Points of Departure: Geographical, Historical and Theoretical Contexts

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation
  • Transnational ties
  • Family size and structure

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Health-related migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Labour market participation
  • Remittances
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Age-related migration consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Courts
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • History
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Family Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

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

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Algeria
  • Bosnia And Herzegovina
  • France
  • Gambia (Republic Of The)
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Morocco
  • Senegal
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
  • United States Of America