Standpoints and Core Themes in Recent Web of Science Literature on European Migrant Women
Standpoints and Core Themes in Recent Web of Science Literature on European Migrant Women

Summary/Abstract: Increasing tensions in Europe and the so-called "migrant crisis" call for a scientific analysis of the European migrant woman's intersectional experience and representation in knowledge domains. This study aims to identify and map a sample of recent scholarship in the field of European migrant women from Web of Science (WoS) literature. A critical dialogue investigates authorship standpoints and perspectives, the scientific methodologies used, and the core themes in the data sample. The multimethod approach enriches assessments of both the frame and what lies beyond it, while facilitating an understanding of the field's development within the conceptualised geopolitical frontiers of Europe. Migrant standpoints are identified through the absence of non-EU migrants in authorship and epistemology, as well as core themes of female migrants' socioeconomic burdens, education, labour, social gaps, stereotypes, and policy. The study also highlights the need for more migrant women as knowers in research. Mapping scientific knowledge production examines how meanings intertwine across studies, shedding light on what representational infrastructures may signify and symbolise within the complex trajectories that migrant women navigate across European societies.

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