OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Population Space and Place is 4. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Motivation and Migration Trajectories of EU Citizens on the Move: Repeat and Multiple Migrants in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain	87
Population Geographies in China: Future Directions of Travel	85
Places and mechanisms of belonging and exclusion: Intra‐EU academic migration in a comparative perspective	76
Residential mobility in Hong Kong 1991–2016: Demographics, policies and housing market dynamics	52
Farming Technologies, Migration and Left‐Behind Women in China: A Socio‐Technical Perspective	45
Mobility as Capital: A ‘Three‐Step’ Education Pathway of Chinese Transnational Migrant Families in Zimbabwe	36
The narratives of new rural residents in the configuration of the peri‐urban area: From circumstancial constraints to openness	33
The School Transition Estimation and Projection (STEP) model: A flexible framework for analysing and projecting school enrolments	32
Contributions of Residential and Income Mobility in Different Life Stages to Increasing Low‐Income Rates in Suburban Neighbourhoods	31
Entrepreneurial Back‐to‐Landers: How Neo‐Farmers in Turkey Choose Where to Settle	28
Residential segregation by nationalities: A global and multilevel approach to Barcelona and Madrid (2008–2018)	26
Cross‐border marriages in pre‐ and post‐handover Hong Kong	24
Residential Relocations and Housing Changes Among Immigrants and Their Descendants: An Analysis of Longitudinal Register Data From France	22
Who stays in their birthplace? The role of multigenerational local ties in young adults' staying behaviour	19
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International students' socioeconomic affluence and staying likelihood	16
Ethnic context and fertility differential in post‐Soviet Kazakhstan	15
Exploring rural futures through spatial‐temporal migration balance changes in a North‐Caucasian rural basin	15
The wellbeing turn: A necessary consideration in international student mobility	14
Beyond the Country of Origin and the Receiving Society: Differentiated Place Attachments and Homes Among Dominican Immigrants in the Netherlands	14
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The Refugee Integration Industry: Stakeholder Power, Market Logic, and the (De)Humanisation of Refugee Labour	13
Urban‐Rural Transformations and Fertility Decline in China: A Distinctive Perspective Within the Second Demographic Transition	13
Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China	13
Spatial Inequalities in the Completeness of Under Five Deaths: Assessing Vital Registration Data in Türkiye	13

Who Stays in Rural Areas? Understanding Gender Differences in Location Decisions Among Millennials in the United States	12
Recentring Intimacy in Hopping (Im)mobilities of Academic Precarity	12
The Income Returns of Moving for Work: Does Distance Matter?	12
Place Attachment and Habitus in a City and Its Suburbs—The Case of Immigrants in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts	12
Exploring the Nexus Between Life Satisfaction and Institutional Trust: Evidence From Italian and Foreign Citizens	12
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Borders and the Spatial Diffusion of Family Changes: An Analysis of Non‐marital Births in the French‐Belgian Border Region (1968–2017)	12
Diplomat and International Worker Mobilities: A Family Lens on Power Dynamics	12
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Childhood internal migration in Europe: Developments across cohorts and countries	11
Country context, race and wages: A comparative analysis of Ethiopian immigrant labour market integration in the United States and Israel	11
Identifying the employment effect of county‐city merger in China	11
Trends in internal migration in Japan, 2012–2020: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
Unraveling the Enigma: Exploring the Impact of Migration Trajectories on Stable Settlement Intention Among Chinese Migrants	10
Migrants' choices pertaining to informal childcare in Italy and France: A complex relationship between the origin and destination countries	10
The impact of the new trend of urban‐to‐urban migration on fertility behaviors	10
Does International Mobility Pay Off? Comparing Labour Market Success of Recent German Remigrants and the German Stayer Population	10
Linguistic capital and social inequalities: Experiences of international Chinese students in Germany	10
Regional inequalities in life expectancy and lifespan variation by educational attainment in Spain, 2014–2018	9
From Flux to Capital: Distinguishing Patterns of Income and Wealth Segregation in the Netherlands	9
Internal mobility of international migrants in Europe: A critical literature review and research agenda	9
Economic Conditions, Education and Parity‐Specific Fertility: A Sub‐National Regional Study Across 15 Countries in Europe	9
Mediating Proximate Care in Transnational Families in Sweden and the UK: Language Practices and Institutional Processes	9
