Migration, Refugees, and Integration

Migration, Refugees, and Integration is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex intersection of immigration, politics, and social dynamics. It delves into issues such as national identity, multiculturalism, citizenship, and the societal attitudes towards immigrants and refugees. The papers also discuss the implications of immigration on social boundaries and the concept of cosmopolitanism.

Immigration
Politics
Social Boundaries
National Identity
Multiculturalism
Citizenship
Ethnicity
Refugees
Cosmopolitanism
Societal Attitudes

Research works: 24k
In the world top 10%: 2.4k
Top-10% rate: 9.9%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +2%
Largest producer: United States

Migration, Refugees, and Integration

Which countries lead Migration, Refugees, and Integration research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.3k and 922 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.3k works
2 United Kingdom 922 works
3 Germany 564 works
4 Canada 316 works
5 Italy 297 works
6 Australia 285 works
7 Türkiye 270 works
8 Netherlands 238 works
9 Sweden 165 works
10 France 164 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 States1,268 · 28.3%United Kingdom922 · 20.5%Germany564 · 12.6%Canada316 · 7.1%6 others listed1,419 · 31.6%

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

Which institutions lead Migration, Refugees, and Integration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Migration, Refugees, and Integration research, followed by University of Oxford and University of Amsterdam.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 51 works
2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 49 works
3 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 41 works
4 University of HelsinkiFinland 35 works
5 University of CopenhagenDenmark 35 works
6 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 34 works
7 University of TorontoCanada 33 works
8 Deakin UniversityAustralia 32 works
9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 32 works
10 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Migration, Refugees, and Integration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Migration, Refugees, and Integration include André M. N. Renzaho and David R. Jacobs.

1 André M. N. Renzaho Australia 168k citations
2 David R. Jacobs United States 152k 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, Refugees, and Integration?

The most cited paper in Migration, Refugees, and Integration is "Super-diversity and its implications" (Steven Vertovec, 2007), with 5,500 citations. Next come "E Pluribus Unum : Diversity and Community in the Twenty‐first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture" (4,026) and "Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation–state building, migration and the social sciences" (3,715).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Super-diversity and its implications Steven Vertovec · Ethnic and Racial Studies	27 Sep 2007	5,500
2	E Pluribus Unum : Diversity and Community in the Twenty‐first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture Robert D. Putnam · Scandinavian Political Studies	Jun 2007	4,026
3	Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation–state building, migration and the social sciences Andreas Wimmer, Nina Glick Schiller · Global Networks	Oct 2002	3,715
4	Migrant “Illegality” and Deportability in Everyday Life Nicholas De Genova · Annual Review of Anthropology Review	10 Sep 2002	3,472
5	Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality JAMES G. FERGUSON, Akhil Gupta · American Ethnologist	Nov 2002	2,670

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Where is Migration, Refugees, and Integration research done?

The largest centres of Migration, Refugees, and Integration research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada), Paris (France) and Berlin (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Brighton.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 LondonUnited Kingdom 210 works
2 TorontoCanada 88 works
3 ParisFrance 78 works
4 BerlinGermany 77 works
5 New YorkUnited States 74 works
6 IstanbulTürkiye 73 works
7 AmsterdamNetherlands 70 works
8 MelbourneAustralia 66 works
9 Washington D.C.United States 63 works
10 OsloNorway 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

BrightonGB · 30.3 works14×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Migration, Refugees, and Integration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Migration, Refugees, and Integration?

