Andean migrant associations' host and home country engagement : lessons from the cantons of Geneva and Vaud, Switzerland

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Student mobility

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Bolivia (Plurinational State Of)
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • Peru
  • Switzerland