International Migration, Remittances and COVID-19: Economic Implications and Policy Options for South Asia

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Reincorporation of return migrants

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration

Disciplines

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Legal analysis (laws)
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International

• UN Countries

  • India
  • Nepal
  • Sri Lanka