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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Fleeting joy, divergent expectations and reconfigured intimacies: The visits home of Filipino migrant care workers in Singapore	39
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One ocean one temple: Alternative Chinese temple networks in Southeast Asia	34
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Young Europeans in Brexit Britain: Unsettling identities	24
‘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	23
Digital technological upgrading in manufacturing global value chains: The impact of additive manufacturing	22
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration: Online attitudes towards Westerners and the west in China	20
Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the Role of Information Communication Technologies. Edited by Maria C.Marchetti‐Mercer, LeslieSwartz and LorettaBaldassar. Wits University Press.	19
Diaspora Voices Explored: Introducing a Representative Claims Framework to Analyse the Tibetan Diaspora Network Online	19
Resilience Against All Odds: How Refugee Women From Ukraine Find Courage Through Transnational Families	19
From cosmopolitan convergences to situated religious cosmopolitanism: The early spread of the Bahá’í Faith in Singapore and Malaya (1950–1975)	19
Work as affective care: Visiting parents’ experiences of paid work abroad	19
Reactive Transnationalism and the Ascent of Donald Trump: Evidence From the Latino Immigrant National Election Survey	19
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Of home‐comings and home‐scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home	15
How do emerging market suppliers reshape the governance of global value chains? Evidence from China	15
Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas	13
Donating to the fight for democracy: The connective activism of overseas Hong Kongers and Taiwanese in the 2019 Anti‐extradition bill movement	13
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Who runs the show in digitalized manufacturing? Data, digital platforms and the restructuring of global value chains	13
The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Transnational Aging Experience of Older Hong Kongers	13
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Commentary: East Asian Educational Migration as Narrative Quests	12
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Digitally Mobile Swedes and Their Experiences: A Contribution to the De‐Exceptionalization of Migrants	10
A configurational approach to transnational families: Who and where is one's family in the case of mobile older adults?	10
The distribution of national urban hierarchies of connectivity within global city networks	9
Circuits of architecture and urban planning: Professional ethos and the internationalization of small architectural offices	9
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‘Pragmatists’ and ‘Rebels’: Ambivalent Success Frames of Chinese International Secondary School Graduates in the United States	9
Visiting here, there, and somewhere: Multi‐locality and the geographies of transnational family visiting	9
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain	8
The globalization of production, national labour regulations and income inequality in the global North and South, 1980–2013	8
Theorizing Transnational Class Formation: Novel Approaches to the Study of Transnational Inequalities and Class‐Making	8
Migration as International Relations	8
Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn	8
City networks and the multi‐level governance of migration	8
Navigating Stepwise Lifestyle Mobilities via the Global South: Japanese Migrant Families’ Negotiation of Educational and Lifestyle Aspirations in Malaysia	7
Doing and Displaying Transnational Grandchildhood: Immigrant Children in Poland	7
Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion	7
The Cultivation of Transnational Cultural Capital in Childhood: Experiences of Chinese Global Multiple Migrants	7
Childhood, Migration and the Pursuit of Happiness in MIDDLE‐CLASS EAST ASIA	7
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An international turn: Rebuilding Chinese temple networks in Indonesia 20 years after the Suharto era	7
Power and inequality in global value chains: Advancing the research agenda	7
Highly skilled (re‐)migrants in multinational enterprises: Facilitators of cross‐border knowledge transfers	6
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‘Implicit’ remittances in family relationships: The case of Bangladeshis in Italy and beyond	6
A network analysis of international migration: Longitudinal trends and antecedent factors predicting migration	6
Diaspora governance and religion: The (re)production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora	6
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Overcoming the mobility bias in transnational entrepreneurship	6
Home visits, holy visits: Diasporic pilgrimage to the ‘Holy Land’ amongst Palestinian–Jordanian Christians from Amman	6
Power in consensus: Legitimacy, global value chains and inequality in telecommunications standard‐setting	6
Mapping the structure and dynamics of global high‐tech aerospace trade	6
French city networking: Drivers and rationale for national investment	5
Visiting ‘home’: Considering diasporic practices through assemblage dynamics	5
The Welfare System in the Face of War Refugees From Ukraine: The Experience of Social Workers in Poland	5
On not ‘being there’: Making sense of the potent urge for physical proximity in transnational families at the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
How universities facilitate city network socialization through knowledge exchange on immigrant integration	5
Changed Reality, Changed Positions: The Case Study of Eritrean Women Refugees in Times of Global Pandemic	5
A cautionary tale: Bazaar trade and limitations to growth in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan	5
‘I Kiss the Screen, But It Is Not the Same’ — Grandparenting in Geographically Dispersed Families	5
Structural factors affecting global trends towards isolationism and expansionism – A BERGM analysis	5
