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Migration and Exile Studies

Migration and Exile Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 3.3k research works in it since 1952. 10.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex issues surrounding migration, borders, and social justice. It delves into topics such as refugee experiences, youth migration, humanitarianism, immigration policies, identity formation, and the sociopolitical ethics of border control. The papers critically examine the challenges faced by migrants and advocate for a more just and humane approach to migration and border management.

  • Migration
  • Borders
  • Social Justice
  • Refugees
  • Youth
  • Humanitarianism
  • Immigration
  • Identity
  • Ethics
  • Sociopolitical
Research works
3.3k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
354
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+43%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
65% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Migration and Exile Studies

Which countries lead Migration and Exile Studies research?

By volume, France and Spain publish the most (719 and 81 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 719 works
  2. 2 Spain 81 works
  3. 3 United States 52 works
  4. 4 ?? 47 works
  5. 5 Canada 41 works
  6. 6 Belgium 37 works
  7. 7 Italy 35 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 33 works
  9. 9 Switzerland 28 works
  10. 10 Germany 25 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

France: 65.5%Spain: 7.4%United States: 4.7%??: 4.3%6 others listed: 18.1%65%largest
France719 · 65.5%Spain81 · 7.4%United States52 · 4.7%??47 · 4.3%6 others listed199 · 18.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Migration and Exile Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Migration and Exile Studies research, followed by Université de Lyon and Université de Lorraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 191 works
  2. 2 Université de LyonFrance 29 works
  3. 3 Université de LorraineFrance 23 works
  4. 4 Université Paris CitéFrance 17 works
  5. 5 Université Paris NanterreFrance 17 works
  6. 6 Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 16 works
  7. 7 Université de StrasbourgFrance 15 works
  8. 8 Nantes UniversitéFrance 15 works
  9. 9 Université Rennes 2France 13 works
  10. 10 Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Migration and Exile Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Migration and Exile Studies include Bruno Latour, Ronald L. Rivest and Nicolas Gisin.

  1. 1 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  2. 2 Ronald L. Rivest United States 80k citations
  3. 3 Nicolas Gisin Switzerland 70k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Migration and Exile Studies?

The most cited paper in Migration and Exile Studies is "After citizenship: autonomy of migration, organisational ontology and mobile commons" (Dimitris Papadopoulos, Vassilis S. Tsianos, 2013), with 550 citations. Next come "The biopolitics of otherness: Undocumented foreigners and racial discrimination in French public debate" (443) and "Bordering solidarities: migrant activism and the politics of movement and camps at Calais" (383).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 After citizenship: autonomy of migration, organisational ontology and mobile commons Dimitris Papadopoulos, Vassilis S. Tsianos · Citizenship Studies Apr 2013 550
2 The biopolitics of otherness: Undocumented foreigners and racial discrimination in French public debate Didier Fassin · Anthropology Today Feb 2001 443
3 Bordering solidarities: migrant activism and the politics of movement and camps at Calais Kim Rygiel · Citizenship Studies Feb 2011 383
4 Investigating Narrative Inequality: African Asylum Seekers' Stories in Belgium Jan Blommaert · Discourse & Society Jul 2001 381
5 ‘Volunteer Humanitarianism’: volunteers and humanitarian aid in the Jungle refugee camp of Calais Elisa Sandri · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 11 Jul 2017 265
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Migration and Exile Studies research done?

The largest centres of Migration and Exile Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Rennes (France) and Nanterre (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Poitiers and Nanterre.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 199 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 35 works
  3. 3 RennesFrance 26 works
  4. 4 NanterreFrance 25 works
  5. 5 PoitiersFrance 25 works
  6. 6 NantesFrance 24 works
  7. 7 ToulouseFrance 22 works
  8. 8 StrasbourgFrance 22 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 20 works
  10. 10 MarseilleFrance 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PoitiersFR · 24.7 works103×
  2. NanterreFR · 25.3 works73×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Migration and Exile Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Migration and Exile Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Université de Lyon, Université Paris Cité and Aix-Marseille Université score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%5%10%mean 7.94%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Université de LyonUniversité Paris CitéAix-Marseille Univer…Université de Lorraine
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Université de LyonFrance 83.19.7%41.7×29 +94.4%
2Université Paris CitéFrance 71.27.9%21.2×17 +9.3%
3Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 57.66.2%36.0×13 +47.2%
4Université de LorraineFrance 55.05.8%55.7×23 +397.8%
5Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance 52.611.3%56.5×9 +82.4%
6Université de PoitiersFrance 50.76.4%84.2×12 +126.2%
7Université Clermont AuvergneFrance 48.88.3%64.9×11 +626.2%
8Université Paris 8France 48.37.9%97.7×13 +115.0%
9Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 45.16.0%15.6×12 +73.0%
10University of LiègeBelgium 38.39.9%23.5×9 -9.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Migration and Exile Studies, country by country

Is Migration and Exile Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Migration and Exile Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Migration and Exile Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0039% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Migration and Exile Studies0.0072% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Migration and Exile Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Migration and Exile Studies9.4% in 202520102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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