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 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
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	15
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	15
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration	14
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
Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility	13
Persistent disadvantage or assimilation? Second-generation immigrants in the Spanish labour market	12
Immigrants’ negotiation of the homeland and the hostland: Transnational transformation of perception and usage of Korean hagwons	12
Instituting the global: The racial analytics of migration	11
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	11
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	10
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
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
“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

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
‘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
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