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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	62
Do institutions matter for refugee integration? a comparison of case worker integration strategies in Switzerland and Canada	41
Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants	35
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	31
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	31
Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand	30
Lima is good enough: exploring role of city in coping strategies and future planning among Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru	28
…when the category ‘migration’ lost its innocence for migration scholars. And what now? A plea for dialogue	27
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	27
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	26
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	26
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	25
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	20
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	20
Assessing the impact of migration on the happiness of household women left behind: evidence from Punjab, Pakistan	19
Transnational voting rights and policies in violent democracies: a global comparison	19
Democracy, visa-waivers, and international mobility	19
From shared experiences of gendered racism to converging interpretations? Exploring the formation of a decolonial standpoint by women of Moroccan descent in postcolonial France	19
We are all migrants	17
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	16
Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol	15
Towards equality: joining forces with arts and culture in the struggle for change in migration societies	13
Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma	13
Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during russian invasion of ukraine: The case of slovakia	13
The hidden power of provincial and territorial immigration programs in shaping Canada’s immigration landscape	13

Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence	12
Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter	11
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	11
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	11
Strangers in paradise? The wellbeing of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments	10
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	10
Young migrants, “integration” and the local: critical reflections from European stakeholders	10
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	9
Health-related lifestyle behaviours and healthcare utilisation among adolescent immigrants in Europe	9
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	9
The case for increased centralization in integration governance: the neglected perspective	9
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	8
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	8
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	8
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	7
Political legacies and present perceptions of migrants	7
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	7
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	7
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	7
Plural violence(s) and migrants’ transnational engagement with democratic politics: the case of Colombians in Europe	7
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	7
Factors influencing the spatial distribution of international retirement migrants settling in Hungary	7
Governing migration in midsize cities: permanent temporariness, rigid policies and role of business	7
Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states	6
Correction: Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	6
The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam	6
Contagion effect of migration fear in pre and European refugee’s crisis period: evidence from multivariate GARCH and wavelet empirical analysis	6
Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales	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
Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands	5
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	5
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts	5
Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth	5
Causes of child labor and working conditions in Ethiopia: evidence from temporary inter-rural child labor migrants from Sekela district	5
Neglected intersections: a view from the South	5
The political economy of immigrant homeownership: housing assets and conservative shifts in South Korea	5
Decolonizing migration studies	5
Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa	5
Migration, space and place	5