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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism	43
Data Matters: The Politics and Practices of Digital Border and Migration Management	42
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance: A Radical View	38
Self-Sovereignty for Refugees? The Contested Horizons of Digital Identity	34
Controlling the Schengen Information System (SIS II): The Infrastructural Politics of Fragility and Maintenance	33
Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty	32
Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones	24
Borderwork Creep in West Africa’s Sahel	24
Fixing State Vision: Interoperability, Biometrics, and Identity Management in the EU	22
The EU Trust Fund for Africa: Geopolitical Space Making through Migration Policy Instruments	21
‘When Migrants Become Messengers’: Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal	20
Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin	19
Extract, Datafy and Disrupt: Refugees’ Subjectivities between Data Abundance and Data Disregard	19
Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions	18
De-centring the Securitisation of Asylum and Migration in the European Union: Securitisation, Vulnerability and the Role of Turkey	18
From Territoriality to Borderscapes: The Conceptualisation of Space in Border Studies	17
Humanitarianism and the ‘Migration Fix’: On the Implication of NGOs in Racial Capitalism and the Management of Relative Surplus Populations	16
Geopolitics, (Re)territorialisation, and China’s Patriotic Tourism in the South China Sea	16
Should (S)he Stay or Should (S)he Go? – Street-level Suspicion and the Construction of the ‘(Un)deserving Migrant’	16
Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance	16
Intensifying Fissures: Geopolitics, Nationalism, Militarism, and the US Response to the Novel Coronavirus	15
Waiting to Move On: Migration, Borderwork and Mobility Economies in Libya	14
Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean	14
Urban Geopolitics and the Decentring of Migration Diplomacy in EU-Moroccan Affairs	14
Remote Warfare and the Retooling of American Primacy	14

Migration and the African Timespace Trap: More Europe for the World, Less World for Europe	14
Trained to Disbelieve: The Normalisation of Suspicion in a Swiss Asylum Administration Office	14
Memory and Everyday Borderwork: Understanding Border Temporalities	14
Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers: Insights from Myanmar and Beyond	14
Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence	13
Borderwork in the Expanded EU-African Borderlands	13
Property, Citizenship, and Invisible Dispossession in Myanmar’s Urban Frontier	13
Autonomy of Migration and the Radical Imagination: Exploring Alternative Imaginaries within a Biometric Border	12
Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions	12
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes	12
Registration as a Border: Shaping the Population at the Local Level in Italy	11
EU Engagement with Contested Refugee Returns in Lebanon: The Aftermath of Resilience	11
Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders	11
Bureaucratic Sociability, or the Missing Eighty Percent of Effectiveness: The Case of Diplomacy	11
Migration Governance in the Mediterranean: The Siracusa Experience	11
The Twenty Years’ Crisis of European Energy Security: Central and Eastern Europe and the US	11
Inter-National Conspiracy? Speculating on the Myitsone Dam Controversy in China, Burma, Kachin, and a Displaced Village	11
The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks	10
Drones for Border Surveillance: Multipurpose Use, Uncertainty and Challenges at EU Borders	10
Agency within Mobility: Conceptualising the Geopolitics of Migration Management	10
‘Request Denied’: Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation and Treason for Border and Migration Studies	10
Borderwork in the Grey Zone: Everyday Resistance within European Border Control Initiatives in Mali	10
Intensifications of Border Governance and Defiant Migration Trajectories in Ethiopia	10
The Changing Dynamics of Regionalism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of the Three Seas Initiative	10
Making and Unmaking Refugees: Geopolitics of Social Ordering and Struggle within the Global Refugee Regime	9
Calculated Informality in Governing (Non)return: An Evolutionary Governance Perspective	9
The Geopolitics of Returns: Geopolitical Reasoning and Space-Making in Turkey’s Repatriation Regime	9
Lives in Waiting	8
Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty	8
Diabolical Suggestions: Disinformation and the Curious Scale of Nationalism in Ukrainian Geopolitical Fault-line Cities	8
Base Built in the Middle of ‘Rice Fields’: A Politics of Ignorance in Okinawa	8
After the Rice Frontier: Producing State and Ethnic Territory in Northwest Myanmar	8
Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route	8
Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration	7
Intermarium: A Bid for Polycentric Europe	7
Assembling a Critical Toponymy of Diplomacy: The Case of Ankara, Turkey	7
The Geopolitics of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Harmonizing Competing Visions or Reinforcing Extractive Agriculture?	7
‘Running Them Out of Time:’ Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa	7
The ‘Migrant Crisis in the Mediterranean’ as a Threat to Women’s Security in the EU? A Contrapuntal Reading	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
Realising the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localising Norms and Socialising UNHCR	6
Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System	6
Beyond Anarchy and Capital? The Geopolitics of the Rojava Revolution in Syria	6
Neoliberal Capitalism and Ethno-Territoriality in Highland Northeast India: Resource-Extraction, Capitalist Desires and Ethnic Closure	6
Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees: More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route	6
Migrant Agency and Counter-Hegemonic Efforts Among Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Response to Geopolitical Control and Exclusion	6
Engaging the Geopolitics of Asylum Seeking: The Care/control Function of Vulnerability Assessments in the Context of the EU–Turkey Agreement	6
The Everyday Chinese Framing of Africa: A Perspective of Tourism-geopolitical Encounter	6