Social Workers and Irregular Migrants in the Assistance Circuit: Making Sense of Paradoxical Inclusion

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Low-skilled migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Crime

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Civil society

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Social Work
  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Switzerland