Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Multiple migration
  • Student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Marriage and migration
  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Geography
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Development Studies
  • Family Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Peace and Conflict studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis
  • Longitudinal
  • Quantitative text analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational