Migration and Local Governments: A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Trends and Collaboration Networks

Migration is a significant sociological phenomenon that not only changes and transforms individuals' lifestyles, lifestyles, and families, but also alters the structure and sociocultural fabric of cities that receive and originate migrants. In migration, local governments play a crucial role in migrants' adaptation to urban life, their access to public services, and social integration processes. In recent years, the relationship between migration and local government has received increasing attention in academic literature. Given this growing academic interest, this study aims to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of migration and local government research. The aim of this study is to present a bibliometric analysis of academic publications in the field of migration and local government, revealing general trends, thematic distributions, and collaboration networks. A bibliometric analysis was conducted using all data on migration and local government from Web of Science databases between 1991 and 2025 using the Biblioshiny function in the Bibliometrix R package. The analysis included publication counts, most cited studies, leading authors and journals, institutions and countries, and keyword clusters.