Migration Studies: Eurasian Perspectives

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

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

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Law and Legal studies
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Governance and Public Administration

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • QCA

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Afghanistan
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Iran (Islamic Republic Of)
  • Pakistan
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Turkey