| Introduction: Hope over time—Crisis, immobility and future-making N Kleist, S Jansen History and Anthropology 27 (4), 373-392, 2016 | 239 | 2016 |
| In the name of diaspora: Between struggles for recognition and political aspirations N Kleist Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 34 (7), 1127-1143, 2008 | 186 | 2008 |
| Mobilising ‘the diaspora’: Somali transnational political engagement N Kleist Journal of ethnic and migration studies 34 (2), 307-323, 2008 | 172 | 2008 |
| Introduction: Agents of change? Staging and governing diasporas and the African state S Turner, N Kleist African Studies 72 (2), 192-206, 2013 | 128 | 2013 |
| Negotiating respectable masculinity: Gender and recognition in the Somali diaspora N Kleist African Diaspora 3 (2), 185-206, 2010 | 112 | 2010 |
| Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration N Kleist, D Thorsen Taylor & Francis, 2017 | 100 | 2017 |
| Modern chiefs: Tradition, development and return among traditional authorities in Ghana N Kleist African Affairs 110 (441), 629-647, 2011 | 83 | 2011 |
| Nomads, sailors and refugees N Kleist DIIS: Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, 2004 | 70 | 2004 |
| Introduction: Studying hope and uncertainty in African migration N Kleist Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration, 1-20, 2016 | 61 | 2016 |
| Spaces of Recognition: An analysis of Somali-Danish associational engagement and diasporic mobilization N Kleist Sociologisk Institut, Københavns Universitet, 2007 | 58 | 2007 |
| Disrupted migration projects: The moral economy of involuntary return to Ghana from Libya N Kleist Africa 87 (2), 322-342, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| Trajectories of involuntary return migration to Ghana: Forced relocation processes and post-return life N Kleist Geoforum 116, 272-281, 2020 | 38 | 2020 |
| Flexible politics of belonging: diaspora mobilisation in Ghana N Kleist African Studies 72 (2), 285-306, 2013 | 38 | 2013 |
| 10 Returning with Nothing but an Empty Bag N Kleist Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration, 173, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| Roots, Rights and Responsibilities. Place-making and Repatriation among Somalis in Denmark and Somaliland M Fink-Nielsen, P Hansen, N Kleist Stichproben. Vienna Journal of Critical African Studies 4 (7), 25-48, 2004 | 28 | 2004 |
| Understanding Diaspora Organisations in European Development Cooperation—Approaches, Challenges and Ways Ahead N Kleist New Diversities 16 (2), 55-70, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |
| Somali–Scandinavian Dreaming. When’the diaspora’returns to the desert N Kleist Living Across Worlds. Diaspora, Development and Transnational Engagement …, 2007 | 22 | 2007 |
| Diaspora groups and development in fragile situations: Lessons learnt N Kleist, I Vammen DIIS Report, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| Pushing development: a case study of highly skilled male return migration to Ghana N Kleist Africa’s return migrants: The new developers, 64-86, 2015 | 19 | 2015 |
| Europe and the refugee situation: Human Security Implications NN Sørensen, N Kleist, H Lucht, H Holm, F Splidsboel DIIS Report, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