Among universities, judged by research, Lebanese American University, Toronto Metropolitan University and University of Birmingham 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	Lebanese American UniversityLebanon	77.6	30.3%	20.2×	13	+247.4%
2	Toronto Metropolitan UniversityCanada	77.2	26.3%	20.4×	24	+56.5%
3	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom	69.4	20.0%	8.1×	29	+13.1%
4	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	67.0	14.7%	11.9×	41	-14.7%
5	University of GothenburgSweden	65.9	19.6%	10.2×	28	+8.4%
6	European University InstituteItaly	65.7	17.9%	65.8×	28	+6.1%
7	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	64.2	13.2%	6.1×	49	-25.3%
8	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	63.4	13.7%	6.1×	31	+42.7%
9	University of SussexUnited Kingdom	62.0	20.1%	19.6×	28	-9.7%
10	Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom	61.8	20.4%	6.2×	17	+35.3%
11	Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom	59.3	11.9%	10.2×	22	+60.8%
12	University of HelsinkiFinland	59.1	7.1%	8.6×	35	+56.2%
13	University of MilanItaly	59.0	9.7%	7.9×	29	+58.3%
14	University of ViennaAustria	59.0	11.4%	9.5×	28	+25.1%
15	Vrije Universiteit BrusselBelgium	58.9	12.5%	13.4×	22	+28.6%
16	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	58.7	18.9%	3.5×	32	-17.9%
17	University of CopenhagenDenmark	58.3	11.4%	6.4×	34	+9.9%
18	University of MannheimGermany	58.3	22.0%	21.7×	12	+38.3%
19	London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom	58.2	13.0%	24.9×	34	-25.1%
20	University of BolognaItaly	57.8	11.5%	6.3×	30	+31.0%
21	Universität für Weiterbildung KremsAustria	57.6	23.3%	64.5×	8	+414.7%
22	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany	57.5	19.1%	3.3×	17	+33.3%
23	University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom	57.1	21.9%	4.0×	17	+17.2%
24	Lund UniversitySweden	56.9	10.2%	8.9×	29	+58.5%
25	University of BernSwitzerland	56.9	9.1%	7.1×	22	+15.3%
26	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany	56.7	11.7%	10.2×	21	+24.6%
27	Leiden UniversityNetherlands	56.5	15.4%	7.3×	23	-3.1%
28	Ghent UniversityBelgium	56.4	17.0%	4.2×	19	+21.7%
29	Osnabrück UniversityGermany	56.3	15.6%	30.7×	18	+54.2%
30	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	56.0	16.5%	6.0×	25	-21.2%
31	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands	55.6	11.4%	9.2×	28	-12.1%
32	University of OsloNorway	55.4	13.6%	6.7×	25	+3.8%
33	University of British ColumbiaCanada	53.9	16.9%	2.7×	19	+19.9%
34	University of LausanneSwitzerland	53.8	12.4%	6.5×	17	+49.5%
35	Stanford UniversityUnited States	53.4	16.1%	1.9×	16	+11.3%
36	University of BristolUnited Kingdom	53.0	21.4%	6.9×	22	-25.9%
37	Western Sydney UniversityAustralia	52.7	7.5%	13.0×	21	+61.0%
38	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	52.7	18.0%	5.9×	20	-21.9%
39	University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom	52.6	13.6%	5.8×	22	+6.2%
40	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom	52.6	20.1%	4.2×	21	-16.9%
41	Deakin UniversityAustralia	50.6	7.9%	12.6×	32	+2.8%
42	University of TorontoCanada	47.8	11.4%	2.8×	33	-20.0%
43	Princeton UniversityUnited States	47.5	24.4%	4.0×	10	-47.0%
44	Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly	47.1	19.1%	6.6×	9	+61.8%
45	KU LeuvenBelgium	46.1	10.3%	4.5×	25	-26.4%
46	University of GenevaSwitzerland	41.9	15.9%	5.2×	12	-8.0%
47	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States	37.2	21.8%	1.5×	9	+1.6%
48	Maastricht UniversityNetherlands	35.6	15.6%	3.9×	9	-31.8%
49	University of LondonUnited Kingdom	35.2	14.1%	16.2×	8	-41.2%
50	National University of SingaporeSingapore	34.3	11.7%	1.8×	12	-39.7%
51	University of Technology SydneyAustralia	18.2	4.9%	3.3×	8	-48.8%

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, Refugees, and Integration, country by country

Is Migration, Refugees, and Integration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Migration, Refugees, and Integration.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Migration, Refugees, and Integration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

Fractional works of Migration, Refugees, and Integration 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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Who researches migration and refugees?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Migration, Refugees, and Integration research, followed by University of Oxford and University of Amsterdam. By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.3k and 922 works in 2022-now).

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Which countries lead Migration, Refugees, and Integration research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Migration, Refugees, and Integration research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Migration, Refugees, and Integration?

What are the most cited papers in Migration, Refugees, and Integration?

Where is Migration, Refugees, and Integration research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Migration, Refugees, and Integration?

Is Migration, Refugees, and Integration research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

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Questions people ask

Who researches migration and refugees?

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