Exploring the links between enhancing regular pathways and discouraging irregular migration : a discussion paper to inform future policy deliberations

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Subnational