Transnational life and cross‐border immobility in pandemic times	5
Extraordinary everydayness: Young people's affective engagements with the country of origin through digital media and transnational mobility	5
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Ageing, migration infrastructure and multi‐generational care dynamics in transnational families	4
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Glocal Capitalist Class: How Same‐Nation Interlocks Facilitate Transnational Corporate Political Unity in Global Environmental Politics	4
Navigating labels, seeking recognition for victimhood: Diaspora activism after mass‐atrocities	4
Middle‐aged migrants: Expanding an understanding of lifecourses and linked lives	4
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The transformation of UK Chilean diaspora space: new Chilean migrants and encounters across time	4

‘I Slashed My Mom's Car Tires So We Wouldn't Have to Go Back to Germany’: (Non)Belonging and Mobility Among Descendants of Poles in Germany	4
Navigating Displacement: The Intertemporal Migration and Settlement Experiences of Ukrainians in Latvia	4
Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration	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
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks	3
Variegated forms of corporate capture: The state, MNCs, and the dark side of strategic coupling	3
‘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	3
Uncertainties of Temporary Protection: Forcibly Displaced People From Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
(Un)folding places with care: Migrant caregivers ‘dwelling‐in‐folds’	3
Visiting migrants: An introduction	3
Local migrant kin or floating grandmother? Reflections on mobility and informal childcare support strategies among Polish migrants in Ireland	3
Where is the backbone of the transnational corporate elite?	3
Exploring the imprint of the institutional context on the urban network in China: Comparative analyses between corporate‐based networks with different ownership structures	3
Navigating Displacement: The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis in Europe	3
Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors	2
Assessing the efficiency and vulnerability of global liner shipping network	2
European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue	2
Intra‐company transfers: The government/corporate interface in the United Kingdom	2
Watching them grow: Intergenerational video‐calling among transnational families in the age of smartphones	2
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Unpacking intercity competitive relations in the global corporate spatial organization of manufacturing	2
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Property investment and the making of the ambivalent elective Polish diaspora in Israel	2
How cosmopolitan capital shapes the valuation of international credentials: A comparative analysis across cities in China and the United Arab Emirates	2
Conceptualizing transnational disappearances: Polish missing abroad and the governance of the search	2
Exiled Scholars and New Organizational Strategies in Academic Humanitarianism in Europe in the Aftermath of the Syrian War	2
Calling multinational enterprises to account: CSOs, supranational institutions and business practices in the global south	2
Overcoming interruptions in educational trajectories: Youth in Ghana with international migrant parents	2
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Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective	2
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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	2
Reconciling emotional caregiving and self‐fulfilment: Peruvian migrants in Switzerland supporting parents in Peru	2
The transnational engagement of Afghan diaspora organizations: Drivers of diaspora specialization	2
The construction, composition and rationale of immigrants’ network: The support strategies of Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto, Canada	1
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Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy	1
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‘Sometimes, men cannot do what women can’: Pacific labour mobility, gender norms and social reproduction	1
Queer processes of Hong Kong as a global formation post‐2019: LGBTIQ+ Hong Kong migrants and their experiences in Taiwan	1
Transnational families: The experiences of Polish stayers from a lifelong perspective	1
The Role of Regional Demand in Pathways of Agro‐Industrialization: Evidence From Small Maize Milling Firms in Tanzania	1
Are larger cities more central in urban networks: A meta‐analysis	1
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Framing the Muslim subject, contesting the secular citizen: Tablighi Jamaat and the (trans)nationalization of Islam in Singapore	1
COVID‐19, (im)mobilities and blockages: Re‐thinking mobilities of migrant women in Northern Ireland	1
Rethinking the dynamic of global production networks: Integrate the influence of suppliers and towards a flexible strategy making causal mechanism	1
Merchants and missionaries: Chinese evangelical networks and the transnational resacralization of European urban spaces	1
Home virtuality and the platformized life of Chinese international students in the United Kingdom	1
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Cross‐border expansion of digital platforms and transformation of the trade and distribution networks of imported fresh fruits from Southeast Asia to China	1
How do Japanese and Chinese view each other? Understanding the meaning of low‐context culture in intercultural communication	1
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A Network of Networks: Building Resilience in the Globalised Era	1
Where Did the Global Elite Go to School? Hierarchy, Harvard, Home and Hegemony	1
Quod vadis? The effect of youth unemployment and demographic pressure on migration in the MENA region	1
Impact of Covid‐19 pandemic on the transnationalization of LGBT* activism in Japan and beyond	1
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