Epistemological Issues in Qualitative Migration Research: Self-Reflexivity, Objectivity and Subjectivity

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Health-related migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Return policies
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Geography
  • Human Biology and Medicine

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National