Peter Nyers

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Peter Nyers is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Nyers has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Peter Nyers's work include Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 papers), Global Security and Public Health (4 papers) and Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 papers). Peter Nyers is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 papers), Global Security and Public Health (4 papers) and Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 papers). Peter Nyers collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Italy and Singapore. Peter Nyers's co-authors include Engin F. Isin, Kim Rygiel, Bryan S. Turner, Michelle Lowry, Richard Stubbs and Lauren K. Dunn and has published in prestigious journals such as American Ethnologist, Economy and Society and Third World Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Peter Nyers

27 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement

2012 249 citations Peter Nyers et al. profile →
Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies

2014 219 citations Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyers profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Nyers Canada	15	1.4k	509	277	219	215	32	1.7k
Kim Rygiel Canada	15	1.1k 0.8×	399 0.8×	339 1.2×	129 0.6×	150 0.7×	27	1.3k
Michael Collyer United Kingdom	25	1.7k 1.2×	440 0.9×	374 1.4×	617 2.8×	115 0.5×	69	2.0k
Khalid Koser United Kingdom	24	1.6k 1.1×	384 0.8×	314 1.1×	592 2.7×	153 0.7×	55	1.8k
Patricia Ehrkamp United States	17	1.1k 0.8×	212 0.4×	164 0.6×	382 1.7×	137 0.6×	31	1.3k
Caroline Nagel United States	21	1.1k 0.8×	210 0.4×	154 0.6×	431 2.0×	118 0.5×	53	1.3k
Alana Lentin Australia	16	919 0.6×	329 0.6×	77 0.3×	97 0.4×	120 0.6×	46	1.3k
Umut Erel United Kingdom	17	1.1k 0.8×	214 0.4×	151 0.5×	266 1.2×	151 0.7×	38	1.4k
Anne‐Marie Fortier United Kingdom	16	803 0.6×	184 0.4×	71 0.3×	186 0.8×	111 0.5×	33	1.0k
Martin F. Manalansan United States	13	1.1k 0.8×	178 0.3×	87 0.3×	222 1.0×	115 0.5×	39	1.5k
Ahmet İçduygu Türkiye	21	980 0.7×	622 1.2×	169 0.6×	206 0.9×	60 0.3×	64	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Nyers

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Nyers, Peter. (2024). Refusals of noncitizenship. American Ethnologist. 51(3). 388–389. 1 indexed citations

2.

Nyers, Peter. (2015). Migrant Citizenships and Autonomous Mobilities. 1(1). 98 indexed citations

3.

Isin, Engin F. & Peter Nyers. (2014). Introduction: Globalizing citizenship studies. 23–33. 14 indexed citations

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Nyers, Peter. (2013). Rethinking Refugees. 14 indexed citations

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Nyers, Peter. (2011). Alien Equality. 9(1).

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Nyers, Peter. (2011). No One is Illegal Between City and Nation. Studies in Social Justice. 4(2). 127–143. 168 indexed citations

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Nyers, Peter. (2010). Dueling designs: The politics of rescuing dual citizens. Citizenship Studies. 14(1). 47–60. 15 indexed citations

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Nyers, Peter. (2010). Missing Citizenship. International Political Sociology. 4(1). 95–98. 3 indexed citations

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Dunn, Lauren K., Peter Nyers, & Richard Stubbs. (2010). Western interventionism versus East Asian non-interference: competing ‘global’ norms in the Asian century. The Pacific Review. 23(3). 295–312. 13 indexed citations

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Isin, Engin F., Peter Nyers, & Bryan S. Turner. (2009). TheThinking Citizenship Series. Citizenship Studies. 13(1). 1–2. 9 indexed citations

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Isin, Engin F., Peter Nyers, & Bryan S. Turner. (2008). Citizenship between Past and Future. Routledge eBooks. 41 indexed citations

12.

Nyers, Peter. (2008). In solitary, in solidarity. European Journal of Cultural Studies. 11(3). 333–349. 15 indexed citations

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Nyers, Peter, et al.. (2007). "We Live in a Country of UNHCR"—Refugee Protests and Global Political Society. International Political Sociology. 1(4). 356–372. 77 indexed citations

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Nyers, Peter. (2007). Introduction: Why Citizenship Studies. Citizenship Studies. 11(1). 1–4. 43 indexed citations

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Nyers, Peter. (2005). The Regularization of Non-Status Immigrants in Canada: Limits and Prospects. 52(55). 1670–89. 3 indexed citations

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Nyers, Peter. (2005). Rethinking Refugees: Beyond State of Emergency. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 168 indexed citations

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Nyers, Peter. (2004). Introduction: What's left of citizenship?. Citizenship Studies. 8(3). 203–215. 45 indexed citations

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Nyers, Peter. (2003). Abject Cosmopolitanism: the politics of protection in the anti-deportation movement. Third World Quarterly. 24(6). 1069–1093. 268 indexed citations

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Lowry, Michelle & Peter Nyers. (2003). "No One Is Illegal": The Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights in Canada. (Roundtable Report). 21(3). 66. 8 indexed citations

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Lowry, Michelle & Peter Nyers. (2003). Roundtable Report “No One Is Illegal”: The Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights in Canada. Refuge Canada s Journal on Refuge. 66–72. 13 indexed citations

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