“If You Don’t Emigrate, You Are Nobody”: Migratory Networks, Routes and Profiles of Nepalese Immigrant Agriculture Workers in South Portugal

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Human traffickers
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Nepal
  • Portugal