Migration Theory**The authors would like to thank Pia Orrenius, Barry Chiswick, and participants at the 2012 Southern Economic Association Meetings in New Orleans for detailed comments. All errors are our own.

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant human capital and skills

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Return policies

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other