OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethnicities is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Avoiding backlash: Narratives and strategies for anti-racist activism in Mexico	35
Race as injustice and the im/possibility of racial justice	31
Politicization of the Jewish and Muslim minorities in Poland	17
Unraveling the white working-class conundrum: A closer look at its utility and pitfalls	14
Paternalism and racism in pacific labour migration: A critical discourse analysis of the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme	13
Debunking mainstream anti-racism in the Spanish context: “Anti-rumour” strategies as a case of psychology-based anti-racism	12
Multicultural conversations: The nature and future of culture, identity and nationalism	11
Rejoinder to article, “Health inspector ratings of Asian restaurants during the early COVID-19 pandemic,” published by Cherng et al. On Nov. 29, 2022	11
Institutional bias and Islamic burial space in France and the Netherlands	11
How to assign social groups to ethnic and racial categories after Racial Domination ?	10
(De)Securitising national minorities: The case of Singapore	10
Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe	10
Public political philosophy in Poland: Phacts, phictions, and philennials	10
Revisiting the cruel optimism of racial justice – A response to Fadil, Favell and St Louis	10
Sustainable mindsets: Combining traditional indigenous knowledge with non-aboriginal understanding to address environmental risks	9
Confronting Islamophobia and its consequences in East London in a context of increased surveillance and stigmatisation	8
Liminalis voces: Migrant identity construction and positionality in a Balkan Route digital messaging research group	8
What about anti-secularism?	8
Books received	7
Indian intervention in ethnic movement of Nepal: Did Madheshi lose or gain?	7
Religious nationalism and the dynamics of religious diversity governance in post-communist Eastern Europe	7
Pluralist public policy process theories without hierarchical racial caste and post-racial caste: Is this America?	7
Notes on race as denegated ethnicity	6
Theorising inclusive collective memory in contexts of contestation: The migration factor in Catalonia’s national memory	6
Double invisibility: West Indian American narratives challenging American ideas of race and ethnicity	6

A spectacle of denial: A response to Loïc Wacquant’s “notes to race as denegated ethnicity”	5
Does multiculturalism neglect cultural majorities?	5
New Zealand is “racist as f**k”: Linguistic racism and te reo Māori	5
Ethnic residential segregation and residents’ perceptions of safety: The case of Arabs and Jews in Israel	5
Black and white, both and none: Critical reflections on the limits of positionality discourse in Australia	5
Lord Bhikhu Parekh: The gentle revolutionary	5
Future citizens between interest and ability: A systematic literature review of the naturalization and crimmigration scholarship	5
Beyond racism: Re-centering religious hostility in the conceptualization of Islamophobia	4
The visual economy of migration and the production of crisis. Two cases in question: Norte de Santander and the Darien	4
Returning empty-handed or going somewhere? Tales from social division networks of re-migrants in the polarized post-COVID-19 era: A phenomenological study	4
Islamic religiosity, Islamophobia and gendered harms	4
Editorial: 25 years of E thnicities	4
Moderate secularism, religion as a public good, and the Danish case	4
Books received	4
Semantic framework for creation of migration photography and their role in visual governance in migration	4
The politics of death: Multiculturalism and the afterlives of Muslims in Europe	4
Between national and ethnic identity: The racialization of Korean-Chinese accents in South Korea	4
Adapting the socio-cultural adaptation scale (SCAS-R) to Arabic: A study on the Syrian migrants living in Gaziantep province of Türkiye	3
Perceived inequality of opportunity and xenophobic prejudice: Multilevel evidence from an Asian metropolis	3
Negotiating between gender, national and professional identities: The work-experience of Israeli-Palestinian women journalists	3
Governance of religious diversity in Central Europe: A religious nationalism inspired illiberal turn in Hungary and Slovakia?	3
Linguistic racism: Origins and implications	3
The representation of Jews in the Finnish press before the second world war	3
An anatomy of musical blood: The sociocultural construction of Romani ‘natural’ musicality	3
Boundaries of Finnishness: How military-related encounters with majority Finns shape experiences of belonging to Finland for conscripts with a migrant background	3
The will for racial justice	3
The influence of education, economy and religion domains in enhancing ethnic unity among Malaysian youths	3
Farewell to “race and racism”: On the analytic primacy of ethnicity	3
A positive deviance approach to Roma education	3
The ghosts of “internal colonisation”: Anthropogenic impacts of Russian imperial ambitions in Ukraine	3
Off and on stage interactions: Muslim-Jewish encounter in urban Europe	3
Rejoinder-final right of reply to “Health inspector ratings of Asian restaurants during the early COVID-19 pandemic”	3
Making majorities ethnic	2
Breaking the dichotomy: Non-binary belonging as a tool for inclusive societies	2
Books received	2
Colonial governmentality and Bangladeshis in the anthropocene: Loss of language, land, knowledge, and identity of the Chakma in the ecology of the Chittagong Hill tracts in Bangladesh	2
