OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Migration Studies is 2. 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
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	28
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	27
Strategic calculations? Partisan differences in support for Puerto Rican migration to the mainland USA	24
Continual arrival and the longue durée: Emplacement as activism among migrant workers in Hong Kong	19
Beyond return and resettlement: The impact of exposure and interactions on the post-conflict development of North Waziristan	17
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	16
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	13
Photography and the diasporic condition. A travel in the writer Sabyl Ghoussoub’s family photographs	13
Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: the role of gender and migration status	13
Was it all worth it? The consequences of parental migration decisions for the life satisfaction of their descendants	13
The Arrival. By Shaun Tan	12
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	11
From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants	11
Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada	11
Spiritual ambiguity in interfaith humanitarianism: Local faith communities, Syrian refugees, and Muslim–Christian encounters in Lebanon and Jordan	10
Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility	9
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	9
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration	9
Instituting the global: The racial analytics of migration	9
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	8
Immigrants’ negotiation of the homeland and the hostland: Transnational transformation of perception and usage of Korean hagwons	8
An Open Invitation—Depicting Immigration: What Can Words, Images, and Notes Do?	8
Shared immigration process, different perspectives: The impact of immigration-related gaps on couple relationships	8
From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	7
Data triangulation strategies to design a representative household survey of hosts and Rohingya displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	7

Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	6
“Smuggled Stories in the Settler-State”: Book Review on Shannon Speed’s Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State	6
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	6
Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	6
Stability and change in attitudes towards homosexuality among immigrant-origin adolescents in Norway	6
‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London	6
‘Life is peaceful here’: Nigerian refugees in Limassol between colonial afterlives and city-making	6
Urban encounters: Introduction to the special issue	6
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	6
Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter	5
The Mediterranean. By Armin Greder	5
‘Art doesn’t just reflect the world—it engages with it’	5
International migration and shifts in subjective well-being: A longitudinal study using German panel data	5
Overseas immigration liaison officers: ‘Knowledge brokers’ and transnational spaces of mid-level negotiations shaping extraterritorial migration control practices	5
Rethinking Christianity in the Migration Process	5
Slavery, lived realities, and the decolonisation of forced migration histories: An interview with Dr Portia Owusu	5
Correction to: Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries	4
‘Global talent’ or ‘labour migrant’?—Discursive noise and the strategic organization of difference in the competition state	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
What explains immigrant–native gaps in European labor markets: The role of institutions	4
Escaping from pollution: Air pollution and the settlement intentions of floating migrants in Chinese cities	4
State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic	3
Infrastructures of migration and the ordering of privilege in mobility	3
Introduction to Special Issue on Childrens’ Books	3
Floating sanctuaries: The ethics of search and rescue at sea	3
The impact of the Internet on migration aspirations and intentions	3
Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market	3
Migrant integration in Turkey: Travels of a concept across borders and domains of knowledge production	3
‘Making sense’ of Turkey’s refugee policy: The case of the Directorate General of Migration Management	3
Reevaluating the role of information in transit migration: the case of Central American migrants crossing Mexico	3
To vote or not to vote? Migrant electoral (dis)engagement in an enlarged Europe	3
Germany, year 2020. The tension between asylum right, border control, and economy, through the imperative of deservingness	3
Second Latin American migratory boom in Spain: From recovery to COVID-19	3
Correction to: Subjective and intangible factors in migration decision-making: A review of side-lined literature	3
The poetics of togetherness: Conviviality of asylum-seekers in the shadow of Hong Kong	3
Immigrant legalization: A dilemma between justice and the rule of law	3
Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis. Immobilisation, mobilisation, and normalisation?	3
Andrea Segre’s Cinema of Engagement	3
Illusions of objectivity: The two functions of country of origin information in asylum assessment	2
Psycho-social wellbeing in migration studies—the potential of the concept of actionability	2
Review of ExhibitionObjets Migrateurs: Trésors sous influencesby Laura Reeck	2
Migration and development in Ethiopia: Exploring the mechanisms behind an emerging mobility transition	2
Does free movement of workers boost immigrant employment? New evidence from Germany	2
Corrigendum to: Escaping from pollution: Air pollution and the settlement intentions of floating migrants in Chinese cities	2
Correction to: Colonized subjects and their emigration experiences. The case of Iranian students and their integration strategies in Western Europe	2
Chameleon brokers: A translocal take on migration industries in the Thai-Swedish wild berry business	2
The European Union Is Killing MigrantsAt Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean. By Ċetta MainwaringMigrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe. By Maurice Stierl	2
Identity or interests? Religious conservatives’ attitudes toward Syrian refugees in Turkey	2
International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	2

Spectrums of in/formality and il/legality: Negotiating business and migration-related statuses in arrival spaces	2
How can Mexican migrants reduce the risk of being abandoned by smugglers while clandestinely crossing the US–Mexico border?	2