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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Motivation and Migration Trajectories of EU Citizens on the Move: Repeat and Multiple Migrants in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain	88
Population Geographies in China: Future Directions of Travel	88
Places and mechanisms of belonging and exclusion: Intra‐EU academic migration in a comparative perspective	78
Residential mobility in Hong Kong 1991–2016: Demographics, policies and housing market dynamics	53
Farming Technologies, Migration and Left‐Behind Women in China: A Socio‐Technical Perspective	49
Mobility as Capital: A ‘Three‐Step’ Education Pathway of Chinese Transnational Migrant Families in Zimbabwe	38
The narratives of new rural residents in the configuration of the peri‐urban area: From circumstancial constraints to openness	32
The School Transition Estimation and Projection (STEP) model: A flexible framework for analysing and projecting school enrolments	29
Contributions of Residential and Income Mobility in Different Life Stages to Increasing Low‐Income Rates in Suburban Neighbourhoods	26
Cross‐border marriages in pre‐ and post‐handover Hong Kong	22
Who stays in their birthplace? The role of multigenerational local ties in young adults' staying behaviour	20
Entrepreneurial Back‐to‐Landers: How Neo‐Farmers in Turkey Choose Where to Settle	18
Residential Relocations and Housing Changes Among Immigrants and Their Descendants: An Analysis of Longitudinal Register Data From France	16
Residential segregation by nationalities: A global and multilevel approach to Barcelona and Madrid (2008–2018)	15
International students' socioeconomic affluence and staying likelihood	14
Exploring rural futures through spatial‐temporal migration balance changes in a North‐Caucasian rural basin	14
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Ethnic context and fertility differential in post‐Soviet Kazakhstan	14
Diplomat and International Worker Mobilities: A Family Lens on Power Dynamics	13
Beyond the Country of Origin and the Receiving Society: Differentiated Place Attachments and Homes Among Dominican Immigrants in the Netherlands	13
Spatial Inequalities in the Completeness of Under Five Deaths: Assessing Vital Registration Data in Türkiye	13
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The wellbeing turn: A necessary consideration in international student mobility	13
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	12

Exploring the Nexus Between Life Satisfaction and Institutional Trust: Evidence From Italian and Foreign Citizens	12
Borders and the Spatial Diffusion of Family Changes: An Analysis of Non‐marital Births in the French‐Belgian Border Region (1968–2017)	12
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
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Country context, race and wages: A comparative analysis of Ethiopian immigrant labour market integration in the United States and Israel	11
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Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China	11
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Unraveling the Enigma: Exploring the Impact of Migration Trajectories on Stable Settlement Intention Among Chinese Migrants	10
Economic Conditions, Education and Parity‐Specific Fertility: A Sub‐National Regional Study Across 15 Countries in Europe	10
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Internal mobility of international migrants in Europe: A critical literature review and research agenda	10
Linguistic capital and social inequalities: Experiences of international Chinese students in Germany	9
Migrants' choices pertaining to informal childcare in Italy and France: A complex relationship between the origin and destination countries	9
Does International Mobility Pay Off? Comparing Labour Market Success of Recent German Remigrants and the German Stayer Population	9
Identifying the employment effect of county‐city merger in China	9
Childhood internal migration in Europe: Developments across cohorts and countries	9
Trends in internal migration in Japan, 2012–2020: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
The impact of the new trend of urban‐to‐urban migration on fertility behaviors	8
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Older Parent–Child Relations in Remote Areas: New Insights on Intergenerational Ties and Support Networks in Italy	8
Determinants of Regional Disparities in Older Adult – Child Coresidence in China	8
Postmemory and Emotion of the 1989 Romanian Revolution Among Y and Z Generations	8
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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
From Flux to Capital: Distinguishing Patterns of Income and Wealth Segregation in the Netherlands	8
Mediating Proximate Care in Transnational Families in Sweden and the UK: Language Practices and Institutional Processes	8
