Key Knowledge Questions on Migration Drivers

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Population dynamics
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Environmental migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Environmental Science

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National