OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies is 2. 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
Boundary Regimes and the Gendered Racialized Production of Muslim Masculinities: Cases from Canada and Germany	22
Humanitarian Help and Refugees: De-Bordering Solidarity as a Contentious Issue	18
Return Aspirations of Syrian Refugees in Turkey	16
Syrian Refugees between Turkish Nationalism and Citizenship	15
Introduction: The Politics of the Migrant/Refugee Binary	13
We Are Aging Too! Exploring the Social Impact of Late-Life Migration among Older Immigrants in the United States	12
Sustainability and Resilience in Migration Governance for a Post-pandemic World	11
Methodological Innovation in Research: Participatory Theater with Migrant Families on Conflicts and Transformations over the Politics of Belonging	11
Practices of ‘Digital Homing’ and Gendered Reproduction among Older Sinhalese and Karen Migrants in Australia	11
Ethnic Majority Attitudes toward Jewish and Non-Jewish Migrants in Israel: The Role of Perceptions of Threat, Collective Vulnerability, and Human Values	11
A Scoping Review of Social Support Interventions with Refugees in Resettlement Contexts: Implications for Practice and Applied Research	11
Continuity and Social Support: A Longitudinal Study of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Care Networks	11
Politics of Subsidiarity in Refugee Reception: Comparative Perspectives	10
Politics of Subsidiarity in Refugee Reception: The Case of Civil Society in Turkey	10
Child Marriage among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: At the Gendered Intersection of Poverty, Immigration, and Safety	9
“It’s about Building a Network of Support”: Australian Service Provider Experiences Supporting Refugee Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	8
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception	8
News Framing of the Rohingya Crisis: Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage from Four Countries	8
Comparing Liberal and Conservative Newspapers: Diverging Narratives in Representing Migrants?	8
Roomies for Life? An Assessment of How Staying with a Local Facilitates Refugee Integration	7
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Opposition to Democracy in Europe	7
Life Satisfaction and Psychological Distress of African Immigrants in Italy and Spain: The Protective Role of Social Support and Sense of Community	7
Women Refugees’ Media Usage: Overcoming Information Precarity in Germany	7
Theorizing the Life and Death of Moments of Openness toward Refugees in the Global North: The Case of Germany during the 2015–2016 Refugee “Crisis”	7
Temporary Shelter: Venezuelan Migrants and the Uncertainty of Waiting in Colombia	7

Tracing Invisibility as a Colonial Project: Indigenous Women Who Seek Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border	6
Insights from Immigrant and Refugee Youth on Resilience through Sport Participation during Adaption to a New Country	6
Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees	6
Policy Experts Negotiating Popular Fantasies of ‘Benefit Tourism’ Policy Discourses on Deservingness and Their Relation to Welfare Chauvinism	6
Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Using Meaning-Based Coping Strategies: Voices of Somali, Karen and Latinx Immigrant and Refugee Communities in the Twin Cities, Minnesota	6
Thy Neighbor’s Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization	6
“At Least, at the Border, I Am Killing Myself by My Own Will”: Migration Aspirations and Risk Perceptions among Syrian and Afghan Communities	6
Who Should Be Given an Opportunity to Live in Slovakia? A Conjoint Experiment on Immigration Preferences	6
From Fragility to Empowerment through Philanthropy: The Filipino Labor Migrant Community in Israel During COVID-19	6
The Intimate Lives of Left-Behind Young Adults in the Philippines: Social Media, Gendered Intimacies, and Transnational Parenting	6
Integration as Making Place	6
Multi-Level Governance and Sanctuary Cities: The Case of Liège (Belgium) and Undocumented Migrants	5
Using Moral Foundations to Assess Stereotypes: Americans’ Perceptions of Immigrants and Refugees	5
About but not without: Recently Arrived Refugees’ Understanding of and Expectations for Integration within a Local Policy Context in the Netherlands	5
Conceptualization of Health and Social Vulnerability of Marginalized Populations During Covid-19 Using Quantitative Scoring Approach	5
Visitor Visa Policy Changes and Mexico-Canada Migration	4
Voting Behavior of Immigrants and Their Children in Sweden	4
African Youth Gangs: The Marginalization of South Sudanese Young People in Melbourne, Australia	4
Of Rags and Riches in the Caribbean: Creolizing Migration Studies	4
A Distant Threat Made Local? The Carry-over Effect of Perceived Threat from Asylum Seekers in Europe to Israeli Local Outgroups	4
No Hope for the ‘Foreigners’: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa	4
Resilience and Sustainability in the Gulf Migration Regimes: Kafāla in the Era of Covid-19	4
Responding to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ or Shaping the ‘Refugee Crisis’? Subnational Migration Policymaking as a Cause and Effect of Turbulence	4
“How Can I Trust People When They Know Exactly What My Weakness Is?” Daily Life Experiences, and Resilience Strategies of Stateless Afghans in Iran	4
Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows	4
Nodes of Marginality: Identity, Displacement and Migration in the Post-Partition Borderlands of Kashmir	4
Governance of Refugee Children Protection in Turkey: Between Vulnerability and Paternalism	4
Searching for the ‘Chilean Oasis’: Waiting and Uncertainty in the Migration Trajectories of Venezuelan Women	4
“ Immigrant Invasions to the South American Tiger ”: Immigration Representations in Chilean Newspapers (1991–2001)	4
Expanding the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies: Refugee Protection, Regularization, and Naturalization in Latin America	4
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19	4
When Return Orders Are More than Just a Deportation Receipt: Transit Migration and Socio-legal Meanings of Administrative Documents	4
“What I Can’t Change I Don’t See”: How Cultural Minorities Perceive Their Media Representations—Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel as a Case Study	3
The Integration Resources of Refugees and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the City of Vienna	3
Regulatory (Mal)Integration: Its Implications for Migrant Workers’ Ability to Access Employment Rights in Indonesia	3
The Well-Being of Undocumented Migrants in The Netherlands: Learning about Post-Migration Experiences	3
The Contemporary Labor Market Integration of Vietnamese Refugees in Canada	3
Public Community Work in Neighborhoods with Both Citizen and Asylum-Seeking Residents: South Tel Aviv as a Study Case	3
Making the Match: Understanding the Destining Process of Government-Assisted Refugees in Canada	3
Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Toward a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation	3
Practicing Law in Administrative Detention for Syrian Refugees in Turkey	3
Applying the CARIN Criteria to Migrant Settlement: Cross-National Validation of the Migrant Deservingness Scale	3
Employment Prospects of Humanitarian Migrants in Australia: Does Gender Inequality in the Origin Country Matter?	3
Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel: Traumatic Experience, Social Contacts with Eritreans and Israelis, Psychological Well-Being, and Sociocultural Adaptation	3
Labor-Market Integration Projects Targeting Refugee Women in Germany: How Organizations With Different Inequality Regimes Negotiate Economic Integration	3
The Role of Stable Security in Resettled Refugees’ Sense of Wellbeing	3
Talent Migration Governance and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Germany and Singapore	3
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid	3
Our Sisters and Daughters: Pakistani Hindu Migrant Masculinities and Digital Claims to Indian Citizenship	3
The Emergence of New Street-Level Bureaucracies in Italy’s Asylum Reception System	3

The Future of Health Care Work and the Place of Migrant Workers within It: Internationally Educated Nurses in Ontario Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Ambiguous Loss for Cambodian American Deportees and Their Families	3
Classificatory Struggles Revisited: Theorizing Current Conflicts over Migration, Belonging and Membership	3
Well Informed? EU Governments’ Digital Information Campaigns for (Potential) Migrants	3
Does Canada’s Express Entry System Meet the Challenges of the Labor Market?	3
