| Beyond the border: Clandestine migration journeys Ċ Mainwaring, N Brigden Geopolitics 21 (2), 243-262, 2016 | 227 | 2016 |
| Migrant agency: Negotiating borders and migration controls Ċ Mainwaring Migration studies 4 (3), 289-308, 2016 | 204 | 2016 |
| Matryoshka journeys: Im/mobility during migration N Brigden, Ċ Mainwaring Geopolitics 21 (2), 407-434, 2016 | 111 | 2016 |
| Constructing a crisis: The role of immigration detention in Malta C Mainwaring Population, Space and Place 18 (6), 687-700, 2012 | 106 | 2012 |
| At Europe's Edge: Migration and crisis in the Mediterranean Ċ Mainwaring Oxford University Press, 2019 | 78 | 2019 |
| Detention-as-spectacle C Mainwaring, SJ Silverman International Political Sociology 11 (1), 21-38, 2017 | 75 | 2017 |
| Criminalizing solidarity: Search and rescue in a neo-colonial sea Ċ Mainwaring, D DeBono Environment and planning C: politics and space 39 (5), 1030-1048, 2021 | 62 | 2021 |
| Small states and nonmaterial power: Creating crises and shaping migration policies in Malta, Cyprus, and the European Union C Mainwaring Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 12 (2), 103-122, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| Resisting distalization? Malta and Cyprus’ influence on EU migration and asylum policies C Mainwaring Refugee Survey Quarterly 31 (4), 38-66, 2012 | 40 | 2012 |
| Understanding immigration detention and its human impact SJ Silverman, A Nethery Immigration Detention, 1-12, 2015 | 38 | 2015 |
| On the edge of exclusion: The changing nature of migration in Cyprus and Malta C Mainwaring Cyprus Review 20 (2), 19-49, 2008 | 35 | 2008 |
| Immigration detention: an Anglo model C Mainwaring, ML Cook Migration Studies 7 (4), 455-476, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| In the face of revolution: the Libyan civil war and migration politics in Southern Europe C Mainwaring University of Malta. Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, 2012 | 22 | 2012 |
| Migrant Solidarity Work in Times of ‘Crisis’ Ċ Mainwaring, G Mulvey, T Piacentini, S Hales, R Lamb Nordic Journal of Migration Research 10 (4), 74-89, 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| Transgressive Solidarity D DeBono, C Mainwaring Nordic journal of migration research 10 (4), 90-106, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Governing migration from the margins C Mainwaring, M Walton-Roberts Social & Legal Studies 27 (2), 131-141, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| Subversive Knowledge in Times of Global Political Crisis: A Manifesto for Ethnography in the Study of International Relations N Brigden, Ċ Mainwaring International Studies Perspectives 23 (2), 191-208, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| Malta C Mainwaring European Immigration: A Sourcebook. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
| Small states in EU migration governance: The power to exclude C Mainwaring Paper for IPSA-AIPS Conference, 2011 | 7 | 2011 |
| Transnational Migration and Control Ċ Mainwaring Detaining the Immigrant Other: Global and Transnational Issues, 117, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
