Growing Restrictiveness or Changing Selection? The Nature and Evolution of Migration Policies1

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

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

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • International