‘If you don't migrate, you're a nobody’: Migration recruitment networks and experiences of Nepalese farm workers in Portugal

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • (Sexual) Exploitation

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • QCA

• 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)
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Nepal
  • Portugal