OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
A theory of migration: the aspirations-capabilities framework	212
Reframing ‘integration’: acknowledging and addressing five core critiques	46
Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience	41
Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy	27
Theorizing interactions of migrant transnationalism and integration through a multiscalar approach	24
Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
Between fragmentation and institutionalisation: the rise of migration studies as a research field	18
Extending mixed embeddedness to a multi-dimensional concept of transnational entrepreneurship	16
Campaigning across continents: how Latin American parties link up with migrant associations abroad	16
An eye for an ‘I:’ a critical assessment of artificial intelligence tools in migration and asylum management	14
Governing displaced migration in Europe: housing and the role of the “local”	14
Hybrid identity and practices to negotiate belonging: Madrid’s Muslim youth of migrant origin	14
A comparative analysis of changes in anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe: 1990–2017	14
Unequal internationalisation and the emergence of a new epistemic community: gender and migration	13
On migration, geography, and epistemic communities	13
Innovative strategies for the reception of asylum seekers and refugees in European cities: multi-level governance, multi-sector urban networks and local engagement	13
Multifocality and opportunity structure: towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship	13
Shifts in the global migration order and migration transitions in Europe: the cases of Turkey and Russia	12
Disentangling entangled mobilities: reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies	12
“By women, for women, and with women”: on the integration of highly qualified female refugees into the labour Markets of Berlin and Brandenburg	12
Measuring migration 2.0: a review of digital data sources	11
Economic self-reliance or social relations? What works in refugee integration? Learning from resettlement programmes in Japan and the UK	11
Narratives: a review of concepts, determinants, effects, and uses in migration research	11
A crisis mode in migration governance: comparative and analytical insights	11
Political parties abroad as actors of transnational politics	10

Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK	10
Seeking asylum in Scandinavia: a comparative analysis of recent restrictive policy responses towards unaccompanied afghan minors in Denmark, Sweden and Norway	10
Researching arts, culture, migration and change: a multi (trans)disciplinary challenge for international migration studies	10
Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom	10
The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers	10
Social contact and encounter in asylum seeker reception: the Utrecht Refugee Launchpad	10
Bringing anchoring and embedding together: theorising migrants’ lives over-time	10
Institutionalization of transnationalizing political parties: the case of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia	10
Migration and mobility of third-country national labour workers to and inside Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic – a legal analysis	9
Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa	9
Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
An organizational approach to the Philippine migration industry: recruiting, matching and tailoring migrant domestic workers	8
Is migration a unique field of study in social sciences? A response to Levy, Pisarevskaya, and Scholten	8
Should they stay or should they go? A case study on international students in Germany	8
Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places	8
Bridging the state and market logics of refugee labour market inclusion – a comparative study on the inclusion activities of German professional chambers	8
Contested skills and constrained mobilities: migrant carework skill regimes in Taiwan and Japan	8
What does it mean to “go beyond race”?	7
Two cheers for Migration Studies	7
Social remittances during COVID-19: on the “new normality” negotiated by transnational families	7
How can we categorise ‘nationality’ and ‘second generation’ in surveys without (re)producing stigmatisation?	7
Your heart is where your roots are? Place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian returnees	7
Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences	7
Shaping migration at the border: the entangled rationalities of border control practices	7
The well-being of newly regularized migrant workers: Determinants of their satisfaction with life as compared to undocumented migrant workers and regular local residents	7
Schools as spaces for in/exclusion of young Mainland Chinese students and families in Hong Kong	7
Parties beyond national borders: exploring the activities of Israeli political parties abroad	7