Integration-transnationalism nexus in the context of enforced transience: Managing racial harmony and temporary labour migration in Singapore

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Singapore