| Complexities of indigeneity and autochthony: An African example M Pelican American Ethnologist 36 (1), 52-65, 2009 | 211 | 2009 |
| Migration to the Gulf States and China: local perspectives from Cameroon P Tatah, M Pelican African Diaspora 2 (2), 229-244, 2009 | 72 | 2009 |
| Sharing or dividing the land? Land rights and farmer-herder relations in Burkina Faso and Northwest Cameroon A Dafinger, M Pelican Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines …, 2006 | 67 | 2006 |
| International migration: Virtue or vice? Perspectives from Cameroon M Pelican Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 39 (2), 237-258, 2013 | 65 | 2013 |
| Mbororo claims to regional citizenship and minority status in North-West Cameroon M Pelican Africa 78 (4), 540-560, 2008 | 59 | 2008 |
| Getting along in the Grassfields-interethnic relations and identity politics in Northwest Cameroon M Pelican Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2006 | 50 | 2006 |
| Between regular and irregular employment: subverting the kafala system in the GCC countries S Damir-Geilsdorf, M Pelican Migration and Development 8 (2), 155-175, 2019 | 46 | 2019 |
| Global African entrepreneurs: A new research perspective on contemporary African migration M Şaul, M Pelican Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic …, 2014 | 38 | 2014 |
| Local perspectives on transnational relations of Cameroonian migrants M Pelican, P Tatah, B Ndjio African Sociological Review/Revue Africaine de Sociologie 12 (2), 2008 | 36 | 2008 |
| Friendship among pastoral Fulbe in northwest Cameroon M Pelican African Study Monographs 33 (3), 165-188, 2012 | 34 | 2012 |
| The indigenous rights movement in Africa: Perspectives from Botswana and Cameroon M Pelican, J Maruyama African Study Monographs 36 (1), 49-74, 2015 | 32 | 2015 |
| How immigration is shaping Chinese society FN Pieke, B Ahl, E Barabantseva, M Pelican, T Speelman, W Feng, X Biao MERICS China Monitor 13, 1-12, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| Urban lifeworlds of Cameroonian migrants in Dubai M Pelican Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic …, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |
| Freundschaftsprozesse in Afrika aus sozial-anthropologischer Perspektive: Eine Einführung (Processes of Friendship in Africa: Introduction) T Grätz, B Meier, M Pelican Africa Spectrum, 9-39, 2004 | 25 | 2004 |
| Land rights and the politics of integration: pastoralists' strategies in a comparative view A Dafinger, M Pelican | 23* | 2002 |
| Masks and staffs: identity politics in the Cameroon Grassfields M Pelican Berghahn Books, 2015 | 22 | 2015 |
| Sharing or dividing the land? Land rights and herder-farmer relations in a comparative perspective M Pelican, A Dafinger Canadian Journal of African Studies 40 (1), 127-151, 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| Intersectionality and the labour market in the United Arab Emirates J Ngeh, M Pelican Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 171-194, 2018 | 14 | 2018 |
| “Making a future” in contemporary Africa. Introduction M Pelican, JP Heiss Journal des Africanistes 84 (1), 7-19, 2014 | 14 | 2014 |
| Ethnicity as a political resource M Pelican University of Cologne Forum» Ethnicity as a Political Resource «(ed …, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
