Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception30
Not Slaves Enough: On the Trivialization of Systemic Migrant Labor Exploitation in Tuscany, Italy24
Attenuated Governance in Australia’s Offshore Immigration Detention Regime: How Financial Mismanagement Can Achieve Government Goals20
A Distant Threat Made Local? The Carry-over Effect of Perceived Threat from Asylum Seekers in Europe to Israeli Local Outgroups19
Following AENEAS’ Route: Unpacking Two Decades of Migration-Related Measures in EU Development Funds19
Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event16
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-1912
Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Toward a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation11
The Local Solidarity Network in the Reception of Female Ukrainian Refugees’ Influx of 202211
Policy Experts Negotiating Popular Fantasies of ‘Benefit Tourism’ Policy Discourses on Deservingness and Their Relation to Welfare Chauvinism11
Thy Neighbor’s Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization10
Differentiated Integration Among the Stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Camps10
Violence Here and Violence There: How Compound Violence Drives Undocumented Mexicans’ Migration to and Settlement in the United States10
Correction9
The Intimate Lives of Left-Behind Young Adults in the Philippines: Social Media, Gendered Intimacies, and Transnational Parenting9
Asset Building among U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents: The Role of Initial Legal Status8
Social Navigation of Asylum Seekers: Journeying through Host/Transit Countries amid Changing Political Conditions8
Mediating Discourses of Displacement in the Literacy Practices of Refugees and Humanitarian Actors in Jordan, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey8
Return Aspirations of Syrian Refugees in Turkey8
Financing Externalisation: The Role That EU Funds Play in Shaping the Turkish Asylum and Migration Policies8
Does Canada’s Express Entry System Meet the Challenges of the Labor Market?7
Immigrant Invasions to the South American Tiger ”: Immigration Representations in Chilean Newspapers (1991–2001)7
Introduction to Special Issue: Gender, Migration and Digital Communication in Asia7
What Do Social Media Users in Host Countries Talk about Refugees?: A Thematic Analysis of Rohingya-Related Online Discourse7
Paradoxes of Migration Policy Rescaling-Local Migration Policies in Tel Aviv in Times of Restrictionism7
Fields of Play: Refuge(e)s in Youth Multiculturalism on the Fringes of Melbourne7
The Role of Stable Security in Resettled Refugees’ Sense of Wellbeing7
Ambazonian Separatist Movement in Cameroon and the Dialectics of Cameroonian Refugee Crisis in Nigeria6
Responding to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ or Shaping the ‘Refugee Crisis’? Subnational Migration Policymaking as a Cause and Effect of Turbulence6
The Effect of Bilateral Agreements on Migrant Workers in the Construction Industry in Israel6
Crafting Individual Resilience Through Social Capital in Times of Conflict: A Qualitative Study on Ukrainian Refugees in Germany6
Sustainability and Resilience in Migration Governance for a Post-pandemic World6
A Strategy Typology: Unearthing How U.S.-Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits Contribute to Immigrant Inclusion Outcomes6
Family Functioning and the Psychological Wellbeing of Refugee-Background Youth in Australia6
Temporary Shelter: Venezuelan Migrants and the Uncertainty of Waiting in Colombia6
TheDisplacement Economies Framework6
‘Still Stood Adamant and Strong to Chase My Dream’ : Sense of Identity and Resilience among Hazara Youth following Childhood Experiences of Forced Migration6
Welfare-Dependent Refugees?: Evidence from County Welfare Management System Data in Western New York6
Host Communities and Elderly Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Discourse of Conflict and Peaceful Co-Existence5
Rethinking Migration Studies for 20505
Vicarious Impacts of Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Integrative Review5
Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel: Traumatic Experience, Social Contacts with Eritreans and Israelis, Psychological Well-Being, and Sociocultural Adaptation5
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, Minnesota5
An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India5
Safeguarding Through Exit: How Security Governance Relates to the Surge of Asylum Seekers5
The Bordering Practices of Canadian Newspapers (2011-2022): “Canada is the Hope of the World”5
Tracing Invisibility as a Colonial Project: Indigenous Women Who Seek Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border5
The Mediating Role of Binding Moral Foundations and Perceived Realistic and Symbolic Threats on the Relationship between Need for Cognitive Closure and Prejudice against Migrants5
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’5
Restrictive North versus Permissive South? Revisiting Dominant Narratives on the Evolution of the Refugee Regime4
Desi but Liberal Men : Pakistani Brides Navigating Marriage, Migration and Integration Between Family and State4
Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees4
“How Can I Trust People When They Know Exactly What My Weakness Is?” Daily Life Experiences, and Resilience Strategies of Stateless Afghans in Iran4
