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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	34
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	26
Beyond return and resettlement: The impact of exposure and interactions on the post-conflict development of North Waziristan	26
Attracting migrants through the backdoor: Business migration in Switzerland	24
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	18
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	17
From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants	17
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	17
Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada	15
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
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	12
Shared immigration process, different perspectives: The impact of immigration-related gaps on couple relationships	12
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	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	10
Wayfinding in arts-based methods: Navigating home, belonging, and the future with children born of conflict-related sexual violence in northern Uganda	10
‘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
“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
Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	8
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	8
Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	8

‘The library is like a mother’: Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in East London	7
Overseas immigration liaison officers: ‘Knowledge brokers’ and transnational spaces of mid-level negotiations shaping extraterritorial migration control practices	7
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	7
Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter	7
Stability and change in attitudes towards homosexuality among immigrant-origin adolescents in Norway	7
Urban encounters: Introduction to the special issue	7