Most cited papers in Migration and Exile Studies

Migration and Exile Studies

What are the most cited papers in Migration and Exile Studies?

The most cited paper in Migration and Exile Studies is "After citizenship: autonomy of migration, organisational ontology and mobile commons" (Dimitris Papadopoulos, Vassilis S. Tsianos, 2013), with 550 citations. Next come "The biopolitics of otherness: Undocumented foreigners and racial discrimination in French public debate" (443) and "Bordering solidarities: migrant activism and the politics of movement and camps at Calais" (383).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 43 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	After citizenship: autonomy of migration, organisational ontology and mobile commons Dimitris Papadopoulos, Vassilis S. Tsianos · Citizenship Studies	Apr 2013	550
2	The biopolitics of otherness: Undocumented foreigners and racial discrimination in French public debate Didier Fassin · Anthropology Today	Feb 2001	443
3	Bordering solidarities: migrant activism and the politics of movement and camps at Calais Kim Rygiel · Citizenship Studies	Feb 2011	383
4	Investigating Narrative Inequality: African Asylum Seekers' Stories in Belgium Jan Blommaert · Discourse & Society	Jul 2001	381
5	‘Volunteer Humanitarianism’: volunteers and humanitarian aid in the Jungle refugee camp of Calais Elisa Sandri · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies	11 Jul 2017	265
6	Retour sur la notion d’objet-frontière Pascale Trompette, Dominique Vinck · Revue d anthropologie des connaissances Open access	2009	254
7	Love, Sexuality and Migration: Mapping the Issue(s) Nicola Mai, Russell King · Mobilities Open access	22 Sep 2009	251
8	The new narrative of accessibility: its potential contribution to discourses in (transport) geography John H. Farrington · Journal of Transport Geography	23 Jan 2007	247
9	From humanitarian exceptionalism to contingent care: Care and enforcement at the humanitarian border Jill M. Williams · Political Geography	10 Feb 2015	233
10	Containment through mobility: migrants’ spatial disobediences and the reshaping of control through the hotspot system Martina Tazzioli · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Open access	26 Nov 2017	214
11	Delocalization, Humanitarianism, and Human Rights: The Mediterranean Border Between Exclusion and Inclusion Paolo Cuttitta · Antipode	10 Jun 2017	198
12	Mementoes as Transitional Objects in Human Displacement David J. Parkin · Journal of Material Culture	Nov 1999	198
13	“We are not animals!” Humanitarian border security and zoopolitical spaces in EUrope1 Nick Vaughan‐Williams · Political Geography Open access	2 Dec 2014	192
14	Manufacturing Smugglers: From Irregular to Clandestine Mobility in the Sahara Julien Brachet · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science	21 Feb 2018	189
15	Disability and Discourses of Mobility and Movement Rob Imrie · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space	Sep 2000	170
16	État de siège : A dying domesticating colonialism? Ghassan Hage · American Ethnologist	18 Jan 2016	169
17	Seeking refuge in Europe: spaces of transit and the violence of migration management Leonie Ansems de Vries, Elspeth Guild · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Open access	30 May 2018	149
18	Asylum and the Post-Political: Domopolitics, Depoliticisation and Acts of Citizenship Jonathan Darling · Antipode Open access	5 Jul 2013	149
19	Interventions on the state of sovereignty at the border Reece Jones, Corey Johnson, Wendy Yvonne Brown et al. · Political Geography	17 Feb 2017	144
20	‘Pour votre tranquillité’: Ambiance, atmosphere, and surveillance Peter Adey, Laure Brayer, Damien Masson et al. · Geoforum Open access	15 Jun 2013	144
21	A sea of struggle – activist border interventions in the Mediterranean Sea Maurice Stierl · Citizenship Studies	24 Jun 2016	141
22	Valuing mobility in a post COVID-19 world Tim Cresswell · Mobilities Open access	20 Dec 2020	136
23	‘Borderizing’ the Island Setting and Narratives of the Lampedusa ‘Border Play’ Paolo Cuttitta Open access	18 Mar 2015	135
24	Foucault, Borges, Heterotopia: Producing Knowledge in Other Spaces Robert J. Topinka · Foucault Studies Open access	Sep 2010	133
