Alan Kurdî, deaths in the desert and failed migrants’ processing of dystopic images on social media

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Media representations of migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Other