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Migration and Exile Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Max Holleran
The University of Melbourne
2
Marthe Achtnich
University of Oxford
3
Bruno Miranda
Institute of Economic and Social Development
4
Giacomo Orsini
Ghent University Hospital
5
Laura Kemmer
University of Washington
6
Chiara Denaro
Edge Hill University
7
Rosane Braud
Inserm
8
Jacopo Anderlini
University of Parma
9
Hassan Ould Moctar
University of London
10
Cléo Marmié
École des hautes études en sciences sociales

Rising Stars Papers

1
Humanitarian border: Reprise. Anti-human trafficking discourses and security practices at the southern Italian border
Environment and Planning C Politics and Space|2024
4 cit.
2
Resisting dark tourism: Northern Cyprus’s ‘ghost city’ of Varosha
City|2024
4 cit.
3
The emerging of solidarity along unauthorized routes: postcards of migrant encounters
SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE|2024
2 cit.
4
De-communalising the hot pot: Chinese cuisine in Australia during COVID-19
The Sociological Review|2024
1 cit.
5
Taking their Word(s)
Anthropology in Action|2024
1 cit.
6
De-presentify the border: Social imaginaries and mobility justice
Futures|2025
1 cit.
7
A new gaze on the Mediterranean crossroads: mobilities, frictions and encounters
MONDI MIGRANTI|2025
1 cit.
8
The hotspot approach in Italy: a genealogy of border exceptionalism
MONDI MIGRANTI|2025
1 cit.
9
Spurensicherung - Reter traços. O chão urbano como arquivo de ecologias reparadoras
arte :lugar :cidade.|2024
0 cit.
10
If cars could walk: postsocialist streets in transformation
Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Kirsty Finn
University of Manchester
2
Juliette Pelham
University of Bath
3
Mallory Notting
The University of Melbourne
4
Hans Lucht
Danish Institute for International Studies
5
Irene Gutiérrez Torres
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
6
Gracia Moreno-Amador
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
7
Kavita Ramakrishnan
University of East Anglia
8
Zahra HAJI BABAIE
Unknown
9
Elsa Tyszler
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
10
Elias Steinhilper
The Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Mobility guilt: digital nomads and COVID-19
Tourism Geographies|2023
49 cit.
2
Trapped in Ceuta: Reflexive tactics and methods in Participatory Filmmaking among cross-border women
Migration Studies|2023
21 cit.
3
#GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis
European Journal of Cultural Studies|2023
18 cit.
4
Asylum, Racism, and the Structural Production of Sexual Violence against Racialised Women in Exile in Paris
Social Sciences|2022
17 cit.
5
Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones
Journal of Refugee Studies|2023
17 cit.
6
Politische Polarisierung: Zur Systematisierung eines vielschichtigen Konzepts
Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen|2022
13 cit.
7
Distressed: Migrant underworlds and travels in hyporeality
Anthropological Theory|2024
13 cit.
8
EU-Driven Border Control in Niger: From Migrants to Gold, Drugs, and Rare Animals
Cultural Anthropology|2022
9 cit.
9
Can European foreign aid motivate people to stay in Africa? The root causes policy debate and irregular migration
Development Policy Review|2023
6 cit.
10
Peripheral humanitarianism: Ephemerality, experimentation, and effects of refugee provisioning in Paris
Environment and Planning D Society and Space|2022
5 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Vassilis S. Tsianos
Universität Hamburg
2
Marie Rose Moro
Inserm
3
Russell King
University of Sussex
4
Dominique Vinck
University of Lausanne
5
Elspeth Guild
Radboud University Nijmegen
6
Corey Johnson
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
7
Emily Gilbert
Canadian Heart Research Centre
8
Nicolas Tixier
École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble
9
Nicola Montagna
University of Salerno
10
Estelle d’Halluin
Inserm

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Towards a new map of European migration
International Journal of Population Geography|2002
762 cit.
2
Interventions on rethinking ‘the border’ in border studies
Political Geography|2011
611 cit.
3
‘Mind the Gap!’ Integrating Approaches to Internal and International Migration
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies|2010
595 cit.
4
After citizenship: autonomy of migration, organisational ontology and mobile commons
Citizenship Studies|2013
524 cit.
5
International student migration and the European ‘Year Abroad’: effects on European identity and subsequent migration behaviour
International Journal of Population Geography|2003
501 cit.
6
The Truth from the Body: Medical Certificates as Ultimate Evidence for Asylum Seekers
American Anthropologist|2005
440 cit.
7
International Student Migration: Mapping the Field and New Research Agendas
Population Space and Place|2012
419 cit.
8
Metasynthesis: An Original Method to Synthesize Qualitative Literature in Psychiatry
Frontiers in Psychiatry|2017
357 cit.
9
Geography and Migration Studies: Retrospect and Prospect
Population Space and Place|2011
356 cit.
10
The Myth of Return: Pakistanis in Britain.
International Migration Review|1980
341 cit.

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