Arshad Isakjee

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 661 citations indexed

About

Arshad Isakjee is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Arshad Isakjee has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 661 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Clinical Psychology and 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Arshad Isakjee's work include Migration, Refugees, and Integration (15 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (8 papers) and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 papers). Arshad Isakjee is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Refugees, and Integration (15 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (8 papers) and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 papers). Arshad Isakjee collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and Russia. Arshad Isakjee's co-authors include Thom Davies, Surindar Dhesi, Jelena Obradović‐Wochnik, Chris Allen, Colin Lorne, Lucy Mayblin, Joe Turner, Phil Jones and Basia Spalek and has published in prestigious journals such as Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, Geoforum and Environment and Planning D Society and Space.

In The Last Decade

Arshad Isakjee

22 papers receiving 616 citations

Hit Papers

Violent Inaction: The Necropolitical Experience of Refuge... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Violent Inaction: The Necropolitical Experience of Refugees in Europe
    2017 248 citations Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee et al. Antipode profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Arshad Isakjee United Kingdom 11 537 175 120 87 69 23 661
Kate Coddington United States 12 478 0.9× 164 0.9× 73 0.6× 132 1.5× 62 0.9× 28 595
Andrew Burridge United Kingdom 13 516 1.0× 144 0.8× 123 1.0× 138 1.6× 65 0.9× 30 639
Nancy Hiemstra United States 13 634 1.2× 213 1.2× 89 0.7× 109 1.3× 46 0.7× 25 720
Deirdre Conlon United States 13 651 1.2× 198 1.1× 85 0.7× 184 2.1× 37 0.5× 23 747
Heath Cabot United States 10 487 0.9× 164 0.9× 147 1.2× 59 0.7× 21 0.3× 17 615
Maurice Stierl United Kingdom 15 693 1.3× 210 1.2× 204 1.7× 76 0.9× 20 0.3× 30 789
Georgie Wemyss United Kingdom 8 413 0.8× 127 0.7× 146 1.2× 117 1.3× 15 0.2× 16 516
Glenda Garelli United Kingdom 11 720 1.3× 221 1.3× 192 1.6× 73 0.8× 23 0.3× 21 812
Cathrine Brun United Kingdom 13 621 1.2× 202 1.2× 165 1.4× 111 1.3× 31 0.4× 23 771
Kathryn Cassidy United Kingdom 9 397 0.7× 136 0.8× 147 1.2× 142 1.6× 15 0.2× 22 516

Countries citing papers authored by Arshad Isakjee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Arshad Isakjee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arshad Isakjee

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Davies, Thom, et al.. (2025). Four seasons of border violence: The co-option of the seasons into the management of migration. Geoforum. 160. 104207–104207. 2 indexed citations
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Mayblin, Lucy, et al.. (2024). Small Boats, Big Contracts: Extracting Value from the UK's Post‐Brexit Asylum ‘Crisis’. The Political Quarterly. 95(2). 253–262. 1 indexed citations
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Davies, Thom, Arshad Isakjee, & Jelena Obradović‐Wochnik. (2024). The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border. Geopolitics. 31(2). 531–559. 7 indexed citations
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Davies, Thom, et al.. (2024). Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 42(5-6). 776–802. 4 indexed citations
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Mayblin, Lucy, et al.. (2024). ‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 50(16). 3894–3912. 7 indexed citations
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Davies, Thom, Arshad Isakjee, & Jelena Obradović‐Wochnik. (2022). Epistemic Borderwork: Violent Pushbacks, Refugees, and the Politics of Knowledge at the EU Border. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(1). 169–188. 46 indexed citations
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Davies, Thom, Arshad Isakjee, Lucy Mayblin, & Joe Turner. (2021). Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 44(13). 2307–2327. 16 indexed citations
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Isakjee, Arshad, et al.. (2019). Blood, body and belonging: the geographies of halal food consumption in the UK. Social & Cultural Geography. 22(4). 581–602. 9 indexed citations
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Davies, Thom & Arshad Isakjee. (2018). Ruins of Empire: Refugees, race and the postcolonial geographies of European migrant camps. Geoforum. 102. 214–217. 53 indexed citations
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Davies, Thom, Arshad Isakjee, & Surindar Dhesi. (2017). Violent Inaction: The Necropolitical Experience of Refugees in Europe. Antipode. 49(5). 1263–1284. 248 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dhesi, Surindar, Arshad Isakjee, & Thom Davies. (2017). Public health in the Calais refugee camp: environment, health and exclusion. Critical Public Health. 28(2). 140–152. 38 indexed citations
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Jones, Phil, et al.. (2016). Urban landscapes and the atmosphere of place: exploring subjective experience in the study of urban form. Urban Morphology. 21(1). 10 indexed citations
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Isakjee, Arshad. (2016). Dissonant belongings: The evolving spatial identities of young Muslim men in the UK. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 48(7). 1337–1353. 31 indexed citations
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Dhesi, Surindar, Arshad Isakjee, & Thom Davies. (2015). An environmental health assessment of the new migrant camp in Calais. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 14 indexed citations
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Allen, Chris & Arshad Isakjee. (2014). Controversy, Islam and politics: an exploration of the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ affair through the eyes of British Muslim elites. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38(11). 1852–1867. 4 indexed citations
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Allen, Chris, et al.. (2013). "Maybe we are hated" : the experience and impact of anti-Muslim hate on British Muslim women. 10 indexed citations
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Spalek, Basia, Arshad Isakjee, & Thom Davies. (2012). Panic on the streets of Birmingham? Struggles over space and belonging in the Revanchist City. Criminal Justice Matters. 87(1). 14–15. 4 indexed citations
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Isakjee, Arshad. (2011). Project Champion and the Securitisation of Muslim Space In Birmingham. 1 indexed citations

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