Diaspora Diplomacy, Emotions, and Disruption: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Romania
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland