OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Attenuated Governance in Australia’s Offshore Immigration Detention Regime: How Financial Mismanagement Can Achieve Government Goals	32
Following AENEAS’ Route: Unpacking Two Decades of Migration-Related Measures in EU Development Funds	28
Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Toward a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation	23
Efforts in Mainstreaming Gender into Uganda’s Refugee Settlement Policy Approach	18
Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event	18
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19	17
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception	13
Thy Neighbor’s Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization	12
Asset Building among U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents: The Role of Initial Legal Status	12
The Intimate Lives of Left-Behind Young Adults in the Philippines: Social Media, Gendered Intimacies, and Transnational Parenting	10
Correction	10
The Local Solidarity Network in the Reception of Female Ukrainian Refugees’ Influx of 2022	10
Social Navigation of Asylum Seekers: Journeying through Host/Transit Countries amid Changing Political Conditions	10
Differentiated Integration Among the Stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Camps	10
Introduction to Special Issue: Gender, Migration and Digital Communication in Asia	8
“ Immigrant Invasions to the South American Tiger ”: Immigration Representations in Chilean Newspapers (1991–2001)	8
What Do Social Media Users in Host Countries Talk about Refugees?: A Thematic Analysis of Rohingya-Related Online Discourse	8
Construction of Fear of the Other as an Electoral Strategy in European Politics: The Case of France and Sweden	8
Does Canada’s Express Entry System Meet the Challenges of the Labor Market?	8
Financing Externalisation: The Role That EU Funds Play in Shaping the Turkish Asylum and Migration Policies	8
TheDisplacement Economies Framework	8
Fields of Play: Refuge(e)s in Youth Multiculturalism on the Fringes of Melbourne	8
Sustainability and Resilience in Migration Governance for a Post-pandemic World	7
Agency as Capabilities: Ambivalent Processes of (Dis)Empowerment Among Latin American Female Domestic Workers in Andalusia, Spain	7
Refugees’ Contributions to Resettlement and the Challenges They Face: A Capability Approach to Resettlement Practice	7

Ambazonian Separatist Movement in Cameroon and the Dialectics of Cameroonian Refugee Crisis in Nigeria	7
A Strategy Typology: Unearthing How U.S.-Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits Contribute to Immigrant Inclusion Outcomes	7
Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel: Traumatic Experience, Social Contacts with Eritreans and Israelis, Psychological Well-Being, and Sociocultural Adaptation	7
‘Still Stood Adamant and Strong to Chase My Dream’ : Sense of Identity and Resilience among Hazara Youth following Childhood Experiences of Forced Migration	7
Determinants of Refugees’ Identification with Country of Origin and Host Country and Their Naturalization Intentions: Evidence from Germany	7
The Well-Being of Forced Migrants in Finland: A Capabilities Approach-Based Examination	6
Framing Migration and Migrants Through Border Crises: The Case of Ceuta and Melilla	6
Crafting Individual Resilience Through Social Capital in Times of Conflict: A Qualitative Study on Ukrainian Refugees in Germany	6
Family Functioning and the Psychological Wellbeing of Refugee-Background Youth in Australia	6
The Bordering Practices of Canadian Newspapers (2011-2022): “Canada is the Hope of the World”	6
Transferring Skills but Not Progressing: Labour Market Trajectories of intra-European West-to-West Movers	6
The Effect of Bilateral Agreements on Migrant Workers in the Construction Industry in Israel	6
Exploring the Joint Role of Outgroup Identification and Empathic Concern in Reducing Perceived Immigrant Threat and Motivating Pro-Immigrant Collective Action	6
Pretending to be Domestic Workers to be ‘Legal’. Uneven Performances of Deservingness Within Italy’s Labour Migration Regime	6
An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India	5
Host Communities and Elderly Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Discourse of Conflict and Peaceful Co-Existence	5
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	5
Immigrant Work and the Production of Italian Agrifood: The Variants of Subordinate Integration	5
Selectivity in Migration Governance in the South American Mercosur: Selecting-by-Origin, Selecting-by-Merit, or Not Selecting at All?	5
The Battleground of Migration Politics in Prague Amid the (Poly)Crisis	5
Vicarious Impacts of Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Integrative Review	5
Transnational or Not: COVID Pandemic and Chinese Academic Migrants	5
Protestant Churches’ Space-Sharing with Immigrant Congregations	5
Rethinking Migration Studies for 2050	5
Safeguarding Through Exit: How Security Governance Relates to the Surge of Asylum Seekers	5
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’	5
Dispositional Gratitude Trajectories of Syrian Origin Young Adults in the Netherlands	5
Support Services for Immigrant and Refugee Women of Color Domestic Violence Survivors: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Barriers	4
The Causes and Consequences of Administrative Burdens in the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program	4
