The effects of migrant remittances on population–environment dynamics in migrant origin areas: international migration, fertility, and consumption in highland Guatemala

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • 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

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • High-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Health-related migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant health and care
  • Psychological consequences of migration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Demographic outcomes of migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Asylum regimes

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Human Biology and Medicine

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Subnational
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Australia
  • China
  • Germany
  • Guatemala
  • India
  • Mexico
  • United States Of America