Participant Observation in Migration Studies: An Overview and Some Emerging Issues

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • ICT facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on mobility

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • National