Qualitative Migration Research: Viable Goals, Open-Ended Questions, and Multidimensional Answers

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • ICT facilitating 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
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Urban development, migration, and diversity
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Border control
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Other Humanities
  • Sociology

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Biography
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Cyprus
  • Italy
  • Poland
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
  • United States Of America