OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A transnational lens into international student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic	54
The networked character of migration and transnationalism	28
Digital value chain restructuring and labour process transformations in the fast‐fashion sector: Evidence from the value chains of Zara & H&M	25
Qualitative network analysis for migration studies: Beyond metaphors and epistemological pitfalls	22
Not necessarily a place: How mobile transnational online workers (digital nomads) construct and experience ‘home’	18
Driving the digital value network: Economic geographies of global platform capitalism	18
Host state reactions to home state diaspora engagement policies: Rethinking state sovereignty and limits of diaspora governance	17
Global value chains for medical gloves during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Confronting forced labour through public procurement and crisis	17
The networked refugee: The role of transnational networks in the journeys across the Mediterranean	17
Global decisions versus local realities: Sustainability standards, priorities and upgrading dynamics in agricultural global production networks	16
How white is the global elite? An analysis of race, gender and network structure	15
Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas	15
Digital transformation and value chains: Introduction	15
Transnational life and cross‐border immobility in pandemic times	15
On not ‘being there’: Making sense of the potent urge for physical proximity in transnational families at the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic	14
Who runs the show in digitalized manufacturing? Data, digital platforms and the restructuring of global value chains	13
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks	13
Segmented pathways of educational mobility: English language schools, working holidays, and divergent prospects among South Korea's global youth	12
Platform ecology: A user‐centric and relational conceptualization of online platforms	12
Global networks of money and information at the crossroads: Correspondent banking and SWIFT	11
Personal network analysis from an intersectional perspective: How to overcome ethnicity bias in migration research	11
The evolution of structural resilience of global oil and gas resources trade network	11
Linking power and inequality in global value chains	10
Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy	9
Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration	9

Digital technological upgrading in manufacturing global value chains: The impact of additive manufacturing	9
City networks and the multi‐level governance of migration	9
Delineating the corporate elite: Inquiring the boundaries and composition of interlocking directorate networks	9
Cross‐border expansion of digital platforms and transformation of the trade and distribution networks of imported fresh fruits from Southeast Asia to China	8
Networking in contexts: qualitative social network analysis' insights into migration processes	8
Donating to the fight for democracy: The connective activism of overseas Hong Kongers and Taiwanese in the 2019 Anti‐extradition bill movement	8
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain	8
To see and be seen: Technological change and power in deforestation driving global value chains	8
The varying use of online supplier portals in auto parts‐automotive value chains and its implications for learning and upgrading: The case for the Mexican and Turkish suppliers	8
Internet and social media uses, digital divides, and digitally mediated transnationalism in forced migration: Syrians in Turkey	8
Deconstructing borders: Mobility strategies of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda	8
‘Implicit’ remittances in family relationships: The case of Bangladeshis in Italy and beyond	7
An international turn: Rebuilding Chinese temple networks in Indonesia 20 years after the Suharto era	7
Competing for seafaring labour: Social security and agency employment in Chinese shipping	7
European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue	7
New power configurations: City mobilization and policy change	7
Divergence of the world city system from national economies	6
Diaspora governance and religion: The (re)production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora	6
COVID‐19, (im)mobilities and blockages: Re‐thinking mobilities of migrant women in Northern Ireland	6
Networks do not float freely: (Dis)entangling the politics of Tamil diaspora inclusion in development governance	6
Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn	6
Of home‐comings and home‐scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home	6
Global human mobility and knowledge transfer: Highly skilled return migrants as agents of transnational learning	5
Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective	5
Mapping the national web: Spaces, cultures and borders of diasporic mobilization in the digital age	5
Where is the backbone of the transnational corporate elite?	5
Transnational lived citizenship turns local: Covid‐19 and Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora in Nairobi	5
Extraordinary everydayness: Young people's affective engagements with the country of origin through digital media and transnational mobility	5
How do emerging market suppliers reshape the governance of global value chains? Evidence from China	5
Local migrant kin or floating grandmother? Reflections on mobility and informal childcare support strategies among Polish migrants in Ireland	5
Home sweet home: Creating a sense of place in globally mobile working lives	5
Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam	5
Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors	5
Young Europeans in Brexit Britain: Unsettling identities	5
Scaling migration network governance? City networks and civil society in multilevel policymaking dynamics	4
Transnational families and return in the age of deportation: The case of indigenous Ecuadorian migrants	4
Variegated forms of corporate capture: The state, MNCs, and the dark side of strategic coupling	4
Migrants’ transnational social positioning strategies in the middle classes	4
Highly skilled (re‐)migrants in multinational enterprises: Facilitators of cross‐border knowledge transfers	4
The construction, composition and rationale of immigrants’ network: The support strategies of Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto, Canada	4
How universities facilitate city network socialization through knowledge exchange on immigrant integration	4
Labour market integration and transnational lived citizenship: Aspirations and belonging among refugees in Germany	4
The distribution of national urban hierarchies of connectivity within global city networks	3
Power in consensus: Legitimacy, global value chains and inequality in telecommunications standard‐setting	3
Merchants and missionaries: Chinese evangelical networks and the transnational resacralization of European urban spaces	3
Impact of Covid‐19 pandemic on the transnationalization of LGBT* activism in Japan and beyond	3
Navigating labels, seeking recognition for victimhood: Diaspora activism after mass‐atrocities	3