Taking religiosity seriously in Muslim experiences of exclusion - Norwegian Muslim experiences with ethical, social, and institutional non-recognition	2
Books Received	2
Social media narratives, diasporic identity and collective memory: A critical synthesis of the literature	2
The (un)importance of ethnicity in adolescents’ boundary making: An analysis over a two-school year period in a super-diverse city	2
Religion, difference and majoritarianism: A brief response	2
Forgotten responsibilities? Nordic truth commissions, Sámi history, and the difficulty of transnational perspectives on historical responsibility	2
Bhikhu Parekh, multiculturality, and the public culture	2
Books Received	2
“There isn’t one way to be black”: Exploring ethnic self-identities among second-generation Ethiopian adults in the United States	2
Dignity as a method. Pluriversal dignity approaches in place-based visual research on migration and its implications for governance	2
Governing religious diversity in Western Balkans: The volatility of ethno-religious coexistence in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania	2
Being rooted yet open: Cultural plurality and cross-cultural conversations	2
Books received	2
‘Muslim minorities’ in Kraków? Inter-relations between the Urban living spaces and the experience of spatial life of minority groups	2

Introduction: All quiet on the Eastern front? Recent dynamics in the governance of religion in post-communist Europe	1
Rethinking liberal multiculturalism: Foundations, practices and methodologies	1
Automated transcoloration? Skin tone classification algorithms and the prominence of non-epidermic features in the Mexican racial schema	1
Critical Tiriti Analysis: A prospective policy making tool from Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Evoking the resemblance: Descriptive representation of ethnic minorities	1
Moral economy and deservingness in immigration policies. The case of regularisations in Italy	1
Armenian-Americans and the semicentennial of the Medz Yeghern: Ethnic mobilization in action	1
Securing the right to assimilate: How the drafting of the genocide convention helped undermine language rights	1
Platform-conditioned anchoring: Rethinking acculturation through cross-platform digital practices among Polish migrants in Scotland	1
Berlin and Brandenburg as “laboratories” of Jewish-Muslim encounter	1
Colonial sovereignty and religious necropolitics: The sacred victimization of infidel Kurds in the Middle East	1
Awaiting the worst: Historical trauma and the inter-ethnic relationship between the Lemko minority and the Polish majority	1
What does Italianness stand for? The use of ethnic resources among Italian migrant entrepreneurs in Brussels	1
Race as Denegated Ethnicity: Why look for a unified concept of race?	1
Independence or a federation? Perceived discrimination as an antecedent of Anglophone Cameroonians’ attitude towards the form of state	1
He Rau Ringa: A Te Tiriti-led democratic imaginary for ethnic communities in Aotearoa	1
Steve Fenton [1942- 15 May 2025] - Tribute	1
Towards a theory of reparative multiculturalism	1
Competing external demoi and differential enfranchisement: The case of the 2022 Hungarian election	1
A targeted approach to multiculturalism: The case of the Roma minority in Europe	1
The importance of intercultural dialogue	1
‘It feels made up’: Post racialism and colorblind ideology within individual constructions of self identity	1
The policy of forgetting: Narratives that shaped the 2022 commemorations in Upper Silesia	1
Everyday nationalism in individualised political practices. Young left-wing Basque nationalists experiencing the nation in changing times	1
Discrimination and rights in German naturalization policy	1
Anishinaabek Giikendaaswin and Dùthchas nan Gàidheal: concepts to (re)center place-based knowledges, governance, and land in times of crisis	1
“Complexities of belonging: Compounded foreignness and racial cover among undocumented Central American youth”	1
Muslim youth collective amnesia of US government-inflicted violence against Muslims in the War on Terror	1
Nascent narratives of Armenian remembrance: The Armenian genocide reflected in the Armenian-American press	1
Introduction to special issue “visual governance in migration”	1
Immigration, ethnic diversity and public goods provisioning: Evidence from rural communities in Uganda	1
Why multiculturalism is good for women	1
Engaging with the public: Synergies between democracy and Indigenous Peoples’ rights	1
Exploring mediated representations of migrant domestic workers in the Chinese-language media in Hong Kong	1
The discourse of the Anthropocene and posthumanism: Mining-induced loss of traditional land and the Mongolian nomadic herders	1
Harsh punisher or loving mother? A critical discursive psychological analysis of Marine Le Pen’s presidential Twitter campaign	1
For a political conception of multicultural citizenship	1
Unravelling a new romance: Why emigrants support radical right populists	1
Securitization of the 2017 Kurdistan independence referendum	1
Towards multicultural memory: Struggles over a Muslim cemetery in post-Civil War Asturias, Spain	1
Everyday nationhood, diversity and talking about Canada	1
Te Tiriti o Waitangi: A partnership between races or commonwealth for democratic innovation	1
‘A tale of two cities’: Migration and resentment through the eyes of shopkeepers in lombardy	1