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2026

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583
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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Russell King is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, demography, political science and international relations, general health professions, and general agricultural and biological sciences.

The researcher's work covers a range of topics including migration and labor dynamics, migration, refugees, and integration, migration, aging, and tourism studies, diaspora, migration, transnational identity, migration, ethnicity and economy, rural development and sustainability, as well as employment and welfare studies.

Frequent co-authors working with Russell King include Nilay Kılınç, Aija Lulle, Md Farid Miah, and Ilir Gëdeshi.

The scientist has published regularly in several academic journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Population Space and Place
  • Central and Eastern European Migration Review
  • International Migration
  • Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l intégration et de la migration internationale
  • Comparative Migration Studies

Among their recent papers are:

  • New perspectives on the agriculture-migration nexus, 2021, Journal of Rural Studies
  • New frontiers in international retirement migration, 2021, Ageing and Society
  • Migration and development: The overlooked roles of older people and ageing, 2022, Progress in Human Geography
  • On migration, geography, and epistemic communities, 2020, Comparative Migration Studies
  • On Europe, Immigration and Inequality: Brexit as a 'Wicked Problem', 2020, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

Russell King has contributed to several book publications across multiple publishers. These include works published by Springer International Publishing such as Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism (2022) and Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times (2023). Two editions of A Place in the Homeland? (2025) have been published by Edinburgh University Press. Additionally, they have a publication titled Out of Albania (2022) from Berghahn Books.

Best Publications

  • Towards a new map of European migration

    Russell King

  • International student migration and the European ‘Year Abroad’: effects on European identity and subsequent migration behaviour

    Russell King;Enric Ruiz-Gelices

  • ‘Mind the Gap!’ Integrating Approaches to Internal and International Migration

    Russell King;Ronald Skeldon

  • World class? An investigation of globalisation, difference and international student mobility

    Allan M Findlay;Russell King;Fiona M Smith;Alistair Geddes

  • Theories and typologies of migration: an overview and a primer

    Russell King

  • Sunset Lives: British Retirement Migration to the Mediterranean

    Russell King;Tony Warnes;Allan Williams

  • Generalizations from the history of return migration

    Russell King

  • International Student Migration: Mapping the Field and New Research Agendas

    Russell King;Parvati Raghuram

  • International retirement migration in Europe.

    Russell King;Anthony M. Warnes;Allan M. Williams

  • Geography and Migration Studies: Retrospect and Prospect

    Russell King

  • Eldorado or fortress? Migration in Southern Europe

    Russell King;Gabriella Lazaridis;Charalambos Tsardanidis

  • Tourism and international retirement migration: New forms of an old relationship in southern Europe

    Allan M Williams;Russell King;Anthony Warnes;Guy Patterson

  • Love, Sexuality and Migration: Mapping the Issue(s)

    Nicola Mai;Russell King

  • A place in the sun: international retirement migration from northern to southern Europe.

    Allan M. Williams;Russell King;Tony Warnes

  • The Myth of Return: Pakistanis in Britain.

    Russell King;Muhammad Anwar

  • Southern Europe in the Changing Global Map of Migration

    Russell King

  • Ever Reluctant Europeans: The Changing Geographies of UK Students Studying and Working Abroad

    Allan Findlay;Russell King;Alexandra Stam;Enric Ruiz-Gelices

  • Of Counter-Diaspora and Reverse Transnationalism: Return Mobilities to and from the Ancestral Homeland

    Russell King;Anastasia Christou

  • Writing Across Worlds: Literature and Migration

    Russell King;John Connell;Paul White

  • International student mobility literature review

    Russell King;Allan Findlay;Jill Ahrens

  • Media and Migration : Constructions of Mobility and Difference

    Russell King;Nancy Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Findlay
Allan Findlay University of St Andrews
Allan M. Williams
Allan M. Williams University of Surrey
Richard Black
Richard Black University of Birmingham
Ronald Skeldon
Ronald Skeldon University of Sussex
Parvati Raghuram
Parvati Raghuram The Open University
Ivor Goodson
Ivor Goodson University of Brighton
John Connell
John Connell University of Sydney

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