Behind the Curtain of the Border Spectacle: Introducing ‘Illegal’ Movement and Racialized Profiling in the West African Region

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Legal-political consequences

  • Crime

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Mali
  • Mauritania