| Interrogating “urban citizenship” vis-à-vis undocumented migration MW Varsanyi Citizenship studies 10 (2), 229-249, 2006 | 425 | 2006 |
| Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in US Cities and States M Varsanyi Stanford University Press, 2010 | 410 | 2010 |
| Rescaling the “alien,” rescaling personhood: Neoliberalism, immigration, and the state MW Varsanyi Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98 (4), 877-896, 2008 | 330 | 2008 |
| Immigration policing through the backdoor: City ordinances, the" right to the city," and the exclusion of undocumented day laborers MW Varsanyi Urban Geography 29 (1), 29-52, 2008 | 329 | 2008 |
| A multilayered jurisdictional patchwork: Immigration federalism in the United States MW Varsanyi, PG Lewis, DM Provine, S Decker Law & Policy 34 (2), 138-158, 2012 | 309 | 2012 |
| The COVID-19 pandemic: Territorial, political and governance dimensions of the crisis K Dodds, VC Broto, K Detterbeck, M Jones, V Mamadouh, ... Territory, Politics, Governance 8 (3), 289-298, 2020 | 270 | 2020 |
| Beyond walls and cages: Prisons, borders, and global crisis A Mountz, A Bonds, B Libal, C Stenken, C Bejarano, JM Lawston, ... University of Georgia Press, 2012 | 267 | 2012 |
| Policing immigrants: Local law enforcement on the front lines SHVE Decker, MW Varsanyi, PG Lewis University of Chicago Press, 2016 | 215 | 2016 |
| Neoliberalism and nativism: Local anti‐immigrant policy activism and an emerging politics of scale MW Varsanyi International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35 (2), 295-311, 2011 | 186 | 2011 |
| Why do (some) city police departments enforce federal immigration law? Political, demographic, and organizational influences on local choices PG Lewis, DM Provine, MW Varsanyi, SH Decker Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 23 (1), 1-25, 2013 | 131 | 2013 |
| Documenting Undocumented Migrants: The Matrículas Consulares as Neoliberal Local Membership MW Varsanyi Geopolitics 12 (2), 299-319, 2007 | 96 | 2007 |
| On the frontier of local law enforcement: Local police and federal immigration law SH Decker, PG Lewis, DM Provine, MW Varsanyi Immigration, crime and justice 13, 261-276, 2009 | 86 | 2009 |
| The paradox of contemporary immigrant political mobilization: Organized labor, undocumented migrants, and electoral participation in Los Angeles MW Varsanyi Antipode 37 (4), 775-795, 2005 | 79 | 2005 |
| Local limits to migration control: Practices of selective migration policing in a restrictive national policy context A Leerkes, M Varsanyi, G Engbersen Police Quarterly 15 (4), 446-475, 2012 | 77 | 2012 |
| Immigration policy activism in US states and cities: interdisciplinary perspectives MW Varsanyi Taking local control: Immigration policy activism in US cities and states, 1-27, 2010 | 59 | 2010 |
| The rise and fall (and rise?) of non-citizen voting: Immigration and the shifting scales of citizenship and suffrage in the United States MW Varsanyi Space and Polity 9 (2), 113-134, 2005 | 48 | 2005 |
| Scaled down: Perspectives on state and local creation and enforcement of immigration law introduction to the special issue of law & policy DM Provine, MW Varsanyi Law & Pol'y 34, 105, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Introduction: Borderline contradictions: Neoliberalism, unauthorised migration, and intensifying immigration policing MW Varsanyi, J Nevins Geopolitics 12 (2), 223-227, 2007 | 41 | 2007 |
| Global cities from the ground up: a response to Peter Taylor MW Varsanyi Political Geography 19 (1), 33-38, 2000 | 29 | 2000 |
| City ordinances as ‘Immigration policing by proxy’: Local governments and the regulation of undocumented day laborers M Varsanyi Taking local control: Immigration policy activism in US cities and states …, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
