Negotiating the 'migrant elite' : Boundary making and social identities among skilled migrants in Finland

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Intergroup relations and contact

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Ethnic Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Finland