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Most cited papers in Immigration Law and Human Rights

Immigration Law and Human Rights

What are the most cited papers in Immigration Law and Human Rights?

The most cited paper in Immigration Law and Human Rights is "Urban Life in Contemporary China" (W. E. Willmott, 1986), with 510 citations. Next come "Immigration Policing Through the Backdoor: City Ordinances, the "right to the City," and the Exclusion of Undocumented Day Laborers" (206) and "Cultural citizenship" (181).

Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 16 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 Urban Life in Contemporary China W. E. Willmott · Pacific Affairs Dec 1986 510
2 Immigration Policing Through the Backdoor: City Ordinances, the "right to the City," and the Exclusion of Undocumented Day Laborers Monica W. Varsanyi · Urban Geography Open access 2008 206
3 Cultural citizenship Jan Pakulski · Citizenship Studies Feb 1997 181
4 A Transitional Institution for the Emerging Land Market in Urban China Jieming Zhu · Urban Studies Jul 2005 161
5 Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Reauthorization H. Rutherford Turnbull · Remedial and Special Education Nov 2005 141
6 "Free Appropriate Public Education: The Law and Children with Disabilities." Katharine Shepherd Furney · Mental Retardation Jun 2001 119
7 Legal Reform in China: Institutions, Culture, and Selective Adaptation Pitman B. Potter · Law & Social Inquiry Apr 2004 114
8 Living rights, social justice, translations Karl Hanson, Olga Nieuwenhuys · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 29 Nov 2012 98
9 Building a Good Jobs Economy Dani Rodrik, Charles Frederick Sabel · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2020 95
10 Through the Gates of the Fortress: European Visa Policies and the Limits of Immigration Control Claudia Finotelli, Giuseppe Sciortino · Perspectives on European Politics and Society 13 Feb 2013 77
11 The Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation Cristina Méndez Rodríguez · Michigan Law Review Open access Feb 2008 76
12 Managing Migration Through Crime Jennifer M. Chacón · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2012 73
13 Coal Mine Safety Regulation in China and the USA Andrew W. Homer · Journal of Contemporary Asia 20 Jun 2009 72
14 The Multilevel Governance of Immigration and Settlement: Making Deep Federalism Work Christopher Leo, Martine August · Canadian Journal of Political Science Jun 2009 71
15 The Importance of the Political in Immigration Federalism Pratheepan Gulasekaram, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan · Santa Clara Law Digital Commons (Santa Clara University) Open access 2012 69
16 China's Urban-Rural Integration Policies YE Xingqing, Flemming Juul Christiansen · Journal of Current Chinese Affairs Open access Dec 2009 68
17 Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, One Hundred Schools Contend: Debating Rule of Law in China Randall Peerenboom · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2002 57
18 European Migration Network Jonathan Faull · VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 2005 55
19 Doing Time: Crimmigration Law and the Perils of Haste Juliet P. Stumpf · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 23 Jul 2011 55
20 Laboratories of Bigotry? Devolution of the Immigration Power, Equal Protection, and Federalism Michael J. Wishnie · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access May 2001 55
21 Realising Women’s Human Rights in Malaysia: The EMPOWER Report Juanita Elias · Asian Studies Review 3 Apr 2015 54
22 A Right to Belong: Legal Protection of Sociological Membership in the Application of Article 12(4) of the ICCPR Ryan Liss · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 21 Sep 2013 54
23 Revitalizing the City in an Anti‐Urban Context: Extreme Right and the Rise of Urban Policies in Flanders, Belgium Pascal De Decker, Christian Kesteloot, Filip De Maesschalck et al. · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Mar 2005 51
24 Legislation, education reform and social transformation: the People's Republic of China's experience Wing‐Wah Law · International Journal of Educational Development Nov 2002 50
25 Human Rights Abroad: When Do Human Rights Treaty Obligations Apply Extraterritorially? Oona A. Hathaway, Elizabeth Nielsen, Aileen E. Nowlan et al. · bepress Legal Repository Open access Jun 2011 48
26 Chinese Society and its New Emerging Culture Guy Olivier Faure · Journal of Contemporary China Open access 19 Jun 2008 47
27 Controlling Irregular Migration in Canada: Reconciling Security Concerns with Human Rights Protection François Crépeau, Delphine Nakache · Papyrus : Institutional Repository (Université de Montréal) Open access 2006 47
28 Equity or Equality for Women? Understanding CEDAW’s Equality Principles Alda Facio, Martha I. Morgan · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2009 45
29 Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform Alex Wang · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 12 Oct 2017 43
30 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Its Implications for the Rights of Elderly People Under International Law Arlene S. Kanter · bepress Legal Repository Open access 2009 43
31 Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China: New Socialist Countryside Anna Lisa Ahlers Open access 31 Jan 2014 42
32 Integrated general education: A brief look back Catherine M. Wehlburg · New Directions for Teaching and Learning Mar 2010 41
33 Immigrant Il-Legality: Geopolitical and Legal Borders in the US, 1882–Present Mathew Coleman · Geopolitics Apr 2012 40
34 The Urbanization of International Law and International Relations: The Rising Soft Power of Cities in Global Governance Chrystie Flournoy Swiney · Michigan Journal of International Law Open access 2020 39
35 Regularization of Irregular Migrants and Social Policies: Comparative Perspectives Albert Kraler · Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 28 Dec 2018 38
36 The Urban Governance of Asylum as a “Battleground”: Policies of Exclusion and Efforts of Inclusion in Italian Towns Maurizio Ambrosini · Geographical Review Open access 26 Feb 2020 37
37 Cities and plural understandings of human rights: agents, actors, arenas Barbara M. Oomen, Elif Durmuş · The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law Open access 4 May 2019 37
38 China’s Long March towards Rule of Law or China’s Turn against Law? Albert H.Y. Chen · The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law Mar 2016 36
39 ¿Se enseña coeducación en la Universidad? Pilar Ballarín Domingo · Atlánticas Revista Internacional de Estudios Feministas Open access 12 Jan 2018 36
40 Judicial Review of Refugee Determinations: The Luck of the Draw? Sean Rehaag · eYLS (Yale Law School) Open access 2012 35
41 The right to work on the street: Public space and constitutional rights Rodrigo Meneses Reyes, José A Caballero-Juárez · Planning Theory 19 Sep 2013 35
42 Children's welfare and human rights under the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention – the ruling in Re E Victoria Stephens, Nigel Lowe · Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law Mar 2012 34
43 Pulling human rights back in? local authorities, international law and the reception of undocumented migrants Moritz Baumgärtel, Barbara M. Oomen · The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law Open access 4 May 2019 33
44 The Illusion of Chaos: Why Ungoverned Spaces Aren't Ungoverned, and Why that Matters Jennifer Keister · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 9 Dec 2014 33
45 Coming Out in Canada: The Immigration of Same-Sex Couples Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act Nicole LaViolette · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2004 33
46 The Constitutional Dimension of Immigration Federalism Clare Huntington · FLASH - Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship & History (Fordham University) Open access 7 Mar 2007 33
47 Borders and Cities: Perspectives from North America and Europe Christophe Sohn, Francisco Lara‐Valencia · Journal of Borderlands Studies Aug 2013 32
48 ‘Everything went according to the rules’. Female citizen sponsors’ legal consciousness, intimate citizenship and family migration law Betty de Hart, E.A. Besselsen · Identities Open access 16 Feb 2020 31
49 The Pragmatic Court: Reinterpreting the Supreme People’s Court of China Taisu Zhang · Duke Law Scholarship Repository (Duke University) Open access 15 Aug 2019 31
50 Discrimination at the Margins: The Intersectionality of Homelessness & Other Marginalized Groups Kaya Lurie, Breanne Schuster, Sara Rankin · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2015 31

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