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| 1 | The New Economics of Labour Migration and the Role of Remittances in the Migration Process | International Migration | 1999 | 785 |
| 2 | Acculturation and Adaptation in a New Society | International Migration | 1992 | 557 |
| 3 | Return Migration by German Guestworkers: Neoclassical versus New Economic Theories | International Migration | 2002 | 414 |
| 4 | The Migration of Professionals: Theories and Typologies | International Migration | 2001 | 354 |
| 5 | Network Approach versus Brain Drain: Lessons from the Diaspora | International Migration | 2001 | 329 |
| 6 | Research on Human Trafficking in North America: A Review of Literature | International Migration | 2005 | 322 |
| 7 | Migration as a Business: The Case of Trafficking | International Migration | 1997 | 314 |
| 8 | Toward a Critical Phenomenology of “Illegality”: State Power, Criminalization, and Abjectivity among Undocumented Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv, Israel | International Migration | 2007 | 294 |
| 9 | Moving People and Knowledge: Scientific Mobility in the European Union1 | International Migration | 2005 | 251 |
| 10 | International Migration Policies: 1950‐2000 | International Migration | 2001 | 245 |
| 11 | The Migration and Development Pendulum: A Critical View on Research and Policy | International Migration | 2012 | 234 |
| 12 | Describing the Unobserved: Methodological Challenges in Empirical Studies on Human Trafficking | International Migration | 2005 | 213 |
| 13 | Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the United Kingdom | International Migration | 2009 | 213 |
| 14 | An Assessment of Supply and Demand-side Theorizations of International Student Mobility | International Migration | 2011 | 211 |
| 15 | The Securitization of Migration: A Racial Discourse1 | International Migration | 2005 | 208 |
| 16 | The Irregular Migrant as Homo Sacer: Migration and Detention in Australia, Malaysia, and Thailand | International Migration | 2004 | 197 |
| 17 | Integration into the Australian Labour Market: The Experience of Three "Visibly Different" Groups of Recently Arrived Refugees | International Migration | 2007 | 192 |
| 18 | International Migration and the Role of Remittances in Eastern Europe | International Migration | 2004 | 182 |
| 19 | ‘Survival Employment’: Gender and Deskilling among African Immigrants in Canada | International Migration | 2012 | 177 |
| 20 | Diaspora Migration: Definitional Ambiguities and a Theoretical Paradigm | International Migration | 2000 | 175 |
| 21 | Multicultural Meanings of Social Support among Immigrants and Refugees | International Migration | 2008 | 172 |
| 22 | Data and Research on Human Trafficking | International Migration | 2005 | 169 |
| 23 | The Commodification of International Marriages: Cross-border Marriage Business in Taiwan and Viet Nam | International Migration | 2002 | 168 |
| 24 | New Immigrants ― Old Disadvantage Patterns? Labour Market Integration of Recent Immigrants into Germany | International Migration | 2011 | 165 |
| 25 | The International Mobility of Academics: A Labour Market Perspective | International Migration | 2015 | 161 |
| 26 | Morocco's Migration Experience: A Transitional Perspective1 | International Migration | 2007 | 157 |
| 27 | Trafficking and Human Smuggling: A European Perspective | International Migration | 2000 | 156 |
| 28 | The Migration-Development Nexus: Evidence and Policy Options | International Migration | 2002 | 156 |
| 29 | Methodological Challenges in Research with Trafficked Persons: Tales from the Field | International Migration | 2005 | 155 |
| 30 | "There are always two voices...": International Students' Intentions to Stay in the United States or Return to their Home Countries | International Migration | 2005 | 151 |
| 31 | Low Unemployment and Bad Jobs for New Immigrants in Italy | International Migration | 2011 | 148 |
| 32 | A Decision Framework for Environmentally Induced Migration | International Migration | 2011 | 148 |
| 33 | Emigration from China: A Sending Country Perspective | International Migration | 2003 | 145 |
| 34 | Sanctuary Cities: Policies and Practices in International Perspective | International Migration | 2017 | 143 |
| 35 | Odyssean and Rubicon Refugees: Toward a Typology of Refugees in the Land of Exile | International Migration | 2002 | 139 |
| 36 | Labour Market Penalties of New Immigrants in New and Old Receiving West European Countries | International Migration | 2011 | 139 |
| 37 | The Migration-Development Nexus Evidence and Policy Options State-of-the-Art Overview | International Migration | 2002 | 138 |
| 38 | Nigerians in China: A Second State of Immobility | International Migration | 2012 | 138 |
| 39 | Migration, Return, and Development: An Institutional Perspective | International Migration | 2002 | 132 |
| 40 | Untold Stories: Biases and Selection Effects in Research with Victims of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation | International Migration | 2010 | 131 |
| 41 | Shifting Paradigms of Globalization: The Twenty‐first Century Transition Towards Generics in Skilled Migration from India | International Migration | 2001 | 129 |
| 42 | “Economic Migrants” or “Middling Transnationals”? East European Migrants’ Experiences of Work in the UK | International Migration | 2014 | 127 |
| 43 | Europe and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Labour | International Migration | 2001 | 126 |
| 44 | Scientific Mobility, Career Progression, and Excellence in the European Research Area1 | International Migration | 2005 | 126 |
| 45 | Review of Research and Data on Human Trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa | International Migration | 2005 | 126 |
| 46 | Return Migration Intentions in the Integration–Transnationalism Matrix | International Migration | 2014 | 126 |
| 47 | To Stay or Not to Stay? Out‐Migration of Immigrants from Denmark | International Migration | 2007 | 121 |
| 48 | Economics of Human Trafficking | International Migration | 2010 | 120 |
| 49 | When Do Papers Matter? An Institutional Analysis of Undocumented Life in the United States | International Migration | 2012 | 120 |
| 50 | The Dark Side of Democracy: Migration, Xenophobia and Human Rights in South Africa | International Migration | 2001 | 119 |
