Irregular migration is skilled migration: reimagining skill in EU’s migration policies

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

• Socio-economic consequences

  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental

• UN Countries

  • Belgium