Introduction. The Immigration-Crime Connection: Competing Theoretical Perspectives

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Extremism and migration
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • History
  • Sociology

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Australia
  • Canada
  • France
  • Germany
  • Israel
  • Jamaica
  • Netherlands
  • Russian Federation
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland