Michaela Benson

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Michaela Benson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Michaela Benson has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 21 papers in Demography and 10 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Michaela Benson's work include Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (19 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 papers) and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (12 papers). Michaela Benson is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (19 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 papers) and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (12 papers). Michaela Benson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and France. Michaela Benson's co-authors include Karen O’Reilly, Emma Jackson, Nick Osbaldiston, Gary Bridge, Deborah Wilson, Katharine Charsley, Nicholas Van Hear, Nando Sigona, Iqbal Hamiduddin and Rolland Munro and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, British Journal of Sociology and Urban Studies.

In The Last Decade

Michaela Benson

54 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Migration and the Search for a Better Way of Life: A Crit... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Migration and the Search for a Better Way of Life: A Critical Exploration of Lifestyle Migration
    2009 661 citations Michaela Benson, Karen O’Reilly The Sociological Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michaela Benson United Kingdom 23 1.7k 1.3k 490 252 177 58 2.2k
Kevin E. McHugh United States 21 1.0k 0.6× 689 0.5× 166 0.3× 119 0.5× 162 0.9× 46 1.5k
Tim Butler United Kingdom 28 1.6k 0.9× 190 0.1× 416 0.8× 1.2k 4.9× 190 1.1× 51 2.8k
Ceri Peach United Kingdom 26 1.8k 1.1× 358 0.3× 119 0.2× 441 1.8× 269 1.5× 70 2.2k
Sarah Neal United Kingdom 23 1.0k 0.6× 192 0.1× 180 0.4× 212 0.8× 195 1.1× 51 1.5k
Rachel Silvey United States 23 1.5k 0.9× 544 0.4× 76 0.2× 103 0.4× 247 1.4× 45 1.8k
Gaynor Bagnall United Kingdom 14 891 0.5× 139 0.1× 82 0.2× 306 1.2× 112 0.6× 21 1.3k
Mike Savage 6 851 0.5× 158 0.1× 147 0.3× 266 1.1× 150 0.8× 8 1.3k
Ann R. Tickamyer United States 18 923 0.6× 178 0.1× 144 0.3× 81 0.3× 262 1.5× 69 1.5k
Heather Mair Canada 20 837 0.5× 269 0.2× 87 0.2× 77 0.3× 62 0.4× 58 1.2k
Linda Peake Canada 21 1.1k 0.7× 117 0.1× 171 0.3× 431 1.7× 193 1.1× 49 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michaela Benson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michaela Benson

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All Works

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Benson, Michaela, et al.. (2023). Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families. Sociology. 58(3). 605–622. 1 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela & Manuela Boatcă. (2023). Global Social Inequalities and the Coloniality of Citizenship, Past and Present. 6(1). 150–158. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, Michaela Benson, & Sara Salem. (2020). An interview with Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith: Decolonising Methodologies, 20 years on. The Sociological Review. 2 indexed citations
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Jackson, Emma, et al.. (2019). Multi-sensory ethnography and vertical urban transformation: ascending the Peckham Skyline. Social & Cultural Geography. 22(4). 501–522. 14 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela. (2018). Stating the Sociological: an introduction. The Sociological Review. 1 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela & Emma Jackson. (2017). Making the middle classes on shifting ground? Residential status, performativity and middle‐class subjectivities in contemporary London. British Journal of Sociology. 68(2). 215–233. 22 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela & Karen O’Reilly. (2016). Romance Tourists, Foreign Wives or Retirement Migrants? Cross-cultural Marriage in Florence, Italy. 61–78. 1 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela. (2015). Lifestyle migration: from the state of the art to the future of the field. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela. (2015). On Goffman: Ethnography and the Ethics of Care. The Sociological Review. 1 indexed citations
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Bacqué, Marie‐Hélène, Gary Bridge, Michaela Benson, et al.. (2015). The Middle Classes and the City. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela & Nick Osbaldiston. (2014). Understanding lifestyle migration : theoretical approaches to migration and the quest for a better way of life. Palgrave Macmillan eBooks. 57 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela. (2013). Postcoloniality and Privilege in New Lifestyle Flows: The Case of North Americans in Panama. Mobilities. 8(3). 313–330. 79 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela & Emma Jackson. (2012). Place-making and Place Maintenance: Performativity, Place and Belonging among the Middle Classes. Sociology. 47(4). 793–809. 102 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela & Rolland Munro. (2011). Sociological routes and political roots. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela. (2011). The British in Rural France: Lifestyle migration and the ongoing quest for a better way of life. Research Online (Goldsmiths University of London). 57 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela. (2009). THE CONTEXT AND TRAJECTORY OF LIFESTYLE MIGRATION. European Societies. 12(1). 45–64. 62 indexed citations
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Benson, Michaela, et al.. (2008). Nothing in Return? Distinctions between Gift and Commodity in Contemporary Societies. Anthropology in Action. 15(3). 1–7. 2 indexed citations

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