OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Migration 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Who gets to return? Party politics and the selectivity of European emigrant return policies	39
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	37
Competing globally, marketing locally: Subnational migration marketing in Australia and Canada	37
Unsettled times: War, temporality, and Ukrainian transnational lives	34
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	26
Transit migration entrepreneurship: Explaining Nicaragua’s state-controlled, profit-seeking transit migration industry	23
Attracting migrants through the backdoor: Business migration in Switzerland	22
Indigenous wisdoms and the decolonial efforts in migration studies in South Africa	20
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	18
Correction to: ‘Long-term trajectories of return migration: Agrarian differentiation and class mobility in Nepal, Moldova, and Thailand’	16
Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: the role of gender and migration status	16
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	15
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	14
Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada	13
Immigration threat perceptions: Experimental evidence of causes and consequences	12
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration	12
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	11
Persistent disadvantage or assimilation? Second-generation immigrants in the Spanish labour market	11
Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility	11
Immigrants’ negotiation of the homeland and the hostland: Transnational transformation of perception and usage of Korean hagwons	10
Unrequited love? Rejection experiences and symbolic messages in encounters with immigration regulation	10
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	10
Instituting the global: The racial analytics of migration	9
Wayfinding in arts-based methods: Navigating home, belonging, and the future with children born of conflict-related sexual violence in northern Uganda	9
Data triangulation strategies to design a representative household survey of hosts and Rohingya displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	9

Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	7
The geopolitics of asylum from the part of those seeking it: Refugee subjects and freedom as possibility	7
From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	7
Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	7
‘Life is peaceful here’: Nigerian refugees in Limassol between colonial afterlives and city-making	7
Urban encounters: Introduction to the special issue	5
Quiet catastrophes: Navigating climate-induced displacement and marginality in urban Mongolia	5
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	5
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	5
Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter	5
Conditional hospitality? How applicants’ backgrounds shape host support for refugees	5
Testing the group threat theory in the context of Japan: Examining the role of economic conditions in public attitudes toward immigrants	5
‘Global talent’ or ‘labour migrant’?—Discursive noise and the strategic organization of difference in the competition state	4
National control mechanisms within regional free movement frameworks: Perspectives from the ECOWAS, EU, and Mercosur	4
While waiting: Legal-status-making, bureaucratic inscription, and migrants’ labor (im)mobility	4
Fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Spain: intergenerational convergence to the native population’s behaviour?	4
Conformans novas selves: The significance of Balkan route migrants’ possible and future narrative identities	4
Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis. Immobilisation, mobilisation, and normalisation?	3
Dangerous destinations: How gendered safety concerns shape South Asian expatriate parents’ university destination decisions	3
Leveraging skills and migration networks: Indonesian fishers in Brunei Darussalam	3
Correction to: Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries	3
Reevaluating the role of information in transit migration: the case of Central American migrants crossing Mexico	3
Managerializing expulsion: Examining the discursive critique of assisted voluntary return and reintegration policy	3
State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic	2
Mobile temporalities and political possibilities: Expanding the temporal turn in migration studies	2
Between multiculturalism and assimilation: Cultural ‘homelessness’ of the Chinese diaspora	2
Illusions of objectivity: The two functions of country of origin information in asylum assessment	2
“The library experience goes far beyond books”: Latin American women’s narratives of transcultural embedding and social integration through using public libraries in Helsinki	2
Correction to: Subjective and intangible factors in migration decision-making: A review of side-lined literature	2
Migrant integration in Turkey: Travels of a concept across borders and domains of knowledge production	2
Second Latin American migratory boom in Spain: From recovery to COVID-19	2
Social and affective constitution of transit spaces: Migrants in Necoclí, Colombia	2
Infrastructures of migration and the ordering of privilege in mobility	2
The organizational politics of pastoral care: African migrant churches and the informal governance of migration in South Korea	1
Correction to: Colonized subjects and their emigration experiences. The case of Iranian students and their integration strategies in Western Europe	1
Exploring portrayals of vulnerability in post-2011 refugee films in Turkish cinema	1
The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field?	1
Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders	1
Digital migration , by Koen Leurs	1
Between development and control: State-sponsored emigration under Francoist rule	1
How can Mexican migrants reduce the risk of being abandoned by smugglers while clandestinely crossing the US–Mexico border?	1
Protecting irregular migrants: Evidence from Colombia	1
Theorizing participation in the migrant caravans: Perspectives from migration and social movement studies	1
Perceived threat drives support for coercive border enforcement against unauthorized crossings	1
Review of ExhibitionObjets Migrateurs: Trésors sous influencesby Laura Reeck	1
Examining the higher education–migration nexus in China: Intellectual migration in an emerging destination	1
Intersecting oppressions and mental distress: Migrant domestic workers under the Kafala system in Lebanon	1
From politics to poetics of migration: Migrant workers’ ‘life-in-migration’ during the COVID pandemic	1
The permanent few or the temporary many? Evaluating refugee integration obstructors through implementation of the Ethiopia and Jordan Job Compacts	1
Continuum, process, and dyad: three readings of the migration–mobility nexus	1

Towards an intermediary-shaped migration policy? Strategies of private labour market intermediaries in migration policy-making	1
International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	1