OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	41
Do institutions matter for refugee integration? a comparison of case worker integration strategies in Switzerland and Canada	38
Emotionalized embeddedness: extending the mixed embeddedness framework through Korean entrepreneurship in China	35
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	32
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	31
Lima is good enough: exploring role of city in coping strategies and future planning among Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru	29
Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand	29
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	28
…when the category ‘migration’ lost its innocence for migration scholars. And what now? A plea for dialogue	27
Racialized unaccompanied minors: African children in United States immigration detention	27
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	25
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	24
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	19
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	19
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	19
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	19
Assessing the impact of migration on the happiness of household women left behind: evidence from Punjab, Pakistan	18
From shared experiences of gendered racism to converging interpretations? Exploring the formation of a decolonial standpoint by women of Moroccan descent in postcolonial France	18
Democracy, visa-waivers, and international mobility	16
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison	15
Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol	14
We are all migrants	14
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	13
Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during russian invasion of ukraine: The case of slovakia	12
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	11

Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma	11
The hidden power of provincial and territorial immigration programs in shaping Canada’s immigration landscape	11
Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence	11
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	11
Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter	11
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	10
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	10
Young migrants, “integration” and the local: critical reflections from European stakeholders	9
Health-related lifestyle behaviours and healthcare utilisation among adolescent immigrants in Europe	9
Strangers in paradise? The wellbeing of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments	9
Political legacies and present perceptions of migrants	8
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	8
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	8
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	8
Factors influencing the spatial distribution of international retirement migrants settling in Hungary	8
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	7
Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales	7
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	7
Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe	7
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	7
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	7
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	7
Governing migration in midsize cities: permanent temporariness, rigid policies and role of business	7
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	6
Contagion effect of migration fear in pre and European refugee’s crisis period: evidence from multivariate GARCH and wavelet empirical analysis	6
Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies	6
Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review	6
Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states	6
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts	6
The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam	6
Correction: Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	6
Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth	5
Migration, space and place	5
Fighting to belong: drivers for transnational diaspora military service in Israel and beyond	5
Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the MENA region	5
Neglected intersections: a view from the South	5
Migrantisation: a key concept	5
Causes of child labor and working conditions in Ethiopia: evidence from temporary inter-rural child labor migrants from Sekela district	5
Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands	5
Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa	5
Coronavirus containment: communal future-making and the logics of containment in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya	5
Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil	5