Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Jacobs, Elizabeth. 2025. “On the Up and Up: The Job Mobility of Skilled Return Migrants.” Social Forces. 103(4): 1538–1559. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae132
Jacobs, Elizabeth, Tom Theile, Daniela Perrotta, Xinyi Zhao, Athina Anastasiadou and Emilio Zagheni. 2025. “Global Gender Gaps in the International Migration of Professionals on LinkedIn.” Population and Development Review. http://doi.org/10.1111/padr.70012
Jacobs, Elizabeth. 2024. “Greener Pastures: Why Indian International Students Leave the U.S. Labor Market.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 51(5): 1346-1370. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2397426
Donato, Katharine, Elizabeth Jacobs, Lisa Singh, Ali Arab and Nathan Wycoff. 2024. “Using Organic Data in Migration Research.” International Migration Review. 59 (1): 5-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231193627
Wycoff, Nathan, Ali Arab, Katharine Donato, Lisa Singh, Elizabeth Jacobs, Kornarphop Kawintiranon, and Yaguang Liu. 2023. “Forecasting Ukrainian Refugee Flows With Organic Data Sources.” International Migration Review. 59 (1): 37-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231203931
Jacobs, Elizabeth. 2022. “Work Visas and Return Migration: How Migration Policy Shapes Global Talent.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 48(7): 1647-1668. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1857232
Jacobs, Elizabeth. 2022. “The Homogenizing and Diversifying Effects of Migration Policy in the Internationalization of Higher Education.” Higher Education. 83: 339-355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00658-4
Jacobs, Elizabeth and Nicole Kreisberg. 2022. “The Gendered Occupational Value of a U.S. Education for Indian Immigrants." International Migration. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12970
Donato, Katharine, Lisa Singh, Ali Arab, Elizabeth Jacobs and Douglas Post. 2022. “Migration, Misinformation and the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis.” Harvard Data Science Review. 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.a4d9a7c7
Donato, Katharine, Lisa Singh, Ali Arab, Elizabeth Jacobs and Douglas Post. 2021. “Migration Misinformation in Spanish-Language Tweets During a Pandemic.” International Organization for Migration Research Series. 68. https://publications.iom.int/books/mrs-no-68-migration-misinformation-spanish-language-tweets-during-pandemic
Jacobs, Elizabeth. 2019. “Pathways to Permanence: Legal Status Transitions as a Key Mechanism in Skilled Migrant Selection and Settlement,” in “Immigration in the Global Era: Migrants and the People and Laws at Origin and Destination,” ed. Guillermina Jasso and Moshe Semyonov. Frontiers in Sociology. 4(44). https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00044
Special Issues
“Using Organic Data in Migration Research.” 2025. International Migration Review. 59 (1). 5-164.
This six-article special issue considers the promise, limitations and ethics of organic data as a timely and detailed complement to administrative and survey data in difficult-to-access contexts. Co-edited with Katharine Donato. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mrxa/59/1
Conference Proceedings
Kotov, Egor, Tom Theile, Ole Hexel, Elizabeth Jacobs, Jisu Kim, Daniela Perrotta, Emilio Zagheni. 2025. “Impact of Temporary Location Visitors on Mobile App Usage in French Cities: Implications for Socio-Economic Segregation Studies.” Proceedings of the 28th Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe. Dresden, Germany. June 2025. 1-3. https://agile-gi.eu/conference-2025/programme-2025/accepted-papers-and-posters-2025
Kotov, Egor, Tom Theile, Ole Hexel, Elizabeth Jacobs, Jisu Kim, Daniela Perrotta, Emilio Zagheni. 2023. “Seasonal Shifts in Mobile Data Consumption: Investigating the Effect of Daylight Variation on Application Usage Patterns.” NetMob 2023. October 2023. Madrid, Spain. https://netmob.org/www23/book_of_abstract/book_of_abstract.pdf
Agrawal, Ameeta, Lisa Singh, Elizabeth Jacobs, Yaguang Liu, Gwyneth Dunlevy, Rhitabrat Pokharel, and Varun Uppala. 2023. “All Translation Tools Are Not Equal: Investigating the Quality of Language Translation for Forced Migration.” Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics. Thessaloniki, Greece. 1-10. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10302481
Book Reviews
Jacobs, Elizabeth. 2026. “Review of "Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand.” (Under Review).
Jacobs, Elizabeth. 2022. “Review of ‘The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program’.” Social Forces. DOI: soac127.
Manuscripts in Progress and Under Review
Jacobs, Elizabeth. Paper Planes: Visas and Skilled Migration To and From The United States (Book Manuscript)
Jacobs, Elizabeth. “Fainter Praise: Online Professional Recommendations and Immigrant Job Promotions.”
Theile, Tom, Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Elizabeth Jacobs, Daniela Perrotta, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Emilio Zagheni. “Global Migration of Professionals in the 21st Century Disaggregated by Gender, Education and Industry.”
Jacobs, Elizabeth. “Return migration and gender inequality in the Indian technology industry.”
Jacobs, Elizabeth. “Fainter Praise: Online Professional Recommendations and Immigrant Job Promotions.”
Jacobs, Elizabeth. “We Are What We Eat: The Social Incorporation of Immigrant Food.”
Jacobs, Elizabeth. “Birds of a Feather: Immigrant Solidarity Across Difference.”
Jacobs, Elizabeth, Tom Theile, Daniela Perrotta and Emilio Zagheni. “Place of Education and Return Migration Among Professional Migrants.”