Security in the EU? A Contrapuntal Reading	7
After the Rice Frontier: Producing State and Ethnic Territory in Northwest Myanmar	7
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route	7
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe	7
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR	6
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria	6
Bureaucratic Sociability, or the Missing Eighty Percent of Effectiveness: The Case of Diplomacy	6
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa	6
The Geopolitics of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Harmonizing Competing Visions or Reinforcing Extractive Agriculture?	6