International migration, remittances and development: Myths and facts

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

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

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Remittances

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration

• Governance processes

  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Geographies

• Scope

  • International