The online migrant communities and the digital transnational communication networks

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • ICT facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Online ethnography
  • Other

• Quantitative research

  • Network analysis