Theorizing the Ukrainian Case: Pushing the Boundaries of Migration Studies Through a Europe–US Comparison

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Poverty and inequality
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Family relations and migration
  • Migrants' language skills

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Remittances
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences
  • Age-related migration consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights
  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Crime
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Immigrant policy and law

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

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Policies on mobility

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Economics
  • History
  • Human Biology and Medicine
  • Interdisciplinary
  • International Relations
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Family Studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Urban
  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Italy
  • Philippines
  • Russian Federation
  • Ukraine