Older Parent–Child Relations in Remote Areas: New Insights on Intergenerational Ties and Support Networks in Italy	9
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Corrections to “Determinants of Enforced Return: A Quantitative Analysis of the Spectrum of (In)voluntariness Among Rejected Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands”	8
The average effectiveness of local migration exchanges	8
The Employment Landscape of Older Migrant Workers in China's Aging Society: The Role of City‐Level and Industry Specialization	8
Opting out of neighbourhood schools: The role of local education markets in student mobility	8
Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda	8
Transregional spouses, parents and children: How gender and family shape return migration in the French overseas	8
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Aging, (un)certainty and HIV management in South Africa	7
Gender Attitudes, Inequality and Migration Decision‐Making	7
Childhood neighbourhoods and life‐time fertility in twentieth‐century Southern Sweden: A k‐nearest neighbour approach	7
An Inclusive Economy Classification of British Local Authority Districts and Assessment of Its Association With Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation	7
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Mapping Halal Economies in the City: Migrant Infrastructures and Cultural Food Adequacy in Lisbon	7
Spatial poverty dynamics and social mobility in rural America	7
Beyond destinations: Environmental perception and village attachment among stayers, outmigrants and returnees in rural China	7
International and internal migration and the subjective wellbeing of wives left behind in Ghana	7
The Spatial Determinants of Academic Aspirations: Evidence From Sweden	7
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on ethnically diverse communities	7
Stability and change in China's geography of intercity migration: A network analysis	7
The relationship between migration and the Big Five personality traits: Evidence from probability‐based samples	7
Does migration improve the quality of life? The case of Swedish immigrants residing in Portugal	7
Individual and Spatial Determinants of Mortality During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: The Case of Belgium in 2020	7

Determinants of Regional Disparities in Older Adult – Child Coresidence in China	7
Parental migration, children and family reunification in China	6
Placing Migration: Towards More‐Than‐Relational Geographical Migration Studies	6
An Extension of Migration Effectiveness Indices: Accounting for the Impact of Migration on Population Structure	6
A biographical approach to understanding irregular Chinese migration to the United Kingdom	6
Comparative Advantage, Multidimensional Proximity and Labour Return Migration: Evidence From Induced Whole Networks	6
Between the inclusion and exclusion of immigrants in a peripheral European country: Housing inequality in Portugal	6
Redefining family structures: Births out of wedlock in 21st century Greece	6
The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural‐urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966−2018	6
Address‐ Versus Postcode‐Based Building Blocks for the Creation of Small Area Statistical Geographies: Some Lessons From the 1911 British Population Census	6
Urban residence as a driver of wealth differentials: New evidence from Norway	6
Destination‐to‐origin differences and settlement intentions of Chinese internal migrants: A birth cohort analysis	6
China's place attractivity, population mobility and its mechanisms: Perspectives from a full spectrum of spatial analyses	6
The Resilience of the Interprovincial Population Mobility Network in China? Spatial Reorganization under the Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	6
Away from home and excluded from local solidarity networks: Undocumented Afghan migrant men in Istanbul	6
A Transnational Lens to Investigate Late‐Life Chinese Immigrants' Daily Challenges and Information Practices in New Zealand	6
Moving up and down the urban hierarchy: Age‐specific internal migration patterns in Japan based on the 2020 census	6
Involuntary resettlement outcomes following the regeneration of informal communities: The case of Baishizhou urbanizing village in Shenzhen, China	6
Population decline and public attitudes toward multicultural immigration policies in South Korea	6
Evaluating Housing Policy Effects on Childbirth Intentions in South Korea: Preferences, Benefits, and Policy Implications	6
Understanding Residential Mobility in Urban China: A Comparative Analysis of Hukou Residents and Temporary Migrants in Shanghai	6
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A String of Pearls: The Horizontally‐Networked Immigrant Enclave in NYC	6
Classical Gentrification in a Formerly Working‐Class Neighbourhood: Karlín as a Forerunner of Inner‐City Migration Trends in Prague	6
Immigration, spatial inequality and place attractiveness	6
Lifestyle migrants as Eliasian ‘outsiders’: The case of Swedish emigrants to Portugal	6
