Mapping the Qualitative Migration Research in Europe: An Exploratory Analysis

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • ICT facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History
  • Interdisciplinary

• Subject Areas

  • Arts and Cultural studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • Other

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Germany
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland