OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Migration Studies is 7. 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
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	35
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	30
Beyond return and resettlement: The impact of exposure and interactions on the post-conflict development of North Waziristan	26
Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: the role of gender and migration status	24
Attracting migrants through the backdoor: Business migration in Switzerland	24
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	19
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	18
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	18
Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada	18
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration	15
From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants	15
Shared immigration process, different perspectives: The impact of immigration-related gaps on couple relationships	14
Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility	14
Immigrants’ negotiation of the homeland and the hostland: Transnational transformation of perception and usage of Korean hagwons	13
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	12
Instituting the global: The racial analytics of migration	12
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	11
From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	11
Wayfinding in arts-based methods: Navigating home, belonging, and the future with children born of conflict-related sexual violence in northern Uganda	10
Data triangulation strategies to design a representative household survey of hosts and Rohingya displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	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
‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London	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	8

Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	8
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	8
Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter	7
Slavery, lived realities, and the decolonisation of forced migration histories: An interview with Dr Portia Owusu	7
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	7
Overseas immigration liaison officers: ‘Knowledge brokers’ and transnational spaces of mid-level negotiations shaping extraterritorial migration control practices	7