Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences: a research agenda

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Public infrastructure, services and provisions
  • Climate change and environmental conditions
  • Conflict, war and violence
  • International relations and geopolitical transformations
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Civil and political rights
  • Migration policy and other public policies
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes
  • Cultural norms and ties
  • Globalisation and (post)colonialism
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • Environmental migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Internal migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

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

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Media representations of migration
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Marriage and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration
  • Rural development, migration, and diversity

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Private companies and business
  • Civil society
  • 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
  • Border control

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • History
  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Subject Areas

  • Educational and Pedagogic research
  • Studies of Religion

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International
  • National
  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • China
  • Democratic People's Republic Of Korea
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Japan
  • Russian Federation
  • South Africa
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
  • United States Of America