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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	41
Competing globally, marketing locally: Subnational migration marketing in Australia and Canada	34
Who gets to return? Party politics and the selectivity of European emigrant return policies	33
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	31
Beyond return and resettlement: The impact of exposure and interactions on the post-conflict development of North Waziristan	28
Attracting migrants through the backdoor: Business migration in Switzerland	22
Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: the role of gender and migration status	20
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	17
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	15
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	15
Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada	14
Immigration threat perceptions: Experimental evidence of causes and consequences	14
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration	14
Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility	13
Immigrants’ negotiation of the homeland and the hostland: Transnational transformation of perception and usage of Korean hagwons	12
Persistent disadvantage or assimilation? Second-generation immigrants in the Spanish labour market	12
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	11
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	11
Instituting the global: The racial analytics of migration	11
Wayfinding in arts-based methods: Navigating home, belonging, and the future with children born of conflict-related sexual violence in northern Uganda	10
From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	10
Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	9
‘Life is peaceful here’: Nigerian refugees in Limassol between colonial afterlives and city-making	9
Data triangulation strategies to design a representative household survey of hosts and Rohingya displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	9
The geopolitics of asylum from the part of those seeking it: Refugee subjects and freedom as possibility	8

Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	8
“Smuggled Stories in the Settler-State”: Book Review on Shannon Speed’s Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State	8
Urban encounters: Introduction to the special issue	7
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	7
Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	7
Conditional hospitality? How applicants’ backgrounds shape host support for refugees	7
‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London	7
Testing the group threat theory in the context of Japan: Examining the role of economic conditions in public attitudes toward immigrants	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
While waiting: Legal-status-making, bureaucratic inscription, and migrants’ labor (im)mobility	5
Correction to: Explaining migrant integration policies: A comparative study across 56 countries	4
Mixed-status informal couples in a cascading crisis. Immobilisation, mobilisation, and normalisation?	4
Immigrant legalization: A dilemma between justice and the rule of law	4
Fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Spain: intergenerational convergence to the native population’s behaviour?	4
Reevaluating the role of information in transit migration: the case of Central American migrants crossing Mexico	4
Dangerous destinations: How gendered safety concerns shape South Asian expatriate parents’ university destination decisions	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
Germany, year 2020. The tension between asylum right, border control, and economy, through the imperative of deservingness	4
The poetics of togetherness: Conviviality of asylum-seekers in the shadow of Hong Kong	4
National control mechanisms within regional free movement frameworks: Perspectives from the ECOWAS, EU, and Mercosur	4
State crisis response versus transnational family living: An online ethnography among transnational families during the pandemic	3
Social and affective constitution of transit spaces: Migrants in Necoclí, Colombia	3
Second Latin American migratory boom in Spain: From recovery to COVID-19	3
Mobile temporalities and political possibilities: Expanding the temporal turn in migration studies	3
Correction to: Subjective and intangible factors in migration decision-making: A review of side-lined literature	3
“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
Illusions of objectivity: The two functions of country of origin information in asylum assessment	3
Between multiculturalism and assimilation: Cultural ‘homelessness’ of the Chinese diaspora	2
Digital migration , by Koen Leurs	2
From politics to poetics of migration: Migrant workers’ ‘life-in-migration’ during the COVID pandemic	2
Examining the higher education–migration nexus in China: Intellectual migration in an emerging destination	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
Intersecting oppressions and mental distress: Migrant domestic workers under the Kafala system in Lebanon	2
Infrastructures of migration and the ordering of privilege in mobility	2
Migrant integration in Turkey: Travels of a concept across borders and domains of knowledge production	2
Correction to: Colonized subjects and their emigration experiences. The case of Iranian students and their integration strategies in Western Europe	2
Review of ExhibitionObjets Migrateurs: Trésors sous influencesby Laura Reeck	2