Migration and Development Framework and Its Links to Integration

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure
  • Natural disasters and environmental shocks

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Health-related migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration

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
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Reincorporation of return migrants
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Private companies and business
  • 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

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Geography
  • History
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Development Studies
  • Family Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • China
  • Cuba
  • France
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Netherlands
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
  • United States Of America