Migration Statistics in Europe: A Core Component of Governance and Population Research

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • 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
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion

• Legal-political consequences

  • 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

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

• Migration policy and law

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

• Governance processes

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Austria
  • Norway
  • Switzerland