Violence Here and Violence There: How Compound Violence Drives Undocumented Mexicans’ Migration to and Settlement in the United States	3
Older Congolese Refugees’ Resettlement Challenges in the U.S.: A Bioecological Convoy Model	3
Personal Recognition Strategies of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in The Netherlands	3
The Mediating Role of Binding Moral Foundations and Perceived Realistic and Symbolic Threats on the Relationship between Need for Cognitive Closure and Prejudice against Migrants	3
(De)Constructing Credibility: Examining the Power of Childhood in Unaccompanied Refugee Decision-Making	2
Vicarious Impacts of Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Integrative Review	2
Evaluation of Eltern-Aktiv – A Culture-Sensitive Parenting Program for Refugee Families in Germany	2
“Aggressive Refugees, Violent Hooligans, Concerned Citizens”: Reinterpreting Multiple Processes of Difference-Making in Mediatizations of Migration and Conflict in East Germany in the German Media	2
Emplacing Some, Displacing Others: Ethnic Minority Enterprises as Critical Urban Infrastructure in Lodge Lane, Liverpool	2
Ambazonian Separatist Movement in Cameroon and the Dialectics of Cameroonian Refugee Crisis in Nigeria	2
Personal Social Networks of Recent Refugees in Germany: Does Family Matter?	2
Refugee Identity and Integration in Germany during the European “Migration Crisis”: Why Local Community Support Matters, and Why Policy Gets It Wrong	2
The Temporalities of Refugee Activism: Mutating Meanings and Visibility While Remembering Resistance and Claiming Place at Oranienplatz	2
COVID-19 and Sanctions Affecting Afghans in Iran	2
“Through Social Contact We’ll Integrate:” Refugee Perspectives on Integration Post-Resettlement	2
Making Do as a Migrant in Morocco: Between Formal Recognition and True Integration	2
An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India	2
Stuck in Reception: How Refugees in Austria and Germany Experience Long-Term Reception Constellations	2
Living in Limbo: The Experiences of People Seeking Asylum in Australia	2
Twenty-First Century “New” Greek Transnational Migration to Canada	2
Adjustment after Forced Migration and Resettlement: Perspectives of Refugee Service Providers and Community Leaders	2
Contrasting Trajectories of Incorporation: Refugee Integration and the Global South	2
Ethnic Majority Attitudes toward Jewish and Non-Jewish Migrants in Israel: The Role of Perceptions of Threat, Collective Vulnerability, and Human Values	2
Restrictive North versus Permissive South? Revisiting Dominant Narratives on the Evolution of the Refugee Regime	2
What does Intermarriage Say about Immigrant Integration in Japan? The Maintenance of a National and Gender Hierarchy through Marriage Norms	2
The ‘Local Turn’ and Everyday Integration. The Pakistani Middle-Class Migrants in Dubai	2
Linguistic Enclaves, Sorting, and Language Skills of Immigrants	2
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’	2
The Impact of Post-Migration Factors on Posttraumatic Stress and Depressive Symptoms among Asylum Seekers in the United States	2
Toward Street-Level Communities of Practice? The Implications of Actor Diversification in Migration Management in Athens and Berlin	2
‘I Couldn’t Figure Out What to Do’: Salvadorean Asylum Seekers Facing the Uncertainties of the 2020 Italian Amnesty	2
The Integration of LGBTI Refugees in Brazil: Sexual Democracies in the South, Processes of Racialization and Shared Precarities	2
Refugee Students’ Transition from Higher Education to Employment: Setting a Research Agenda	2
Responding to Increasing Health and Social Needs of Unprotected Unaccompanied Minors in Paris in the Context of COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Case Study	2
Paradoxes of Migration Policy Rescaling-Local Migration Policies in Tel Aviv in Times of Restrictionism	2
“I Fight, I Don’t Give up Hope”: Resilience and Life Satisfaction among Syrian Refugee University Students in Turkey	2
Reconstructing a Sense of Safety among Resettled Refugee Survivors of Torture: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study	2
Examining Political Parties’ Record on Refugees and Asylum Seekers in UK Party Manifestos 1964–2019: The Rise of Territorial Approaches to Welfare?	2
Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event	2
“I Turned to Things That Mean More to Me”: Unpacking the Activist Trajectories of Syrians in Oslo	2