Circular Migration in Asia: Approaches and Practices

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Policies on mobility

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • Urban
  • Rural