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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Who gets to return? Party politics and the selectivity of European emigrant return policies	42
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	36
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	34
Competing globally, marketing locally: Subnational migration marketing in Australia and Canada	34
Attracting migrants through the backdoor: Business migration in Switzerland	29
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	23
Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: the role of gender and migration status	21
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	20
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration	15
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	15
Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada	15
Immigration threat perceptions: Experimental evidence of causes and consequences	15
Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility	14
Persistent disadvantage or assimilation? Second-generation immigrants in the Spanish labour market	13
Immigrants’ negotiation of the homeland and the hostland: Transnational transformation of perception and usage of Korean hagwons	12
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	12
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	11
Instituting the global: The racial analytics of migration	11
From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	11
Data triangulation strategies to design a representative household survey of hosts and Rohingya displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	10
Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	10
Wayfinding in arts-based methods: Navigating home, belonging, and the future with children born of conflict-related sexual violence in northern Uganda	10
Urban encounters: Introduction to the special issue	9
The geopolitics of asylum from the part of those seeking it: Refugee subjects and freedom as possibility	9
‘Life is peaceful here’: Nigerian refugees in Limassol between colonial afterlives and city-making	9

Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	8
Conditional hospitality? How applicants’ backgrounds shape host support for refugees	8
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	7
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	7
Testing the group threat theory in the context of Japan: Examining the role of economic conditions in public attitudes toward immigrants	7
‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London	7
Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter	6
‘Global talent’ or ‘labour migrant’?—Discursive noise and the strategic organization of difference in the competition state	5
National control mechanisms within regional free movement frameworks: Perspectives from the ECOWAS, EU, and Mercosur	5
While waiting: Legal-status-making, bureaucratic inscription, and migrants’ labor (im)mobility	5
The poetics of togetherness: Conviviality of asylum-seekers in the shadow of Hong Kong	4
Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis. Immobilisation, mobilisation, and normalisation?	4
Correction to: Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries	4
Quiet catastrophes: Navigating climate-induced displacement and marginality in urban Mongolia	4
Social and affective constitution of transit spaces: Migrants in Necoclí, Colombia	4
Dangerous destinations: How gendered safety concerns shape South Asian expatriate parents’ university destination decisions	4
Reevaluating the role of information in transit migration: the case of Central American migrants crossing Mexico	4
Fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Spain: intergenerational convergence to the native population’s behaviour?	4
Mobile temporalities and political possibilities: Expanding the temporal turn in migration studies	4
Germany, year 2020. The tension between asylum right, border control, and economy, through the imperative of deservingness	4
Managerializing expulsion: Examining the discursive critique of assisted voluntary return and reintegration policy	4
Conformans novas selves: The significance of Balkan route migrants’ possible and future narrative identities	4
“The library experience goes far beyond books”: Latin American women’s narratives of transcultural embedding and social integration through using public libraries in Helsinki	3
Correction to: Subjective and intangible factors in migration decision-making: A review of side-lined literature	3
State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic	3
Second Latin American migratory boom in Spain: From recovery to COVID-19	3
Illusions of objectivity: The two functions of country of origin information in asylum assessment	3
Between development and control: State-sponsored emigration under Francoist rule	2
From politics to poetics of migration: Migrant workers’ ‘life-in-migration’ during the COVID pandemic	2
Migrant integration in Turkey: Travels of a concept across borders and domains of knowledge production	2
Infrastructures of migration and the ordering of privilege in mobility	2
Intersecting oppressions and mental distress: Migrant domestic workers under the Kafala system in Lebanon	2
Digital migration , by Koen Leurs	2
Between multiculturalism and assimilation: Cultural ‘homelessness’ of the Chinese diaspora	2
Examining the higher education–migration nexus in China: Intellectual migration in an emerging destination	2
Correction to: Colonized subjects and their emigration experiences. The case of Iranian students and their integration strategies in Western Europe	2
International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders	1
Towards an intermediary-shaped migration policy? Strategies of private labour market intermediaries in migration policy-making	1
Theorizing participation in the migrant caravans: Perspectives from migration and social movement studies	1
‘Swiss by ancestry’: Genuine and strategic nativism in naturalization procedures	1
Subjective and intangible factors in migration decision-making: A review of side-lined literature	1
Exploring portrayals of vulnerability in post-2011 refugee films in Turkish cinema	1
Spectrums of in/formality and il/legality: Negotiating business and migration-related statuses in arrival spaces	1
Review of ExhibitionObjets Migrateurs: Trésors sous influencesby Laura Reeck	1
Protecting irregular migrants: Evidence from Colombia	1
Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries	1
Continuum, process, and dyad: three readings of the migration–mobility nexus	1
How can Mexican migrants reduce the risk of being abandoned by smugglers while clandestinely crossing the US–Mexico border?	1
The permanent few or the temporary many? Evaluating refugee integration obstructors through implementation of the Ethiopia and Jordan Job Compacts	1

Immigrants’ subjective well-being in Europe: Variation by regional attitudes towards immigrants	1
The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field?	1