Mobile sociology1

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • 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

• Migration forms

  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants in sports, arts, leisure
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Courts
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Geography
  • History
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

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