The Concept of Integration as an Analytical Tool and as a Policy Concept

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Health services and situation
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Health-related migration
  • LGBTQ migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Spatial consequences
  • Age-related migration consequences
  • Demographic outcomes of migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Courts
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes
  • Protection regimes for non-recognised refugees

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Sociology

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Neighborhood

• UN Countries

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • France
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland