Borders Start With Numbers: How Migration Data Create “Fake Illegals”

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers

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
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National