The Political Economy of Border Drawing

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Migrant human capital and skills
  • Labour market participation
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility 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

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on high-skilled migration
  • Policies on student and educational migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity