“Back Home, People Say America is Heaven”: Pre-Migration Expectations and Post-Migration Adjustment for Liberians in Pittsburgh

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • Labour migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • United States Of America