Introduction: Family Migration as an Integration Issue? Policy Perspectives and Academic Insights

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental