Research-Policy Relations and Migration Studies

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

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

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • 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
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data
  • Development of migration studies
  • Research-policy relations

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Sociology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Action research
  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • France
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland