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 2021-12-01 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
Asset Building among U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents: The Role of Initial Legal Status	12
Thy Neighbor’s Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization	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 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
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
Dispositional Gratitude Trajectories of Syrian Origin Young Adults in the Netherlands	5
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
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
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?