Transnational or Not: COVID Pandemic and Chinese Academic Migrants4
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid4
Continuity and Change in Immigration Regimes: An Institutionalist Analysis of Italian Labor Immigration Regulations 1990–20204
Personal Social Networks of Recent Refugees in Germany: Does Family Matter?4
Continuity and Social Support: A Longitudinal Study of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Care Networks4
Protestant Churches’ Space-Sharing with Immigrant Congregations4
Immigrant Work and the Production of Italian Agrifood: The Variants of Subordinate Integration4
Roomies for Life? An Assessment of How Staying with a Local Facilitates Refugee Integration4
From Funding to Financing: Complementary Pathways, Refugee Finance and the Emergence of the Refugee Entrepreneur4
Refugees and (Im)Migrants: (Re)Conceptualizing and (Re)Contextualizing Migration in the Media4
Migration Management and Responsibility Sharing with Afghanistan Through EU Funding?4
Managing Migration Through Foreign Aid in Mexico and Central America: The Role of U.S. Conditionality on Mexico’s Migration Policies4
Selectivity in Migration Governance in the South American Mercosur: Selecting-by-Origin, Selecting-by-Merit, or Not Selecting at All?4
Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas4
Migration Governance Through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives4
Responding to Increasing Health and Social Needs of Unprotected Unaccompanied Minors in Paris in the Context of COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Case Study4
The Causes and Consequences of Administrative Burdens in the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program3
No Hope for the ‘Foreigners’: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa3
Applying the CARIN Criteria to Migrant Settlement: Cross-National Validation of the Migrant Deservingness Scale3
Exploring Factors Related to the Development and Implementation of a Local Intervention Program for Syrian Refugee Children3
Making Do as a Migrant in Morocco: Between Formal Recognition and True Integration3
Support Services for Immigrant and Refugee Women of Color Domestic Violence Survivors: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Barriers3
National Register of Citizens Assam, India: The Tangled Logic of Documentary Evidence3
Examining Determinants of Employers’ Attitudes toward Hiring Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey3
Visitor Visa Policy Changes and Mexico-Canada Migration3
Considerations for a New Research Agenda on Migration and Refugee Studies: Lessons from Studying Migration and Foreign Policies in Mexico3
“At Least, at the Border, I Am Killing Myself by My Own Will”: Migration Aspirations and Risk Perceptions among Syrian and Afghan Communities3
Comparing Liberal and Conservative Newspapers: Diverging Narratives in Representing Migrants?3
Personal Recognition Strategies of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in The Netherlands3
Voting Behavior of Immigrants and Their Children in Sweden3
The Cruel Optimism of Work Permits: Vulnerabilities and Deportability Among Rejected Asylum-Seekers and International Students Pursuing Track Changes in Sweden3
Waiting in Motion. Migrants’ Involvement in Civil Society Organizations While Pursuing a Migration Project3
Improving Financial Inclusion Through Understanding the Credit Preferences of Immigrants3
Practicing Law in Administrative Detention for Syrian Refugees in Turkey3
Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows3
Refugee Students’ Transition from Higher Education to Employment: Setting a Research Agenda3
Unpacking Food and Housing Insecurity: A Study of Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Canada2
Regulatory (Mal)Integration: Its Implications for Migrant Workers’ Ability to Access Employment Rights in Indonesia2
Marriage and belonging among South Sudanese Acholi refugees in New Zealand2
Weathering the Storm: Nonprofit Resilience and Resistance in Response to the Refugee “Crisis”2
Toward Street-Level Communities of Practice? The Implications of Actor Diversification in Migration Management in Athens and Berlin2
Deservingness Perceptions Toward Refugees: A Gender Perspective2
The Migration Decision-Making Process Among Ukrainian Refugees: Different Contexts of Reception2
What does Intermarriage Say about Immigrant Integration in Japan? The Maintenance of a National and Gender Hierarchy through Marriage Norms2
“We Are the Real, Original Refugees”: The Dynamic Nature of Processes of Vietnamese Refugees’ Self-Conceptualization2
The Housing Experiences of Syrian Refugee Youth in the United States2
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”2
Potential and Limits of Municipal Solidarity with Refugees: A Case Study of the Greek Island of Tilos2
The Integration Resources of Refugees and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the City of Vienna2
“Life is Stuck in a Hole”: An Intersectional Understanding of Rohingya Adolescent Girls’ Vulnerabilities in Bangladeshi Camps2
Negotiated Identity: A Study of Bangladeshi Migrants in Eastern India2
How Do Migrants Fare in the Irish Labor Market? Country of Origin, Gender, Asylum and Ethnicity Effects2
Practices of ‘Digital Homing’ and Gendered Reproduction among Older Sinhalese and Karen Migrants in Australia2
Resettlement Factors Associated with Subjective Well-Being among Refugees in Australia: Findings from a Service Evaluation2
