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Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation
  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)