Key Knowledge Questions on Migration Forms

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Roots migration
  • Health-related migration
  • LGBTQ migration
  • Trafficking

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Age-related migration consequences

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National