Human migration and the environment

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Health services and situation
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

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

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Guatemala
  • India
  • Mexico
  • Nepal
  • Thailand
  • United States Of America