25	Territory and territorial stigmatisation: On the production, consequences and contestation of spatial disrepute Alistair Sisson · Progress in Human Geography Open access	2 Jul 2020	130
26	The ‘world of yoga’: The production and reproduction of therapeutic landscapes Anne‐Cécile Hoyez · Social Science & Medicine	11 Apr 2007	129
27	Thinking Lampedusa: border construction, the spectacle of bare life and the productivity of migrants Nick Dines, Nicola Montagna, Vincenzo Ruggiero · Ethnic and Racial Studies	14 Aug 2014	118
28	‘Living Liminality’: everyday experiences of asylum seekers in the ‘Direct Provision’ system in Ireland Zoë O’Reilly · Gender Place & Culture	22 May 2018	113
29	Where Have All The Babies Gone?: Toward an Anthropology of Infants (and Their Caretakers) Alma Gottlieb · Anthropological Quarterly	Jul 2000	113
30	Les migrations des jeunes Sahéliens : affirmation de soi et émancipation Mahamet Timéra · Autrepart Open access	Jun 2001	113
31	Conflicts of mobility, and the mobility of conflict: Rightlessness, presence, subjectivity, freedom Nicholas De Genova · Subjectivity	27 Oct 2009	105
32	Migration, solidarity and the limits of Europe Martina Tazzioli, William Walters · Global Discourse	2019	104
33	Aviation as deportation infrastructure: airports, planes, and expulsion William Walters · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies	26 Nov 2017	104
34	Performing deservingness. Humanitarian health care provision for migrants in Germany Susann Huschke · Social Science & Medicine	2 May 2014	103
35	The conceptual limits of the ‘migration journey’. De-exceptionalising mobility in the context of West African trajectories Joris Schapendonk, Matthieu Bolay, Janine Dahinden · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Open access	2 Sep 2020	102
36	Developmental borderwork and the International Organization for Migration Philippe M. Frowd · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies	29 Aug 2017	96
37	Is it simpler to leave or to stay put? Desired immobility in a Mexican village Diana Mata‐Codesal · Population Space and Place	27 Dec 2017	90
38	‘Illegal Aliens’ and the State, or: Bare Bodies vs the Zombie Willem Schinkel · International Sociology	Nov 2009	90
39	Specters at the Port of Entry:Understanding State Mobilities through an Ontology of Exclusion Alison Mountz · Mobilities	Sep 2011	88
40	Studying embodied encounters: autonomy of migration beyond its romanticization Stephan Scheel · Postcolonial Studies	Sep 2013	83
41	Why We Sleep Jerome M. Siegel · Scientific American Open access	Nov 2003	80
42	Policing the internal Schengen borders – managing the double bind between free movement and migration control Sara Casella Colombeau · Policing & Society Open access	21 Aug 2015	80
43	From controlling mobilities to control over women’s bodies: gendered effects of EU border externalization in Morocco Elsa Tyszler · Comparative Migration Studies Open access	18 Jun 2019	77
44	Examining the persistence of bounded spaces: remarks on regions, territories, and the practices of bordering Anssi Paasi · Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography Open access	2 Jan 2022	76
45	L’“agency” des enfants. Projet scientifique et politique des “childhood studies” Pascale Garnier · Education et sociétés Open access	29 Dec 2015	75
46	Gendered mobilities and vulnerabilities: refugee journeys to and in Europe Eléonore Kofman · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies	30 May 2018	71
47	Médecins Avec Frontières and the making of a humanitarian borderscape Polly Pallister‐Wilkins · Environment and Planning D Society and Space Open access	13 Nov 2017	71
48	Music, dancing and clothing as belonging and freedom among people seeking asylum in the UK Hannah Lewis · Leisure Studies	22 Oct 2014	71
49	Aware Migrants : The role of information campaigns in the management of migration Pierluigi Musarò · European Journal of Communication Open access	11 Nov 2019	70
50	Audializing migrant bodies: Sound and security at the border Michelle D. Weitzel · Security Dialogue Open access	21 Sep 2018	68

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