| Negotiating national identity: Immigrants, minorities, and the struggle for ethnicity in Brazil J Lesser Duke University Press, 1999 | 725 | 1999 |
| A negociação da identidade nacional: imigrantes, minorias e a luta pela etnicidade no Brasil J Lesser Unesp, 2001 | 594 | 2001 |
| Immigration, ethnicity, and national identity in Brazil, 1808 to the present J Lesser Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 290 | 2013 |
| Welcoming the undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish question J Lesser Univ of California Press, 2023 | 273 | 2023 |
| O Brasil e a questão judaica: imigração, diplomacia e preconceito J Lesser Imago, 1995 | 228 | 1995 |
| Searching for home abroad: Japanese Brazilians and transnationalism J Lesser Duke University Press, 2003 | 173 | 2003 |
| A discontented diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the meanings of ethnic militancy, 1960–1980 J Lesser Duke University Press, 2007 | 135 | 2007 |
| A invenção da brasilidade: identidade nacional, etnicidade e políticas de imigração J Lesser, P Zimbres Editora Unesp, 2015 | 134 | 2015 |
| Arab and Jewish immigrants in Latin America: images and realities I Klich, J Lesser Routledge, 2013 | 124 | 2013 |
| Cárcere público: processos de exotização entre imigrantes brasileiros no Porto, Portugal IJR Machado Campinas: Tese de doutorado em Sociologia. Unicamp, 2003 | 119 | 2003 |
| Diasporas: Concepts, intersections, identities J Lesser, H Bhabha, P Mandaville, T Lyons, C Dwyer, M Vasquez, ... Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 | 106 | 2010 |
| A geografia social do Zika no Brasil J Lesser, U Kitron Estudos avançados 30, 167-175, 2016 | 98 | 2016 |
| Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans J Lesser, R Rein UNM Press, 2008 | 85 | 2008 |
| Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants J Lesser Minorities, and the Struggle, 1999 | 75 | 1999 |
| Introduction: “Turco” Immigrants in Latin America I Klich, J Lesser The Americas 53 (1), 1-14, 1996 | 71 | 1996 |
| Challenging particularity: Jews as a lens on Latin American Ethnicity J Lesser, R Rein 1 Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 1 (2), 249-263, 2006 | 61 | 2006 |
| Immigration and shifting concepts of national identity in Brazil during the Vargas era J Lesser Luso-Brazilian Review, 23-44, 1994 | 55 | 1994 |
| Always “outsiders”: Asians, naturalization, and the Supreme Court JH Lesser Amerasia Journal 12 (1), 83-100, 1985 | 45 | 1985 |
| Migration in Brazil: the making of a multicultural society S Wejsa, J Lesser Migration Policy Institute 29, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
| Uma diáspora descontente: os nip-brasileiros e os significados da militância étnica 1960-1980 J Lesser, P Zimbres Paz e Terra, 2008 | 40 | 2008 |
