Mobility within the European Union: Capturing its complexity to guide policy

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Research-policy relations

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Biography
  • Other

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental

• UN Countries

  • Bulgaria
  • Germany
  • Romania