Globalization, Migration and Development

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Remittances
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Economics

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National