Cultures of Knowledge Use in Policymaking: The Functions of Research in German and UK Immigration Policy

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Health services and situation

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Health-related migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants and religion

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Extremism and migration
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Private companies and business
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Law and Legal studies

• Subject Areas

  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Other

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Quantitative text analysis

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland