Trends in Migration and Immigrant Studies

Year 2025, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 221 - 237, 31.12.2025

İlim Özden , Hakan Dündar

https://doi.org/10.51535/tell.1708828

Abstract

This research aims to identify trends in recent migration research and provide a deep understanding of the field, focusing on the broad and interdisciplinary nature of migration research. 50 studies, identified through "migration, immigration and refugee" keyword searches in the Web of Science database and providing an overview of immigration, were examined through content analysis.
Using the "Migration and Immigrant Research Publication Classification Form" developed by the researchers, the disciplinary field, subject, method, data collection tools and suggestions of the articles were evaluated. In research where descriptive methods have a significant intensity, studies on migration and society-family have come to the fore. In the suggestions for researchers, migration and basic concepts and migration and health themes are dominant, while in the research for decision makers, suggestions for migration and economy and migration and society-family issues are dominant.
In conclusion; The interdisciplinary necessity of approaches to migration, the need for more comprehensive research on migration and education, migration and economy, harmonization of national laws regarding migration with international standards, the effects of religious identities and religious phenomena on migration are more important. It has become clear that it needs to be examined comprehensively. It is a critical situation that research should focus on displaced persons rather than voluntary immigrants, that studies should adopt an nterdisciplinary approach that requires the participation of experts from different disciplines, and most importantly, that "human" oriented policies should be developed. This research may inspire researchers to improve the lives of immigrants and to create a more livable world together.

Keywords

Migration , Migration research , Interdisciplinary migration , Immigration policy suggestions , Content analysis

Ethical Statement

This study is based on the analysis of publicly available secondary data. No new data were collected from human participants. Therefore, ethical approval and informed consent were not required in accordance with the guidelines of the TELL.

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