Key Knowledge Questions on Migration Infrastructures

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Human traffickers
  • Tourism and migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Private companies and business

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • National