Racism and the sociological imagination

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Trafficking

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

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

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • 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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • History
  • Other Humanities
  • Philosophy
  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • National