The Migration of Professionals: Theories and Typologies

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Unaccompanied minors
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on high-skilled migration

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • History

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National