The average effectiveness of local migration exchanges	8
The Spatial Determinants of Academic Aspirations: Evidence From Sweden	8
Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda	8
A Transnational Lens to Investigate Late‐Life Chinese Immigrants' Daily Challenges and Information Practices in New Zealand	7
Regional inequalities in life expectancy and lifespan variation by educational attainment in Spain, 2014–2018	7
Childhood neighbourhoods and life‐time fertility in twentieth‐century Southern Sweden: A k‐nearest neighbour approach	7
The Employment Landscape of Older Migrant Workers in China's Aging Society: The Role of City‐Level and Industry Specialization	7
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Stability and change in China's geography of intercity migration: A network analysis	7
A biographical approach to understanding irregular Chinese migration to the United Kingdom	7
Transregional spouses, parents and children: How gender and family shape return migration in the French overseas	7
Individual and Spatial Determinants of Mortality During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: The Case of Belgium in 2020	7
International and internal migration and the subjective wellbeing of wives left behind in Ghana	7
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on ethnically diverse communities	7
Immigration, spatial inequality and place attractiveness	7
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Does migration improve the quality of life? The case of Swedish immigrants residing in Portugal	7
An Inclusive Economy Classification of British Local Authority Districts and Assessment of Its Association With Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation	7
Drivers of Return Plans Among Ukrainian War Refugees in Czechia: Challenging Common Assumptions and Refining the Theory	7
Mapping Halal Economies in the City: Migrant Infrastructures and Cultural Food Adequacy in Lisbon	7

Address‐ Versus Postcode‐Based Building Blocks for the Creation of Small Area Statistical Geographies: Some Lessons From the 1911 British Population Census	6
Influences of origin and destination on migrant fertility in Europe	6
Classical Gentrification in a Formerly Working‐Class Neighbourhood: Karlín as a Forerunner of Inner‐City Migration Trends in Prague	6
Moving up and down the urban hierarchy: Age‐specific internal migration patterns in Japan based on the 2020 census	6
Away from home and excluded from local solidarity networks: Undocumented Afghan migrant men in Istanbul	6
The relationship between migration and the Big Five personality traits: Evidence from probability‐based samples	6
A String of Pearls: The Horizontally‐Networked Immigrant Enclave in NYC	6
Aging, (un)certainty and HIV management in South Africa	6
Parental migration, children and family reunification in China	6
The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural‐urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966−2018	6
Involuntary resettlement outcomes following the regeneration of informal communities: The case of Baishizhou urbanizing village in Shenzhen, China	6
Understanding Residential Mobility in Urban China: A Comparative Analysis of Hukou Residents and Temporary Migrants in Shanghai	6
Evaluating Housing Policy Effects on Childbirth Intentions in South Korea: Preferences, Benefits, and Policy Implications	6
Gender Attitudes, Inequality and Migration Decision‐Making	6
Spatial poverty dynamics and social mobility in rural America	6
China's place attractivity, population mobility and its mechanisms: Perspectives from a full spectrum of spatial analyses	6
An Extension of Migration Effectiveness Indices: Accounting for the Impact of Migration on Population Structure	6
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Between the inclusion and exclusion of immigrants in a peripheral European country: Housing inequality in Portugal	6
The Resilience of the Interprovincial Population Mobility Network in China? Spatial Reorganization under the Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	6
Population decline and public attitudes toward multicultural immigration policies in South Korea	6
Comparative Advantage, Multidimensional Proximity and Labour Return Migration: Evidence From Induced Whole Networks	6
Beyond destinations: Environmental perception and village attachment among stayers, outmigrants and returnees in rural China	6
Placing Migration: Towards More‐Than‐Relational Geographical Migration Studies	6
Lifestyle migrants as Eliasian ‘outsiders’: The case of Swedish emigrants to Portugal	6
Life‐course trajectories and spatial segregation in older age	5
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Migrating Together or Leaving Behind: The Impact of Migrants' Early Urban Migration on Their Children	5
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
