Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties

• Migration forms

  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies

• Governance processes

  • Outsourcing to private actors

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Engineering and Architecture
  • Geography
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Urban Studies

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

• Types of study

  • Comparative

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • Urban
  • Rural
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland