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Description: This study investigates the international migration network and its changes from 1990 to 2017. The findings suggest that certain core countries play pivotal roles in shaping global migration by providing economic opportunities or political refuge. Community detection identified nine groups of nations in 2017, indicating regionalization. The study also examined the networks of antecedent factors that reflect both structural factors, such as geography, language, colonial history, political stability, and economic differences, as well as transnational interactions including student flow, trade, Internet flow and remittance, in relation to the international migration network. Utilizing multiple regression QAP, these networks accounted for approximately 11% of the migration network's distribution when excluding chain migration, and 16.5% of the distribution when including chain migration.