The exclusion of irregular migrants in Europe : past, present and future

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Media representations of migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

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

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical
  • QCA

• Qualitative research

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

• Quantitative research

  • Descriptive and classification
  • Longitudinal

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited
  • Meta-analysis

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • National