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Is migration a unique field of study in social sciences? A response to Levy, Pisarevskaya, and Scholten
- Source :
- Comparative Migration Studies, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SpringerOpen, 2020.
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Abstract
- The emergence of a new research field or area of study in the social sciences always is fraught with controversy, fits and starts, theoretical, methodological, and even epistemological debates. Migration studies is no different, but some things are relatively unique about this ‘new’ field of study, while others are more conventional. The article on the ‘rise of migration studies’ by the CrossMigration team, Levy et al. (Comparative Migration Studies, 8forthcoming), “Between Fragmentation and Institutionalization” under consideration here captures some of the controversies in migration studies, and poses some interesting questions about the direction of the field. Building on the ‘bibliometric analysis’ of journal articles by the cross-migration group, I ask what is unique about migration studies and what is conventional?
- Subjects :
- Bibliometric analysis
Sociology and Political Science
Area studies
Institutionalisation
Economics
Geography, Planning and Development
lcsh:Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Migration studies
lcsh:Social Sciences
03 medical and health sciences
Sociology
lcsh:HT51-1595
0502 economics and business
lcsh:HT101-395
Social science
Migration
Demography
030505 public health
Field (Bourdieu)
05 social sciences
Politics
Disciplines
lcsh:HT201-221
lcsh:H
Assimilation
lcsh:Communities. Classes. Races
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
0305 other medical science
Law
050203 business & management
lcsh:City population. Including children in cities, immigration
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Comparative Migration Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2863e04bcefaf9bd93902edda82e06f3