The Objective Approaches of Ethnic Origins in Belgium: Methodological Alternatives and Statistical Implications

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Economic and business conditions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Migrants and religion
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Labour market participation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Demographic outcomes of migration
  • Intergenerational relations of migrants

• Legal-political consequences

  • Extremism and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • 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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Demography
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Sociology

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Biography
  • Other

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • Cyprus
  • Estonia
  • France
  • Germany
  • Luxembourg
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland