Introduction: Preparing the Way for Qualitative Research in Migration Studies

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • LGBTQ migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • History
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Other Humanities
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Other

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Russian Federation
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine