Reclaiming Agency through the Politics of the In_Visible Body: Illegalized Migration and Self-Representation of Women Domestic Workers in Switzerland

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Family relations and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Labour market participation
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Border control

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

• Transversal themes

  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Political Science

• Subject Areas

  • Arts and Cultural studies
  • Gender Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Arts based research and visual methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Types of study

  • Single case
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Bolivia (Plurinational State Of)
  • Brazil
  • Dominican Republic
  • Switzerland