Transnational Social Capital in Migration: The example of Educational Migration between Bulgaria and Germany

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Education services and training opportunities
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • High-skilled migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration
  • Student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

  • Civil society actors in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Brain drain and brain gain
  • Labour market participation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant networks

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Geography

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Biography
  • Other

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Bulgaria
  • Germany