OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Vicarious Impacts of Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Integrative Review	18
Framing of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Politics: An Analysis of Turkish Grand National Assembly Debates	16
A Distant Threat Made Local? The Carry-over Effect of Perceived Threat from Asylum Seekers in Europe to Israeli Local Outgroups	15
Policy Experts Negotiating Popular Fantasies of ‘Benefit Tourism’ Policy Discourses on Deservingness and Their Relation to Welfare Chauvinism	13
A Rights-Based Approach to the Rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals	12
An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India	11
Comparing Liberal and Conservative Newspapers: Diverging Narratives in Representing Migrants?	11
“I Turned to Things That Mean More to Me”: Unpacking the Activist Trajectories of Syrians in Oslo	11
Safeguarding Through Exit: How Security Governance Relates to the Surge of Asylum Seekers	11
(De)Constructing Credibility: Examining the Power of Childhood in Unaccompanied Refugee Decision-Making	10
Practicing Law in Administrative Detention for Syrian Refugees in Turkey	10
Weakening Practices Amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19	8
Making Do as a Migrant in Morocco: Between Formal Recognition and True Integration	8
Integration as Making Place	8
Can Rights Discourse Diminish Support for Displaced Persons?	8
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’	8
Linguistic Enclaves, Sorting, and Language Skills of Immigrants	7
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	7
Not Slaves Enough: On the Trivialization of Systemic Migrant Labor Exploitation in Tuscany, Italy	7
Rapid Evolution of Refugee Policy in Poland: Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Focusing Event	7
The Emergence of New Street-Level Bureaucracies in Italy’s Asylum Reception System	6
Selectivity in Migration Governance in the South American Mercosur: Selecting-by-Origin, Selecting-by-Merit, or Not Selecting at All?	6
Our Sisters and Daughters: Pakistani Hindu Migrant Masculinities and Digital Claims to Indian Citizenship	6
Questioning the Meaning of Place in Extended Exile: The Cases of the Balata and Jenin Refugee Camps	6
“Through Social Contact We’ll Integrate:” Refugee Perspectives on Integration Post-Resettlement	6

Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows	6
Fleeing Ukraine: The Forced Migration Journeys of Black African Students	6
Deconstructing the Migrant/Refugee/Host Ternary in Kigoma, Tanzania: Toward a Borderland Politics of Solidarity and Reparation	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
Immigrant Work and the Production of Italian Agrifood: The Variants of Subordinate Integration	6
Making the Match: Understanding the Destining Process of Government-Assisted Refugees in Canada	6
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception	6
Attenuated Governance in Australia’s Offshore Immigration Detention Regime: How Financial Mismanagement Can Achieve Government Goals	5
“Violence is Everywhere.” How Semi-Permeable Borders Facilitate Transnational Perpetration of Structural, Symbolic and Interpersonal Sexual and Gender-Based Violence	5
About but not without: Recently Arrived Refugees’ Understanding of and Expectations for Integration within a Local Policy Context in the Netherlands	5
Following AENEAS’ Route: Unpacking Two Decades of Migration-Related Measures in EU Development Funds	5
Personal Recognition Strategies of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in The Netherlands	4
Macroeconomic Impacts of Immigration in the Canadian Atlantic Region: An Empirical Analysis Using the FOCUS Model	4
Fraudulent Families? Investigating the Role of Paperwork in the Assessment of Refugees’ Family Reunification in Belgium	4
Transnational or Not: COVID Pandemic and Chinese Academic Migrants	4
Exit to Feel, Voice, and Act: Emotions and Actions of Russian Migrants Opposing the Invasion of Ukraine	4
Managing Migration Through Foreign Aid in Mexico and Central America: The Role of U.S. Conditionality on Mexico’s Migration Policies	4
Thy Neighbor’s Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization	4
Exploring Factors Related to the Development and Implementation of a Local Intervention Program for Syrian Refugee Children	4
The Intimate Lives of Left-Behind Young Adults in the Philippines: Social Media, Gendered Intimacies, and Transnational Parenting	4
Continuity and Social Support: A Longitudinal Study of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Care Networks	4
The Face of Immigration: Photographic Portrayals of Immigrants in News Photographs	4
Differentiated Integration Among the Stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh’s Camps	4
Life Satisfaction and Psychological Distress of African Immigrants in Italy and Spain: The Protective Role of Social Support and Sense of Community	4
Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees	4
Of Rags and Riches in the Caribbean: Creolizing Migration Studies	4
Conditionality, Compensation, or Both? Comparative Experiences of Third-Country Cooperation on Migration with the EU	4
The ‘Local Turn’ and Everyday Integration. The Pakistani Middle-Class Migrants in Dubai	4
Discretion-as-Politics in Immigration Processes: The Case of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the US	4
Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas	3
Transgenerational Return Migration to Galicia, Spain: Discourses of Identity and Belonging	3
Introduction: The Politics of the Migrant/Refugee Binary	3
Resettlement Factors Associated with Subjective Well-Being among Refugees in Australia: Findings from a Service Evaluation	3
Beyond Social Capital: An Examination of the Sustaining and Expansion of Turkey-based Syrian Refugee Businesspeople’s Business Operations	3
COVID-19 and Sanctions Affecting Afghans in Iran	3
Violence Here and Violence There: How Compound Violence Drives Undocumented Mexicans’ Migration to and Settlement in the United States	3
Roomies for Life? An Assessment of How Staying with a Local Facilitates Refugee Integration	3
American Experience: Information Seeking Behavior of Immigrants from Russia and Ukraine with Regard to American Culture	3
Public Community Work in Neighborhoods with Both Citizen and Asylum-Seeking Residents: South Tel Aviv as a Study Case	3
Insights from Immigrant and Refugee Youth on Resilience through Sport Participation during Adaption to a New Country	3
Desi but Liberal Men : Pakistani Brides Navigating Marriage, Migration and Integration Between Family and State	3
Key Experiences of Volunteers in Refugee Aid	3
Multi-Level Governance and Sanctuary Cities: The Case of Liège (Belgium) and Undocumented Migrants	3
“How Can I Trust People When They Know Exactly What My Weakness Is?” Daily Life Experiences, and Resilience Strategies of Stateless Afghans in Iran	3
Ethnic Majority Attitudes toward Jewish and Non-Jewish Migrants in Israel: The Role of Perceptions of Threat, Collective Vulnerability, and Human Values	3
Challenging Policies and Contextualizing Rights: Civil Society Litigation and Refugee and Asylum Seeker Governance in South African Cities	3
Syria, the Homeland. Feeling at Home in Rotterdam? The Multiple Feelings of Belonging of Resettled Syrian-Born Youngsters with a Refugee Background	3
Materiality of Place-Making in Exilic and Protracted Displacement: The Context of Displaced Bakassi People in South-South Nigeria	3
Repression Without Compassion: Forced Migration Governance at the EU’s Southern Frontier	3
Gender Gaps in Immigrants’ Political Participation within and across Borders: Political Socialization or Opportunity Structures?	3

Reconstructing a Sense of Safety among Resettled Refugee Survivors of Torture: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study	3
Return Aspirations of Syrian Refugees in Turkey	3
Expanding the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies: Refugee Protection, Regularization, and Naturalization in Latin America	3