Seeking a Rational Approach to a Regional Refugee Crisis: Lessons from the Summer 2014 “Surge” of Central American Women and Children at the US-Mexico Border

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Media representations of migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

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

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Costa Rica
  • El Salvador
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras
  • Mexico
  • Nicaragua
  • Panama
  • Turkey