Causality Chains in the International Migration Systems Approach

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Health-related migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Tourism and migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Spatial consequences
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Economics
  • Environmental Science
  • Geography
  • History
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Philosophy

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research

Methods

• Other

  • Forecasts, projections and scenarios
  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Turkey