Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas in Research Among Smuggled Migrants

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • 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
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Health services and situation

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Health-related migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in 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
  • Tourism and migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants and religion
  • Marriage and migration
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Extremism and migration
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• 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

  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Interdisciplinary

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Austria
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Greece
  • Guinea
  • Hungary
  • Lebanon
  • Netherlands
  • Pakistan
  • Serbia
  • North Macedonia
  • Turkey