Mobility at the Heart of a Nation: Patterns and Meanings of Cape Verdean Migration

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Reincorporation of return migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Return policies
  • Policies on mobility

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • China