Considering Refugees Through 100 Years of Geographical Review

Abstract

Given the role of the American Geographical Society and its flagship journal, Geographical Review, in the Paris Peace Conference and its prominence in the discipline of geography ever since, this paper considers how the journal takes account of refugees in its pages from 1916 to 2018 using a bibliometric approach. The term “refugee” was tracked in every Geographical Review article published during this time period, using content to generate data and analysis in QSR NVivo. First, we identify key trends in scholarship over time, then we note the rise and fall of important key terms, and finally, we examine both the countries analyzed and how these geographies change over time. The results of this bibliometric analysis of refugees in Geographical Review reflect both global geopolitical dynamics and refugee governance structures, and broader trends in epistemology in the discipline of geography. Observations made on these trends and variations indicate a need to further explore shifting paradigms and master narratives, both past and emerging, built around the “refugee” concept and its treatment within the discipline of geography.

Journal of Refugee Studies: Um Estudo bibliométrico na Web of Science

“…Estudos sobre refugiados é tema que atrai pesquisadores e tem ganhado relevância, com grande destaque para estudos sobre o fenômeno migratório e o debate acerca da vivência, desafios e procedimentos de acolhimento deste contingente de pessoas que se encontram desenraizadas e necessitam reconstruir as suas vidas em um novo território (Maretti et al, 2019;Priovashini & Mallick, 2022). A comunicação científica possui função fundamental para análise e construção da sociedade, sendo os periódicos como grande gerador e repositório de conhecimento especializado (Skop et al, 2019;Duarte et al, 2021). Nesta senda cabe destacar o papel dos estudos sobre periódicos, instrumentos para divulgação dos estudos científicos, que ultrapassa fronteiras e expande o conhecimento para o alcance da sociedade (Sharma et al, 2021;Baker et al, 2021;Paul & Bhukya, 2021).…”