The Architecture of Race in the British Immigration and Citizenship Regime: The Figure of the Undesirable ‘Other’

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Implementation
  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Political Science

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland