  As the number of empirical studies increases unprecedentedly in line with
expansions in higher education, theoretical developments in population studies
suffer due to a discoverability crisis of related work. The systematic use of
previous research is common in the medical sciences through various types of
structured reviews. However, these are less common in the social sciences,
despite their potential, especially in cross-disciplinary fields such as
migration. We use Google Scholar to examine the niche of housing research
within migration studies through a broad range of documents. The contribution
of this meta-analysis is threefold. Firstly, we illustrate the association of
keywords across the corpus of literature related to migration and housing and
map the growth of migration literature since the 1960s. Secondly, we highlight
key bridging documents using network measures. Finally, we estimate the
distance in reading time between documents. Our findings suggest that the
corpus of previous work at the intersection of migration and housing consists
of many additive case studies, indicating a gap in integrative approaches
replicable across a growing knowledge landscape.
