From statistical category to social category: organized politics and official categorizations of ‘persons with a migration background’ in Germany

Taxonomy Associations

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Descendants of migrants

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • National

• UN Countries

  • Germany