Context-Based Qualitative Research and Multi-sited Migration Studies in Europe

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • 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

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • 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
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Economics
  • Engineering and Architecture
  • Geography
  • History
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Other Humanities
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Family Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Other

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Albania
  • China
  • Ecuador
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • India
  • Italy
  • Malta
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland