IOM-MPI Issue in Brief No. 6 – Thailand at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in Leveraging Migration for Development

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Health-related migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant health and care

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Human Biology and Medicine

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Cambodia
  • Lao People’s Democratic Republic
  • Myanmar
  • Thailand