OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Migration Studies is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Who gets to return? Party politics and the selectivity of European emigrant return policies	39
Competing globally, marketing locally: Subnational migration marketing in Australia and Canada	37
Why do immigrants become less happy? Explanations for the decrease in life satisfaction of immigrants in Germany over time	37
Unsettled times: War, temporality, and Ukrainian transnational lives	34
A transnational social contract: Social protection policies toward Non-Resident Keralites	26
Transit migration entrepreneurship: Explaining Nicaragua’s state-controlled, profit-seeking transit migration industry	23
Attracting migrants through the backdoor: Business migration in Switzerland	22
Indigenous wisdoms and the decolonial efforts in migration studies in South Africa	20
Adolescent immigrant youth: Creating spaces of belonging	18
Correction to: ‘Long-term trajectories of return migration: Agrarian differentiation and class mobility in Nepal, Moldova, and Thailand’	16
Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: the role of gender and migration status	16
Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication	15
The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Korea	14
Formal and informal support networks as sources of resilience and sources of oppression for temporary foreign workers in Canada	13
Immigration threat perceptions: Experimental evidence of causes and consequences	12
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration	12
Persistent disadvantage or assimilation? Second-generation immigrants in the Spanish labour market	11
Determinants of return migration of Estonian young adults in transnational mobility	11
Discrimination toward migrants during crises	11
Unrequited love? Rejection experiences and symbolic messages in encounters with immigration regulation	10
National identity and anti-immigrant sentiment: Experimental evidence from Mexico	10
Immigrants’ negotiation of the homeland and the hostland: Transnational transformation of perception and usage of Korean hagwons	10
Wayfinding in arts-based methods: Navigating home, belonging, and the future with children born of conflict-related sexual violence in northern Uganda	9
Data triangulation strategies to design a representative household survey of hosts and Rohingya displaced in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh	9
Instituting the global: The racial analytics of migration	9

From farm to the city? Understanding the motives of entrepreneurial Javanese migration to an Indonesian outer island	7
Column - Depicting migration: what can art do that scholarship cannot?	7
‘Life is peaceful here’: Nigerian refugees in Limassol between colonial afterlives and city-making	7
Internal migration and multidimensional wellbeing: a case study of North-South migration in Ghana	7
The geopolitics of asylum from the part of those seeking it: Refugee subjects and freedom as possibility	7
Estimating international migration flows for the Asia-Pacific region: Application of a generation–distribution model	5
Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies	5
Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter	5
Conditional hospitality? How applicants’ backgrounds shape host support for refugees	5
Testing the group threat theory in the context of Japan: Examining the role of economic conditions in public attitudes toward immigrants	5
Urban encounters: Introduction to the special issue	5
Quiet catastrophes: Navigating climate-induced displacement and marginality in urban Mongolia	5