A cautionary tale: Bazaar trade and limitations to growth in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan	3
Covid‐19 and Global Networks: Reframing our understanding of globalization and transnationalism	3
Following the ‘hype’: The role of leisure practices during ‘homeland’ visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana	3

Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al‐Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the ‘global knowledge‐based economy’	3
Framing the Muslim subject, contesting the secular citizen: Tablighi Jamaat and the (trans)nationalization of Islam in Singapore	3
Ageing, migration infrastructure and multi‐generational care dynamics in transnational families	3
Assessing the efficiency and vulnerability of global liner shipping network	3
Labour or lifestyle? Understanding urban incorporation of European middling migrants	3
A post‐national EU diaspora? Political mobilization of EU citizens in the UK post‐Brexit	3
One ocean one temple: Alternative Chinese temple networks in Southeast Asia	3
‘A life path different from one of labour in the Gulf’: Ongoing mobility among Nepali labour migrants in Qatar and their families	3
Understanding the structures of transnational youth im/mobility: A qualitative network analysis	3
Migrant youth ‘between mobilities’: Sessility as a working concept	2
Global networks in national governance? Changes of professional expertise in Amazon environmental governance	2
Infrastructure of mobility: navigating borders, cities and markets	2
Overcoming interruptions in educational trajectories: Youth in Ghana with international migrant parents	2
Building, negotiating and sustaining transnational social networks: Narratives of international students’ migration decisions in Canada	2
How career hubs shape the global corporate elite	2
‘It's just a natural human thing to do, to go and visit your family… but it's not easy for us’: Gender and generation in Bangladeshis’ transnational visits between London and Sylhet	2
Home virtuality and the platformized life of Chinese international students in the United Kingdom	2
Re‐centring class‐making across borders at various durées: Translocational optic, coloniality of class theory and multi‐scalar capitalist dynamics	2
From local champions to global players: A long‐term perspective on Swiss companies’ connections across territorial scales	2
‘Reproduction mobility’ and motherhood construction: Chinese education migrants in Chiang Mai	2
Work as affective care: Visiting parents’ experiences of paid work abroad	2
Doing family: Nicaraguan transnational families’ narratives on motherhood	2
Ambivalent returns: Dhaqan celis and counter‐diasporic migration among second‐generation Somalis	2
Transnational families: The experiences of Polish stayers from a lifelong perspective	2
Visiting migrants: An introduction	2
Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion	2
Transnational halal networks: INHART and the Islamic cultural economy in Malaysia and beyond	2
Intra‐company transfers: The government/corporate interface in the United Kingdom	2
Transnationalism unstuck: Precarious work and the transnational geographies of failed migration of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore	2
Watching them grow: Intergenerational video‐calling among transnational families in the age of smartphones	2
Joined by remoteness: An exploratory comparison of regional board networks in Sweden	2
A network analysis of international migration: Longitudinal trends and antecedent factors predicting migration	2
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration: Online attitudes towards Westerners and the west in China	1
Not to Study, But to Experience: Parental Aspirations, Children's Happiness and Alternative Pathways to Going Global in South Korea	1
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Power and inequality in global value chains: Advancing the research agenda	1
The globalization of production, national labour regulations and income inequality in the global North and South, 1980–2013	1
Punjabi masculinities and transnational spaces: Performance, choice and othering	1
A configurational approach to transnational families: Who and where is one's family in the case of mobile older adults?	1
Are larger cities more central in urban networks: A meta‐analysis	1
Power and its sources in the governance of global value chains: The Argentina–European Union biodiesel value chain	1
Visiting ‘home’: Considering diasporic practices through assemblage dynamics	1
Reconciling emotional caregiving and self‐fulfilment: Peruvian migrants in Switzerland supporting parents in Peru	1
Overcoming the mobility bias in transnational entrepreneurship	1
‘We need the activists to be more entrepreneurial’: Global versus local modes of thought on the development of social enterprise support systems in transitioning economies	1
Middle‐aged migrants: Expanding an understanding of lifecourses and linked lives	1
The evolution of home‐state positions towards diaspora formation: Israel and its two diasporas	1
Transnational social positioning through a family lens: How cross‐border family relations shape subjective social positions in migration contexts	1
Beyond migration? Alternative articulations of transnational religious networks	1
Theorizing Transnational Class Formation: Novel Approaches to the Study of Transnational Inequalities and Class‐Making	1
Strategic coupling, cross‐scalar tension and local upgrading in the globalizing automotive industry in Guangzhou, China	1
Forced returns fuel anti‐Americanism: Evidence from U.S. deportations to Latin America	1
Structural factors affecting global trends towards isolationism and expansionism – A BERGM analysis	1
French city networking: Drivers and rationale for national investment	1
Regulators without borders? Latin American labour inspectors in transnational context	1
Unpacking intercity competitive relations in the global corporate spatial organization of manufacturing	1
Rethinking the dynamic of global production networks: Integrate the influence of suppliers and towards a flexible strategy making causal mechanism	1
Diaspora as socio‐material assemblage: Political agency in the Kurdish freedom movement's representations of homeland	1
Quod vadis? The effect of youth unemployment and demographic pressure on migration in the MENA region	1
From the Translocal to the Multi‐Sited Transnational: Tracing Rohingya Refugee Networks in India	1
Wangye practices online: From burning effigy vessels to digital networks	1
Property investment and the making of the ambivalent elective Polish diaspora in Israel	1
Nigerians in China: Health maintenance, circulation and everyday transnationalism in Guangdong Province	1
Language and symbolic boundaries among transnational elites: A qualitative case study of European Commission officials	1
Starting from Lagos: International schooling and the diverse transnational status‐making projects of ‘Middling’ and ‘Elite’ Nigerians	1
From cosmopolitan convergences to situated religious cosmopolitanism: The early spread of the Bahá’í Faith in Singapore and Malaya (1950–1975)	1
Education and the making of mobile livelihoods: Dubai Indian families’ trajectories over time and space	1