Migration Governance Through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives	4
Refugees and (Im)Migrants: (Re)Conceptualizing and (Re)Contextualizing Migration in the Media	4
From Funding to Financing: Complementary Pathways, Refugee Finance and the Emergence of the Refugee Entrepreneur	4
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid	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
National Register of Citizens Assam, India: The Tangled Logic of Documentary Evidence	4
Considerations for a New Research Agenda on Migration and Refugee Studies: Lessons from Studying Migration and Foreign Policies in Mexico	4
Migration Crisis Revisited: Our Approach to a “Joker Card” Concept	4
Mobility of Unaccompanied Foreign Minors in the Strait of Gibraltar: An Approach Based on Organized Crime	4
Continuity and Change in Immigration Regimes: An Institutionalist Analysis of Italian Labor Immigration Regulations 1990–2020	4
Desi but Liberal Men : Pakistani Brides Navigating Marriage, Migration and Integration Between Family and State	4
Managing Migration Through Foreign Aid in Mexico and Central America: The Role of U.S. Conditionality on Mexico’s Migration Policies	4
Restrictive North versus Permissive South? Revisiting Dominant Narratives on the Evolution of the Refugee Regime	4
Migration Management and Responsibility Sharing with Afghanistan Through EU Funding?	4
Applying the CARIN Criteria to Migrant Settlement: Cross-National Validation of the Migrant Deservingness Scale	4
Examining Determinants of Employers’ Attitudes toward Hiring Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey	4
No Hope for the ‘Foreigners’: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa	4
Personal Social Networks of Recent Refugees in Germany: Does Family Matter?	4
Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas	4
“It Has Been a Breath of Fresh Air” Participants’ Perception of the Impact of Self-Reliance Intervention Among Urban Refugees	4
Responding to Increasing Health and Social Needs of Unprotected Unaccompanied Minors in Paris in the Context of COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Case Study	4

The Cruel Optimism of Work Permits: Vulnerabilities and Deportability Among Rejected Asylum-Seekers and International Students Pursuing Track Changes in Sweden	4
Supporting Refugee Education in Regional Australian Areas with Underdeveloped Arrival Infrastructures: Towards the Concept of Education Pioneer Migrants	3
Expanding the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies: Refugee Protection, Regularization, and Naturalization in Latin America	3
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”	3
The Migration Decision-Making Process Among Ukrainian Refugees: Different Contexts of Reception	3
Making Do as a Migrant in Morocco: Between Formal Recognition and True Integration	3
Exploring Factors Related to the Development and Implementation of a Local Intervention Program for Syrian Refugee Children	3
“We Are the Real, Original Refugees”: The Dynamic Nature of Processes of Vietnamese Refugees’ Self-Conceptualization	3
What does Intermarriage Say about Immigrant Integration in Japan? The Maintenance of a National and Gender Hierarchy through Marriage Norms	3
Integration Refugees and Host Communities Through Sport: Case Study of a Women’s Football Tournament in Uganda	3
“Even When the Sun Shines There, It Does Not Warm You”: Examining Experiences of Return Migrant Women to Kosova	3
Waiting in Motion. Migrants’ Involvement in Civil Society Organizations While Pursuing a Migration Project	3
Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows	3
“At Least, at the Border, I Am Killing Myself by My Own Will”: Migration Aspirations and Risk Perceptions among Syrian and Afghan Communities	3
Unpacking Food and Housing Insecurity: A Study of Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Canada	3
Protracted Exile and Active Pariahdom: Turkey’s Kurdish Refugees in Rome	3
Constrained Localism in an Authoritarian Environment: Developments in Solidarity With Displaced Ukrainians in Hungary	3
Improving Financial Inclusion Through Understanding the Credit Preferences of Immigrants	3
Personal Recognition Strategies of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in The Netherlands	3
Potential and Limits of Municipal Solidarity with Refugees: A Case Study of the Greek Island of Tilos	2
Negotiated Identity: A Study of Bangladeshi Migrants in Eastern India	2
Practices of ‘Digital Homing’ and Gendered Reproduction among Older Sinhalese and Karen Migrants in Australia	2
Responsiveness of Local Politicians to Immigrants Does Not Vary Systematically by Voting Rights	2
Fraudulent Families? Investigating the Role of Paperwork in the Assessment of Refugees’ Family Reunification in Belgium	2
“Violence is Everywhere.” How Semi-Permeable Borders Facilitate Transnational Perpetration of Structural, Symbolic and Interpersonal Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	2
Scapegoating Human Smugglers: How Migrants’ Accounts Challenge the EU’s Dominant Narrative	2
Making the Match: Understanding the Destining Process of Government-Assisted Refugees in Canada	2
Identity Negotiation amongst Pakistani Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers Living in Bangkok	2
“Life is Stuck in a Hole”: An Intersectional Understanding of Rohingya Adolescent Girls’ Vulnerabilities in Bangladeshi Camps	2