What Drives the Settlement of Highly Educated Talents in China? A Social Integration Perspective	5
Infrastructuring arrival and homemaking in COVID‐19 times: Experiences of newcomer Chinese students in Dutch cities	5
Understanding patterns of internal migration during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Spain	5
Settlement Intention of New Immigrants in Shanghai, China: The Role of Residential, Employment and Social Support and Urban Resource Interaction	5
Not going out during the Covid‐19 pandemic? A multilevel geographical analysis of UK Google Mobility Reports, February 2020–December 2021	5
Life in Rural Spain as an Immigrant Domestic Care Worker: Diverse Testimonies From Teruel	5
Redefining family structures: Births out of wedlock in 21st century Greece	5
The migrant perspective: Measuring migrants' movements and interests using geolocated tweets	5
From Masculinisation to Feminisation of Metropolitan Areas: The Changing Impact of Internal Migration on Regional Sex Ratios in Japan	5
Correction to “From Flux to Capital: Distinguishing Patterns of Income and Wealth Segregation in the Netherlands”	5
Does the Development Level of the Origin Country of International Students Influence Where They Enrol? A Case Study of the Netherlands	5
Internal migration in the time of Covid: Who moves out of the inner city of Stockholm and where do they go?	5
Intergenerational Care in Local, Long‐Distance, and Transnational Families: The Role of Geographical Distance and Cross‐Border Separation on Subjective Care Burden	5
Urban residence as a driver of wealth differentials: New evidence from Norway	5
China's provincial optimum population sizes under SSP‐RCP scenarios	5
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The impact of the L'Aquila earthquake on demographic changes	5
Social bonding strategies in the context of retirement migration to nonmetropolitan areas in the United States—Insights from Michigan and North Carolina	5
Get out of life on the edge: The role of urban public health services on migrants’ social integration in China	5
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Changes in mixed ethnicity households and neighbourhood transitions in England and Wales	5
Interaction of ancestry and agency: Challenges, constraints and options for second‐generation Albanian youth relocating from Greece	5
Age‐distributed composition of the Indigenous population in Australia	4
Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and COVID‐19 in Nanjing, China	4
Introducing the role of the municipality of residence in studying the secondary migration of international migrants. Evidence from Lombardy (Italy)	4
Israeli‐Jewish immigrants in Germany: An assessment of the destination‐language acquisition model and the role of Holocaust memory	4
Regional Differences in the Chance to Become a Centenarian in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Dutch Birth Cohorts	4
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Migration Infrastructure, Digital Connectivity and Porous Borders: Vietnamese Migration to Australia	4
From strict socialism to social evils: Changing childhoods over three generations in urban Vietnam	4
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Subjective well‐being and school outcomes among children of immigrants and natives in Italy	4
Beyond brokering for recruitment: Education agents in Armenia	4
Union formation of the children of immigrants: Does the ethnic composition of the childhood neighbourhood matter?	4
Educational Spaces and Student Mobility: Transiting the Peripheries of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area	4
Parenting in place: Young children's living arrangement and migrants' sleep health in South Africa	4
Does Urban Regeneration Lead to Gentrification? An Empirical Analysis Based on Big Data	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
How Do Summer Temperatures Affect Domestic Migrants' Settlement Intention? Evidence From China	4
Decoding Migration Capability: (Im)Mobility Decision‐Making in the Ukrainian Population	4
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Status Precarity, Ontological Insecurity and the Wellbeing of Children in Families With Precarious Immigration Status in Scotland	4
Experiences of Losing and Re‐Establishing a ‘Sense of Place’: Insights From Forced Resettlement in Myanmar	4
Patterns and Motivations of Intra‐Urban Residential Mobility in a Southern European Metropolis. The Case of Filipino Migrants in Rome	4
Emerging in‐migration of urban young adults engaging in rural tourism in China	4
Are younger adults becoming less residentially mobile? A decomposition analysis of British trends, 1997–2019	4
International graduates on temporary post‐graduation visas in Australia: Employment experiences and outcomes	4
Changing patterns and determinants of China's interprovincial migration: Evidence from the 2020 census	4