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What research has been conducted on the Asian global diaspora, and who produces this knowledge? We compiled a corpus of 128 ERS articles published from 1978 to 2025, focusing on four Anglophone countries. We examined the diversity of data, methods, samples, research topics, theoretical frameworks, and authorship in the corpus, including variations over time and across countries. Compared with the increase in the Asian population since 1980, ERS scholarship on the Asian diaspora has grown modestly, primarily focusing on the US and UK, with scant attention to Australia and Canada, where one in five residents was of Asian descent in 2021. Research has primarily focused on the largest Asian ethnic groups (e.g. Chinese) but has rarely included smaller groups (e.g. Burmese). The corpus illustrates thematic and methodological diversity, with a shift from quantitative to qualitative approaches over time. However, four subgroups were largely absent from this corpus: Asian refugees, Asian older adults, undocumented Asians, and LGBTQ Asians.

In the aftermath of genocide, individuals convicted of crimes develop explanations for both their own participation and that of others. While previous research has addressed the rationalizations and neutralizations put forth by those who commit genocidal violence, few have considered how these explanations compare to participants' perceptions of the motives of their peers. Using the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as a case study, this article draws from in-depth interviews with 165 people convicted of genocide crimes to examine such accounts. We analyse their narratives to compare how they talk about their own crimes with how they talk about those of others. In doing so, we find partial support for what psychologists term the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), as participants predominantly attributed their own participation to external factors — like being coerced or forced to act by others — while more often attributing the participation of others to a combination of external and internal factors — like being greedy or evil. We connect these findings to existing research on accounts of participation in genocide and reflect on the implications of these narratives for the construction of collective memory and reconciliation in Rwanda.

This article examines experiences of workplace precarity and employment vulnerability among resettled refugees in the United States. Our study, which draws on eight months of participant observation at a refugee resettlement agency and in-depth interviews with refugees, provides important insights into the ways that refugees navigate (un)employment after initial resettlement and the precarities they encounter while on the job. Our findings suggest that the confluence of specific workplace experiences, familial expectations, and resettlement case processing creates distinct vulnerabilities for refugee men and women. Moreover, we find gender to be especially crucial to both work-family pressures and negative workplace encounters, limiting men's employment opportunities and undercutting women's labor market potential. We discuss associated vulnerabilities and gendered pressures and conclude by highlighting avenues for future work.

Research has linked individual estimations of the size of the foreign-born population to attitudes about immigration. However, most studies focus on the accuracy of estimations rather than on perceptions of group size, even though perceptions on their own are an important predictor of attitudes. Studies examining the determinants of the perceptions of foreign-born population size emphasize individual-level factors and overlook the role of national-level contexts, such as policy changes. Changes in multicultural policies may contribute to various cognitive biases that inform how individuals perceive the size of the foreign-born population. In this study, we examine the association between changes in multiculturalist policies and individuals' quantitative perceptions of the foreign-born population size in 14 European countries, using the 2002 and 2014 waves of data from the European Social Survey (ESS). Results from fixed effects models show a positive association between multicultural policies and estimates of the foreign-born population, net of individual-level measures and the actual size of the foreign-born population.

Theories of endogenous economic growth propose that the exchange of information between workers with different knowledge facilitates innovation. In this study, we explore whether occupational gender segregation poses a barrier to endogenous growth by limiting the extent to which women and men workers exchange information, ideas and perspectives. Focusing on technology industries as a sector where information exchange plays a large role, we use error correction models to test for the potential long-term costs of occupational gender segregation on industry growth and productivity across US local labor markets from 2005 through 2019. Results indicate that occupational gender segregation stalls tech growth, while also hindering productivity. Conversely stated, the occupational integration of women and men provides a boon to growth and productivity in local tech sectors. As regions strive to be competitive in the new economy, those fostering collaboration between women and men will be better positioned to succeed.

How do migrants perceive the legitimacy of the U.S. immigration system, and how their perceptions shape their understanding of their own deservingness for resettlement in the U.S. and that of others in the country. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 55 Afghan migrants who arrived in the U.S. following the 2021 U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, this study illustrates how migrants' distinct visa categories, migration pathways, and pre-arrival relationships with the U.S. state, shape their legitimacy perceptions and expectations from the U.S. state regarding the migration governance process. The analysis reveals three patterns: service-based migrants evaluate the U.S. immigration system through a reciprocity logic, using it to both affirm the system and police the boundaries of who deserves migration into the U.S.; however among this group, those who encounter family separation and inadequate resettlement support question the system's legitimacy, generating demands for expanded protection; and finally a majority of non-service based migrants mount fundamental critiques of the system's humanitarian claims and underlying intentions. These findings demonstrate that migrants' legitimacy perceptions are actively constituted by state bureaucratic migration pathways, which can have significant consequences for migrants' political subjectivities and long-term orientations toward the receiving state.

While existing research has identified individual and structural factors shaping refugees' employment in the United States, it largely treats employment as a binary outcome and pays limited attention to the barriers that shape refugees' access to high-quality, non-precarious work. Drawing on two waves of the Annual Survey of Refugees (2021–2022) and in-depth interviews with 20 resettled refugees in King County, Washington, this study examines the specific barriers refugees face in accessing high-quality employment, and the strategies through which they navigate those barriers. Quantitative analyses reveal that even after controlling for local support programs for refugees, such as job training and ESL programs, those, mainly men, who encounter challenges related to English proficiency, credential non-recognition, and transportation, are sorted into precarious employment, while disability and caregiving responsibilities exclude them from the labor market entirely. Qualitative findings further deepen these results by showing that federal and local support programs for refugees can reproduce rather than escape employment precarity, and that pathways to high-quality work exist only in rare cases of U.S.-based recertification which is often constrained by time, financial resources, and structural labor market conditions. Moreover, household-level survival strategies extract significant human costs to sustain household income. For women, labor market exclusion compounds these costs further, deepening economic dependence and eroding their sense of power within the household. These findings call for policy reforms that move beyond rapid self-sufficiency toward sustained, quality-oriented employment support.