OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Migration Studies is 6. 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
Do institutions matter for refugee integration? a comparison of case worker integration strategies in Switzerland and Canada	55
Emotionalized embeddedness: extending the mixed embeddedness framework through Korean entrepreneurship in China	44
Innocence and danger at the border: migrants, “Bad” mothers, and the nation’s protectors	43
Integrating lifestyle and welfare aspirations in (im)mobility decisions: perspectives from a relatively disadvantaged group in Tangier, Morocco	40
The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers	30
Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand	28
Racialized unaccompanied minors: African children in United States immigration detention	28
Support for militarization from abroad: how Latinos in the United States respond to criminal violence in Latin America	27
Lima is good enough: exploring role of city in coping strategies and future planning among Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru	26
Religious proximity and racialised belonging among Catholic and Buddhist migrants in Ireland	23
Ius soli under siege: a comparative analysis of France and the United States	22
Forecasting migration movements using prediction markets	21
Temporary labour migration and restricted rights: comparative perspectives from European agriculture	17
Migrant remittances and the decline of presidential term limits in sub-Saharan Africa	17
…when the category ‘migration’ lost its innocence for migration scholars. And what now? A plea for dialogue	16
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa	15
How urban welfare affects the hukou selection of rural migrants that belong to dual-hukou families in china	15
Migrantization of mobile EU citizens? Assessing the impact of political reception contexts on bureaucratic discrimination	14
“When they return home they do nothing for half a year”: opposing remittances and articulations of Romanian migrant labour in agriculture	14
Precarious labour in precarious times: the impact of the war in Israel/Palestine on non-citizen workers	13
Towards a global migration paradigm	13
Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives	13
From shared experiences of gendered racism to converging interpretations? Exploring the formation of a decolonial standpoint by women of Moroccan descent in postcolonial France	12
Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol	12
Assessing the impact of migration on the happiness of household women left behind: evidence from Punjab, Pakistan	12

Democracy, visa-waivers, and international mobility	11
A framework for understanding precarious economic incorporation of Ukrainian refugees in Central Eastern Europe	11
Cold feet on foreign soil? How repressive threats shape migrants’ political engagement	11
Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during russian invasion of ukraine: The case of slovakia	11
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate	11
The hidden power of provincial and territorial immigration programs in shaping Canada’s immigration landscape	10
A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants	10
Civil society organisations and the local politics of migration: how funding contexts matter	10
Correction to: “Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue	10
Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence	10
Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma	10
Between meeting quotas and following the duty-bound heart: navigating the formidable dilemma of refugee protection in the EU	9
Strangers in paradise? The wellbeing of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments	9
Transnational political socialization in conservative networks: narratives of Turkish-Dutch citizens between the Netherlands and Turkey	8
Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?	8
Young migrants, “integration” and the local: critical reflections from European stakeholders	8
The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance	8
Systematic literature reviews in migration studies: approaches to context-sensitive synthesis	8
Can older urban migrants achieve active aging? Variations by migration motivation, geographical scale and residential duration	8
Health-related lifestyle behaviours and healthcare utilisation among adolescent immigrants in Europe	8
Defining Ethnic and Migrant Minorities in Survey Research across Europe: Insights from the Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Survey Registry	7
Motivations in transition: destination choices of inter-provincial migration among Chinese older adults	7
Correction: Migrantization of mobile EU citizens? Assessing the impact of political reception contexts on bureaucratic discrimination	7
A review of experimental evidence of how communication affects attitudes to immigration	7
Who should vote? Membership and claims to expatriate political participation in the Nigerian diaspora	7
The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights	7
Towards a precise and reflexive use of migration-related terminology in quantitative research: criticism and suggestions	7
Caring and building friendships in the UK’s asylum system	7
Differences in migrants’ reason for migration and subjective well-being: not so different after all	7
Political legacies and present perceptions of migrants	7
Factors influencing the spatial distribution of international retirement migrants settling in Hungary	7
“Steel Dragon City, shifting Chinese migrants”: Chinese communities in suspended motion in Dubai	7
Migrantisation: a key concept	6
The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalisation politics in India’s Assam	6
“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts	6
Temporary protection in Turkey and Colombia: state interests, entangled migration realities, policy diffusion and the global erosion of refugee protection standards	6
“Sticking out” as ethnoracial others: a comparative cultural sociology of immigrant (super)visibility in urban spaces	6
Neglected intersections: a view from the South	6
Governing migration in midsize cities: permanent temporariness, rigid policies and role of business	6
Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review	6
Qualification as a key criterion? An analysis of Germany’s labour migration policy	6
Migration, space and place	6
Decolonizing the migration archive: Haitian refugees at Fort Allen, Puerto Rico, 1981–82	6
Correction: Between settlement, double return and re-emigration: motivations for future mobility of Polish and Lithuanian return migrants	6
Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states	6
Infrastructuring migrant urban citizenship: homeless EU migrants and service providers’ facilitation of care and rights in pandemic Copenhagen	6
Saving behavior among immigrant and native youth	6
De-bordering policies at the city scale: strategies for building resilience in Barcelona's migration governance	6