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Diaspora, migration, transnational identity

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Jiaqi M. Liu
Yangtze University
2
Céline Cantat
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
3
Johannes Bhanye
South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative
4
Khizran Zehra
Tilburg University
5
Olga Lafazani
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
6
Chunxuan Shen
The University of Queensland
7
Henryk Szadziewski
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
8
Sandunika Hasangani
Twitter (United States)
9
Myra A. Waterbury
Ohio University
10
Khadij Gharibi
UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Rising Stars Papers

1
Beyond informality: ‘Nimble peri-urban land transactions’ - how migrants on the margins trade, access and hold land for settlement
Discover Global Society|2024
25 cit.
2
Implications of peri-urban land reform programs on urban land markets: a case study of Harare, Zimbabwe
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications|2024
11 cit.
3
‘This settlement is just a launch pad to move to better city spaces’: radical sense of place and migration aspirations among youth migrants in the diaspora
Comparative Migration Studies|2025
11 cit.
4
Residing (at) the border: ethnographies of precarious homes and internal borders
Ethnic and Racial Studies|2024
8 cit.
5
Encompassing the everyday: Grounded responses to the geoeconomic
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space|2024
4 cit.
6
Doing urban research on ‘hard-to-reach’ populations during the COVID-19 pandemic: advantages and ethical dilemmas using digital ethnography as a new alternative
Discover Global Society|2024
4 cit.
7
The complex web of land use planning, legislation and urban mobility in Maseru, Lesotho
Discover Sustainability|2024
3 cit.
8
Navigating Passports and Borders: The Complex Realities of Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa
AFRICAN HUMAN MOBILITY REVIEW|2025
2 cit.
9
Place attachment under duress-Chronic illness, statelessness, poverty and spatial entrapment among migrants in rough neighbourhoods
Discover Sustainability|2025
2 cit.
10
Prospects for Ethnic Harmony in Post-GoHomeGota Protest in Sri Lanka: An Analysis of #Aragalaya on Twitter
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics|2024
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Ryan Cecil Jobson
University of Chicago
2
Rawan Arar
University of California San Diego
3
Nasrat Sayed
Unknown
4
Katrin Marchand
United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
5
Joan Monràs
Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional
6
Carolyn Choi
University of Southern California
7
Noelle K. Brigden
Marquette University
8
Joanna Menet
University of Neuchâtel
9
Ibrahim Soysüren
University of Neuchâtel
10
Doğuş Şimşek
Kingston University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Refugee resettlement as an institution
Ethnic and Racial Studies|2025
16 cit.
2
Contrasting Trajectories of Incorporation: Refugee Integration and the Global South
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies|2023
12 cit.
3
Category traversing: early Korean immigrants eluding the U.S. state
Ethnic and Racial Studies|2024
9 cit.
4
Guest Editors’ Introduction Children and Youth in Asian Migration
positions asia critique|2022
7 cit.
5
Transperipheral Educational Mobility: Less Privileged South Korean Young Adults Pursuing English Language Study in a Peripheral City in the Philippines
positions asia critique|2022
6 cit.
6
Understanding Body Resistance in El Salvador: A Qualitative Discussion of a Pilot Program for Embodied Empowerment
Violence Against Women|2023
3 cit.
7
Joan Monras discussion of: Unsafe jobs
Economic Policy|2022
2 cit.
8
Facing the flames
American Ethnologist|2023
2 cit.
9
Extractivism's limits: A conversation
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology|2024
1 cit.
10
Humanitarian Fiction: Examining the ‘Host’ in Refugee-Receiving Contexts
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs|2025
1 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Nina Glick Schiller
Institute for Social Anthropology
2
Patricia Landolt
Simon Fraser University
3
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Institute of Geography
4
William Haller
Clemson University
5
Victor Nee
Cornell University
6
Douglas S. Massey
University of Chicago
7
Ayşe Çağlar
University of Vienna
8
Noël B. Salazar
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
9
Alejandro Portes
University of Colorado Denver
10
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
Masaryk University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology
Annual Review of Sociology|1998
11.9k cit.
2
The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science|1993
5.1k cit.
3
Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation–state building, migration and the social sciences
Global Networks|2002
3.6k cit.
4
Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action
American Journal of Sociology|1993
3.5k cit.
5
Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society
International Migration Review|2004
2.7k cit.
6
The Dimensions of Residential Segregation
Social Forces|1988
2.3k cit.
7
The study of transnationalism: pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field
Ethnic and Racial Studies|1999
2.2k cit.
8
The Dimensions of Residential Segregation
Social Forces|1988
2.1k cit.
9
Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration
International Migration Review|1997
1.6k cit.
10
Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology
International Migration Review|2003
1.6k cit.

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