Disasters-Induced Displacement vis-à-vis Policy Framework: A Study of the Mishing Community of Majuli, Assam; Disaster & Development Vol. 7, No. 1 & 2, Dec. 2013

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Migration policy and law

  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Social Work

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • One sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Rural