Migration in Jamaica: A Country Profile 2010

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Age-related migration consequences

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Private companies and business
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Disciplines

• Subject Areas

  • Family Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Jamaica