Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the phenomenon of immigrant entrepreneurship in advanced economies, focusing on topics such as mixed embeddedness, transnational entrepreneurship, social capital, diaspora entrepreneurship, and refugee entrepreneurship. It delves into the challenges, opportunities, and characteristics of immigrant-owned businesses and their impact on urban economic development.

Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Ethnic Minority Business
Transnational Entrepreneurship
Mixed Embeddedness
Social Capital
Diaspora Entrepreneurship
Refugee Entrepreneurship
Cultural Diversity
Self-Employment
Minority Enterprise

Research works: 33k
In the world top 10%: 3.4k
Top-10% rate: 10.3%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +6%
Largest producer: United States

Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Which countries lead Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 621 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.2k works
2 China 621 works
3 United Kingdom 417 works
4 Germany 267 works
5 Canada 219 works
6 Australia 200 works
7 France 171 works
8 India 165 works
9 Indonesia 165 works
10 Brazil 155 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.

United States1,187 · 33.3%China621 · 17.4%United Kingdom417 · 11.7%Germany267 · 7.5%6 others listed1,076 · 30.2%

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

Which institutions lead Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy research, followed by National University of Singapore and City University of New York.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 54 works
2 National University of SingaporeSingapore 26 works
3 City University of New YorkUnited States 25 works
4 University of TorontoCanada 22 works
5 The University of MelbourneAustralia 20 works
6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 19 works
7 University of British ColumbiaCanada 17 works
8 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 17 works
9 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 17 works
10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy include Anselm L. Strauss, Christopher D. Manning and André M. N. Renzaho.

1 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
2 Christopher D. Manning United States 179k citations
3 André M. N. Renzaho Australia 168k 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, Ethnicity, and Economy?

The most cited paper in Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy is "Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology" (Alejandro Portes, 1998), with 12,059 citations. Next come "Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference" (3,466) and "The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men" (2,824).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology Alejandro Portes · Annual Review of Sociology Review	Aug 1998	12,059
2	Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference Akhil Gupta, JAMES G. FERGUSON · Cultural Anthropology Open access	Feb 1992	3,466
3	The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men Barry R. Chiswick · Journal of Political Economy	Oct 1978	2,824
4	Contextualizing Entrepreneurship—Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward Friederike Welter · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice	2011	2,693
5	Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return William Safran · Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies	Mar 1991	2,580

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Where is Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy research done?

The largest centres of Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Shanghai (China) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 103 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 102 works
3 ShanghaiChina 64 works
4 TokyoJapan 64 works
5 New YorkUnited States 63 works
6 ParisFrance 62 works
7 MelbourneAustralia 60 works
8 TorontoCanada 50 works
9 SingaporeSingapore 49 works
10 GuangzhouChina 48 works

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Where is the best place to study Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy?

Among universities, judged by research, National University of Singapore, University College London and Toronto Metropolitan University 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	National University of SingaporeSingapore	72.9	10.9%	4.3×	26	-3.8%
2	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	72.8	16.0%	2.4×	19	+89.4%
3	Toronto Metropolitan UniversityCanada	71.7	19.5%	14.8×	15	+62.5%
4	City University of New YorkUnited States	67.0	17.4%	8.9×	25	+1.5%
5	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	66.8	32.3%	2.4×	10	+3.7%
6	University of British ColumbiaCanada	66.4	20.9%	2.9×	17	+5.3%
7	Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark	66.3	29.1%	12.8×	10	+63.2%
8	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	66.2	25.0%	3.9×	14	-1.2%
9	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	64.2	16.8%	3.2×	12	+42.0%
10	University of JohannesburgSouth Africa	60.6	11.9%	5.5×	17	+110.6%
11	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	60.5	15.8%	4.6×	14	+3.0%
12	University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom	57.7	18.9%	3.4×	9	+58.2%
13	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	56.6	14.7%	3.0×	13	+31.9%
14	University of California, IrvineUnited States	56.6	18.5%	3.5×	11	+46.3%
15	University of TorontoCanada	55.0	9.5%	2.1×	22	-7.5%
16	The University of MelbourneAustralia	55.0	17.5%	3.6×	20	-20.3%
17	Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia	54.8	14.9%	7.1×	10	+112.7%
18	University of GroningenNetherlands	54.1	17.8%	2.6×	9	+58.9%
19	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	53.8	6.0%	4.0×	16	+52.3%
20	University of SussexUnited Kingdom	53.8	23.5%	7.2×	9	-34.3%
21	RMIT UniversityAustralia	52.9	12.8%	5.4×	10	+25.8%
22	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	52.3	15.6%	1.8×	12	-25.0%
23	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom	52.2	16.1%	3.2×	10	+65.3%
24	University of PretoriaSouth Africa	51.5	24.3%	4.1×	9	+20.3%
25	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom	50.1	12.6%	2.6×	11	+31.0%
26	Lund UniversitySweden	49.8	10.0%	4.2×	12	+92.5%
27	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands	49.8	21.6%	4.0×	8	+23.4%
28	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States	47.5	13.4%	2.5×	11	+59.1%
29	University of LeedsUnited Kingdom	47.5	19.6%	3.1×	9	-2.3%
30	University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom	47.5	31.3%	2.2×	8	-35.7%
31	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina	47.4	12.7%	1.6×	17	+46.4%
32	The University of SydneyAustralia	47.4	22.8%	1.8×	11	-7.6%
33	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	47.2	14.0%	2.5×	14	-21.6%
34	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States	47.1	16.9%	2.6×	11	+32.1%
35	London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom	46.9	14.4%	8.9×	11	-22.0%
36	University of Hong KongChina	46.0	6.8%	3.0×	14	-5.7%
37	Australian National UniversityAustralia	45.6	14.5%	5.1×	13	-23.5%
38	University of MilanItaly	45.2	17.0%	2.9×	10	+82.3%
39	Monash UniversityAustralia	45.1	15.3%	2.4×	12	-7.3%
40	McMaster UniversityCanada	44.5	16.8%	3.0×	9	+102.6%
41	Indiana UniversityUnited States	43.6	29.7%	1.8×	9	-4.1%
42	University of Technology SydneyAustralia	42.1	6.0%	4.5×	10	+12.0%
43	Bielefeld UniversityGermany	38.5	5.0%	7.9×	9	+12.9%
44	University of LeicesterUnited Kingdom	38.3	4.0%	6.5×	9	+104.2%
45	Hong Kong Baptist UniversityChina	36.4	8.8%	8.9×	8	-37.0%
46	Iscte – Instituto Universitário de LisboaPortugal	32.2	3.5%	22.9×	10	+14.3%
47	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	30.8	1.0%	1.9×	17	-55.3%

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, Ethnicity, and Economy, country by country

Is Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy.

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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, Ethnicity, and Economy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

Fractional works of Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy 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.

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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Which countries lead Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy?

What are the most cited papers in Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy?

Where is Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy?

Is Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

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