The Balkan Gurbet: Traditional Patterns and New Trends

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History
  • Interdisciplinary

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • International
  • National
  • Subnational

• Non-UN Territories

  • Kosovo

• UN Countries

  • Albania
  • Bulgaria
  • Serbia
  • North Macedonia