Politics, Migration and Minorities in Independent and Soviet Estonia, 1918-1998

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & 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
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Interethnic contact and conflict
  • Family relations and migration
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

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

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Social cohesion
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Demographic outcomes of migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Courts

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Peace and Conflict studies

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Belarus
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • Germany
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Russian Federation
  • Sweden