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Migration, Racism, and Human Rights

Migration, Racism, and Human Rights is a research topic within Health. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of international migration and public health, focusing on the impact of migration on healthcare access, social integration, and mental health. It delves into refugee law, migrant communities, and the influence of socioeconomic factors on the health outcomes of migrants. The papers also discuss the challenges posed by humanitarian crises and the role of public policy in addressing these issues.

  • International Migration
  • Healthcare Access
  • Refugee Law
  • Social Integration
  • Migrant Communities
  • Globalization
  • Public Policy
  • Mental Health
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Humanitarian Crisis
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
81% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Migration, Racism, and Human Rights

Which countries lead Migration, Racism, and Human Rights research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (3k and 163 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 3k works
  2. 2 Portugal 163 works
  3. 3 United States 141 works
  4. 4 Spain 102 works
  5. 5 Mexico 66 works
  6. 6 France 64 works
  7. 7 Chile 56 works
  8. 8 Argentina 45 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 37 works
  10. 10 Italy 31 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.

Brazil: 81.0%Portugal: 4.4%United States: 3.8%Spain: 2.7%6 others listed: 8.1%81%largest
Brazil3,010 · 81.0%Portugal163 · 4.4%United States141 · 3.8%Spain102 · 2.7%6 others listed299 · 8.1%

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

Which institutions lead Migration, Racism, and Human Rights research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Migration, Racism, and Human Rights research, followed by Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 100 works
  2. 2 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 82 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 78 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 68 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 63 works
  6. 6 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 59 works
  7. 7 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 55 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 53 works
  9. 9 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 50 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 49 works

Who are the leading researchers in Migration, Racism, and Human Rights?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Migration, Racism, and Human Rights include Déborah Carvalho Malta.

  1. 1 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k 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, Racism, and Human Rights?

The most cited paper in Migration, Racism, and Human Rights is "Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil" (Sian Lazar, 2009), with 907 citations. Next come "The lines that continue to separate us: borders in our `borderless' world" (906) and "Interventions on rethinking ‘the border’ in border studies" (636).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil Sian Lazar · Hispanic American Historical Review 7 Oct 2009 907
2 The lines that continue to separate us: borders in our `borderless' world David P Newman · Progress in Human Geography Apr 2006 906
3 Interventions on rethinking ‘the border’ in border studies Corey Johnson, Reece Jones, Anssi Paasi et al. · Political Geography Open access Feb 2011 636
4 After citizenship: autonomy of migration, organisational ontology and mobile commons Dimitris Papadopoulos, Vassilis S. Tsianos · Citizenship Studies Apr 2013 550
5 Para uma sociologia das ausências e uma sociologia das emergências Boaventura de Sousa Santos · Revista crítica de ciências sociais/Revista crítica de ciências sociais Open access 2002 545
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Where is Migration, Racism, and Human Rights research done?

The largest centres of Migration, Racism, and Human Rights research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Boa Vista, Macapá and Dourados.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 418 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 332 works
  3. 3 Belo HorizonteBrazil 114 works
  4. 4 BrasíliaBrazil 108 works
  5. 5 LisbonPortugal 88 works
  6. 6 FlorianópolisBrazil 87 works
  7. 7 Porto AlegreBrazil 85 works
  8. 8 SalvadorBrazil 73 works
  9. 9 CuritibaBrazil 71 works
  10. 10 RecifeBrazil 67 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Boa VistaBR · 29.7 works124×
  2. MacapáBR · 21.7 works76×
  3. DouradosBR · 22.2 works48×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Migration, Racism, and Human Rights than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Migration, Racism, and Human Rights?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 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%10%20%30%mean 11.94%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Iscte – Instituto Un…Universidade de São …Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 72.013.2%14.5×100 -2.2%
2Iscte – Instituto Universitário de LisboaPortugal 67.624.9%31.2×9 +62.3%
3Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 63.68.1%29.9×78 +11.9%
4Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 62.99.6%20.9×53 +16.8%
5Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 61.26.1%51.7×82 +21.2%
6Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 60.913.9%24.1×32 -13.1%
7Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 58.710.9%30.4×68 -14.8%
8Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 58.78.5%26.1×34 +27.2%
9University of LisbonPortugal 58.016.9%9.2×25 -8.9%
10Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 56.37.3%55.7×34 +22.0%

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, Racism, and Human Rights, country by country

Is Migration, Racism, and Human Rights research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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, Racism, and Human Rights as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Migration, Racism, and Human Rights0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Migration, Racism, and Human Rights 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, Racism, and Human Rights10.2% in 2025200020102020

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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