The International Migration Review at 50: Reflecting on Half a Century of International Migration Research and Looking Ahead
When the International Migration Review was established half a century ago, international migration was a peripheral area of research, and migration issues were far less prominent on policy agendas than they are today. This essay introduces the 50th Anniversary Issue of the International Migration R...
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| Published in: | The International migration review 2014-09, Vol.48 (s1), p.S3-S36 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | When the International Migration Review was established half a century ago,
international migration was a peripheral area of research, and migration issues
were far less prominent on policy agendas than they are today. This essay
introduces the 50th Anniversary Issue of the International Migration Review and
begins by identifying seven main areas of change in migration research and
migration trends during the journal's lifetime. Subsequently, we examine changes
in the geographical distribution of authorship of IMR articles. We also explore
the IMR's current positioning in the scientific landscape by analyzing citation
relationships with other journals. The ten articles that make up the body of the
special issue seek to advance the research frontier on international migration,
covering diverse areas of the IMR's thematic scope. We account for how the
papers were selected and present each one. In the final section of the article,
we look ahead and suggest new frontiers in international migration research.
Among the research themes that we foresee as increasingly important are
connections between migration and inequality, and the growth of migration flows
that are driven by humanitarian crises, but not accommodated by the
international refugee regime. |
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| ISSN: | 0197-9183 1747-7379 |