Doing Digital Migration Studies: Methodological Considerations for an Emerging Research Focus

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • Transnational migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Remittances

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Interdisciplinary

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other