Focus Groups in Migration Research: A Forum for “Public Thinking”?

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Asylum seekers
  • Labour migration
  • Health-related migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Migrants in sports, arts, leisure
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Human Biology and Medicine

Methods

• Other

  • Action research

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Belgium
  • Italy