Latest Research in Transcultural Migration and Sociopolitical History

Top Research Topics in Transcultural Migration and Sociopolitical History

• Chinese history and philosophy — 36 papers
• Japanese History and Culture — 15 papers
• Ancient Near East History — 14 papers
• Sports, Gender, and Society — 12 papers
• Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature — 12 papers
• Eurasian Exchange Networks — 12 papers
• Migration, Refugees, and Integration — 11 papers
• Archaeology and ancient environmental studies — 10 papers
• Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration — 9 papers
• Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics — 9 papers

Highest-Cited Papers

1. ‘Don’t call me mzungu’: negotiating migration categories and privilege in Nairobi (6 citations)
2. Doing and undoing categories in migration (6 citations)
3. Verify if you are human: what is the ‘human’ in ‘human migration’? (5 citations)
4. José Carlos Mariátegui’s Archaic Developmentalism: Utopia, the Incan Empire, and Peruvian Reality
5. Bridges of Faith: How Christian Citizen Diplomats Challenged Images of Godless Soviet Communism in the 1980s
6. Policing the Political Boundary: How the r/BarstoolSports Audience Confronts Politicization
7. Mapping Mount Lebanon: Political and Sectarian Boundaries in the Late Ottoman Middle East
8. Collective Memory and Narrative Cohesion: A Computational Study of Palestinian Refugee Oral Histories in Lebanon
9. The Modern Woman and the household: hygiene, urban education and the YWCA in Hong Kong, 1921–41
10. In-between the “field” and “home”: blurred positionality and negotiations along the Assam- Sylhet borderland
11. Beyond the pitch: sportswashing and nation-building in Latin American World Cup media
12. When Capital Meets Spectral: Magic Realism, Ecoambiguity and Narrative Resistance in Ambikasuthan Mangad’s Marakkappile Theyyangal
13. Rumours, Prophecies, and Fake News: Everyday Communication Under German Occupation in France, 1940–44
14. A scoping review of anglophone scholarship on trauma and journalism in sub-Saharan Africa
15. Multiple agency and the collective paradox in grassroots language management: a netnographic study of the national language protection action in Kazakhstan
16. Taking out the church, bringing in the state
17. Bridging the Divide: Examining the Impact of Threat Perceptions on Prejudice Towards Afghan Immigrants in Iran
18. ‘[S]uburban indigenous’: Ivan Vladislavić’s The Near North and ‘the World’s Largest Man-Made Forest’
19. Street Beats, Desk Rhymes: Cultural Reconstruction of Rap by Chinese Middle School Students
20. The Jewish Dutch Elite in transition: patterns of social mobility and integration, 1870-1940

Sub-Regions

• Japanese History and Culture — 129 papers
• Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature — 85 papers
• Indian and Buddhist Studies — 75 papers
• Crime and Detective Fiction Studies — 64 papers
• Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics — 54 papers
• Vietnamese History and Culture Studies — 51 papers