Despite the centrality of these dynamics in shaping contemporary international migration system, their gendered and undocumented dimensions remain insufficiently integrated within mainstream academic

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 5 representative gaps

• Sticky places for immigrants in regional Australia – a correlational analysis (2025) · doi

  Existing research has examined settlement patterns, processes, and internal dispersal; however, the reasons why immigrants arrive at, remain at, or leave these locations after the period stipulated in their migration visa are not fully understood.

  Keywords: existing examined settlement patterns processes internal dispersal reasons immigrants arrive remain leave locations period stipulated
• Migration and Emancipation in West Africa's Labour History: The Missing Links (2013) · doi

  This article suggests that looking at how these migrants chose to move when they could control their mobility, and at the obstacles they faced, reveals aspects of the experience of enslavement and emancipation that have not yet been fully explored in the relevant historiography.

  Keywords: article suggests looking migrants chose move control mobility obstacles faced reveals aspects experience enslavement emancipation
• Breadwinning Wives and “Left-Behind” Husbands (2011) · doi

  This article explores an aspect of women’s transnational labor migration that has been understudied in many labor-sending countries: how men experience shifts in the household labor division triggered by women’s migration.

  Keywords: labor women migration article explores aspect transnational understudied sending countries experience shifts household division triggered
• Editorial: Labour and health of undocumented migrant women: condition, trends and critical issues (2026) · doi

  Despite the centrality of these dynamics in shaping contemporary international migration system, their gendered and undocumented dimensions remain insufficiently integrated within mainstream academic debates.

  Keywords: despite centrality dynamics shaping contemporary international migration system gendered undocumented dimensions remain insufficiently integrated within
• Chronicling Kenyan Asian Diasporic Histories: ‘Newcomers’, ‘Established’ Migrants, and the Post‐Colonial Practices of Time‐Work (2015) · doi

  This demonstrates how space on its own is itself a inadequate conceptual lens with which to examine relationships between ‘newcomers’ and ‘established’ migrants, and that further research is needed that attends to the temporal dynamics mediating the temporal dissonances of contemporary transnational social fields.

  Keywords: temporal demonstrates space itself inadequate conceptual lens examine relationships newcomers established migrants further needed attends