OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception	30
Not Slaves Enough: On the Trivialization of Systemic Migrant Labor Exploitation in Tuscany, Italy	24
Attenuated Governance in Australia’s Offshore Immigration Detention Regime: How Financial Mismanagement Can Achieve Government Goals	20
Following AENEAS’ Route: Unpacking Two Decades of Migration-Related Measures in EU Development Funds	19
A Distant Threat Made Local? The Carry-over Effect of Perceived Threat from Asylum Seekers in Europe to Israeli Local Outgroups	19
Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event	16
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19	12
Policy Experts Negotiating Popular Fantasies of ‘Benefit Tourism’ Policy Discourses on Deservingness and Their Relation to Welfare Chauvinism	11
Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Toward a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation	11
The Local Solidarity Network in the Reception of Female Ukrainian Refugees’ Influx of 2022	11
Violence Here and Violence There: How Compound Violence Drives Undocumented Mexicans’ Migration to and Settlement in the United States	10
Thy Neighbor’s Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization	10
Differentiated Integration Among the Stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Camps	10
Correction	9
The Intimate Lives of Left-Behind Young Adults in the Philippines: Social Media, Gendered Intimacies, and Transnational Parenting	9
Return Aspirations of Syrian Refugees in Turkey	8
Financing Externalisation: The Role That EU Funds Play in Shaping the Turkish Asylum and Migration Policies	8
Asset Building among U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents: The Role of Initial Legal Status	8
Social Navigation of Asylum Seekers: Journeying through Host/Transit Countries amid Changing Political Conditions	8
Mediating Discourses of Displacement in the Literacy Practices of Refugees and Humanitarian Actors in Jordan, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey	8
What Do Social Media Users in Host Countries Talk about Refugees?: A Thematic Analysis of Rohingya-Related Online Discourse	7
Paradoxes of Migration Policy Rescaling-Local Migration Policies in Tel Aviv in Times of Restrictionism	7
Fields of Play: Refuge(e)s in Youth Multiculturalism on the Fringes of Melbourne	7
The Role of Stable Security in Resettled Refugees’ Sense of Wellbeing	7
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 Asia	7
Family Functioning and the Psychological Wellbeing of Refugee-Background Youth in Australia	6
Temporary Shelter: Venezuelan Migrants and the Uncertainty of Waiting in Colombia	6
TheDisplacement Economies Framework	6
‘Still Stood Adamant and Strong to Chase My Dream’ : Sense of Identity and Resilience among Hazara Youth following Childhood Experiences of Forced Migration	6
Welfare-Dependent Refugees?: Evidence from County Welfare Management System Data in Western New York	6
Ambazonian Separatist Movement in Cameroon and the Dialectics of Cameroonian Refugee Crisis in Nigeria	6
Responding to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ or Shaping the ‘Refugee Crisis’? Subnational Migration Policymaking as a Cause and Effect of Turbulence	6
The Effect of Bilateral Agreements on Migrant Workers in the Construction Industry in Israel	6
Crafting Individual Resilience Through Social Capital in Times of Conflict: A Qualitative Study on Ukrainian Refugees in Germany	6
Sustainability and Resilience in Migration Governance for a Post-pandemic World	6
A Strategy Typology: Unearthing How U.S.-Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits Contribute to Immigrant Inclusion Outcomes	6
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 Border	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
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’	5
Host Communities and Elderly Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Discourse of Conflict and Peaceful Co-Existence	5
Rethinking Migration Studies for 2050	5
Vicarious Impacts of Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Integrative Review	5
Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel: Traumatic Experience, Social Contacts with Eritreans and Israelis, Psychological Well-Being, and Sociocultural Adaptation	5
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	5
An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India	5
Safeguarding Through Exit: How Security Governance Relates to the Surge of Asylum Seekers	5
Immigrant Work and the Production of Italian Agrifood: The Variants of Subordinate Integration	4
Roomies for Life? An Assessment of How Staying with a Local Facilitates Refugee Integration	4
From Funding to Financing: Complementary Pathways, Refugee Finance and the Emergence of the Refugee Entrepreneur	4
Refugees and (Im)Migrants: (Re)Conceptualizing and (Re)Contextualizing Migration in the Media	4
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 Policies	4
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 Americas	4
Migration Governance Through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives	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
Restrictive North versus Permissive South? Revisiting Dominant Narratives on the Evolution of the Refugee Regime	4
Desi but Liberal Men : Pakistani Brides Navigating Marriage, Migration and Integration Between Family and State	4
Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees	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
Transnational or Not: COVID Pandemic and Chinese Academic Migrants	4
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid	4
Continuity and Change in Immigration Regimes: An Institutionalist Analysis of Italian Labor Immigration Regulations 1990–2020	4
Personal Social Networks of Recent Refugees in Germany: Does Family Matter?	4
Continuity and Social Support: A Longitudinal Study of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Care Networks	4
Protestant Churches’ Space-Sharing with Immigrant Congregations	4