Migration Policy Liberalization in Response to an Exogenous Crisis. The Case of Italy’s Regularization of Immigrant Workers Amidst the Covid19 Pandemic	2
The Utilisation of Preventive Health Services among Migrants in Italy	2
Employment, Precarious Employment, and Unemployment Among Female Immigrant Youth in the United States	2
Limits of Activation? Street-Level Responses to the 2015 Refugee Challenge in German Job Centers	2
COVID-19 and Sanctions Affecting Afghans in Iran	2
Fleeing Ukraine: The Forced Migration Journeys of Black African Students	2
Syria, the Homeland. Feeling at Home in Rotterdam? The Multiple Feelings of Belonging of Resettled Syrian-Born Youngsters with a Refugee Background	2
Layered Confinement in Reception Centers—A Study of Asylum Seekers’ Experiences in Finland	2
A Creeping Crisis of Migration Management? Institutional Responses and Implications for “Access” at the EU’s Physical, Legal, and Social Borders	2
Weathering the Storm: Nonprofit Resilience and Resistance in Response to the Refugee “Crisis”	2
Regulatory (Mal)Integration: Its Implications for Migrant Workers’ Ability to Access Employment Rights in Indonesia	2
How Do Migrants Fare in the Irish Labor Market? Country of Origin, Gender, Asylum and Ethnicity Effects	2
Deservingness Perceptions Toward Refugees: A Gender Perspective	2
Anti-Immigrant Attitudes: The Role of Casual Intergroup Contact in Perceived Group Threat	2
The Integration Resources of Refugees and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the City of Vienna	2
“I Turned to Things That Mean More to Me”: Unpacking the Activist Trajectories of Syrians in Oslo	2
Linguistic Enclaves, Sorting, and Language Skills of Immigrants	2
The Professional Life of Social Workers Working in the Refugee Field in Greece	2
Crafting a Transnational Partnership Amidst a Protracted Displacement Crisis: The R4V Platform in Latin America	2
“Will They Take my Child?”: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Protection Among Families of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds Living in South Australia	1
Unpacking the Integration Paradox: The Impact of Muslim Religion, Destination Context, and Personal Characteristics on Perceived Group Discrimination	1
Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Ghana: Does Xenophobia Matter?	1
Resilience and Sustainability in the Gulf Migration Regimes: Kafāla in the Era of Covid-19	1
From Displacement to New Community: Social Convoys, Environmental Contexts, and Needs of Older Montagnard and Nepali-Speaking Bhutanese Refugees	1
Introduction: The Politics of the Migrant/Refugee Binary	1
Should Canada Pay for Refugee Healthcare? A Social Justice Analysis of the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP)	1
Does Migration Lead to Acculturation of Gender-Related Attitudes? Gender Stereotypes, Perceived Gender Inequality, and Support for Collective Actions Toward Gender Equality	1
Can Rights Discourse Diminish Support for Displaced Persons?	1
Framing of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Politics: An Analysis of Turkish Grand National Assembly Debates	1
Understanding Participation Experiences in Sport Programs for the Acculturation of Refugee Youth: A Comparative Study of Two Different Programs in the US and Sweden	1
“Labor Migrants”, “High-Skilled Migrants”, “Students”, “Refugees”, “French Citizens”? Migrants’ Narratives and Experiences of Categorization in a Biographical and Historical Perspective	1
Unsettling Resettlement: Examining Local Dynamics of Refugee Integration in the United States Amid National Policy Change	1
Welcoming Neighbourhoods: Place Attachment and Ethno-Racial Acceptance	1
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric on TikTok in the Wake of Child Deaths in South Africa in 2023	1
From Crisis to Clinics The Rise of Refugee Law Clinics in Germany from 2013 to 2016	1
Gender Gaps in Immigrants’ Political Participation within and across Borders: Political Socialization or Opportunity Structures?	1
National Goal Trends: Understanding the Goals of U.S. Immigrant Organizations	1
Urban Citizenship During a Protracted Crisis: Syrian Refugees’ Access to Rights and Services in Izmir, Turkey	1
Structural and Intercultural Factors to Health Outcomes and Healthcare Access among Migrant Women in Spain and Greece: A Grounded Theory Approach	1
Exclusion as Default: The Legal and Policy Dynamics Around the Production of Irregular Migration in The Netherlands	1
Why Refugees Go to Different Countries: A Comparison of Perception and Motivation of Ukrainians in Norway and Bulgaria	1
Well Informed? EU Governments’ Digital Information Campaigns for (Potential) Migrants	1
From Aspiration to Participation? Understanding Why Syrian Women Who Want to Work, Do Not	1
Refugee Identity and Integration in Germany during the European “Migration Crisis”: Why Local Community Support Matters, and Why Policy Gets It Wrong	1
Camp-Life and Social Integration: Case of the Displaced Biharis in Khulna, Bangladesh	1
The Visual Governance of Canadian Migration Agencies	1
Beyond the Queue: The Sources and Politics of Migration Backlogs in Canada and Australia	1
Repression Without Compassion: Forced Migration Governance at the EU’s Southern Frontier	1
Questioning the Meaning of Place in Extended Exile: The Cases of the Balata and Jenin Refugee Camps	1
Living in Limbo: The Experiences of People Seeking Asylum in Australia	1
When Return Orders Are More than Just a Deportation Receipt: Transit Migration and Socio-legal Meanings of Administrative Documents	1