Influences of origin and destination on migrant fertility in Europe	6
Life‐course trajectories and spatial segregation in older age	6
Enforced Transnationalism From an Ethics of Care Perspective: Barriers to Living ‘Care‐Filled Lives’ and Resistance Tactics Among ‘Forced’ Transnational Families in the UK	5
Social bonding strategies in the context of retirement migration to nonmetropolitan areas in the United States—Insights from Michigan and North Carolina	5
Interaction of ancestry and agency: Challenges, constraints and options for second‐generation Albanian youth relocating from Greece	5
China's provincial optimum population sizes under SSP‐RCP scenarios	5
Understanding patterns of internal migration during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Spain	5
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Infrastructuring arrival and homemaking in COVID‐19 times: Experiences of newcomer Chinese students in Dutch cities	5
Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and COVID‐19 in Nanjing, China	5
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Changes in mixed ethnicity households and neighbourhood transitions in England and Wales	5
Settlement Intention of New Immigrants in Shanghai, China: The Role of Residential, Employment and Social Support and Urban Resource Interaction	5
Does the Development Level of the Origin Country of International Students Influence Where They Enrol? A Case Study of the Netherlands	5
The impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on demographic changes	5
From Masculinisation to Feminisation of Metropolitan Areas: The Changing Impact of Internal Migration on Regional Sex Ratios in Japan	5
Beyond brokering for recruitment: Education agents in Armenia	5
Not going out during the Covid‐19 pandemic? A multilevel geographical analysis of UK Google Mobility Reports, February 2020–December 2021	5
Intergenerational Care in Local, Long‐Distance, and Transnational Families: The Role of Geographical Distance and Cross‐Border Separation on Subjective Care Burden	5
Internal migration in the time of Covid: Who moves out of the inner city of Stockholm and where do they go?	5
Life in Rural Spain as an Immigrant Domestic Care Worker: Diverse Testimonies From Teruel	5
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Union formation of the children of immigrants: Does the ethnic composition of the childhood neighbourhood matter?	4
From strict socialism to social evils: Changing childhoods over three generations in urban Vietnam	4
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Emerging in‐migration of urban young adults engaging in rural tourism in China	4
Migration Infrastructure, Digital Connectivity and Porous Borders: Vietnamese Migration to Australia	4
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The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets	4
Status Precarity, Ontological Insecurity and the Wellbeing of Children in Families With Precarious Immigration Status in Scotland	4
Decoding Migration Capability: (Im)Mobility Decision‐Making in the Ukrainian Population	4
What Drives the Settlement of Highly Educated Talents in China? A Social Integration Perspective	4
How Do Summer Temperatures Affect Domestic Migrants' Settlement Intention? Evidence From China	4
Changing Fertility Patterns in Poland: Urban, Suburban, and Rural Dimensions	4
Parenting in place: Young children's living arrangement and migrants' sleep health in South Africa	4
Re‐imagining belonging to Brazil: Active immobility in times of crisis	4
Are younger adults becoming less residentially mobile? A decomposition analysis of British trends, 1997–2019	4
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Time, temporality, and (im)mobility: Unpacking the temporal experiences among Chinese international students during the COVID‐19	4
Israeli‐Jewish immigrants in Germany: An assessment of the destination‐language acquisition model and the role of Holocaust memory	4
Migrating Together or Leaving Behind: The Impact of Migrants' Early Urban Migration on Their Children	4
Introducing the role of the municipality of residence in studying the secondary migration of international migrants. Evidence from Lombardy (Italy)	4
Changing patterns and determinants of China's interprovincial migration: Evidence from the 2020 census	4
Family structure of migrant workers and long‐term local settlement intention in China	4
Tell me who's your neighbour and I'll tell you how much time you've got: The spatiotemporal consequences of residential segregation	4
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International graduates on temporary post‐graduation visas in Australia: Employment experiences and outcomes	4
Age‐distributed composition of the Indigenous population in Australia	4
Experiences of Losing and Re‐Establishing a ‘Sense of Place’: Insights From Forced Resettlement in Myanmar	4
Subjective well‐being and school outcomes among children of immigrants and natives in Italy	4
Get out of life on the edge: The role of urban public health services on migrants’ social integration in China	4