Local Migration Governance in European Shrinking Areas: a German and an Italian Case

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration
  • Social Work

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Italy