Multi-Level Governance and Sanctuary Cities: The Case of Liège (Belgium) and Undocumented Migrants2
“Even When the Sun Shines There, It Does Not Warm You”: Examining Experiences of Return Migrant Women to Kosova2
The Utilisation of Preventive Health Services among Migrants in Italy2
Governance of Refugee Children Protection in Turkey: Between Vulnerability and Paternalism2
Responsiveness of Local Politicians to Immigrants Does Not Vary Systematically by Voting Rights2
Limits of Activation? Street-Level Responses to the 2015 Refugee Challenge in German Job Centers2
Employment, Precarious Employment, and Unemployment Among Female Immigrant Youth in the United States2
Syrian Refugees between Turkish Nationalism and Citizenship2
Protracted Exile and Active Pariahdom: Turkey’s Kurdish Refugees in Rome2
Expanding the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies: Refugee Protection, Regularization, and Naturalization in Latin America2
Understanding Participation Experiences in Sport Programs for the Acculturation of Refugee Youth: A Comparative Study of Two Different Programs in the US and Sweden1
Repression Without Compassion: Forced Migration Governance at the EU’s Southern Frontier1
“Labor Migrants”, “High-Skilled Migrants”, “Students”, “Refugees”, “French Citizens”? Migrants’ Narratives and Experiences of Categorization in a Biographical and Historical Perspective1
Life Satisfaction and Psychological Distress of African Immigrants in Italy and Spain: The Protective Role of Social Support and Sense of Community1
Searching for the ‘Chilean Oasis’: Waiting and Uncertainty in the Migration Trajectories of Venezuelan Women1
Should Canada Pay for Refugee Healthcare? A Social Justice Analysis of the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP)1
Welcoming Neighbourhoods: Place Attachment and Ethno-Racial Acceptance1
The Visual Governance of Canadian Migration Agencies1
COVID-19 and Sanctions Affecting Afghans in Iran1
When Return Orders Are More than Just a Deportation Receipt: Transit Migration and Socio-legal Meanings of Administrative Documents1
(De)Constructing Credibility: Examining the Power of Childhood in Unaccompanied Refugee Decision-Making1
Questioning the Meaning of Place in Extended Exile: The Cases of the Balata and Jenin Refugee Camps1
Linguistic Enclaves, Sorting, and Language Skills of Immigrants1
Layered Confinement in Reception Centers—A Study of Asylum Seekers’ Experiences in Finland1
Well Informed? EU Governments’ Digital Information Campaigns for (Potential) Migrants1
Anti-Immigrant Attitudes: The Role of Casual Intergroup Contact in Perceived Group Threat1
Gender Gaps in Immigrants’ Political Participation within and across Borders: Political Socialization or Opportunity Structures?1
The Face of Immigration: Photographic Portrayals of Immigrants in News Photographs1
Framing of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Politics: An Analysis of Turkish Grand National Assembly Debates1
Unsettling Resettlement: Examining Local Dynamics of Refugee Integration in the United States Amid National Policy Change1
Can Rights Discourse Diminish Support for Displaced Persons?1
Refugee Identity and Integration in Germany during the European “Migration Crisis”: Why Local Community Support Matters, and Why Policy Gets It Wrong1
Structural and Intercultural Factors to Health Outcomes and Healthcare Access among Migrant Women in Spain and Greece: A Grounded Theory Approach1
Discretion-as-Politics in Immigration Processes: The Case of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the US1
Politics of Subsidiarity in Refugee Reception: The Case of Civil Society in Turkey1
Identity Negotiation amongst Pakistani Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers Living in Bangkok1
“I Turned to Things That Mean More to Me”: Unpacking the Activist Trajectories of Syrians in Oslo1
The Professional Life of Social Workers Working in the Refugee Field in Greece1
Fleeing Ukraine: The Forced Migration Journeys of Black African Students1
“Will They Take my Child?”: Perceptions and Experiences of Child Protection Among Families of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds Living in South Australia1
Beyond the Queue: The Sources and Politics of Migration Backlogs in Canada and Australia1
The Emergence of New Street-Level Bureaucracies in Italy’s Asylum Reception System1
Integration as Making Place1
Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Ghana: Does Xenophobia Matter?1
Camp-Life and Social Integration: Case of the Displaced Biharis in Khulna, Bangladesh1
Fraudulent Families? Investigating the Role of Paperwork in the Assessment of Refugees’ Family Reunification in Belgium1
Living in Limbo: The Experiences of People Seeking Asylum in Australia1
Syria, the Homeland. Feeling at Home in Rotterdam? The Multiple Feelings of Belonging of Resettled Syrian-Born Youngsters with a Refugee Background1
Resilience and Sustainability in the Gulf Migration Regimes: Kafāla in the Era of Covid-191
“Violence is Everywhere.” How Semi-Permeable Borders Facilitate Transnational Perpetration of Structural, Symbolic and Interpersonal Sexual and Gender-Based Violence1
Making the Match: Understanding the Destining Process of Government-Assisted Refugees in Canada1
Stuck in Reception: How Refugees in Austria and Germany Experience Long-Term Reception Constellations1
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